Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I'd go for 8 every day. Performance wise it'll last you for an extra year, making it cheaper in the long run

Meh. In the build-up I was thinking I'd be all over the 8+ but given the price of these things, will be keeping the 6S for at least another year.

The 6S is now £449 on the the Apple store, which is pretty good. Maybe wait another 2 years until the 8 takes that slot...

Do you buy your phone outright, or contract? I'm on a contract now, and I know it's false economy, but going up a few levels costs so little extra every month it's hard not to.

Next phone I'll prob by outright so it stings more.

Yeah, bought outright but with credit card with the aim of paying off over 3-4 months.

I'm on a sim-only contract that costs absolute peanuts.

Wonder if the screen on iPhone X is a sneak peek into the new monitor they're working on?

• oled
  
• super retina
  
• 1M:1 contrast ratio
  
• True Tone
  

• Wide color

• some hardware acceleration gubbins.

And hopefully 120hz on the desktop version...

Why go above 60? Can anyone tell the difference?

I'll be picking up the iPhone X when it's up for pre-order.

If anyone's interested, i'll be selling my iPhone 7+ 128Gb when i get the new one....

Forum discount natch.

Everything looks smoother... Have a look at the ipad pros and you'll see the difference immediately just scrolling web pages.

guise its £1149 for a mobile phone

I would just go for an XIII when the 7 goes obsolete.

Which is more powerful than the Mac Pros we were all buying 10 years a go...

Those portrait filters though. Anyone impressed? Technically, sure, but the results reminds me of the HDR craze a few years ago, far too easy to sport

funny that my iphone 4 still works pretty well, I only use it for music and stuff for long trips and have a payg sim for international calls, but man, that phone will out last my 6s plus.

It's amazing. Everyone has got used to the developmental progress in devices now. When the original iPhone came out it was genuinely an innovative step in the field with the way Apple presented it - had a 'wow factor'. This version looks a similar huge step, but people now have a fatigue about "thinner, lighter, better screen" to the point where Apple have to promote this Animoji thing. 10 years on and we're spoilt in a way. Plus Android has been surpassing Apple in a lot of areas too. Apple got bloated in 10 years and obsessed with proprietary fence-building.

Remind me what you spent on an electric Brompton? ;)

Fair, it's one of my cheapest bikes.

Exactly...

Also, i think the total cost is irrelevant.

Cost per use is what counts. If you look at your phone twice a day - it seems like a high price to pay. If it's your primary work phone, email, personal phone, music player, internet device and camera, the cost starts to make much more sense...

I like my apple products to be paid by someone else ;) maybe I can expense another phone ?!

Indeed. If you buy the latest and sell the previous each year then it'll end up around £10 a week.

I think part of it is that the Android phones have overtaken "wow factor" elements. It may not all be in one package but pretty much everything that the iphone X has has been around on Android for a while (apart from the animoji thing which isn't really your target audience for those happy to drop a grand on a phone).

Lack of bezels, face recognition, "portrait" camera filter, OLED screens, etc have all been around for ages.

Don’t see the big fuss after watching most of the presentation last night.

What's actually innovative about it?

Edge to edge screen - Samsung invented. Wireless charging - the Google Nexus 4/5 had that, Qi standard too - are Apple using that? All glass - been done before (breaks much easier too, right). Face ID - literally been on Android for years. It doesn't even work - if it doesn't work for Craig Federighi is it going to work for Joe Bloggs?!

I get that this is the best iPhone ever because evolution but £1000 lol no.

The screen is probably the most exciting thing about it to be fair. You will spend all your time looking at it.

But Android phones have Android on them.
If you already use Android or enjoy using it then that's super great and everything's fine.

If you can conceive of a world where people may prefer iOS, then i'm not sure why the 'who innovated it first' argument works.

If you like iOS and the Apple ecosystem as a whole, there's no doubt this is the best iOS phone that's ever been made.

I don't think there's anything particularly game changing about the 10. Every bit that they've mentioned, apart from gimmicky crap like the animoji, have been seen on other phones over the past few years.
The 4k tv intro was similarly cringey. Comparing a trivial resolution bump as being similar to be invention of the TV or colour pictures.

It'll be a decent bit of kit and it'll work at least as well as any of its rivals. Having used both, I prefer iOS to Android so I'll likely get an iPhone instead of an S8. That's where my £10 a week will go.