[muglo] Re: Screen sighs
- From: Eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:54:54 -0400
I agree with you Doug and I think the market does too: when was the last time
an Apple product launch sent stocks tumbling? And there are no line-ups of
Lemmings being reported. Meanwhile at Samsung, Microsoft and even Blackberry,
champagne corks are still popping over the opportunity/invitation Apple has
given them to finally take a big bite of their market share.
Garth.
On 2014-09-10, at 10:47, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am I the only one who can’t help feeling that Apple went the wrong way with
> the new iPhones? The iPhone 5 was already big enough to spoil the line of a
> pair of slacks or a suit jacket that doesn’t have a purpose-sized inner
> pocket to hold it just so. Can the cargo-pants crowd constitute that big a
> market? The only other users I see flashing bigger phones at the moment are
> also sporting wallet chains, galoshes-sized basketball shoes and pants worn
> at half-mast.
>
> If bigger screens are essential, there are the iPad and the iPad Mini. If
> smaller screens are too hard to read, how explain the iWatch?
>
> Seems to me that the smart way to go with smartphones is smaller and lighter.
> Why not use the new curved-screen technology to extend a 5-sized phone’s
> active display into the five-eighths of an inch of black border at top and
> bottom, and the eighth of an inch at either side, with the Home button,
> microphone and camera embedded in it? Better still, why not do all that on a
> phone the size of the iPhone 4s, but as thin as the 6 and as light as the 5?
> You’d have something that was much better balanced for one-handed use as a
> camera and able to to be carried even in a shirt pocket or a light sundress
> without making them sag.
>
> Apple is following rather than leading on this one. If it gets its act
> together in time for the iPhone 7, I predict that that one will be courting
> the millions of Am I the only one who can’t help feeling that Apple went the
> wrong way with the new iPhones announced yesterday? The various iPhone 5s are
> already big enough to spoil the line of a pair of slacks or a suit jacket
> that doesn’t have a purpose-sized inner pocket to hold the things just so.
> Can the cargo-pants crowd constitute that big a market? The only other users
> I see flashing bigger phones at the moment are also sporting wallet chains,
> galoshes-sized basketball shoes and pants worn at half-mast.
>
> If big screens are essential, there are the iPad and the iPad Mini. If small
> screens are too hard to read, how explain the iWatch?
>
> Seems to me that the smart way to go with smartphones is smaller and lighter.
> Why not use the new curved-screen technology to extend a 5-sized phone’s
> active display into the five-eighths of an inch of black border at top and
> bottom, and the eighth of an inch at either side, with the Home button,
> microphone and camera embedded in it? Better still, why not do all that on a
> phone the size of the iPhone 4s, but as thin as the 6 and as light as the 5?
> You’d have something that was much better balanced for one-handed use as a
> camera and able to to be carried even in a shirt pocket or a sundress without
> making them sag.
>
> Apple is following rather than leading on this one. If it gets its act
> together in time for the iPhone 7, I predict that that one will be courting
> the millions of women in tight tops and skinny jeans, and we’ll start seeing
> bras with purpose-sized pockets in the cleavage.
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