I am an Apple fan to the core but do not understand what appears to a lackluster new iPhone. Yes, I will order an iPhone 6. However I don't get why it isn't at least water resistant by now, or have a higher megapixel camera. The iOS experience is beyond compare and I think ApplePay will revolutionize NFC. I also want an Apple Watch to my surprise and delight. I just think there are some serious spec where Apple is lagging. An Apple phone IMO should blow every other phone out of the water in specs. I may be a minority but I don't actually want a bigger screen. I am buying for the NFC and after processing.
Water resistant, I'm honestly not sure. That seems like a worthwhile feature to add.
But megapixels is a distraction. There is much more involved in a camera to produce high quality photographs than megapixels, and without those things (e.g. sensor, optics) you're just taking up more space to store lower quality photographs. The iPhone actually takes really excellent photographs for a mobile phone.
He stated "we think" not that an absolute term that can't ever be altered and he never said useless. Jobs has another quote about the "current lot" of 7" tablets being DOA. He wasn't wrong. The iPad mini isn't neither part of that lot or 7" unless we are now calling 7.9" a 7" tablet which means the 9.7" iPad Air would be a 9" tablet. Those other tablets were also using phone apps and were a horrible 16:9 aspect ratio. The iPad are a useable 4:3. We also don't know what Apple did to make sure the iPad mini was usable. A finer, more accurate touch matrix, perhaps? They certainly reduced the bezel and added software that intelligently recognized when you are holding the edge.
I agree, but those quotes are open to interpretation. SJ isn't here to tell us exactly what he meant, so it's up to each person to make that determination. It's a no win argument.
I've posted SJ quotes before, and have gotten replies of "SJ was wrong". That's a answer I can respect, and one I can't argue against.
The best response from Apple to these ads? Nothing directly. Just play up the advantage of Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Continuity, all four iPhone product lines, or even brag about the sales figures from the first weekend (doubtful, but the most direct response).
Lost the war? Apple is selling 150,000,000 high end phones a year while Samdung is selling 80,000,000.
I said Apple lost the patent war. Apple "won" $2 billion, since reduced and being chipped away at, and have yet to collect a dime; and dropped all remaining patent suits outside the US and they're not doing too good there. Meanwhile Samsung clearly has gotten away with their patent infringements. Pisses me off but that's the reality.
Nor did I say Apple lost in marketing; just that Apple needs to step up their game. Tech history is full of companies that hit the heights of success and later disappeared or dropped to mediocre levels. They lost their mojo, so to speak. Ever study military history? There's a saying: To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It can happen.
Samsung has been sued by Apple, successfully, for stealing a plethora of the iPhone's design features. Never once did Apple claim that Samsung stole the iPhone's size, when they released something with a similar form factor.
That's way too vague to be considered a design feature and it's silly for Samsung to say Apple stole the larger size.
If size was that revolutionary of a design element then surely credit would instead go to Motorola for the brick phone, sold back in the 80s.
Samsung has a penchant for showing lack of leadership and lack of anything truly relevant in the smart phone market.
Stick to what you know, Samsung: super-tankers and space heaters.
I like this statement from other article about Apple fan's IOS 8 response to Android L.
Enjoy Android L ( Well, if it ever comes to your phone !! )
Samsung, answers Apple on borrowed OS from google. Go and first update your phones with kitkat and later android L before teasing/bashing apple. Be a Man,
Bottom line is the majority of people want phones larger than 4 inches.
That's not what most people were saying a short while ago. When I stated that, your community police, "Tallest Skil", told me I was wrong. Then when the new phone was announced, he back peddles and states that he wasn't wrong at all.
You ditch something successful for something that will be more successful. Witness the iPod mini and iPod nano.
And where does it say that going bigger would be more successful? I think that bigger was the only way that they could go. They did it because they had to not because they wanted to. Big difference.
And where does it say that going bigger would be more successful? I think that bigger was the only way that they could go. They did it because they had to not because they wanted to. Big difference.
Apple didn't have to do anything but release a new iPhone.
Where did it say that going smaller would be successful with the iPod nano?
I find the anti-Apple commercials pretty lame, but sorry, Android-haters, the Note phone itself is a great product.
Not according to every single Note 1, 2, 3 that has crossed my desk in the last 2 weeks suffering from stuttering, lag, lack of response altogether to even the most basic input... And we're talking several dozen is just the last 2 weeks; let's not get into how many of these shitboxes I've had to deal with in their lifetime.
I'm a straight phone freak and have had almost every iPhone (except the 4s) and almost every Note (except the 1st one) and I haven't had trouble with any of them except for the power button on my iPhone 4. I haven't read any articles about reliability problems with either platform and haven't experienced them myself so I can't really comment on your experience.
Apple didn't have to do anything but release a new iPhone.
Where did it say that going smaller would be successful with the iPod nano?
How do you improve on the thinnest phone made out of milled aluminum? They left themselves with very little options to improve on. If they didn’t go bigger, the detractors would've had a field day, and not only does Apple not win back the defectors, they'll actually be many more.
When it came to the "I'm a Mac", there was always a contrast. This is their way...here is our way. This is true for most commercials, unless it simply states what it is, or what it does, without necessarily contrasting against some competetor. It wasn't simply an attack ad. Samsung seems to have resorted to the latter.
Regarding the Stylus: A stylus is nothing. You can pick one up for a couple of bucks and it will work with anything in iOS and on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and even better for apps designed specifically for use with one. The same is true for every android device. Such is the way a touch screen works.
