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Ask Slashdot: Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro?

Posted by msmash on from the rumour-mill dept.

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?

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  1. Yadda Yadda Yadda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Yadda Yadda Yadda by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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!

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  2. Re:not one bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's funny, because I thought a smug sense of superiority came with every Apple purchase.

  3. Re: Excited? No. Pleased? Yes. by Albanach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.