“Widely believed to be coming in September, as it has in previous years, the next iPhone has been the subject of much speculation. It’s said to lack a headphone jack, have a capacitive Home button, and a new dual camera system on the Plus version,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “Dubious screenshots aside, I also expect there’ll be a new processor that’s wicked fast.”
Gartenberg writes, “But Mac or iPhone, here’s what I’m left wondering: Does faster matter any more?”
“I wonder if we’ve got a time in technology where Moore’s Law — effectively the steady increase in chipset performance — isn’t that relevant anymore,” Gartenberg writes. “It’ll continue, of course. Chips will get faster. I just wonder if anyone really needs them to, at least for this moment in time.”
MacDailyNews Take: 640K of memory should be enough for anybody.
“I used to caution people who worked for me to not create research based personal habits. Me, in particular. Extrapolating my usage would make no sense — I’m the quintessential early adopter. Except perhaps now. The sleeper hit of 2016 so far was the iPhone SE. Long time readers know I downgraded from my iPhone 6s Plus to an iPhone SE. Yep, it was a downgrade no matter how you look at it. In short, I didn’t care about the optically stabilized camera, bigger screen, or 3D Touch. I cared about form factor because the technology inside was good enough,” Gartenberg writes. “And you know what? The technology inside remains good enough. So much so, even the ultimate gadget geek in me is finding it hard to get excited about anything rumored so far for the next iPhone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’re just waiting for the old man to start yelling at us to get off his lawn. 😉
Don’t get us wrong, the iPhone SE is a wonderful iPhone. It’s just not the ultimate iPhone.
The day the new flagship iPhone is available, our iPhones, like every single one of our Day One iPhones before it, are no longer “good enough.”
That’s how real “early adopters” operate.
Smaller is sexier. Give me a 4″ iPhone with feature parity!!! No compromises!!!
I’d be more than happy to pay the extra for the double camera (or whatever improvement they include), I just don’t want a large screen. Features are great, but the screen (and in turn the size of the phone) are more important, especially as the features they do have are really good. Having an unsatisfactory size screen is more of a compromise than losing out on the features I currently do by having an iPhone 6 rather than a 6 plus.
I agree with that, I’ve had them all and prefer the 4
I don’t care how thin it is as long as it’s fast and has a much longer battey life like 48 hours!
Since I absolutely don’t want a larger phone and if the improved camera is again exclusive to that six,e in the absence of any significant improvements or killer new features I would seriously consider keeping my iPhone 6 for a third year. I had been holding off on an Apple Watch so if they release a new model this year I’d definitely be more inclined to get one since I wouldn’t also be buying a new phone as well.
The next iPhone won’t look like it is needed until the next iPhone becomes your “Personal Health Assistant.”
The MDN take is bullshit. None of the new features touted right now add up to more than an evolutionary approach to the product.
If your current taste is satisfied, you don’t
need a bunch of pimply faced basement dwellers telling you what to do.
Mt iPhnoe 6 is great. I see no erason to upgrade.
Oh, maybe if you like a hardware boner instead of a areal boner.
i guess your wisdom from the penthouse tells u that every year there has to be revolution by Apple …..right?
also
and wonder if you think everyone ownes an iphone 6 or newer…
i wonder if some iphone 4 or 5 users will see it your way…
wonder if all 6 or newer owners see it your way… ?
i though the view from the penthouse is usually good…!? it must be pretty hazy/polluted where u are !?
Put a cork in it Mac/Frank/Joe/Evil Troll. All that spews from your mouth is utter bovine waste material. Oh and hey learn to spell, move beyond your infantile diatribes & primer then move out of your Dad’s old backyard truck where it’s no wonder you’ve found ample opportunity to bonerize strictly in solitude.
Where is Mt. iPhnoe? Is that in the Himalayas?
Think of the ego, the arrogance, involved with saying that because a two year old product is good enough for me, it will be good enough for everybody.
