The Next iPhone Is Going To Be Unveiled On Sept. 12, Report Says (cnbc.com) 77
According to CNBC, Apple will host its big iPhone 8 product launch event on September 12th. From the report: The tech giant is expected to announce a bevy of products, including two new iterative iPhone updates, possibly named the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus, in addition to a high-end iPhone 8. Apple is also reportedly gearing up to announce a new 4K Apple TV that will support sharper content than current models, and a new Apple Watch. The iPhone 8 will reportedly feature a display that takes up almost the entire front of the device, using new OLED panels that are brighter and more colorful than previous screens. Rumor has it Apple has moved the fingerprint reader to the back of the phone but will also support facial recognition thanks to a new 3-D sensor on the front of the device. Rumors have suggested the most high-end iPhone 8 will start at $1,000. Apple typically sells its new phones within a week or so of the announcement.
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Agree w/ this. Other than iPhone 7 and iPhone SE, what else could one need? What exactly are they adding to 7s/+ that we don't have in 7? Removing the home button? Sorry, but I like the home button in both my iPhone & iPad
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<Peter Griffin>
What? Why?
Okay, here we go...
OWW!! OUCH! MY GOD THIS HURTS!!!
Why?! WHY did you ask me to do that?
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Perhaps they work for a high-ish security company/position that does not allow 'camera-phones' to be taken in to work.
That said, though, If you work in a place like that, I have a hard time believing they'd exempt any current phone, lest they have to check/re-check every single time.
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I'm right with you except for the "no camera". What I want is a sliding cover over the camera or a camera that flips 90 degrees so that it points into the innards of the device. There are times when I want devices to have a camera, but I want it to be entirely under my control, and I don't feel that any software can adequately provide that control.
Well, and I couldn't care less about changing the IMSI.
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I'm right with you except for the "no camera". What I want is a sliding cover over the camera or a camera that flips 90 degrees so that it points into the innards of the device. There are times when I want devices to have a camera, but I want it to be entirely under my control, and I don't feel that any software can adequately provide that control.
Well, and I couldn't care less about changing the IMSI.
Tape? A case? A pack of them little circle stickers? There's plenty easy enough ways to all but disable one.
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Tape disables it, but it is hard to reenable it without it becoming semi-permanently reenabled until you get more tape. I've done that for my iPad, because I don't ever use the camera on that, but it isn't nearly as practical for my phone, which I do sometimes use for spontaneous pictures.
And no, a case won't cover the camera, because they're all specifically designed to avoid doing that.
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And no, a case won't cover the camera, because they're all specifically designed to avoid doing that.
Fot the most part yes, but as with anything have a look and you'll probably find something. I don't know what type of phone you have but https://eyepatchcase.com/ [eyepatchcase.com]
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^ found the drug dealer
iPhone costs. (Score:4, Insightful)
I own an iPhone, and I like it, but it would be nice if Apple could try to reduce costs instead of increasing them, for once. I'm getting a little tired of phone manufacturers setting prices that are equivelant to that of a mid-end laptop.
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The problem with that is one created of success: if you want to include a new feature on iPhone, it needs to be a feature you can manufacture 200 million of, or you just get tagged by pundits with being unable to follow through, can't execute, overly ambitious, etc.
So, reduce the market by raising the price tag. Now they only need to manufacture 60 million of them, which may be more reasonable for a cutting-edge hardware widget of some kind until the yields come up, at which point they can drop the price to increase demand.
I'm not saying that is what they are doing - they could just be amazingly greedy fuckers that want to bleed customer wallets of every drop they can. But it is a problem that you can't be as agile as a smaller competitor when you require the volume that Apple does, and can't multiple-source because of the lead time of building part factories. You can only manufacture completed products as fast as your supply line can get you the scarcest component.
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Yeah I don't get it either. If you need "volume" you only need to go up to eleven.
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It's pretty simple to understand if you are at all literate. Increasing price of a non-essential good typically has the effect of lowering demand. If this happens, Apple can meet demand while still making a lot of profit. The press doesn't care about high prices, but will bash Apple if they can't keep up with customer demand.
All I did is paraphrase the GP.
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The phone market is strange in that lots and lots of people want to have the "flagship" phone and you're not allowed to have a more expensive model in your lineup. I mean it's not like every Ford is a Ford GT [ford.com] or every guy with a Canon has a EOS-1D X Mark II [canon.com]. But if Apple wants to make a $999 phone, like actually spec-wise next level not just inlaid with gold and diamonds there's panic. Apple needs to stay out in front on the premium side, if people stop saying "if money was no object, I'd get an iPhone" tha
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It strikes me its more a move to recapture the people who used to buy a new iPhone when they came out and stopped because feature innovations became too few and because performance didn't really increase enough to warrant it.
