Dev.SN ♥ developers
Sections
Dev.SN
posted by
janrinok
on Wednesday April 02 2014, @05:50AM
from the if-Apple-can-claim-rounded-corners,-can-Samsung-claim-that-size dept.
from the if-Apple-can-claim-rounded-corners,-can-Samsung-claim-that-size dept.
Apparently, size does matter as Apple takes a cue from the Samsung playbook. Reuters is reporting that Apple's next iphone, slated for Q4 of 2014, will have a much bigger display than current devices. A whole 1.5" (38mm) bigger. This will bring the iPhone close to the same size as the Samsung Galaxy Note which stands around 5.7" (144mm). It seems Apple will test the waters with an initial 4.7" (119mm) sized device first with the larger version to appear much later. The question is, do all users think bigger is better?
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Apple Takes Cue From Samsung - a Bigger iPhone
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 1000 moderator points
| 48 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Fry
(Score: 1) by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 02 2014, @12:50PM
What, the previous trash-talk (by Jobs and Cook) about 7" tablets, followed by the 7.9" (the .9 makes all the difference!) iPad Mini, didn't make it clear? Or how they claimed that 100ppi is the "optimum resolution", and higher pixel density "causes eyestrain and headaches", then turned around and started selling "retina" macbooks and now (non-Apple-branded) 32" 4k (140ppi) screens)?
Great points, I must have missed those.
Really, I'd suggest that anyone who can reasonably be described as a "fan" of a for-profit company with a marketing department already earned the "idiotic sycophant" label
I'm not so sure about this one. I think it's entirely possible to be a happy customer of a company and be biased towards its products (mainly because you've had good experiences with them), without being an idiotic sycophant. A "fan" doesn't have to be a "rabid fan". (Actually, the word "fan" is short for "fanatic", but offhand I can't think of a simple term for someone who likes something without being "fanatical" about it.) There is a difference: a normal fan likes company A's products but can admit when company B does it better, or when company A has shortcomings. The normal fan can also change his mind after company A's products either fall in quality or are passed up by the competition. For instance, suppose it's 2005 and someone really likes Toyota cars for whatever reason: they're high quality, they like the Prius, etc etc. They advocate Toyotas (and esp. Priuses, their favorite model) whenever someone asks what car they should buy, or when someone's GM is having problems they tell them they should get a Toyota. Fast-forward to 2014; this same person, after reading about the unintended acceleration fiascos with Toyota, and especially its firmware [edn.com] defects [embeddedgurus.com], no longer advocates Toyotas, and instead recommends people to avoid them. An idiotic sycophant wouldn't do that; he'd continue to back Toyota and make up excuses for them.