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From the article's conclusion: > So maybe this phone isn’t Apple’s iPhone X, but it is an iPhone X. Ridiculous. If the phone can't run iOS apps (arm64 binarie
by 0x0 8y ago
From the article's conclusion:
> So maybe this phone isn’t Apple’s iPhone X, but it is an iPhone X.
Ridiculous. If the phone can't run iOS apps (arm64 binaries compiled for Darwin+UIKit) it's not even close. What a racket.
- lgvln 8y agoYeah. Products like this have been around ever since the first iPhone. I’m not sure what’s the big deal about this particular one. Click bait?
- jacquesc 8y agoI think they did a fine (and entertaining) job of going deep in reviewing it with extreme detail.
- kk_cz 8y agoiPhones has become status symbols, at least in some socio-economic groups. In this sense the functionality is not important - all that matters is the logo on the back and visual appearance of the home screen. If it can make people around you think that you have an iPhone, it's as useful as the real thing.
- NullPrefix 8y agoYou ain't fooling anyone with those green bubbles.
- netsharc 8y agoTheir (money-making) genius is also the redesign with every new version. Now that the X has a notch, some people with iPhone 7's will think "Oh, that person's iPhone has a notch, mine doesn't, I feel inferior."...
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