I think Apple is really hitting a wall where the device is so mature that there's not much utility left to add, other than the utility they won't add, like external memory slots and the like.
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I own an iPhone, and I like it, but it would be nice if Apple could try to reduce costs instead of increasing them, for once. I'm getting a little tired of phone manufacturers setting prices that are equivelant to that of a mid-end laptop.
They did that with the 5c, and still do(?) with the SE.
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That would completely disrupt the business model that the iPhone was built on.
If one recalls, when this phone was introduced, it was introduced as a luxury phone, or a phone to be had due to brand vanity, like a Prada or a Gucci. Not something for every Sally down the street, but just the jet setters. Apple's stroke of luck was in that it became a fad and caught on. Granted, they made the UI state of the art, and had a whole bunch of apps that really exposed the power of this platform. And without red
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iPhone sales remain very strong, and they sure aren't status symbols, nor were they a passing fad. People like them.
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I own an iPhone, and I like it, but it would be nice if Apple could try to reduce costs instead of increasing them, for once. I'm getting a little tired of phone manufacturers setting prices that are equivelant to that of a mid-end laptop.
Given what the iPhone is capable of and what is actually packed into it, why wouldn't it be priced the way it is? If you want a crappier device buy a crappier device. There are many on the market to choose from.
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everyone's response is... (Score:3)
Uhm.. (Score:2)
Citations with verifiable statistics, please.
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I was about to write exactly what you did, but then I decided to type it into google instead:
iPhone 8 creating worldwide shortage of DRAM & NAND chips, says report [9to5mac.com]
Funny. (Score:2)
Funny. Oddly enough, I did, too. Before I commented. No statistics, numbers, etc. Even just checked again. A bunch of articles with no numbers. Even if it is true, it's not like the stockpile of already-made products is going to get ripped apart to satisfy manufacturing demand.
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Funny thing about stockpiles is that their presence still falls into a supply and demand equation. Stockpiles go up in price when manufacturing is unable to maintain said stockpiles. Just because companies don't share with you their inner business supply change details doesn't mean you can't infer quite a lot from the outside.
How exciting. (Score:1)
Who CARES?! (Score:2)
Fucking iPhones... Give us decent Mac mini and MacBook Air updates, PLEASE!
Godamn idiot CEO who thinks everyone should use a fucking iPad. Some of us need REAL computers and I'm not just talking about processing power.
Bah, fuck it.
What's the best low-cost OpenBSD-friendly laptop out there?
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And Pros!! Frak the touchbar, etc.
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So get yourself a real computer then. Apple concentrates on what sells, and Mac Minis are a miracle they're even still on the market. Mac Mini and Mac Pros are the two WORST selling Mac products out there - and this has always been since the beginning. In fact, Apple considered dropping the Ma
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Okay then Apple should unlock macOS so that it can be used on any regular PC. Just list the supported laptops, CPUs, GPUs, chipsets, etc and let us nerds worry about compatibility.
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Fully agree! Anybody who wants an iPhone 6+/7+ should probably look at an iPad Mini - cellular. The 6/7 is fine. The 5 was good, and the right configuration would have been fine. Incidentally, how much would a 5s w/ 128GB storage cost, compared to a 6 or 7 w/ the same storage?
The watch - I haven't seen anyone w/ it, excepting sometimes passengers on flights. However, the way to look at it is as a jewellery piece, but even then, it seems way too expensive. My sister has an Apple TV, but I have no use
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Just because you live in the Projects and are surrounded by dirt poor single mothers with 5 kids, does not mean that people with jobs can't and don't buy Apple products. Get out of that public library and get yourself a job.
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Apple hasn't innovated since they introduced Apple Pay. Granted, few shops yet use it - usually, it's the ones w/ Verisign POS systems. But since then, nothing they've done can really be called innovative. No marks for making the iPhone 7 thinner or even waterproof - if you are in Houston and your iPhone 7 is under water, you'll probably need it replaced anyway. No points for removing the audio jack either, or giving us the audio to lightning dongle. Or the ear buds. The watch was interesting, but way
IOS 11 GA (Score:2)
Time to get those updated versions of your app into the store...
Why wait? Just watch 2016 Samsung (Score:2)
For details on the upcoming line of phones from apple, please review the Samsung product announcements from 2016 (sans exploding Note 7 which Apple doesn't have a competitor for anyhow) for the required information. Substitute 'Apple' for 'Samsung' and 'iPhone' for 'Galaxy' as required. You may also try substituting 'courageous' for 'innovative' but that pair will prove less accurate in reality.