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?

Comments

it's for old people

[known_coward_69]

i was looking at buying one for my mom since she has an old and crappy android phone she hates, but i might as well just pass on my 6S to her and buy a 7 later this year. same with my wife's parents. she will just give them her 6 and buy a 7 as well

Re:it's for old people

[MitchDev]

If their sight is bad, a smaller iPhone is NOT a good choice...

Re:not one bit

[afc_wimbledon]

Don't buy their products, purely for philosophical/philanthropic reasons.

Smugness come in to it too, or was that just why you felt the need to share this with the world?

Yadda Yadda Yadda

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple has been the whipping boy of Slashdot ever since CmdrTaco's infamous slight of the iPod. Apple could come out with the best product in the world and you'd still have to contend with the Applebash fanaticism around here.

The bottom line is if you like Apple, so be it. If you don't, so be it. You won't find much in the way of real technological insight and definitely no business insight from the comments here. Save your time and go read something on PhysOrg. You may actually learn something worth knowing instead of fanboy vs fanboy wars that are pointless and only sway the kinds of insecure cretins who really never get beyond the entry level of life.

Re:Yadda Yadda Yadda

[Opportunist]

Not even that.

"Are you excited about (product)" is the question asked. And in nearly all cases the answer to this is only a resounding NO. Not because it's Apple but because it's yet another cell phone in a market that is saturated with cell phones that have been "good enough" at the very least 2 generations ago. We're now reaching with cellphones what we reached ages ago with Operating Systems: It's good enough. It does what I want it to do. There is nothing new, nothing innovative, no advantage that I am looking for. There is simply nothing you offer that I want. That's basically it.

Was Win95 exciting? Hell yeah! True 32bit, a genuine GUI instead of a tack-on. That was exciting! Was the first iPhone exciting? You bet! So many new things (like them or not, it was different!).

Was Win10 exciting? Nope. What's new about it, it's yet another damn OS without a reason to exist. Is the new iPhone exiting? No. For exactly the same fucking reason!

Excited? No. Pleased? Yes.

[garcia]

I have owned an iPhone since the 3G arrived on the market and, up until the 6 came along, I upgraded to the latest and greatest major version each time. For me, the 5/5S were fine sizes and appropriate for what I want them for but the 6 and especially the 6+ were too large. When I needed an upgrade from my 5, I opted to go w/the 5S and have been seriously considering moving to another platform to stay at that size which I find most comfortable.

With this announcement, I am not "excited" but I am pleased that Apple has realized some of their users do not want something larger and are instead quite happy to stay at a comfortable size for them.

They'll get my money if they do this but they may not if they don't. Seems like a great business decision, at least to me.

Re: Excited? No. Pleased? Yes.

[Albanach]

I've had the original, the 4S and when 6 came out I decided against it on two reasons and got a 5s - I don't need a door to carry in my pocket and I don't need a snitch that can be read by any passer by. 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

So let's get this right, you're comfortable with your phone broadcasting over bluetooth, wireless 802.11 a,b,c,g and n, 2g, 3g and LTE wireless signals in CDMA and GSM etc. But when it comes to NFC you draw a line? That makes perfect sense.

Re:not one bit

[AmiMoJo]

Don't forget cost. Premium prices for three year old hardware.

Also not excited by paid ad placement

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on BIZX, this is too obvious.

Re: Also not excited by paid ad placement

[whipslash]

I'm not going to admit something that's not true just because someone wants to stir up shit because they don't have anything better to do. Thank you for crying me a river

Re:not one bit

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Android fans are programmed to be hostile towards the competition. Apple fans love their phones, Android fans hate your phone.