Originally Posted by aurichie:
“The new iPhones easily exceeded my expectations. Performance is astounding, once you use the new 3D Touch experience you'll never want to go back, the already great camera is now even better, live photos, vastly improved touch id technology, you can go on and on and on.
The best just got better and I'm definitely upgrading my 6 Plus to one of these new beauties. It's a no brainer.”
Did you cut and paste that from the Onion or something?!
I used 3D Touch last week at IFA. It's okay, but not revolutionary. Maybe someone will think of some really useful ways to use it, but we can all live without it.
The camera I am sure will be great, given the existing ones are. The question is if it's necessary because the
existing camera is so good. Most photos posted from an iPhone are great, and likewise anything taken on a lot of other devices today.
Heck, even a £130 phone with a 13MP Samsung or Sony camera takes bloody good photos for social media.
I hope that adding 4K video recording means we'll now get iMovie support for 4K on OSX. I don't do enough editing to justify spending hundreds of dollars on better video editing software, and iMovie is perfect for most needs.. but it's limited to 1080 for now.
Until I regularly use apps that need crazy CPU/GPU power, and all the impact on battery and heat issues that results, I think that nobody needs to upgrade next week unless they have a very old iPhone. I bet most people have a device in their pocket right now that is perfectly acceptable, but fair play to Apple for coming up with compelling reasons to convince people otherwise.
The whole mobile industry is at a really awkward stage now. Most current devices are as good as people need, or surpass their needs. Battery life is about the only issue many people moan about now, and was that addressed today?
Now we have force touch, 4K screens, curved edges and loads of other gimmicky ideas no doubt to come to try and entice us to part with money to upgrade something that works perfectly well.
Mobiles are now like TVs and PCs: you upgrade when the current one breaks.
Edit: The iPad Pro is interesting. I can think of a few people in business who would (and will) want one of these. Why the heck there's a 32GB entry level model though. Come on Apple! That's just to offer a low headline price, knowing full well everyone will go for the middle 128GB model (and a few the 4G one).