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Ask Slashdot: Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro?
If rumors are to be believed, at its 'Let Us Loop You In' event on Monday, Apple will launch a new smartphone dubbed "iPhone SE," and a new tablet dubbed "iPad Pro." According to 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman, who has a reliable track record with Apple news, the iPhone SE will sport a 4-inch display and have the same processor, RAM and other innards as the iPhone 6s, which was launched last year. The new 9.7-inch iPad will reportedly have the same hardware specifications as the 12-inch iPad Pro, which was also unveiled last year. The Associated Press reports that the forthcoming event hasn't stirred "much passion." It adds, "So far, however, there have been no hints of any dramatic announcements, such as last year's highly anticipated Apple Watch debut, or major initiatives like the company's long-rumoured but yet-to-materialize streaming TV service." Are you looking forward to purchasing either of the devices?
Don't buy their products, purely for philosophical/philanthropic reasons.
Changed connectors, and thus obsoleted all of the devices in the house & cars that used the iPhone 4/old iPad interface.
Then made my perfectly fine iPhone 4s unusably slow with a software "upgrade".
Then disabled all the chargers that used to work fine (with an adaptor tip) for my kids iPhone 6, plus other cables for video out etc.
Got an Android now; could not be happier. Much cheaper too.
With SD card reader....
And I control the encryption and sync to my private servers.
Uh, you mean like Plex? Theres an app for that.
I think they're suffering from a crisis of innovation largely brought on by their own iron grip on the hardware and software features.
As an example, is refusing to support a Bluetooth mouse really meaningful anymore? Maybe it was with iPad 1.0 because they wanted to promote a touch interface and allowing a mouse in on the "ground floor" of a touch-centric device might have corrupted a touch-centric UI, but IMHO there's a lot you can do with a mouse in terms of functionality and productivity that touch or even a pen can't provide. Yet to do this day you can't pair a Bluetooth mouse with an iPad, even if the mouse is only enabled for apps that might specifically support it (ie, won't work in the home screen, settings, etc, but could with with an app specifically written to support mouse events).
The lightning port is far more locked down than 30 pin was, there's no support for external storage devices, and so on.
I think if they want "excitement" at this stage they have to open the door to innovation by opening up the device in some ways that lets someone else develop new and interesting uses for it. Apple have fenced themselves in with these devices by restricting so much that the list of interesting uses has become kind of a finite set.
So if they put the innards of whatever 6 or 6s in the SE without removing the NFC I am not going to get one. NFC and wallet and fingerprint reader are bad for security
The NFC chip in the iPhone is in passive mode ("listen only") until you authorize with your fingerprint. But don't believe me, you can verify this for yourself trivially by getting any NFC reader (and some Android phones can be configured as such) and polling for a response. Seriously, try it before you bash it ...
I mean, this is a really easy claim to verify empirically, why speculate?