In phone news
One of the things I never cared for about the iPhone was screen size. There’s a whole lot of phone there and not enough screen. Looks like Apple has ordered larger 4 inch screens and 7 inch screens. I’m assuming for a larger iPhone or one that has more efficient use of the space on the front. And a 7 inch iPad. I like the iPads but thought they were a bit too big for what I’d mostly use it for. And I like the Kindle Fire for that stuff. A smaller iPad would be pretty cool.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
So, something Newton Sized?
May 17th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Care to place a small notional wager on “4 and 7 inch iPhone and iPad” in the next year?
Because I don’t believe a god-damn word of that; it’s completely unlike Apple and makes almost no market sense*.
I’d place odds on a 4″ iPhone as low but not zero. Zero on a 7″ iPad.
(And, from Reuters, linked from that BullshitInsider** link – “A report in March by a South Korea business newspaper said Apple would use a “retina” display on the next iPhone, the same technology in its latest iPad that enhance image quality.”
Wow! A report in March revealed that the next iPhone will use display technology that Apple rolled out on the iPhone two years ago?
Seriously?)
(* Physical size fragmentation has costs Apple doesn’t like – directly and for the aftermarket, as well as SKU proliferation which Apple really doesn’t like – and for what?
A very, very marginal increase in market for what’s already the most profitable line of phones on Earth, and the, likewise, most profitable and best selling tablet line. I can’t see that the cost/benefit analysis even remotely points to that being a good idea.
“Pretty cool” is – fortunately for Apple stockholders, sadly for niche markets – not the heuristic Apple makes product decisions off of.)
(** Seriously, BusinessInsider is a giant pile of crap at all times. It’s “vertically integrated” linkbait and nothing more.)