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lmagoo said:

The iPhones that show multiple holes on each side of the Lightning connector are obviously fake....there will only be one hole opposite the speaker for a Mic....not another speaker....

Someone has not be paying attention...

Rumors for months on end, and tons of "factory" prototype leaks have hammered on that there would be NO headphone jack. Instead the iPhone will use the  Lightning connector for audio and add two speakers (and the mic could be in there alongside their holes).

I mean it's not like this is new, this has gone beyond AI, even in mainstream outlets like The Verge:
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11991302/iphone-no-headphone-jack-user-hostile-stupid

tomasulu said:

So many words and still iphone 7 will be to iPhone 6s what iPhone 6s was to iPhone 6. Everything's improved but nothing will be really new and desirable.

It will be desirable enough to move 100s of millions of units, and oversell any other smartphone model by a wide margin. Also "nothing will be really new and desirable" compared to what? The grass is greener ho-hum offering on the Android side, or some BS unrealistic idea? The main people who have a beef with "everything's improved" is people who seek shiny distractions.

And we all knew how iPhone 6s turned out.

Moving 170 million units -- and just failing to breaking Apple's previous record (which is also the overall record for every company selling smartphones ever)? Yeah, what a bad fate...

hagar said:

Thanks for pointing me to Joanna Stern's article on iPhone and AI in WSJ. I think she's spot on. The position of Apple on privacy is not a desirable one. If I look at my Android friends that are amazed by the AI delivered to their phone by Google & friends that analyse their data, I can't help but wonder how Apple will ever deliver something similar? 
Nobody seems to care that Apple protects their privacy (it's a multinational too!) and Google not. They just want useful information delivered to them when they need it.

Yeah, fuck privacy, just give me useless "You have a plane to catch in 3 hours" and "Do you want to buy Mountain Dew? You bought some last week and it should be consumed by now" notifications.

It's amazing how many idiots point to the lenses (big single or dual) looking "ugly".

Apparently the benefits for iPhone video/photography are nothing compared to the BS sense of superficial style.

thewhitefalcon said:

Ugh, that big single lens looks terrible. 

Yeah, having a 1/2' sensor for great low light and higher resolution would be so bad, because some people don't like a bigger lens opening...