The iPhone 6 Review

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• bobobobo - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  solid phone, solid improvement.

• AppleCrappleHater2 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  Worship the holy apple.
  
  The apple way, selling over expensive crap to stupid consumers that like to
  get robbed.
  
  This has been a disastrous launch in every respect. The iwatch is such an
  ugly piece of crap, it is truly unbelievable how a company, formerly known for
  its remarkable design, dares to put out such a crap ton of shit. Some
  characteristics are glaringly obvious and inherent to it: over expensive,
  hardly innovative, limited functionality and usability (need of an iPhone to
  make it work), looks exactly like a toy watch and so on.
  
  There are of course way better smart watches out there, especially from the
  likes of Samsung, Sony, Motorola, Asus, LG, simply put, there is no need for
  another piece of over expensive junk.
  
  The iPhone 6 is technologically stuck in pre-2011 times, a base model with
  a capacity of 16GB without the possibility to use SD cards isn't even funny
  anymore. The screen resolution is horrendous, it isn't water proof, shock and
  dust resistant, it offers nothing innovative, just some incremental
  updates over its predecessor, both lacking severely behind their competitors at
  their respective launch dates.
  
  Now the Iphone 6 Plus offers a „Retina HD“ screen, full 1920x1080p, oh wow,
  where have you been for the past 4 years apple, talk about trailing behind.
  That’s pathetic. The interesting thing about that is the fact that apple
  always manages to sell backwards oriented, outdated crap to its user base, all
  while pretending to be an innovative technology leader. The similarities
  regarding any form of sectarian cult are striking.
  
  You gotta love how Apple always comes up with new marketing bullshit terms,
  aka "Retina HD", with the intention to manipulate its users while preventing easy
  comparisons with its competitors by withholding the actual specs. Apparently it’s
  not enough to have a 1080p screen, you have to call it "Retina HD" to make those
  suckers buy it, otherwise someone could look at the 4K Amoled and Oled screens
  form LG and Samsung devices and get outright disappointed. Same goes for
  everything else. Every outdated „feature“ needs to get its own marketing label
  to persuade buyers with crappy „experience“ and „usability“ ads, while covering
  the truth with marketing gibberish, knowing full well that only a fraction of
  aforementioned buyers cares to look at the facts and dares to compare them.
  
  Car engines come to mind. For comparisons shake let’s look at a 1.0 liter, turbo
  charged petrol engine and a V8 compressor. What’s better should be obvious, but
  by calling the former an „ecobooster“, thus giving it a special marketing label,
  this joke becomes a „feature“, something positive that can be added tot the list
  of features of a car.
  
  By doing so a negative aspect is transformed into a positive one, the
  reality is distorted, non tech savvy buyers are manipulated and comparisons are
  made more difficult (another layer of marketing bullshit to overcome), well done
  marketing department. You see , if something is seriously lacking (of course for
  profit, what else), don’t bother explaining, just give it a nice marketing term, distort
  reality, make it a feature and call it a day. Fuck that!!
  
  FACT: Apple has been forced to copy Android in style and size for
  years because people abandoned their tired, moribund and fossilized
  devices for superior and innovative Android devices.
  
  Steve Jobs said no one should want a 7" tablet until everyone went and bought
  Android devices forcing Apple to copycat with the iPad Mini. Apple
  didn't think anyone wanted a phone screen larger than a business card
  until they all bought Androids thus forcing the arrival this week of the
  iPhone Galaxy and iPhone Galaxy Note clone phones.
  
  Swipe down notifications that don't interfere? Copied from Android and WebOS. Siri?
  Bought and ruined from a private developer; Google Now crushes it.
  3rd-party keyboards? Welcome to 2010, iChumps! Widgets? Welcome to 2009
  except you can't place them on your home screen. Live wallpapers and
  hidden icons? Maybe Apple will get around to copying those in iOS X in
  2016. Who knows.
  
  Apple lacks creativity and honest people acknowledge it. Steve Jobs gets credited as an
  innovator when all he was, was a huckster who'd spot someone else's tech, polish it up nicely,
  then slap a gnawed fruit logo on the back, charge a premium price and
  wait for the rubes like Jim Smith to hand over their cash like the good
  iSheep they are.
  
  But after that initial iteration, Apple is incapable of actually innovating something new.
  They literally cannot make a product until someone else shows them how and they copy it.
  They are also unable refine things because they believe to improve is to
  admit something was imperfect the first time. (This is why QuickTime 4
  had a legendarily terrible UI that was never changed through QT7 a
  decade later.) All they can do is make things incrementally thinner or
  faster but it's just minor refinements since they can't invest their way
  out of a wet paper bag.
  
  For all their squealing about Retina displays, they never even had a HD display until now;
  8th time is the charm, though you need the iPhone Galaxy Note to get the 1080p that many Android
  users have had for at least a year and is now considered
  bare-minimum spec. At the rate Apple drags along, QHD screens should
  arrive in 2018. Maybe. A graphic went around after the reveal comparing
  the iPhone Galaxy to the Nexus 4 from 2012. Exactly.
  
  The Apple Iphone 1 and Ipad 1 might have been innovative at their time,
  but since then, the bitten apple has been continuously rotting from the inside
  outwards, always swarmed by millions of Iworms which regale themselves with its
  rotten flesh, not forgetting all other Americans who support apple by means of
  their tax dollars to finance its bought US Treasury/Government bond interest rates.
  
  Last but not least, every Apple product includes a direct hotlink to the NSA,
  free of charge, something that might make it a good value, after all.
  
  Ceterum censeo Applem esse delendam.

• esterhasz - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  Since we're quoting Cato today, here's a good one: "grasp the subject, the words will follow".

• uhuznaa - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  You seem to be a tiny bit obsessed.

• iphone6splus - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  Yet, he didn't comment on Touch ID.

• kevin_newell - Thursday, October 9, 2014 - link

  Apple is lagging far behind it's competitors both in user satisfaction (source: http://www.consumertop.com/best-phone-guide/) and innovation. I mean, who was first with large screens and phone cameras that work well in low light? It sure wasn't Apple.

• Caliko - Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - link

  A large iPhone is NOT innovation.
  
  Sorry iPhoney fan.

• lowtolerance - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  I can recommend some good therapists. You need one.

• melgross - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  You sir, are a complete idiot!

• Gondalf - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link

  To be fair, a >$600 phone deserves a good LCD.....at least good as competitors, more ram and a little SD expansion slot. Plain and simple. This is not a matter of "idiocy"