Where's this 'big leap'?
Where's this 'big leap'?
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I quite like it. More that quite, to be honest. But I can't justify it, my £200 phone will do for a little while longer. I'm not the target audience however.
Platinum (13-09-2017)
That A11 chip looks crazy impressive, 30% more GPU power than the A10 chip at half the power, I know its had a die shrink but still.
Amazes me every year now much more they can get perf wise from the chips.
Apple designed GPU as well, wasnt expecting that so quick, Imagination techs lawyers are probably at the ready.
Much ado about nothing!
"The biggest leap forward since the original iPhone"
The iPhone was hardly a leap forward when it first appeared.
Wat? It changed the industry, we went from flip / feature phones to full screen smart phones overnight.
Sure there were smart phones out before that from the likes of Sony-Ericson but they were nothing on the iPhone.
Gone were the Nokias of old and in were the iPhones / Android devices we love now.
Platinum (13-09-2017)
The sad thing is, millions will buy an iPhone X simply because they just have to be seen to have the latest and greatest smart phone. As long as people keep buying ridiculously expensive devices, manufacturers will keep churning them out and making fat profits from impressionable and gullible fashion victims.
Nothing wrong with it.
But lets be honest, it's fine paying for something with your hard earned cash. But let's be honest here, it's only worth £1,000 because it's an Apple product.
If that was a Nokia, they'd only be commiting suicide in the smartphone market.
Apple branding a toaster... it's more than likely it would be the most expensive toaster in the world and a first to have a finance plan.
I had a full screen smartphone in April 2006; the iPhone didn't launch until June 2007. I bought an HTC Magic in mid 2009, and full-screen Smartphones were still a tiny minority of sales. Practically everyone asked me if my Magic was an iPhone when they saw it - there just weren't any other well-known smartphones. It wasn't long after I bought that Magic that Android smartphones got cheap enough to become mainstream, and that's when the industry really switched over.
So the iPhone was neither the first of its type, nor an overnight industry changer. I don't doubt that it influenced the development of smartphones over those first few years, but its impact is definitely overstated...
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