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Many parts of this article are so disingenuous. There's a smartphone decline coming, but it's not here yet, and this article is a premature declaration that can
by eugeniub 8y ago
Many parts of this article are so disingenuous. There's a smartphone decline coming, but it's not here yet, and this article is a premature declaration that can't substantiate itself. It starts by talking about a "smartphone decline", then discreetly transitions to a smartphone sales decline — of only -0.3%. And this decline can be explained by, as the article puts it: "there’s no doubt that the replacement cycle for phones is elongating".
> If you bought a new iPhone 3G in 2008, and then a new iPhone 4 in 2010, you were buying markedly different machines. [...] If you bought an iPhone 6 in 2014 and then an iPhone 7 in 2016, that expected improvement was much harder to mark (except, perhaps for that fact the the iPhone 7 didn’t have a 3.5mm headphone jack).
Yeah? What if you shifted the years 2014/2016 to 2015/2017. Suddenly you're comparing an iPhone 6s to an iPhone X. Arguably an even bigger leap than iPhone 3G to iPhone 4.
- drannex 8y agoRepair technician and mobile researcher, not really 2015 and 2017 internal components are amazingly similar. Even the screen technology, taptic engine, Audio IC, Touch IC, and more are relatively the same — just a migration of location on the board. The 6S screen design is even more similar to the X than I had originally thought when I started to tear into them. Now the switch from 3G to 4? That was some brand new engineering techniques and internal chip sets.
- eugeniub 8y agoI think you're mentioning the similarities but omitting all of the differences — radically different design, waterproofing, face ID, wireless charging, fast charging, etc.
- bunnycorn 8y ago> The 6S screen design is even more similar to the X than I had originally thought when I started to tear into them. What? The 6s has a LCD and the X (2017) has a flexible OLED. Couldn't be more different.