A New Name And A Bigger Screen
Jarod Wredt
Staff Writer
iPhone 6 is out at last, and with it Apple lovers and the normal public alike head to their closest phone provider to pick up this latest incarnation. This is a common trend that began seven years ago.
The first iPhone was put on the market on Jun. 29th, 2007. Since then just as many iPhones have been released. People love their devices but is it necessary to purchase a new one every time one comes out.
When the iPhones 5 and 5s were released there were 9 million sold in three days and just as many days after the iPhone 6 and 6 plus sold 10 million and kept calling in buyers. Most people who purchase an iPhone don’t stop at one. Lots of people go back for a new phone because either they broke it or the next version has come out and their current phone has become out of date. If a phone is out of date it doesn't mean that the phone that just came out is better than the one that just became out of date.
Bigger isn’t always better, even if it’s newer. People don’t need the newest thing, Apple phones wouldn’t be sold in the millions such as iPhone 6’s pre-order record. It sold four million in 24 hours. Was it all for the size of the iPhone.
A big attempted selling point for Apple was the screen size. At a whopping 5.5 inches of screen to use. Is an inch of screen so important that its what sells a phone. It is just that much more glass to break.
Broken cameras, shattered glass and other problems plague the old iPhones like over-due assignments for students. It happens a lot except for a few slightly better of that type of iPhone. The iPhone 6 and 6 plus are supposedly more durable but being so much bigger they are proven to be difficult to hold. That leads to more dropping of the phone and more breaking. However the screen isn’t the only thing that needs improvement.
Siri can you help me? Siri was a great introduction to iDevices and was a major turning point in technology.Technology is an animal in the water. Sink or swim. Adapt to survive. Siri isn’t adapting fast enough to keep up with androids new Cortana. The new voice of Android is able to “think” more than Siri and is able to do more.
Other iPhones in the past have had blunders that Apple was able to pull rise above but with so many new phones in such a short time the odds of something big coming up are greater than if the company would take a longer time to work out kinks and bugs.