Second. Samsung implies they they invented a 'larger display', except this display race has been going on since the TV was invented, and has followed the same pattern for every computing device, or media display. (THX, XD), HD, 4K, EGA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, ad-nauseum). That being said, simply being first (and Samsung was not 'first' in this), is only important the first time it's done (the move to a larger TV screen, theater screen, etc). After that, it's all repetition. Apple arguably did this with the iPad (same OS..different display). Again Samsung playing catchup here.
Apple has no need to fall to this level. They are already setting records for the iPhone 6, with an estimated 80 million to be sold this quarter alone, and a record four million this weekend. All they need to do is to continue to produce excellence, and the rest is just noise...
These anti-Apple and iPhone 6 mocking ads by Samsung are excellent for some comic relief. You can get a good laugh watching them while you wait in line to buy the iPhone 6.
How old are the people running Samsung's marketing department? It's like the annoying little brother that keeps poking you... until you turn around an beat the crud out of him.
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But megapixels is a distraction. There is much more involved in a camera to produce high quality photographs than megapixels, and without those things (e.g. sensor, optics) you're just taking up more space to store lower quality photographs. The iPhone actually takes really excellent photographs for a mobile phone.
I agree, but those quotes are open to interpretation. SJ isn't here to tell us exactly what he meant, so it's up to each person to make that determination. It's a no win argument.
I've posted SJ quotes before, and have gotten replies of "SJ was wrong". That's a answer I can respect, and one I can't argue against.
Btw, you totally ignored the big phone quote.
If that’s something he said, I don’t see how it applies here.
Did Samsung note 4 million iPhone preorders?
The best response from Apple to these ads? Nothing directly. Just play up the advantage of Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Continuity, all four iPhone product lines, or even brag about the sales figures from the first weekend (doubtful, but the most direct response).
And scrap their dreadful iPhone 6 ads.
Lost the war? Apple is selling 150,000,000 high end phones a year while Samdung is selling 80,000,000.
I said Apple lost the patent war. Apple "won" $2 billion, since reduced and being chipped away at, and have yet to collect a dime; and dropped all remaining patent suits outside the US and they're not doing too good there. Meanwhile Samsung clearly has gotten away with their patent infringements. Pisses me off but that's the reality.
Nor did I say Apple lost in marketing; just that Apple needs to step up their game. Tech history is full of companies that hit the heights of success and later disappeared or dropped to mediocre levels. They lost their mojo, so to speak. Ever study military history? There's a saying: To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It can happen.
Samsung has been sued by Apple, successfully, for stealing a plethora of the iPhone's design features. Never once did Apple claim that Samsung stole the iPhone's size, when they released something with a similar form factor.
That's way too vague to be considered a design feature and it's silly for Samsung to say Apple stole the larger size.
If size was that revolutionary of a design element then surely credit would instead go to Motorola for the brick phone, sold back in the 80s.
Samsung has a penchant for showing lack of leadership and lack of anything truly relevant in the smart phone market.
Stick to what you know, Samsung: super-tankers and space heaters.
What were you expecting? A firing squad? And how do you know that Apple hasn't collected a dime?
I like this statement from other article about Apple fan's IOS 8 response to Android L.
Enjoy Android L ( Well, if it ever comes to your phone !! )
Samsung, answers Apple on borrowed OS from google. Go and first update your phones with kitkat and later android L before teasing/bashing apple. Be a Man,
That's not what most people were saying a short while ago. When I stated that, your community police, "Tallest Skil", told me I was wrong. Then when the new phone was announced, he back peddles and states that he wasn't wrong at all.
And where does it say that going bigger would be more successful? I think that bigger was the only way that they could go. They did it because they had to not because they wanted to. Big difference.
Apple didn't have to do anything but release a new iPhone.
Where did it say that going smaller would be successful with the iPod nano?
I'm a straight phone freak and have had almost every iPhone (except the 4s) and almost every Note (except the 1st one) and I haven't had trouble with any of them except for the power button on my iPhone 4. I haven't read any articles about reliability problems with either platform and haven't experienced them myself so I can't really comment on your experience.
How do you improve on the thinnest phone made out of milled aluminum? They left themselves with very little options to improve on. If they didn’t go bigger, the detractors would've had a field day, and not only does Apple not win back the defectors, they'll actually be many more.
When it came to the "I'm a Mac", there was always a contrast. This is their way...here is our way. This is true for most commercials, unless it simply states what it is, or what it does, without necessarily contrasting against some competetor. It wasn't simply an attack ad. Samsung seems to have resorted to the latter.
Regarding the Stylus: A stylus is nothing. You can pick one up for a couple of bucks and it will work with anything in iOS and on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and even better for apps designed specifically for use with one. The same is true for every android device. Such is the way a touch screen works.
Second. Samsung implies they they invented a 'larger display', except this display race has been going on since the TV was invented, and has followed the same pattern for every computing device, or media display. (THX, XD), HD, 4K, EGA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, ad-nauseum). That being said, simply being first (and Samsung was not 'first' in this), is only important the first time it's done (the move to a larger TV screen, theater screen, etc). After that, it's all repetition. Apple arguably did this with the iPad (same OS..different display). Again Samsung playing catchup here.
Apple has no need to fall to this level. They are already setting records for the iPhone 6, with an estimated 80 million to be sold this quarter alone, and a record four million this weekend. All they need to do is to continue to produce excellence, and the rest is just noise...
These anti-Apple and iPhone 6 mocking ads by Samsung are excellent for some comic relief. You can get a good laugh watching them while you wait in line to buy the iPhone 6.