DonlanMatt

Love the Stainless Steel again, makes it feel much more premium like the Apple Watch, I'm guessing Apple will have regular polished Stainless and Space Black at a premium just like the Watch. Can not wait if they got the Touch ID under the display for sure, now my only question is the front cams and sensors, are they under the display as well, or will we still have a slight top bezel. Looks super clean tho no gimmicky curved display crap nice clean slab of Stainless & Glass. Will have best build quality in the business once again since every phone manufacturer around switched to aluminum just like Apple now anyways. Camera bump, who care as long as it not touching or getting in the way when I'm holding the phone, Apple will go all out on the Cam this year again.

Anyone that looks around knows that Samsung doesn't sell nearly as many flagship Galaxies like they use to. Back in the S3/S4 days I would see them in the wild quite often. Now i really don't see many Galaxies (Flagships) around at all, after the S4 the sales really did drop. I also can't stand all the comparisons of Samsung vs. iPhone when the new phones come out i Just don't get it, it has the be a views thing so people click the articles and watch the Youtube videos. I mean Samsung runs Android no iOS so why do people always need to compare. All Samsung can do is hardware they have no OS so the only thing to maybe compare is the cameras its all just so much clickbait these days.

I preordered the keyboard as soon as I could when the 12.9 iPad came out, so I must have one of the firs batches they actually sold, mine has been rock solid with no problems at all with use everyday. Now I don't travel with it often or as much as some people I assume do. I also must take it on and off the keyboard probably 4-5 times a day just to make the iPad lighter while on the couch and my smart connector is fine. Remember how long it tool for these smart keyboards to make it into store they must have had quality control issues maybe thats why it took so long. Hopefully we will see a nice update or a different option of keyboard from Apple next refresh. Still want something that would work better on my lap something more rigid maybe aluminum, but the problem is we all want it super light its a hard tradeoff.

I bought Alexa and then later Google home it came out, just to play with. After about a month I rarely ever use the dam things. The future is the watch or future AR Glasses (wearables) always with you, always just listening no matter where you are. Whats crazy to me is Siri seems to work perfectly for me on the new Apple TV, It always recognizes my voice compared to my phone. I'd say the watch series 2 is second best at Siri with the iPhone third in my experience. I think a lot to do with it is the different mic or what kind of mic its uses in the product.

Great article man, the past month with all the articles reminds me of how the media was the year of the iPhone 5S where every article was stating (but the iPhone still doesn't have big displays yet) Software is the name of the game and will always trump hardware after the wow factor wheres off. Its not just iOS either, after all these year the App Store is still better than the Google Play Market, and Apps even big named ones like Snapchat and big Games are still on iPhone compared with Android. This says it all right here what you wrote and if just plain fact all the Sammy/Android fans forget or don't want to believe: "Apple's critics like to fawn over Samsung in an apparent effort to prop up some real competition, but that praise hasn't done anything to bolster Samsung's performance in the last three years. Just to match the performance of the old Galaxy S4, the new Galaxy S8 would need to sell massively more than last year, but analysts are expecting significantly fewer sales this year (as much as 20 percent fewer), on top of the whole Note 7 thing." The S4 was there biggest hit. I remember around that time I knew a lot of people who owned Samsung devices, but ever since then do I ever rarely see them out in the wild, there out there but back in that year it was more like 70% of the people I knew had iPhone to 30% Sammy, now its more 90% to 10%! The years from the S6 to now is also when Sammy decided to finally ditch there crappy plastic builds and finally move to metal/glass. It just proves your point more that software and the ecosystem is more important in the long run. I also love how the media and all these Youtubers every year need to make comparison videos between he Galaxy and iPhone, I mean its just hardware thats different it still runs android its the same every year. But to Samsung's advantage it props there new Galaxy Phone up to the same level of the iPhone in always comparing the two which Im sure Samsung just loves. Its been 10 years since the iPhone most people are invested like I have thousands of dollars spent on Apps and Services its the ecosystem I mean at this point I can't see many people ever switching if they think about all the cost in doing so. Apple stores continue to be packed on a daily basis no matter what time I seem to go by them, they are doing just fine (extemely well) if that foot traffic ever lets down I'll know something has shifted but nowhere in sight. The one Advantage hardware wise right now and maybe in the last year or two Samsung has had over Apple and what let them ship basically a small bezel phone first is that they own 95% of the OLED business to themselves. The S6 was the year OLED finally also got pretty color accurate. Even for this years iPhone its hard to provide Apple with the scale they need to produce so many OLED phones. Apple sells such huge amounts of inventory and its all for premium iPhones the OLED production just wasn't there for Apple to even use until now. Great that there looking ahead at Micro-LED tho, Samsung must be freakin about what could take place just a few short years down the road for them. Apples SOC/ Chip team best in the business as well and really has no competition to speak of. Most powerful and battery efficient chips not he market and it will stay that way for the foreseeable future. Apple can also optimize the hell out of them and use smaller batteries than Android models and get battery life. Almost every situation is a win/win for Apple and the future looks very bright if they can have vertical integration with not just the software but the hardware as well owning the entire stack of components.