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iPhone 16 won't be compelling and Apple will get hurt because of it, says Kuo
I’m not griping about incrementalism, simply recognising it for the fact that it is.AppleZulu said:
Seriously, it's like clockwork that with the annual release of a new iPhone model (or really a new model for any device in Apple's portfolio), comes the peanut-gallery griping about "incrementalism." The owner of last year's model is never the target customer for this year's model. These things are designed to last for several years. See my earlier post for the explanation about it being good business not to piss off customers by rendering their expensive, almost-new device obsolete.saarek said:
Ah yes, I also remember the good old days when a new iPhone was truly exciting. Every generation seemed a real leap over the prior versions with some killer feature that you just knew you really wanted.emoeller said:I used to replace my iPhone every year. By the time iPhone 16 comes out my 13P will be over 3 years old. Best as I have been able to determine ,worldwide, somewhere between 25 and 35% of all iPhones are more than 3 years old. IMHO this is the year many will upgrade (including myself).
The telephoto lens in the 16P will be the biggest feature upgrade, but for those of us that haven't upgraded the spatial audio/video capture will be valuable going forward (I pick up my VisionPro on Sat), and of course we have missed out on the already amazing cameras in the 15P.
I feel the same way about my Mac's (all are Intel) and two of them will get replaced with an M3 Studio (I need ray tracing and vectors for my work). The exception is my MBP with TouchBar, which I will keep until it dies.....
Sadly those days are gone, it's a mature product now.
With the iPhone, maybe the first couple of generations represented "a real leap over the prior versions" because the original iPhone was barely ready for showtime (much less, production) when it was introduced. But it wasn't and isn't the intent for each annual update to be like Steve Jobs' dramatic orginal iPhone intro. Perhaps it's his lingering reality distortion field that has you thinking that it was.One of the big innovations with the release of iPhone was the fact that you would, with the purchase price of your iPhone, be getting not only ongoing iOS security patches, but several years of annual major updates to iOS, which would add new features and functionality to your existing phone... at no extra charge! This wasn't done before iPhone. For those of you too young to remember, you had to purchase operating system updates, if your older device was even compatible. (Talking about computers here. Most other electronics were just done the moment they shipped out of the factory.)
The iPhone was always intended to be something you'd keep for several years, not one that you'd feel compelled to replace annually.
The iPhone was exciting at one stage, the updates year on year were meaningful and generally meant that you wanted to upgrade each year. It also helped that the iPhone used to be a lot cheaper as they had no Pro model. The best iPhone was the only new iPhone each year.
Things change, platforms mature and by default they are no longer exciting.
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iPhone 16 won't be compelling and Apple will get hurt because of it, says Kuo
Ah yes, I also remember the good old days when a new iPhone was truly exciting. Every generation seemed a real leap over the prior versions with some killer feature that you just knew you really wanted.emoeller said:I used to replace my iPhone every year. By the time iPhone 16 comes out my 13P will be over 3 years old. Best as I have been able to determine ,worldwide, somewhere between 25 and 35% of all iPhones are more than 3 years old. IMHO this is the year many will upgrade (including myself).
The telephoto lens in the 16P will be the biggest feature upgrade, but for those of us that haven't upgraded the spatial audio/video capture will be valuable going forward (I pick up my VisionPro on Sat), and of course we have missed out on the already amazing cameras in the 15P.
I feel the same way about my Mac's (all are Intel) and two of them will get replaced with an M3 Studio (I need ray tracing and vectors for my work). The exception is my MBP with TouchBar, which I will keep until it dies.....
Sadly those days are gone, it's a mature product now. -
iPhone 16 won't be compelling and Apple will get hurt because of it, says Kuo
To be fair the iPhone 14 was the worst iPhone update in the history of all iPhone updates. It was basically a rebadged iPhone 13 with a couple of minor upgrades. I'm sure the iPhone 16 can't be as shit as that, it's not really possible.kmarei said:"the iPhone 16 not being a compelling upgrade"
so pretty much the same as iphone 12, 13, 14, 15 etc?
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Apple's EU App Store changes are extortion, says Spotify
Long story short the companies that are complaining thought, rather naively, that the DMA would force Apple to lower or remove their fees and remove roadblocks.
Apple has no intention of making it easy for companies like this. They’ve made it very clear that they, for whatever reason, feel fully justified in their fee structure and so, yes, they’ve worked out how to make the ruling effectively pointless.
Personally I think Apple should have lowered their fees years ago. They’d have avoided years of negative press over it and could have demonstrated that they are reasonable.
Still, my personal feeling is irrelevant. Apple will continue to fight this tooth and nail.
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New M3 iPad Pro with OLED may have a ridiculously higher starting price
Apple is legendary for ripping off consumers with their Ram and Storage upgrades. Still, at least in the past people could do it aftermarket.KidGloves said:Surely this can't be true. In my opinion, the iPad Pro is already far too expensive. Adding a keyboard and matching the 256GB you get with a MacBook is £1748 compared to £1149 MacBook Air. That's £600 more and that doesn't even include an Apple Pencil to take advantage of the touchscreen features. Add that and it's £1887. Nearly 2 grand!
This is already in the crazy zone for a device that's still very limited by its software/OS. Most testers have struggled to use one as their main work machine. I would suggest Apple focuses on making iPad OS fit for purpose, rather than mincing about with the screen (which nobody seems to have much of a problem with).
Looking at tumbling Mac sales, one has to wonder if Apple really understands the current financial climate facing a very significant part of the world. They have, without doubt, developed their best-ever range of devices. Just about everything Apple offers now is best in class. But the prices are becoming insane. With the M series MacBooks they had the chance to finally get volume and move out of being an expensive niche choice. But as usual, they got greedy. The RAM and SSD pricing is crazy. I would love to see even smaller and cheaper M1 devices targeted at education to grow the installed user base. A smaller M1-based budget laptop to compete with the £500-£800 PCs. Get people onboard with Mac and they'll buy a proper one next time. This just seems so shortsighted.
Now that’s no longer an option and Apple has decided to price gouge to an even more egregious degree.
It’s sad because their market share is growing and they really could make massive leaps forward if it were not for Tim’s greed. After all, it’s not like Apple is on the ropes and needs the money. They can’t even spend what they have now.
