Curious - why an IR blaster? Aren't all cable boxes these days wireless? I can control mine with the DirecTV app from my iPad and iPhone.
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Can Apple close the gap to the S6's hardware?
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Curious - why an IR blaster? Aren't all cable boxes these days wireless? I can control mine with the DirecTV app from my iPad and iPhone.
My Brighthouse box doesn't, but more so do when out and about you can change public TVs. I mostly just don't have a reason to not have it, similar to SD card. There's no downside
Used it in hospitals, restaurants , airport heh. It's not that useful but cool when you need it
Lol interesting. Easy enough to just ask for the channel to be changed but hey, whatever floats your boat.
You should know me well enough by now that I would never argue against having a feature
You should know me well enough by now that I would never argue against having a feature
Oh I know. I wouldn't necessarily either. But I respect focus on certain things without getting distracted by superfluous features - from Apple's point of view.
Try every frickin' time. Web browsing on the iPhone 6 is a joke. Try copying and pasting text and link into a forum post and see if the browser can handle it without refreshing. 9/10 times it can't. It is inexcusable for a high-end smartphone in 2015.
I can categorically say that is not true. I still have my old iPhone 5 and that thing refreshes tabs rarely if ever. Compared to the iPhone 6, it refreshes tabs and apps a lot less. 64-bit processor and 1GB RAM don't really go together.
I think apples view is more about money, they don't want to waste potential profit since most don't care about this stuff, even if they cost hardly anything
Perhaps - though I'm not sure how much an IR blaster could cost.....doesn't seem like TV remotes are complex pieces of machinery....
Believe it or not, Apple does have other motivations besides money.
Yet the Samsung Galaxy S6 is .1 mm thinner thinner than the iPhone 6. Yup, nobody cares about device thickness anymore.
Puff, really? more thinner? expect the iphone 6s to be more thinner, nobody cares about device thickness anymore except Apple and now Samsung.
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Puff, really? more thinner? expect the iphone 6s to be more thinner, nobody cares about device thickness anymore except Apple and now Samsung.
Except they're the 2 largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. People buy more iPhones and Samsung devices than anything else, by a long shot. So apparently, quite a few people care about thickness.
Oh I had the S6 Edge for a few days and took loads of photos.
And my wife has the iPhone 6, so we were doing direct comparisons.
Obviously the iPhone 6 is an excellent camera, but the Galaxy S6 is a clear step up, honestly amazing. So quick, so clear, so accurate. Maybe it helps because the screen is ridiculously good, too - but then emailed photos and compared then.
There is a slight overkill on the occasional HDR pic, but otherwise it's honestly the best camera on a phone there's ever been on Android or iOS.
Trust me, Apple will know and will really boost the iPhone 6S camera, it's logical.
You can't just say its better. Better what? Better low light? Better sensor? Bokeh looks better? iPhone 6 camera is already quick, clear, and accurate. From the samples of S6 I've seen it's on par with 6 not much better. In fact, some daytime pics from S6 is worse, a lot more saturated and incorrect metering.
He did say....they took a ton of pictures with the IP6 and S6 and the S6 pictures were better. The IP6 has a great camera but the S6 camera is better. That might change when the IP6s drops in the fall.
I have the 6+ and the S6....the pictures to my untrained eye seem better on the S6. I can't pinpoint the exact details you mentioned. But they seem better. Hope this helps.
Actually a mod changed the title for whatever reason. I was just curious if they are eben able to match the specs if they wanted to, as in are there even enough of comparable parts on the market by September.
No worries. It's not a matter of "if" but "when".
Apple and Samsung tend to leapfrog each other. The S5 was a disappointment that lasted about a year before the S6 gave Samsung the S phone owners could be proud of again.
Well, the main things that made the S6 as fast as it is are the 14nm SOC, ddr4 ram, and flash memory, all of which I expect apple to use in the 6S. And they might even be switching to AMOLED, apparently Samsung already has a team together to build a custom display for Apple, though that's probably more for the 7 next year.
I don't think thickness has more priority over battery life for people. Thickness to those extremes is just pure marketing for both companies.
Really? My iPhone 4s does that all the time. But I completely understood because the phone is approaching four years old. But the latest and greatest *still* pulls that crap?
Damn, Apple has some serious Snow Leopard-ing to do, that's for sure.
FWIW, none of my iP6, iP6+, iPad Air, Air 2, nor Mini 2 reload "all the time". It happens, but certainly not regularly enough to matter.
Though I'm more "app" than "web". I do a lot of my forum browsing in Tapatalk. And it doesn't reload if I leave to copy and come back to paste.