iPhone 7 Announced! Does It Suck? - The Know

That said I'm an old man in gamer terms. Was in College in the mid to late 1990's. Remember switching between my and my next door neighbors dorm rooms depending on if we were playing Dark Forces (his because it ran better on PC) and mine because Myst seemed to work better on Mac.

We never had to get upset at what we owned. We both bought a companies product, not endorsements.

That said Bruce, Escape Velocity was our fav for like 9 months! There was a great mod to be the enterprise that had so much storage :). Keep up the good work fellas

I think they're just implying that people think that apple invented things, because of the way they do their presentations. Instead of just saying they've made a new phone with new features, they have to make a massive deal about it all, as if they've just invented it.

I think people also feel that if they don't have the best new widget, then it's the worst. So, they'll fight samsung and android about how perfect apple and ios is, when comparably, who fucking cares. They both make calls and texts, they both have great cameras and lots of storage. They fulfil well over the necessary amount of features a phone needs to. There's literally nothing to fight over.

I might be too young to have noticed, but did people fight over who had a better landline handset? Usually you'd just argue over who had a better plan.

you are rare in that mind set, but you have the right idea the goal for all gamers in my opinion is to own and enjoy all without them being forced down your throat or mocked. The same should apply for any kind of electronic.

LIKE ZOMG, SUCH A TROLL POST.

/obligatory idiocy

Erm, I use my twelve year old Olympus DSLR to take 12 Megapixel images in RAW format... and it's images will still be better than the iPhone 7's ones - I get wide-angle and any level telephoto from that up to x3 as well. The bonus of battery life that extends to weeks or months (depending on use, not just access to a wall socket) and storage bigger than you can buy on the iPhone (with forward compatibility still being maintained) and all for a price point then less than a new iPhone (by almost half) I reckon I'll stick with what I have.

(Yes, I do have a mobile, yes it cost ten currency units (one hundred in Japanese or other "big number" currencies) and it does all the other stuff most people use an iPhone for too).

Yeah, I'll stick with my iPod touch and 3G Samsung keyboard phone. Half the price, half the bill, less distractions, less frustrating typing.

That would be the greatest episode of The Know ever.

That's how they'll sell you the wireless headphones. Alternatively, you could just not buy the new iPhone? Sounds like you've already decided "well, I'll just have to deal with it"

Apple has never really done much innovation in the phone market, they've repackaged old ideas.

It's their marketing team that sells them extraordinarily well.

From the beginning it was more of you're buying into the brand more than buying the product, so it really only makes sense that they're introducing this new headphone jack.

They've been trying to lock consumers into their brand for a while now and this is just another step they're taking. Once you're in,it's tough to get out, and requires probably more effort than most are willing to get out of the restrictive iOS system.

The only things that bother me is the weird things that they focus on, like phone thickness (hasn't really been an issue since like 2012, but you do you Apple) and the way they present it like it's a discovery on par with discovering life on other planets (like funhaus mentions in the video).

It has always been presentation with Apple; there is no innovation at all - creativity in design maybe, innovation, no. I mean the first iPhone came out to a fanfare in the US but in Europe it was considered rather meh... because almost everything thing that was an "innovation" in the US was already in phones sold in Europe, it even missed out a few things that were already standard in Europe... oops!

And the pay system being in the phone (maybe only for Japan) is actually a killer in Japan - no iPhone sold almost any units in Japan due to the lack of this; why? EVERY other phone has it built in - you could add it afterwards to the iPhone with a piece of hardware that had some glue on it but Apple wouldn't support it and then went after the company that made it... result - zero sales.

They sold XBox vs Playstation 2 levels of phones in Japan because to use the train, underground and many bus services you can just walk through with a phone that pays for you (and 90% of the gates were for that, you had to find the one actual ticket gate if you used physical tickets) , same with vending machines, some trendy shops, bars and cafes, and parking in a lot of places in Tokyo. And this was in the days of the early iPhones... these days they are so late to the party that everyone is already too drunk to notice them come in the door (even if they are setting off fireworks).

I guess another case of international companies not understanding the Japanese market - particularly that they are technologically way ahead of us because they are mostly a nation of early adopters and so the risk of innovating is so much reduced, but then the quality control is so good that there is so much less risk in buying technology - the biggest risk is that it doesn't take off outside Japan, c.f. Laserdiscs, Nintendo Virtual Boy, GameCube, Wii U, Playstation 3, autonomous robotic toys, Mechs, robotic chefs, secretaries and reception staff, etc.