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People (most often Americans) are "book cover crazy". You know the old saying: "You can't tell a book by it's cover". But in technology innovation, people would vote for the book with the prettiest cover. In the 1950's to 1970's people loved their American cars, as long as GM, Ford and the other car companies completely changed the outside style of the car every year, but very little was changed technologically. Those same people sneered at foreign car companies like BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, etc. that kept the outside design of their cars for a few years before changing it, but developed new technologies and improvements inside the cars each year. We are seeing the 1950's mentality with people who only see the metal back of the iPhone 7, without knowing anything about the new technologies or user experience improvements, and reject it and call it "boring" only because the back shell of the iPhone does not look different ENOUGH to them. Intelligent people don't buy the iPhone because the back of it changes radically each year (people like that buy phones form other companies, like Samsung). They buy the iPhone because they are getting the highest quality hardware and software, reliability, support, and the best user experience available. And what is especially ironic about "book cover crazy" people is that once everyone puts a cover on their phone (which most people do to protect their investment) they ALL look alike. The only thing that anyone sees of their phones is the front dark glass that covers everything inside that makes a phone a phone.

It is VERY unlikely that it will be called iPhone 6SE. The 5, 5S, and 5SE look almost identical The 6 and 6S look identical But... This new model is NOT identical to the 6 and 6S. It will be thinner, lose the headphone jack, have stereo (instead of mono) speakers, it will have very different cameras externally including the dual lens camera on the Plus, it will have redesigned antenna lines, and there may be other significant changes that we are not aware of yet. We already know for certain that the iPhone 7 WILL NOT look just like an iPhone 6/6S with only the internal hardware changed.

hentaiboy said:

brakken said:

Good. Go suck it, ss.
Congratulations, TSMC!

Just don't whine when there's supply chain delays...

TSMC is the larger IC fabricator. Not only is it a larger company than Samsung in that area, but it also produces faster, more efficient processors. The A9 form both TSMC and Samsung were tested shortly after the iPhone 6S was introduced. The TSMC produced A9 was slightly faster, and also was more power efficient than Samsung's. TSMC has been rapidly building up its production facilities over the past few years. If they produce better A10 and A11 processors than Samsung, and more reliably, then Apple is wise to give the entire contract to TSMC.

cnocbui said:

iPhone - made from the cheapest parts available.  How comforting.  Good thing that you you don't get what you pay for.

How dare a business run itself like a business, and try to optimize it's expenditures... (only if it is Apple

"It's rumored that at 10 years old, the iPhone will get a major external redesign, with an all-glass body" That sounds highly unlikely! Apple has already tried a glass body with the iPhone 4 & 4S. Unlike the iPhone 5 & 6 series, it was obligatory that it be put into a protective case. If you dropped it, it shattered. Samsung made the same mistake with the Galaxy S7. There are plenty of YouTube videos showing how easily the glass body shatters when you drop it. Unless there is a new, completely unbreakable glass discovered (which I highly doubt), Apple will not be making any future iPhones with a glass body again.