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I really feel that most leaks are intentional in order to generate buzz, and also to get people ready for big changes.

I've been thinking about it, and as someone who's not entirely sold on losing the home button and ToichID (or the headphone jack before that), if these big changes were sprung on me during the keynote I would be like, "Hell no! Are they crazy!? I don't want that!" But having weeks/months to mull over these changes and think about the pros and cons and how they will affect my usage, I may still be uncertain about them, but I'm certainly more open than I was when I first heard about them.
 
I don’t think you will regret it. The iPhone 6s still performs right up there with current phones (android and iOS) despite being almost 2 years old with 2GB of RAM. The iPhone 8 will be great for many years to come.

It might be the case that X edition performs “better” than the 8/+ in some way...maybe it ends up getting storage with faster write speeds, or maybe the OLED panel is more efficient, but I’m betting any difference will be small and won’t have anything to do with RAM difference.

That's good to know. I'm not against the X version but for me to spend a MINIMUM of a 1000 on a phone they are gonna have to do a lot of selling tomorrow.
 
Apple didn't leak any of this, they have no reason too. Also there will be no "one more thing" we know everything thanks to the leak.

Thank you for your logical response. It baffles me to see how many individuals believe Apple leaked this immense amount of information intentionally just for the sake of building hype and demand for this new iPhone. They didn't. Even if somebody wanted to truly believe that, how would they be able to prove it? Anyone can feel free to believe what they want, but this company and the CEO has commented how they value privacy and secrecy, and then they don't go around and leak the most highly anticipated iPhone launch of the year days Before the KeyNote.
 
Thank you for your logical response. It baffles me to see how many individuals believe Apple leaked this immense amount of information intentionally just for the sake of building hype and demand for this new iPhone. They didn't. Even if somebody wanted to truly believe that, how would they be able to prove it? Anyone can feel free to believe what they want, but this company and the CEO has commented how they value privacy and secrecy, and then they don't go around and leak the most highly anticipated iPhone launch of the year days Before the KeyNote.

But most of the leaks have come from apple's own firmware which just happens to have escaped into the wild.

Either way nothing remains a secret anymore. Most of the time we know what is coming and it always comes down to how they tell the story of the device at the events. It's been the same for a few years now.
 
But most of the leaks have come from apple's own firmware which just happens to have escaped into the wild.

Either way nothing remains a secret anymore. Most of the time we know what is coming and it always comes down to how they tell the story of the device at the events. It's been the same for a few years now.

I Understand where the leaks have derived from. But that's not Apple intentionally leaking information, that's the developers/supply chains that have divulged the information and exposing it. That's the difference.

And the problem nothing remains a secret is true due to supply chains. And given the amount of the hype behind the iPhone this year, the leaks superseded by anything else we have ever seen before.
 
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Thank you for your logical response. It baffles me to see how many individuals believe Apple leaked this immense amount of information intentionally just for the sake of building hype and demand for this new iPhone. They didn't. Even if somebody wanted to truly believe that, how would they be able to prove it? Anyone can feel free to believe what they want, but this company and the CEO has commented how they value privacy and secrecy, and then they don't go around and leak the most highly anticipated iPhone launch of the year days Before the KeyNote.

Exactly, you have hit the nail on the head. Another is that Apple don't need to build up hype, especially for an iPhone event the hype and demand is already there. Conspiracy theories have been around for many years, not just about Apple (Elvis. government spying on us and so on).
 
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