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JFC_PA said:

Not me: I upgraded to the X from the 7 Plus and wouldn’t go back. I like the ease of Face ID, the shape, the extra speed and the screen is gorgeous. On the Apple finance plan the cost difference was negligible. 

No reason NOT to upgrade. 

This - & the size of the screen is in the Goldilocks range for me - whilst I found the large screen of the 7+ really useful, I eventually found with extended use the overall size of the handset too big - the X gives me the best of both worlds.

Samsung is ratcheting down OLED panel output from its South Chungcheong plant to cover 20 million or fewer iPhone X devices for the quarter ending in March, a drastic decrease from an initial goal of 45 to 50 million units, Nikkei reports without citing sources.

So have I got this right - the flagship iPhone which was too expensive and was going to be a flop was expected to sell 45 to 50 million units in the March quarter (65% of the number of iPhones sold in the holiday quarter) and in a smartphone market that is contracting, this reduction in OLED output is only down to Apple??

A very enjoyable article - thanks.

That image of the iPod Shuffle brings back memories - my first Apple device, followed not long afterwards by a 4th gen U2 iPod which I got as a birthday present (and still have today).

radarthekat said:

The damn things just last too long.  

This!

My wife's iPad 2 is 6 years old and just keeps going & going. At some point even if it doesn't die I will replace it for the ability to keep up to date with iOS updates but for its current use, it's good enough.

Hooray - the loss of the numeric keyboard following the previous update was really annoying me!