“Things keep getting bigger at Apple,” Ian Sherr and Shara Tibken report for CNET. “At an event close to its headquarters in Silicon Valley on Tuesday, Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, featuring upgraded technology to take better photos, deliver longer battery life and display more advanced apps.”
“The breakout feature, however, is the screens themselves,” Sherr and Tibken report. “The iPhone 6 features a screen measuring 4.7-inches diagonally, Apple said, and the iPhone 6 Plus will have a 5.5-inch screen. Previous generations of the iPhone had a 4-inch screen or smaller.”
“Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, said the changes were the most dramatic yet for the product line,” Sherr and Tibken report. “‘Yes, they’re bigger; They’re a lot bigger,’ he said. ‘They are the best we know how to make and I think the best anyone has ever seen.'”
“Jan Dawson, an analyst at Jackdaw Research, agreed,” Sherr and Tibken report. “‘The new phones should dramatically expand the size of the opportunity for the iPhone, which has been artificially limited by its small screen size,’ she said in a note to investors. ‘The iPhone will now definitely have its largest quarter ever.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s about time, Apple. Better late than never, we always say!
As we wrote back on January 23rd:
When Apple finally extracts their collective head from their collective ass and ships iPhone models with larger screens, they’ll do more damage to slavish copier Samsung than all of their endless, plodding patent infringement cases combined.
BTW, for the sake of accuracy: Jan Dawson is a he, not a she.
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