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These sorts of threads appear for every announcement. I chuckled seeing another user claim that it wasn't exciting because they didn't have something like Animo
by endorphone 7y ago
These sorts of threads appear for every announcement. I chuckled seeing another user claim that it wasn't exciting because they didn't have something like Animojis to announce, that feature being a desperate "please try to buy this phone we're trying to justify this awkward face unlock thing".
It's an incremental update that also brings huge new features to the "low priced" version. And it'll do great.
- dmix 7y agoYep, cell phones have reached peak feature-dom and this iPhone X style design is excellent. We don't need new fancy bells attached to it just for the sake of it. Just make it incrementally better and faster, without messing up what was good about it previously.
- bredren 7y agoI agree the product is in polishing stage, improving existing ideas and features rather than introducing new ones. The focus internally is on the next leap forward, presumably an AR device. If you go back and look at the iPod release history [1] between 2005 and 2007, (first iPhone released June '07) you can see a similar incremental improvements, specifically in software enhancements, improved form factor and longer battery life. I believe the difference between then and now is that the Watch and iPhone are production testing grounds for hardware that will be used in an AR product. In this way the new product is being developed in the open. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
- derefr 7y agoJust for the sake of it, no. For the sake of Apple continuing to have some differentiating feature to get people to line up to purchase in a way that keeps the iPhone trendy, yes. Otherwise it's just like any of the other 5000 smartphone models coming out each year, and then Apple's stock goes down.