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  • Apple's iPhone install base features growing 'powder keg' ripe for upgrades, Cowen says

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    volcan said:
    In the industrial/product design way.

    It's a matter of expectations at the end. If the rumors about iPhone 7 
    So by recent offerings you mean the yet unannounced iPhone. And by unimpressed you mean the case could be the same? For me the case is fine as it is, it is the functionality on the inside that is the more important in my opinion.
    Read my answers again and you'll see what I mean.

  • New leaks show bigger lens opening on 'iPhone 7,' dual-lens camera on '7 Plus'

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    Well, at least we'll have predictive emojis 3 times as big to distract us from the ugliness of our "new" iPhones. I can't even. It's been 2 years since the release of iPhone 6, the year Apple had also hired legend industrial designer Marc Newson to work alongside Johny Ive. 2 years of futuristic patents, impossible profits and some of the best R&D a company can afford. This is the result? Really? Where is all the industrial design prowess dedicated to? Certainly not the iPhone or the Mac. For a company that's been criticised for favoring aesthetics over function, it doesn't seem to be paying attention to either. 

    Apple, what's happening to you? :( 
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  • Apple's iPhone install base features growing 'powder keg' ripe for upgrades, Cowen says

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    badmonk said:
    To those who are caught up with the concept that only changes to "industrial design" matter you need to know that Apple conserves industrial design because it often gets it right in the beginning.  if you don't value the build quality of the phone, the innards, the software and the ecosystem, than you are not right in the head.
    Just because something's right in the beginning doesn't mean it stays right 3 years down the road. All the things that you mentioned matter, and so does design. Apple used to get it. Now it seems to not even bother. 

    No doubt Apple makes great quality products, but the excitement that came from anticipating their design innovations is disappearing.     If the incentive to drive innovation is based on repeat customers who will buy just about any product rehash, well, then we can name Apple Microsoft #2 and call it a day. 

  • Apple's limited edition Olympic Apple Watch straps feature national flag motifs, only available in

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    Great. More watchbands. #smh 
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  • Actually, there is something new about Apple's upcoming iPhone 7

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    melgross said:
    Well, another interesting, but flawed, article by one of our most interesting, but one sided, authors.

    ...

    i think that running iOS and macOS apps would work well. I have no doubt that Apple software people could figure out how to manage that well.
    Thank you for the reality check, @melgross. I know I will be ostracised to 'Dislike' land for saying so, but the article reads like a copious rant of an angry shill. In fact, there's so much logical fallacy it would make Siri facepalm. 

    Let me just say:
    No, it's not that "Apple hasn't innovated since 2007", or that the tepid news about iPhone 7's form factor are mere slander by tech-blog meanies. Apple's product cycles indeed feel like slowing to a grind. Apple is established in collective memory for routinely redefining things. Sure, the Macbook Air is a real life successful case of meticulous evolution over years. But is that what Apple is famous for? If yes, then tech bloggers must be delusional en masse. But for argument's sake, let's say Apple is famous for jaw-droppers like the iMac G5, the MacBook Air and Retina MBP, the iPod Touch and original iPhone, then an iPhone 4 that was so jam packed with innovation it made the audience yelp, and yes, even the trashcan Mac Pro that was like it was pulled from a Stanley Kubrick set. Quantum leaps of stupendous design and hardware engineering that would frankly make a user disregard flaws and price tag and want them anyway. 

    What about now? Yes, people do expect Apple to pull an "iPhone 4" every two years. Because we've seen it happen before, and we want to see it happen again. I refuse to believe that we've hit such a "peak" in product design that it makes it inevitable for Apple to offer all but lazy rehashes as new products. Case in point: Apple had the great challenge to redefine the 4-incher smartphone and instead they released the iPhone SE. Could have named it iPhone MEH and call it a day. And the Mac family? No serious updates in years for multiple product lines, making t    he disparity between price and features absolutely nonsensical. The new MacBook is yet to convincingly balance preciosity with actual usefulness, and OS-wise we're holding a candle that Apple will unroll the next Snow Leopard. Actually, I'm pissed to witness all those "Macs are overpriced garbage" lifelong haters being partly vindicated thanks to the Mac's apparent state of neglect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

    Yes, bloggers of the great internets can be mean. The iPhone 4 e.g. received unfair derision by the ton for its "antennagate" pseudo-scandal, almost as much as the iPhone 6 did for its "Bendgate" exaggerations. Scandals wane, but people remember what a company is great for. And it's not 30+ Siri languages (besides, according to a poll by Intelligent Voice, 15% of iPhone users have used Siri, and I presume they are even less outside the US).

    And here's another point of view. When most of Apple's show-defining new services in recent memory are purely a US-focused privilege, they mean next to nothing for the international customerbase. I ordered the iPhone 6 days after its announcement, and still haven't managed to use Apple Pay. Why? It simply hasn't been made available in the Netherlands two years down the road. Do Siri improvements matter to me? Not particularly, when even after all these years she gets half my spoken phrases wrong (I assure you, my english is terrific), and a great deal of functionality is still not available in the NL. So, in turn, I ask for something I can work with and on par with my expectations from Apple. Groundbreaking design, a smooth OS experience, and a bit of a WOW factor to remind us that hey -this is Apple after all.

    I can't put my finger on who's the pundit. The state of the industry? Consumers' expectations as shaped by formerly incredible products? Apple's stewardship and focus? Apple is obviously enjoying a financial peak under Cook, but     I'm afraid to admit the peak of its cultural and creative influence (let alone innovation frequency) that occurred under Jobs is now fading.

    DED, your sources are accurate, but your subjectivity is deafening. E.g. CNET does call the Galaxy S7 a smudge magnet - but also lauds it on the polished design. What did Apple do in the same regard? They offered the same device in rose gold. *sad trombone sound*

    In short: consumers have every right to feel agitated. And no amount of online apologist preaching will fix that. 
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  • New 4-inch iPhone expected to add $5.5 billion in sales for Apple

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    Oh gosh. Having read several articles today on the stunning S7 Edge, I feel absolutely agitated by Apple's itsy bitsy nonsense. I've been a long time Apple user, and I sure hope the competition will finally rattle the complacency of what's become an old boy's club (I still cannot unshake the image of Eddy Cue groovin' to Beats 1). Years of following each and every product announcement and WWDC in sweet anticipation, just to be sorely let down by incremental tripe and dizzying trade-offs in lieu of device thinness. Please, snap out of it Apple. Surprise us in 2016.