For what it's worth I think apple may have in the future.
A resurrected 4s model. Great design. Updated to last year's CPU and new colours. The SE. Last year's CPU. Last year's iPhone model. The 8 (called the iPhone). New CPU and other features. The X.
I think this is the end of the home button. If iphone x profoundly out performs the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus then next year we will only see the iPhone x and and iPhone x plus.
Amd people will be told if they want a home button then can buy the iPhone 7/+ 8/+ or iPhone se
Hard to say.
I don't think Apple will make the only new iPhone $999 next year. That would be harsh.
I don't think the iPhone8 is selling bad because of the home button. I think its selling 'bad' because the front looks EXACTLY THE SAME as 4 years ago. People want something new. Personally I have the 6+ and I don't want to be looking at the same phone face for the next 2 years. I don't need the best, but I do want something new.
IMO, Apple should make an iPhone 9 with smaller bezels AND touch ID. Its not that hard. Just shrink the bezels by 20-30% just like the iPad Pro. Even shrink the TouchID button a bit or enlongate it. That phone should sell for $699.
Next years lineup:
iPhone X1 - $999 iPhone X1 Plus - $1099
iPhone 9 - $699 - smaller bezel with home button iPhone 9 Plus
They’re ditching the enumeration labeling. There won’t be a 9 or an S. It’s unsustainable and artless and since Tim took over it’s clear he is trying to move away from the pedestrian sequel tech labeling that - frankly - is less than classy.
I’m not saying we’ll have an iPhone Pro but returning to something like the iPod marketing from gen 4 would be refreshing.
It’s not sexy. Much like how I imagine you Too are not sexy... but I digress -
They may keep the iPhone X cycled for more than the standard year just because they will never build them to meet demand in the entire coming cycle.
If it’s true that they just now started assembling them then they won’t meet demand till Summer if they even try. And maybe they shouldn’t.
There were more than a few iOS 11 features left for 11.1 or hardware capabilities present but inactivated (lte gig Aussie mood variants) or fit and finish shit they just didn’t cross the finish line with this time...
thats not a critisicm it’s just impossible to put out these annual refreshes to software and hardware with meaningful consumer adoption... Americans can’t even tie thier shoes let alone learn a new os every year. And I think it’s a better strategy to elongate the cycle and hide that in a familiar but new sounding naming strategy.
Its ok to catch your breath if not catching that breath means your going to trip...
they need a fresh coat of paint and lastly Touch ID over fyi
perhaps the entry level model keeps a home button but they didn’t buy primesense and the super awesome software suite/developer talent behind RealFace (powering animoji and probably thier Media Studio ambitions) to shrink and shove the Microsoft Kinect into one iPhone no one will hold in thier hand until summer or as an experiment. It’s Too differentiating a feature than Touch ID and it’s complexity may keep it from scale for now (another reason we will see longer cycles) but we don’t know what they already do know.
Touch ID is betamax. They don’t like it as much. And they do what they want. It’s their phone after all
It wont be creepy, touching your finger to that buzz button that replaced the clickable button was stupid anyway but water proofing required it and most importantly
They don’t care what we prefer - and they never have
and that’s where people constantly get Apple wrong. They don’t bow to public interest. They do what they do... headphones? They don’t care. And they didn’t do that to sell beats either - or they’d have dumbed down the beatsX and shoved those in the box... they like rattling the cage and they enjoy the free marketing the internet gives them when it bitches about change - but buys there shut anyway.
unless they birth a flop and they won’t or some other unforeseen disaster involving FaceID transpires it is the way forward. Period.
And the largest differentiating factors going forward between iPhone and all other phones will Be iOS, it’s ecosystem and the iPhones new ability to “see” and “know” its user
Its hard to conceputualize the effect that will have without long term exposure to something similar but that’s just it... our pets recognize us but they’re alive, and there’s never been a mass marketed consumer product capable of anything close to what’s possible with this feature... sure it unlocks it.
But it also watches u age, change and that is data that could be securely mined and repurposed to build actual artificial intelligence stupid fat America won’t even know they’re building as they make selfies and shoot dick pics but mostly it will KNOW us...
it’s not just facial recognition folks it’s an entire undiscovered category of software that builds these phones with near sentient qualitatively human attributes - the articulation of this well beyond my understanding of computer science but what does that burning bush say to Abraham ?
I am ... that I am.
the phone is getting smarter and sexier at a rate far faster than it’s human counterpart. ESP. If your holding it -
and I believe in none of that Jewish zombie, judeo - Christian sand myth garbage I’m just saying it seems to me that the real story here is how quickly the iPhone has gone from visual voicemail and pinch to zoom awesomeness to sentient artificially intelligent human nessescity
what is says about our civilization that we needed to build another way to look at ourselvues or be seen is another matter.