Since the very first iPhone came out there were those that chose to upgrade at specific times and those that did not. For the record, the majority of iPhone owners upgrade about every two years. Even the much maligned iPhone 6S grew units sold by 46% on a bi-annual basis (December quarter sales), something the iPhone 5S did not accomplish (on a smaller base). Further, the iPhone 6S accomplished that feat in an environment of weak world economics and high dollar valuations. The iPhone 7 will be a much bigger success than the mindless, nattering nabobs of negative its believe possible. You can iCal that.
[I just wonder if anyone really needs them to, at least for this moment in time.”
MacDailyNews Take: 640K of memory should be enough for anybody.]
640K was enough for that time.. Maybe not a few years later though. So people may wait longer for their next upgrade possibly resulting in lower sales as the author predicts.
Wrong. What all the “my iPhone 6 is good enough” writers fail to grasp is that we really do not know what advantages the iPhone 7 will bring to the market, other than those things we can imagine. All the “good enough” people have done is identify themselves as having no, zero, nada vision of what could be, if the iPhone had a faster 64 bit processor with 3 Gig of RAM with an OS that can exploit that power.
All the negativity leveled at each new, UNANNOUNCED, iPhone comes from 2 camps. The first are the bloggers that, regardless of their personal feelings in order to get paid for driving eyeballs (Michael Gartenberg being one of many), and the second being all those Android manufacturers [still in search of profit] fearful of what Apple has done to raise the bar even higher. You see both groups in volume in the weeks before the new iPhone is announced, only to fade into the shadows when iPhones set another sales record.
Android sells cheap, almost good enough handsets to people with no understanding of what quality entails.
Samsung et al, instead of bashing the iPhone through a network of paid hacks, should be rejoicing that Apple doesn’t lower the price of an iPhone by $150 across the board. With near price parity we’d see a sharp, abrupt change in unit “market share” numbers, and the disappearance of a dozen or more Android manufacturers.
“640K was enough for that time.”
Excellent observation, but you should have extended the statement to include “what Apple does is provide the hardware, IS and development tools BEFORE the need arises.
Not knowing what increased processing power, RAM, OS capabilities, etc., can be used for does not make their inclusion worthless.
Apple’s vision of the future extends 5, or more, years out. The above average blogger can’t see beyond his/her nose.
I can see vision possibly extending that far, but implementation seems not to follow.. Late to larger phones, then going whole hog to that format and icing out the smaller format lovers for a few years before releasing once more a new smaller format phone. Apple generally implements when they feel it’s ready or necessary in the near future and leave the ‘feature experimenting’ with the public to Android OEMs.
640k was an enourmous amount of memory for doing work at the time, not video or audio. People who never programmed at that time, will have no clue how much data processing can be done even with 32 kilobytes of RAM. A 512k RAM drive, and use 128k for programming… that was the first “SSD” and you could really fly. It was astonishing how fast one could process records that way.
For most of us, yeah, we buy one every 2 to 4 years. But for someone who writes about tech for a living, yes, you are supposed to buy one every time they come out with a new one.
“the ultimate gadget geek in me is finding it hard to get excited about anything rumored so far”
Sounds to me like it’s time for someone to find a new profession.
Oh, and the fist line in the MDN take is dead on.
It took about 4 years (1985) since Mr. Gates supposedly said the famous quote for it to be laughed at.. Probably a similar amount of time passed between Mr. Jobs uttering something similar regarding the ideal phone size and a ‘larger’ iPhone.
640k was an enourmous amount of memory for doing work at the time, not video or audio. People who never programmed at that time, will have no clue how much data processing can be done even with 32 kilobytes of RAM. A 512k RAM drive, and use 128k for programming… that was the first “SSD” and you could really fly. It was astonishing how fast one could process records that way.
I’m still happy with my iPhone 5. Don’t plan to upgrade until next year. Maybe summer.
I agree with the article.
I jumped from iPhone 4 to iPhone 6. And my iPhone 6 performs so good that I already know I won’t need an upgrade for a while.
I don’t care anymore about about “ultramega” speeds, or “super amazing and magic” features that only very few people need in daily life. I don’t need to upgrade because something new just came out making my 1 year old smartphone to look old.