Apple plots three-year run of iPhone redesigns amid growing competition
Posted by uria046@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 29 comments
Posted by uria046@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 29 comments
ritz_are_the_shitz@reddit
Curved glass on all edges ew. Android manufacturers tried that and learned their lesson, it's not good
mkmckinley@reddit
Why not?
meodd8@reddit
I actually switched from Android to Apple because I disliked the curved screens so much.
deep1986@reddit
I changed from an S23 Ultra to an S24 Ultra just because it didn't have that stupid curved screen
xeoron@reddit
I love my curved screen phone. It is great once you fine the perfect case.
General-Razzmatazz@reddit
I loved my Galaxy S9.
BigIronEnjoyer69@reddit
Arguable. Dunno. It's a toss up. As long as it's done well. Makes the phone feel thinner and nicer to hold IMO, especially if you're going commando. Possibly doable with a curved back like they were doing in the mid 2010s.
Makes hard screen protectors harder to acquire and drops more perilous, though glass seems to be getting better so it's not quite as grim as it sounds.
Accidential touches were annoying when they first started making them curved, but then they added the deadzone and it became fine, except for samsung who didn't, so theirs were annoying till they made them flat again.
Strazdas1@reddit
thinner is opposite of nicer to hold. current phones are too think for comfortable holding.
ritz_are_the_shitz@reddit
You have to have incredibly good palm rejection for this to work, and there was not a single Android phone that did this where it was good enough
pattymcfly@reddit
My gs8 was excellent. After it I went to iPhones. Haven’t been back.
got-trunks@reddit
Seems to me like it's just designing a problem and selling a solution anyway. So nothing different from the last 10 generations of phones
kongweeneverdie@reddit
I have no problem with curved edges on china phone at all.
Darkknight1939@reddit
They didn't get rid of it due to it "not being good." They got rid of it because of cost costing.
StevannFr@reddit
Price drop too, right?
maybeyouwant@reddit
By far the most interesting rumor is the cheaper Macbook with iPhone SOC.
_Mister_Anderson_@reddit
Sounds great until it costs the same as the previous cheapest model, and the rest of the product stack increases in price instead.
maybeyouwant@reddit
Very possible. We'll see.
No_Corner805@reddit
Reviewers: "Oh man, this sucks."
My mother and sister: "Oh man, this is great!"
scrndude@reddit
I’m actually kinda psyched for the foldable. I read a lot of PDFs and ebooks on my phone. Ebooks are easy to read because everything resizes for the device screen, but PDFs are a pain because I have to turn the phone landscape to be able to make the text big enough to read, and then I can only see like 3 lines of text at a time.
tsdguy@reddit
Until it rips through you pocket.
teh_spazz@reddit
Have you ever used a foldable phone for more than a cursory demo period? The fold very rapidly gets ignored.
scrndude@reddit
The rumors are that they’ve been holding back on a foldable until it appears as seamless when unfolded.
Strazdas1@reddit
so they will keep holding back for a long time from now
andrewia@reddit
I'm a very nitpicky person that hates small scratches on displays and other imperfections, but the crease never catches my attention, despite my fear that it would. You have to be in very weird lighting conditions for it to be visible, and the way you hold it means your thumbs naturally reach each half and don't touch the crease. Not to mention that most manufacturers have adopted hinges that flatted it from behind. Check out the Fold 7 in a store and see if you like it, most of the original issues have been resolved besides price.
got-trunks@reddit
I just want nice color epaper screens for a regular kindle price haha.
The foldables could be neat for reading as well, the screens are getting sorta there
tsdguy@reddit
Who posted this nonsense? Who thinks Apple doesn’t work on numerous redesigns every year?
What years don’t they have competition? Are tech people that stupid? Or is any bit of Apple nonsense fair game?
andrewia@reddit
I think the point is that Apple hasn't had innovative hardware lately, while Samsung and Huawei and Google have been launching phones with 10x zoom lenses, under-display cameras, denser batteries, AI features, longer software support, and other goodies. So now Apple devices have fewer advantages, and distinct disadvantages. Especially when some of those competitors have been polishing away all the flaws of book-shaped foldables (besides price). So it's notable that Apple is suddenly accelerating their pace of launches.
FollowingFeisty5321@reddit
It's also noticeable because the DOJ's antitrust complaint cites their executives favoring "good enough" over expensive features particularly for the iPhone, alleging Apple has become insulated to competition.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.544402/gov.uscourts.njd.544402.1.0_3.pdf (p12)
floydhwung@reddit
Alright boys we are down to two more new iPhones