But the number nonsense is over
its stupid. They’ve been experimenting off the main product line for a couple years (Apple TV, watch edition
Was there an iPad Pro 2 this year ? No.
what was the new iPad called ? The new iPad.
also don’t be cheap dude throw that 6+ away or make it a dash cam.
You own stock right? Be the change (profit) u seek friend
He's trying to keep the stock prices from tanking.
Can he also send a couple of palettes of iPhone8 to KS area, while he is saving stock prices, 'cause I can't find a store that can sell me that "failed" product. For some reason it was sold out in less than 2 f-ing days.
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A resurrected 4s model. Great design. Updated to last year's CPU and new colours.
The SE. Last year's CPU.
Last year's iPhone model.
The 8 (called the iPhone). New CPU and other features.
The X.
A new iPod touch.
I’m not saying we’ll have an iPhone Pro but returning to something like the iPod marketing from gen 4 would be refreshing.
It’s not sexy. Much like how I imagine you Too are not sexy... but I digress -
They may keep the iPhone X cycled for more than the standard year just because they will never build them to meet demand in the entire coming cycle.
If it’s true that they just now started assembling them then they won’t meet demand till Summer if they even try. And maybe they shouldn’t.
There were more than a few iOS 11 features left for 11.1 or hardware capabilities present but inactivated (lte gig Aussie mood variants) or fit and finish shit they just didn’t cross the finish line with this time...
thats not a critisicm it’s just impossible to put out these annual refreshes to software and hardware with meaningful consumer adoption... Americans can’t even tie thier shoes let alone learn a new os every year. And I think it’s a better strategy to elongate the cycle and hide that in a familiar but new sounding naming strategy.
Its ok to catch your breath if not catching that breath means your going to trip...
speculation?
iPhone Mini (SE)
iPhone Classic (classic bezel)
iPhone AR/Pro/Studio (bezel free/future forward)
they need a fresh coat of paint and lastly Touch ID over fyi
perhaps the entry level model keeps a home button but they didn’t buy primesense and the super awesome software suite/developer talent behind RealFace (powering animoji and probably thier Media Studio ambitions) to shrink and shove the Microsoft Kinect into one iPhone no one will hold in thier hand until summer or as an experiment. It’s Too differentiating a feature than Touch ID and it’s complexity may keep it from scale for now (another reason we will see longer cycles) but we don’t know what they already do know.
Touch ID is betamax. They don’t like it as much. And they do what they want. It’s their phone after all
It wont be creepy, touching your finger to that buzz button that replaced the clickable button was stupid anyway but water proofing required it and most importantly
They don’t care what we prefer - and they never have
and that’s where people constantly get Apple wrong. They don’t bow to public interest. They do what they do... headphones? They don’t care. And they didn’t do that to sell beats either - or they’d have dumbed down the beatsX and shoved those in the box... they like rattling the cage and they enjoy the free marketing the internet gives them when it bitches about change - but buys there shut anyway.
unless they birth a flop and they won’t or some other unforeseen disaster involving FaceID transpires it is the way forward. Period.
And the largest differentiating factors going forward between iPhone and all other phones will Be iOS, it’s ecosystem and the iPhones new ability to “see” and “know” its user
Its hard to conceputualize the effect that will have without long term exposure to something similar but that’s just it... our pets recognize us but they’re alive, and there’s never been a mass marketed consumer product capable of anything close to what’s possible with this feature... sure it unlocks it.
But it also watches u age, change and that is data that could be securely mined and repurposed to build actual artificial intelligence stupid fat America won’t even know they’re building as they make selfies and shoot dick pics but mostly it will KNOW us...
it’s not just facial recognition folks it’s an entire undiscovered category of software that builds these phones with near sentient qualitatively human attributes - the articulation of this well beyond my understanding of computer science but what does that burning bush say to Abraham ?
I am ... that I am.
the phone is getting smarter and sexier at a rate far faster than it’s human counterpart. ESP. If your holding it -
and I believe in none of that Jewish zombie, judeo - Christian sand myth garbage I’m just saying it seems to me that the real story here is how quickly the iPhone has gone from visual voicemail and pinch to zoom awesomeness to sentient artificially intelligent human nessescity
what is says about our civilization that we needed to build another way to look at ourselvues or be seen is another matter.
But the number nonsense is over
its stupid. They’ve been experimenting off the main product line for a couple years (Apple TV, watch edition
Was there an iPad Pro 2 this year ? No.
what was the new iPad called ? The new iPad.
also don’t be cheap dude throw that 6+ away or make it a dash cam.
You own stock right? Be the change (profit) u seek friend