techguy911

seankill said:

My iPhone 6+ will be turning 2 but I will hold out for the 2017 iPhone. This year's iPhone might be a nice upgrade but I don't anticipate anything being a must-have to the point its worth 850$. Smartphones are maturing much like the PC market did years ago, its most an evolutionary process except every 5-6 years.

eightzero said:

I don't need a new iPhone. My 5s works just fine, does everything I need or want.

I agree, my iPhone 6 is turning 2 years old. I have upgraded at least every 2 years since the first iPhone in 2007.  This is the first time I'm considering keeping my current phone past its contract end date.  Apple needs to take some risks and be a bit more aggressive vs play it safe with incremental changes.  

macxpress said:

techguy911 said:

If Apple doesn't think there's any next-generation technology to add yet, they can at least focus on improvements that have been lacking for years.  At least make the damn thing waterproof and add an IR blaster so I can get rid of my TV remotes.

This is why Apple doesn't always implement customer requests. Really??? A fuc&%! IR blaster? Really!!!! Is this a revolutionary feature that is necessary to the majority of users? You can buy an all in one remote that works for your TV, surround sound system, cable box, AppleTV, etc. They're kinda pricy (around $100) but they do work.

I didn't say it was revolutionary, it's a feature for something that the majority of people have in their houses.  The smartphone has become the swiss army knife of electronics.  You can also buy a music player, flashlight, camera, voice recorder, compass, GPS, level, step counter, alarm clock, stopwatch, and contact organizer right, so what's the point of adding those to the iPhone?  I'm not asking for a freakin 8-track player or floppy disk reader, it's just a led that would probably cost Apple 3 dollars to add vs you buying a $100 separate smart remote.  Your type of mentality is why Apple is removing basic things like a headphone jack to make room for "revolutionary" things.

If Apple doesn't think there's any next-generation technology to add yet, they can at least focus on improvements that have been lacking for years.  At least make the damn thing waterproof and add an IR blaster so I can get rid of my TV remotes.

greg uvan said:

I agree that this totally stinks. I have a Nest, and I do like it. But I really resent the fact that I'll never be able to use it with the rest of the Homekit ecosystem.

This is the worst example of tribalism that leads to a crappy experience all around. I also got some smart light bulbs for christmas, and they too are not homekit enabled. I don't want to be ungrateful, I appreciate receiving a gift. But it just sucks hard that my "smart" home devices are not integrated with my smartphone platform of choice: iPhone.

Tribalism?  It was Apple that chose to make HomeKit a nonstandard, proprietary protocol for the purpose of locking people into iOS.