Apple confirms September 10th iPhone event

[jpeyton]

This is brilliant. Instead of giving people more value (as they have in previous years) by selling the outgoing metal/glass flagship at a lower price, they are now giving you a plastic iPhone instead.

 

[joshhedge]

Yup, 32GB 5C is $199. 5S 16GB base practically confirmed.

They should skip 16GB and go straight to 32GB imo.

This is brilliant. Instead of giving people more value (as they had in previous years) by selling the older metal/glass flagship at a lower price, they are now giving you a plastic iPhone 5 instead.

You sound burnt? Don't forget, it's steel reinforced 😉

 

[jpeyton]

You sound burnt? Don't forget, it's steel reinforced 😉

I have no horse in the race. It actually is brilliant how Apple is convincing the masses that a plastic iPhone 5C for $99 is better than a metal iPhone 5 at $99.

 

[Subyman]

They should skip 16GB and go straight to 32GB imo.



You sound burnt? Don't forget, it's steel reinforced 😉

I agree, but the 32GB 5C would be irrelevant at $199 if the 5S is a 32GB base at $199. They either have to do a 16GB 5S base at $199 or raise the price of the 5S base above the 32GB 5C.

 

[Ns1]

I have no horse in the race. It actually is brilliant how Apple is convincing the masses that a plastic iPhone 5C for $99 is better than a metal iPhone 5 at $99.

eh, clearly plastic isn't stopping Samsung from selling millions.

 

[joshhedge]

I have no horse in the race. It actually is brilliant how Apple is convincing the masses that a plastic iPhone 5C for $99 is better than a metal iPhone 5 at $99.

Don't get me wrong, I do fully agree with you, but it's a sound financial decision by Apple. I am very partial to the design though.

eh, clearly plastic isn't stopping Samsung from selling millions.

I have no double the iPhones are better built as well.

 

[Ns1]

why is anand losing his shit over 64bit?

 

[Subyman]

I have no horse in the race. It actually is brilliant how Apple is convincing the masses that a plastic iPhone 5C for $99 is better than a metal iPhone 5 at $99.

This move is totally for high schoolers and college kids. They will eat these colors up.

 

[SAWYER]

I prefer plastic on my phone, hopefully now that Apple is embracing it all the tech blogs will quite whining non stop about crap plastic build quality

 

[Subyman]

why is anand losing his shit over 64bit?

Performance numbers look insane. It also opens up the possibility of a lot more RAM.

 

[Aikouka]

why is anand losing his shit over 64bit?

Larger registers.

...and mostly because it wasn't really expected.

 

[jalaram]

Ahh, there's a picture of the new home button/fingerprint sensor.

 

[Subyman]

Phones now come with tech demos (Infinity Blade III) haha.

 

[joshhedge]

I wonder if it's a move to quad core.

 

[michal1980]

Larger registers.

...and mostly because it wasn't really expected.

but are people really using their phones in any way that pushes the need for 64bit?

out of the tens of millions of phones that are sold what how many are coming close to being maxed out?

 

[fallenangel99]

They didnt discuss the off-contract price for 5c right?

 

[HopJokey]

but are people really using their phones in any way that pushes the need for 64bit?

out of the tens of millions of phones that are sold what how many are coming close to being maxed out?

Chicken and egg. Build the hardware and stuff will follow. Plus it will be used in the next iPad.

 

[Subyman]

but are people really using their phones in any way that pushes the need for 64bit?

out of the tens of millions of phones that are sold what how many are coming close to being maxed out?

You could ask the same the same question about high end PC parts. There will be power users and it starts to bring phones into parity with notebook power, perhaps eventually replacing them, yada yada etc etc.

 

[smackababy]

but are people really using their phones in any way that pushes the need for 64bit?

out of the tens of millions of phones that are sold what how many are coming close to being maxed out?

I'd say the move was most likely for the OS (and future updates) and for some of the higher up devs (like those Infinity Blade guys).

 

[michal1980]

Chicken and egg. Build the hardware and stuff will follow. Plus it will be used in the next iPad.

Is the memory of the iphone 5 currently maxed out? are people using it for programs that require ~4gb of ram access?

Its not a chicken and egg situation. people were maxing out 32bit hardware that drove the need for 64bit.

heck how many pc's today still run 32bit?

 

[eelw]

Oh, that's how the two flash will work

 

[smackababy]

Is the memory of the iphone 5 currently maxed out? are people using it for programs that require ~4gb of ram access?

Its not a chicken and egg situation. people were maxing out 32bit hardware that drove the need for 64bit.

heck how many pc's today still run 32bit?

Apple is, smartly, getting rid of a problem before it exists and helping advance development in the mobile space at the same time.

Are you suggesting because we haven't exhausted the fossil fuels on the planet yet, looking into real alternatives is solving a problem that doesn't exist and should be scrapped?

 

[joshhedge]

Apple is, smartly, getting rid of a problem before it exists and helping advance development in the mobile space at the same time.

Are you suggesting because we haven't exhausted the fossil fuels on the planet yet, looking into real alternatives is solving a problem that doesn't exist and should be scrapped?

That's a poor analogy, sorry. Without energy civilisation dies, without 64bit, nothings going to change.

You can't simply develop new sustainable energy technology without a source of significant energy output, that is in huge and easily extractable supply.

Whereas 64Bit can be implemented at the point that it is required.

I am happy Apple has made the jump early though.

 

[Subyman]

Haha, I like the Yosemite squirrel.

 

[effowe]

Touch ID is official.

The sensor is 170 microns thin, 500 ppi resolution, scans sub-epidermal skin layers and has 360-degree readability.