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Honestly if you had an iPhone 6 why would you upgrade? Better battery life is cool, and it being waterproof is novel. However, its basically the same phone for
by SurrealSoul 10y ago
Honestly if you had an iPhone 6 why would you upgrade? Better battery life is cool, and it being waterproof is novel. However, its basically the same phone for the end consumer.
- ihuman 10y agoBecause of the reasons you mentioned, and the better camera?
- ceejayoz 10y agoIn my experience, the OS starts to feel very, very slow not long after a major performance bump in the top-of-the-line iPhones.
- TheKnack 10y agoIn my experience, this is because major iOS upgrades tend to come out at the same time as new phones, and installing one major iOS version as an upgrade over the previous creates issues, especially if you've not set up a phone a new in a few years, whether it's a new phone or not. After installing a major iOS version upgrade, if you erase your phone without restoring the backup, the performance will feel new again, and battery life almost always improves.
- revelation 10y agoSeems awfully iterative. You can usually tell by the meaningless "2x more speed" "x% brighter" figures.
- nicky0 10y agoBut it does come in two different shades of black!
- madeofpalk 10y agoAren't all iPhones awfully iterative though? Surely this can't be a new revelation.
- sosborn 10y agoI'm excited about the new home button. Those have been the only point of failure on my previous iPhones.
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- raesene9 10y agoFor me the waterproofing is a killer feature that I've been waiting for a while. I use my phone out and about in the west of scotland, which is not the driest place in the world, so having this will be very handy.
- wodenokoto 10y agoThen why didn't you get a Sony Z-series? Water proof, great camera, great battery life, great screen, minimal changes to stock Android.
- enraged_camel 10y agoWater-resistant, not waterproof. That said, the new home button sounds very interesting (I say that both as a developer and end-user), and the new camera will be a very welcome addition. And battery life improvement on top that? Perfect. It is an iterative improvement for sure, but I don't see why that's a bad thing.
- buckbova 10y agoMajority wouldn't. They'll get the 7s or wait for the 8.
- ageektrapped 10y agoThey specifically made comparisons to the A8 chip (in the 6 and 6+) during the event and emphasized the speed increase. Apple knows their true problem is getting old iPhone users to upgrade. Also, did you see the event? Not the same phone at all. Wide color, awesome new camera and dropping it in the toilet might be enough.
- yoodenvranx 10y ago> emphasized the speed increase Isn't the iPhone 6 already "fast enough" for end users? My current phone is a Moto G 2014 which is still good enough for all my use cases.
- sanswork 10y agoDo you play a lot of games on your phone?
- yoodenvranx 10y agoI play tons of games on my phone but it's usually only games like Solitaire and similar 2d games.
- 72deluxe 10y agoIt would be interesting to know if they were just reimplmenting Android's View OnPaint and doing it in 2D land or getting an OpenGL context and drawing it 2D in there. I wonder what the battery differences would be like.
- xiaopanga 10y agoDo people play a lot of graphics intensive games on phones?
- PacketPaul 10y agoI do and the battery only last an hour. We need bigger batteries. CPU speed is never the issue.
- IMcD23 10y agoCamera.
- takeda 10y agoHow waterproofing is novel if pretty much all competitors already did it?
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- jonlucc 10y agoNovel to the line of iPhones. Someone with an older iPhone looking to upgrade would find the new one is different in that it has water resistance.
- 0x0 10y agoWide color is actually the one thing that sticks out as a quality-of-life improvement that might be worth it. Lack of 3.5mm is a very hard price to pay, though. I'll probably still wait and see what's coming for next year's 10th anniversary of the iPhone.
- markcerqueira 10y agoThis will be the first year I pass on upgrading on the 2-year cycle. I'm happy with my iPhone 6. I don't do much on it besides photos and texting. Although the camera in the 7 is nice, the 7 Plus seems to have gotten the most love in the camera department and I don't want a phone that big.
- ksk 10y agoApple convinced me to upgrade from my 4S by intentionally slowing it down with every subsequent iOS update. I wouldn't have bought the 6S if I could put an older iOS on the 4S.
- nicky0 10y agoYou really beleive that was intentional? Like there's some code there that says if running on 4S then run slow? I feel sorry for you.
- robryan 10y agoNobody believes that. Just that when building new versions of iOS they aren't concerned how it runs on older generation hardware.
- ksk 10y ago> Like there's some code there that says if running on 4S then run slow? Yes. It was fast and I was extremely happy with it when I bought it. After the update, its slow. To spell it out - One code path is fast, one code path is slow. They chose to force the latter upon us, as part of an intentional decision. I wish I could go back to the previous iOS version which was not slow, but Apple, intentionally block that with their DRM. Things which were instantaneous are now sluggish, ruining my experience after spending like 700 dollars. I could have gotten the same experience with an under-powered android phone for $50. Thanks Apple. >I feel sorry for you. How sorry do you feel? I mean .. thanks for being condescending and all, but I was just curious.
- chillacy 10y agoThe other answer as robryan mentioned is that there's one codebase and apple engineers develop on the latest devices, which from apple's benchmarks are at least 50% faster than the previous generation, so if you're on a 4S, that's 4 generations behind the 6S, which apple engineers are probably testing iOS 10 on. Geekgench puts the 4S at 282 and the 6S at 2389 on single core performance. > Higher scores are better, with double the score indicating double the performance. https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks That would imply that the 4S is running at least 8x slower than the latest hardware.
- jakobegger 10y agoIt comes in beautiful glossy black! I really don't like the "space grey" (6 was a bit better than 6s), and the other colors don't look all that pretty either. Call me shallow, but if I spend 870€ on a phone, I want it to be pretty...
- harryh 10y agoTotally agree. I've purchased a new phone in even numbered years going back quite a while but I'll be passing this year especially with a bigger redesign rumored to be coming next year for the 10th anniversary.
- mikeash 10y agoI have a 6+ and I can't answer that question. I'll probably sit this one out and see if the 7s is more compelling (or if my 6+ is less compelling by then). I can't blame Apple for it. I think they've reached feature saturation. The stuff is just Good Enough now.
- snuxoll 10y agoiOS 9 seems to have fixed some of it, but my 6+ still lags on occasion - the 6s+ seems to have fixed it and I feel like I should have waited the extra month but my Xperia Z3's screen got smashed and I needed a replacement device and my Android issues saw no end. I will probably upgrade just for the performance improvements alone, sucks that I'm losing a headphone jack but outside of the car I never need to charge + use the headphone port simultaneously so I think I'll survive with the dumb dongle.
- mikeash 10y agoYou're right, performance is a reason to upgrade. I'm satisfied with mine, but it could be better. Whenever I use my wife's 6s+ I'm mildly shocked at how much smoother and more responsive it is. I don't think it's enough to get me to pay $769+ to upgrade, but it's still a potential reason to. The headphone thing annoys me enormously, but it probably won't be a factor here.