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Other iPhone 14....All the Wrong Moves
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And yet you're here. And won't switch. Because... why?
Given our knowledge of some of the announced "upgrade" triggers. (Referring to consumer psychology and the current conditioning from apple)
The 14pro/ max will have the new screen design and bigger sensors/lenses? to hoot. Good !
What remains for the 14 ? Given the alleged absence of a silicon spec bump.
And given that apple has mastered the rationing of those upgrade triggers to dilute the difference between year models.
And knowing how "weak" the mainstream update trigger was for the 12-13 cycle.
ProMotion across the range would only be charitable. The next generation Air may also get it, given that the next generation iPad pros will get Magsafe and won't have to compete with the Air on the sole merit merit of it's display(Taking about the 11', the 12'9 inch has the monopoly on screen size to boast).
But you'll hardly see objective analysis on these kind of threads, people often projecting their own purchasing pattern in conjunction with subjective needs.
And in the end, unless you're on the ground in the manufacturing plant or somewhere inside of the design pipeline, it's all smoke and mirrors.
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I mean that's why they're making multiple phones with the redesign and keeping iPhone 13/13 style notches on the entry 14 series. You don't have to buy the new phone every year if you don't like it.
I don't get excited/disappointed about the new iPhone specs until @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 starts her annual new iPhone thread....
oh you such a cry baby go and drink ur milk and go to sleep. smh
Exactly my point. We had the 6/6s/7/8/SE2/SE3 and now we are looking at 12/13/14 all being the same. It’s getting old. Real old real quick.
I thought that was part of being in the Apple family.
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And their point (correct me if I’m wrong) is that this is a pattern. If you don’t like it that’s fine, but if you expect Apple to suddenly change design philosophy at this point you aren’t living in the real world - Apple rarely changes their designs and it’s been like this for decades.
You aren’t paying for anything, the phone hasn’t been announced much less released? Posts like this are so weird, y’all act like Apple has a gun to your head and is forcing you to buy the phone. If you don’t like the phone they release don’t buy it - it’s really that easy. You complain endlessly about how the phones are the same every year and buy them anyways. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it, for better or worse this is how consumer capitalism works right now.
Just because I used the word fetish doesn't mean I am looking to leave Apple.
And as a consumer I don't have to like and I do have a right to complain. Guys like you who run to defend Apple crack me up. You're right they are going to do what they are going to do and will be fine without you standing up for them.
The bolded part is a very dumb and arrogant thing to say. First you "acknowledge" we all have different design preferences then you say you don't "get" people who take so much interest in design. What...? Also, no one is even discussing the "design details" as more important than the function (not even the OP), so why are you stirring up nonsense? Some people just really care about certain things, clearly you don't understand that but instead automatically assume it's an attack on your beloved company.
Everything you've said can be summarized in one line: "Well if it works, who cares about how it looks."
People that hate Apple and come here solely to talk trash and sling “fanboi” around like it makes them sound lit are my favorite. So edgy.
I can imagine so many of my buddies saying this. I wouldn’t take it so personally.
Which part of Africa you from?
I think Apple is preparing for the subscription based service. Unless you pay for subscription, your phone won’t be upgraded much.
What's with the personal insults and combativeness? I didn't come in here and personally attack you or anyone else for their design preferences. You are the one trying to stir things up, but I'm not going to take the bait.
You're also straw-manning my post. I'm merely saying that I understand our design preferences differ and of course there's room to debate it, but I think it's imbalanced to place design over function. In other words, I would never consider switching from the Apple "ecosystem" to Android just because I'm not ecstatic about how the new iPhone looks. Apparently some people would do so. That doesn't mean I think "who cares" about how it looks - it means I think "Yeah, I'm not thrilled about the look, but in the big picture it's not really THAT big of a deal".
I'm most certainly not an Apple fanboy. In fact, I just came from another thread where I criticized them for taking so long to fix a simple Finder bug (which they still haven't fixed). I've criticized them for other things too. So I'd suggest you stop reading into posts and personally attacking people for their opinions. Maybe ask for clarification or just post a calm rebuttal instead of getting all hyped up about it.
You're whining about a phone that's NOT EVEN RELEASED.
Oh wait... you want this... (hands OP an Attention Cookie, pats on head)
Bye now.
Complain to the zero-bezel zealots. That nonsense drove the notch and pill.
speaks to overarching lack of vision. They're hyper-optimizing small aspects of the design no one cares about anymore and somehow they went from having products that hit all my checkboxes a few years ago, to products that hit few or none of my checkboxes. I realize I'm a luddite but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
(just give me an iPhone whatever mini with telephoto instead of superwide and a home button. ffs is that so hard?)
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aka braindead morons. both ipad and iPhone have been getting more annoying to use over time as bezels shrink. God forbid you have a place to rest your thumb!
but as long as mainstream tech YouTubers (vermin) keep hyping up the bugman consumer base that's the type of crap companies will keep pumping out
What’s interesting about the pill shape is that it seems to go lower than the notch. That means that either the status bar will be taller as well, leaving less height for the app content, or else the pill shape will at least partially go below the status bar. I don’t see how either would be a good thing.
Yeah you have a right to complain, I guess I just don’t understand why you would waste your energy complaining on a tech forum but hey whatever makes you happy.