brianus

Hreb said:

charlesn said:

schlack said:

For me, current iPhones are too heavy and too big, plus they’ve got plenty of battery life. 

I bought an iPhone 16 Pro and returned it on day 14 because of its unwieldy size and weight. 

I don’t care about a “slim” phone at all, but give me something with a smaller screen and a lighter weight and I’m interested, even if it means pulling features, reducing cameras, etc. 

While I don't doubt that there's a segment of people who want smaller, lighter phones, Apple's data must clearly show it's not a large enough group to support the offering of such a product.

Apple's data shows they don't have any capability to produce a diversity of SKUs (and components) economically.  Anyone would be very happy to ship an iphone form factor which would only sell 100k units -- if they could make a margin on it.

I've never understood this line of reasoning. I'm sure there's some business mumbo jumbo an a MBA could school me on, but the iPhone is by far Apple's best selling product, yet it offers far fewer form factors than their far less popular IPad and Mac lines (I mean there's 8 different types of Mac! 7 screen sizes if you count their external displays!). Why? How is that economical but more than 3 phone sizes isn't? I'm sure even the "poor selling" iPhone minis outsold most of their non-iPhone products.

But yeah, I also just don't understand the general public here. Why they seem to prefer the more expensive Pro models lately, why more pixels > wieldability/pocketability on a device that is intended to be mobile with an OS that doesn't give you any more flexibility on a bigger screen than a smaller one, why battery life is SUCH a concern... like you can afford a pro phone (the benefits of which are... what, the camera? BFD), yet you can't find a place to charge it all day? Something doesn't add up. 

Yeah I don’t get it. Seems very niche, and I haven’t heard a use case for it that isn’t something the watch already does. 

80025 said:

Wages and salaries are a private issue. Even in this tell-all-society, it's nobodys' business what another employee makes or does not make. Using company connectivity/hardware, and/or a company-specific app, for non-work related activities, is generally considered to be unacceptable, no matter where one is employed

lol it just wouldn’t be the AppleInsider forum without the same old takes from management lickspittles. Can’t really imagine what could be more work-related than pay…. the entire reason anyone works there.

hexclock said:

Microsoft solved the tiling problem in Windows 3.11. Why can’t Apple replicate and improve upon that function?

I was a Windows user from 98 through early Vista (I also occasionally had to use 3.1, 95, and NT too), and I do not remember any “tiling” features, at least none that are in any way similar to what Apple is doing here or what I’m told modern Windows can do. Care to enlighten us on what 3.11 did that was so innovative?

I don't know why the lost their nerve with Split View. They should have kept iterating, giving us multiple vertical and horizontal splits, the ability to drag apps in via the Dock or LaunchPad, to swap apps via drag and drop, the "..." top bar options from iPadOS, Slideover, floating Utility apps invoked from corners, etc... would have been so much more compelling than yet another half baked attempt at keeping the aging Desktop metaphor relevant.