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User satisfaction, refurbished device prevalence may hurt future iPhone sales
I have never upgraded every year - in fact it has been every 3 years - even though I am an Apple enthusiast. I just couldn't justify it to myself. When I do upgrade though, you get a lot of enjoyment out of the cumulative features over those years.
As for the story, I am sure Apple would sooner have high user satisfaction with the potential downside of slowing sales (or having to work harder to get that sale), rather than the alternative.
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User satisfaction, refurbished device prevalence may hurt future iPhone sales
I agree with most of your post, but the FaceID as gimmick comment seems odd. From what I have read, and in speaking to X owners, it works quite well, and they find it better than TouchID overall. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, well, and reliably. Not sure how that makes it a gimmick.airnerd said:this only makes sense. As the phones become more reliable and the advances between iterations gets less, there is less reason to get a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one. Up until now there were huge changes for almost every non "S" version of the iPhone. From better antennas to better screen, better camera, better security via touch ID, better durability due to fewer moving parts, etc. Screen resolution can't get THAT much better, durability is high, 5G is around the corner but other than that the networking capabilities aren't leaps and bounds better. There just hasn't been that next round of "wow, I can't do day to day tasks without that". AR is cool but in its infancy. FaceID is cool, but a gimmick at this point. I'm not knocking the X, it's cool but there is no incentive to move up. That's why I'm still on my 6, it is still too good of a phone to toss.
Maybe Apple should embrace the tinfoil hat-wearers and put in some planned obsolescence
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Fitbit preparing second foray into smart watches with new model having more 'mass appeal'
Apple likely sold ~9M Apple Watches in the last quarter. Fitbit sold about 5.4M of total wearables - from their lowest priced tracker to the Ionic smart watch.
It is game over for Fitbit.
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Early benchmarks shows Samsung Galaxy S9 well behind iPhone X in processor performance
I commented back in September that the 2018 high end Android devices would not come close the 2017 iPhones (many won't outperform iPhone 7), let alone what Apple brings to bear this year. -
Early benchmarks shows Samsung Galaxy S9 well behind iPhone X in processor performance
Clueless about what "specs" are? I am not surprised.rogifan_new said:
Since when do Apple fans care about specs? I thought it was all about user experience?lkrupp said:I am amused by the hypocrisy of the “specs mean everything" crowd. Apple has been hammered by this crowd incessantly for years. Geekbench tests have been hung around Apple’s neck like a millstone. Now comes Apple’s custom designed processors that smoke the competition and, miracle of miracles, suddenly these tests are flawed and meaningless. Granted, if you were to put the A11 in an Android phone it probably wouldn’t improve performance much, if any, because of the software. But to the spec monkeys the 8 core Snapdragon simply has to outperform the 6 core A11 because, well, 6 is less than 8. Simple arithmetic, right?Specs = specifications. What are the details of the product: how many transistors, what is clock speed, pixels, CPU cores, mWh of battery, etc. This is what some of the Android crowd bragged about, regardless of end user performance or experience.
What is discussed in this article is performance. Performance matters, and higher performance out of the hardware + great software = great user experience. Claiming otherwise is being...well...clueless.
