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Let's hear it for Death by a Thousand Monthly Charges!
Put Nova Launcher and Tasker on your new S8 when it arrives and then be careful parts don't hit you when you throw your old iPhone agains the wall
I don't mind paying off the phone small amounts every month. The biggest issue I have, is how overpriced the plans are on contract compared to prepaid plans.
It's much cheaper over the course of 24-30 month to buy the phone and be on prepaid plan, than be on a contract with far less data for same amount of time. But I did my math with a $650 phone.
You know what...they were scared of something. It wasn't because they were nervous from the audience...something wasn't right when they talked about the phone. It might be the neurolink.
Perhaps skynet needs some tweaking. Or their was some interference with the com to surgical chip inserted at brain stem some months back.
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As a matter of fact the iphone 6s, 7 and 8 share this same feature:
12 MP
so nothing new here, same pixel resolution LOL fail!!
wait...S8 camera has the same resoluitions, now i understand, no need to innovate hence.... LOL
It's a very mature product at this point. It's not gonna be all new anymore, it's gonna be iterative. Just look at cars, tvs, laptops, etc. they're touchscreen slabs. How much more can you do with that?
I won't go as far as to say Apple is dead to me, but yes I am disappointed. I have had every year's model iPhone and been an enthusiast, but in my opinion this really marks the end of the Jobs period.
I know we shouldn't say things like "Steve would have done this or that", but I wholeheartedly believe that Steve would not have allowed the X to be this phone. He might have allowed this X to be the iPhone 8 model (and not released those), but for the premium priced model he would have insisted, as the X as the 10th anniversary phone, having some new cutting edge feature that nobody else has, so everybody would be going "I don't care if it's $999, shut up and take my money" instead of complaining about the price because it's an evolution of not much new.
Holographic Siri, anyone? Just an idea, but you get the point, they should be skating to where the puck WILL be, just like in their Gretsky quote, not adding current industry features and calling that the future.
Now with the Cook era, I really think unless they can come up with something truly new, they're going to be the next Microsoft type company, always putting out the safe choice, improving a bit on competitor offerings, but not being the innovators. And that makes me very sad.
I know we shouldn't say things like "Steve would have done this or that", but I wholeheartedly believe that Steve would not have allowed the X to be this phone. He might have allowed this X to be the iPhone 8 model (and not released those), but for the premium priced model he would have insisted, as the X as the 10th anniversary phone, having some new cutting edge feature that nobody else has, so everybody would be going "I don't care if it's $999, shut up and take my money" instead of complaining about the price because it's an evolution of not much new.
Holographic Siri, anyone? Just an idea, but you get the point, they should be skating to where the puck WILL be, just like in their Gretsky quote, not adding current industry features and calling that the future.
Now with the Cook era, I really think unless they can come up with something truly new, they're going to be the next Microsoft type company, always putting out the safe choice, improving a bit on competitor offerings, but not being the innovators. And that makes me very sad.
Really? Most of these guys have done SEVERAL keynotes. Never a tinge of "stage fright". Why do you make excuses for them now?
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Stupid people. They will be paying monthly payments for years to come...
I'll be really interested to read the excuses in five years time when a phone costs two grand. The sheep will follow with their wallets.
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The Note 8,on the other hand, is an incremental improvement over the Note 7, which I had and loved, and the S8+, which I have and like except for when it was plagued with a pink display and I still hate the curved edges. The notch is no picnic but I'm sick of looking at things curling around the edge of my screen.
The S8+ display has amazing specs but I refuse to watch videos on it anymore because all the damn curves on it make for reflections glaring in my eyes. I'd have to sit in a completely dark room to enjoy it. I look forward to seeing a Note 8 display in person. I hope they refined the shape of it to remove or mitigate the annoyances of curved displays. As far as Android is concerned I actually have more interest in the LG V30.
Samsung owners acknowledge Samsung also rushed some things to market once again. Samsung meant to have a fingerprint scanner embedded in their display, too. But they, like Apple, ran out of time and so they've got their fingerprint scanner tucked in the boneheaded location next to the camera lenses. They airily admitted it was where they had the space for it. They weren't about to agonize and reengineer the whole danged phone just to get the scanner in a better location.
There are some wonderful pros to the Samsungs but also some significant cons which I'll let you discover on your own. No smart phone maker is perfect. They all have their weird foibles and blind spots. Samsung and Apple are putting forth good work, though.
You may not be impressed by what Apple revealed to us yesterday but it was more significant than some people realize. Apple made some great strides in machine learning and camera software and hardware. Yes, they built on work that has been done before, but Apple has always done that. So has Samsung.
All technology is iterative. Breakthroughs are actually evolutionary, built on the backs of countless smaller successes and failures endured in silence. It's the application and marketing that makes breakthroughs revolutionary. Steve Jobs was a master at seeing and marketing the applications and helping us use the tech in ways that are revolutionary. He's gone and with him, some of that magic. But the actual work is still going on. I see it. Some others here see it. If you're not feeling it, definitely give Samsung a try. Sometimes we need a little break helps us broaden our perspectives and get our expectations in line better.
I think everyone should try Android and Samsung does some incredibly cool things. Enjoy, and I hope to see you on the Alernatives to iOS part of this forum. You will be welcome there and kind people will help you get acclimated.
Excuses? I excuse nothing. Not the millionaires with stage fright, that's what i saw. Nervous presenters stumbling lines, not at all comfortable. How is that excuses.
And I also don't excuse the moronic half baked comments being made with no facts, lot's of conjecture, and out and out mis-information. Like the phone, don't like the phone makes no matter to me. Same nonsense each year, some I realize are just click baters. But too many people that own the iPhones don't even have a clue how they work, yet come on hear disparaging things that are simply untrue.
The notch is not present when videos, movies, tv, is played. Unless you zoom in.
Face data, just like finger print data never leaves your phone. It's locked in chip enclave, unaccessable. Actually heard radio host amazed that Apple is collecting face data. And avast that you can buy something with phone by looking at it. The amount of stupid out there is getting worse.
Rumors are just that and blaming Apple for not fulfilling a rumor is plain nuts.
Saying anything about screen before side by side comparisons are made is plain silly. You can't tell what screen looks like by view from your iPad, tv, computer. You have to see it live.
Touch ID was disparaged just like face ID is. Maybe we should wait and see how it works day to day real world before any conclusions are voiced. Bet you dollars to donuts, software tweaks and yearly hardware updates will improve whatever it currently does. Just like Touch ID was improved. Nothing stands still.
Apple is not doomed, going bankrupt, failing, or any other such nonsense. Buy the iPhone X, don't buy it. Hate to break it to you but nobody on here cares what you do.
The info is out there to look up, screen size, stats, phone size, weight, etc. look it up, no need to ask here. Contrary to popular belief, forum members are not your personal look up tool because you are lazy.
FaceID failed during presentation. Failed my ass, it work exactly how it was designed to work. The stage prep people looked at phone before hand and triggered the required passcode request because they were not Federici. Phone logs proved it.
Damn, that felt good.
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You see, bopa. Some people don't have the ability to recognize people's facial/vocal/posturing expression.
See you there.......watch for my new thread....."Samsung is dead to me"
Doesn’t the x have dual 12mp OIS equipped cameras? I’d assume it has 2 in the front now also since it can do portrait mode pics
Not to mention new sensors, new apertures, etc. Some people are too hooked on numbers, because the number of megapixels is the end-all, be-all of human existence.
Op I support you. Apple without Steve Jobs is just a giant battleship without a real captain, it is going nowhere.
And soon it will be so big, it won't have to go anywhere, cuz it will be everywhere.