I mean yea, I have no interest in getting an iPhone XS Max Ultra Hyper Edition, my current iPhone is fast enough and they aren't adding any actual new features to wow me.
There just isn't an obvious new upcoming hot trend that Apple can jump onto currently and make it cool.Maybe people are finally done with Apples BS of telling them what they want.
We're not doing the iPhone SEX. All right?make an iPhone SE X and price it cheaply, it will sell millions
Same here. I've used an X and I still don't feel any pressure to upgrade. My next phone is probably going to be an Android though.Still on a 6S that had a battery replacement. I imagine I'll get another year out of it easily, hopefully 2.
For the majority of people the camera is perfectly fine. No one is saying that Chinese phones are cutting edge. Just that they get the same jobs done without problems, which is sufficient for 99% of the people out there.You lost me at decent camera. No they don't. They also stink for any recent apps or games. It's a budget phone with budget features that doesn't compare or compete to what Apple is offering. As a budget phone it's fine, nothing wrong with it.
bendable phone is the next hot shit, unless samsung's upcoming one is a flop
But yeah, you aren't gaming on budget phones until you hit the $400. Unless emulators are your thing, of course.
The xs is the lowest sold unit. Most people don't care about a small phone anymore. Sorry.
It's the fact that phones have gotten good enough that paying apple tax doesn't seem worth it for a lot of people. I used to by nothing but apple. Every 2 years I'd get a new iPhone when the old one started slowing down. But apple kept raising the prices higher and higher while removing features from the phone. Eventually I didn't want to pay what they were asking for their phones. Now I'm using a $200 Android phone and the only thing I miss from iOS is the camera quality. But even this phone is good enough.Did you just say quality and Chinese phones? Lmao. I mean yeah they work are they in any way as good as an Apple IOS phone? Certainly not. Not even close.
Honestly, the screens are another gimmick to get people to upgrade. They started adding FHD & QHD screens now everyone thinks anything less is awful. But the XR's screen actually looks pretty good.I've had a iPhone 8 Plus for over a year, and I look forward to buying a replacement in a year or two time. The notch puts me off the current phones, and even though I pine for a iPhone XR, I can never go lower than a 1080p screen.
The camera quality and photo/video features matters most to me when considering a upgrade. The iPhone 8 Plus can do 4K 60FPS with no time limits (and I think EIS too) and image quality is really sharp. I can't imagine how much better phones can get, unless they make the insane leap to 4K 120FPS, or even 8K recording.Honestly, the screens are another gimmick to get people to upgrade. They started adding FHD & QHD screens now everyone thinks anything less is awful. But the XR's screen actually looks pretty good.
It's really only noticeable when compared directly to a higher resolution one side-by-side.
Still, you're doing the right thing. Wait as long as you can.
I can understand that. I think that'll be good enough for a while.The camera quality and photo/video features matters most to me when considering a upgrade. The iPhone 8 Plus can do 4K 60FPS with no time limits (and I think EIS too) and image quality is really sharp. I can't imagine how much better phones can get, unless they make the insane leap to 4K 120FPS, or even 8K recording.
My iPhone 7 that I bought at launch still says 84% battery condition, and I am 100% satisfied with it. Instead of upgrading my phone last year, I decided to upgrade my Apple Watch from a series 0 to the new Series 4. That was a massive upgrade for me as I use the watch so much every day. This year's iPhone will have to blow me away to get me to upgrade.
I think 5G will be the next shift. The leap in speed sounds incredibleThis is a market wide shift, not exclusive to Apple. Mobile yechnology has reached a point where a 300 or even a 200$/€ device is more than enough for the general consumer to keep for more than 2 years. The faster companies start treating the devices and market more like a long term affair not too dissimilar to tradition console cycles and even television hardware, the easier and smoother the transition and understanding from investors will go. With the current market and reliance on short term gains, the stock market will tank and fast if its not addressed.
5G will be more beneficial in things being connected everywhere than it it will be about data speeds, in my opinion. It's all short wavelengths so they're going to have to dump money into pumping relays everywhere. We'll get faster than LTE speeds for sure, but I don't think it'll be the jump people expect.I think 5G will be the next shift. The leap in speed sounds incredible
I found the z5 compact experience terrible in 2018. Couldn't imagine a Z1 lol.Honestly speaking if the battery hadn't gotten bad, I'd still be using my late 2013 Sony Xperia Z1. Phones got "good enough" for me years ago.
I will never again spend more then £300 for a phone, unless there's a gamechanging new feature. And there isn't any such thing on the horizon as far as I can see.
I found the z5 compact experience terrible in 2018. Couldn't imagine a Z1 lol.
Price fixing is when a company colloudes with other companies to set supply or set prices of the product on the market.