> What confuses me is the fact that Apple did not find it worthwhile to continue providing a smaller form factor.
I couldn't agree more. I'm still using the 4S because I want something that comfortably fits in my side jeans pocket. The 6? Forget it. When my 4S breaks... I'll probably just buy another one, used. I find it almost impossible to believe that the segment of consumers who want a phone that fits comfortably in a side jeans pocket -- since this is where a huge proportion of guys keep it -- is too small to cater to. (Yes, I've tried a 6, and it technically fits, but it is not comfortable.)
If things keep up the way they do, I'm hoping Apple is finally forced to come out with an "iPhone Mini". I really hope they do.
Keeping support for small devices isn't free. I expect the 4S sized screen to be completely deprecated in a few years. It's fine if you want your phone to be just a phone and poor web browser. It's less fine if you want it to be a pocket computer that performs a wider variety of tasks.
Not saying it can't be done, just that it has a not insignificant cost.
But that's exactly it -- I want my phone to be a phone and use phone-appropriate apps, like Evernote or Spotify or Shazam or Hipchat or Yelp or Moves or FitnessFast or the camera app or the weather app and so on...
And be a web browser of last resort, when I need to look something up quick while on the street. I've got, you know, a laptop at work and a laptop at home that work a lot better for web browsing.
Sorry, that's not the future for most people. Even apps like Evernote and Spotify and what not are really, really hard to cram into a teeny tiny screen. It's not a great experience. Then if you consider internationally how many people use their phone as their primary, if not exclusive, computer and yeah. That's just how it adds up.
App developers no longer have to worry about 320x480 resolutions. They effectively don't worry about small from 3:2 aspect ratio displays. Soon they won't have to deal with it at all. For the vast majority of users this is a good thing. For a slim minority it's a bad thing. =[
I printed out mockups for the 6 and 6+ to get a feel for them before they came out. Tested them with pockets etc... I'm fat so they actually do fit in my pants pocket (the plus by a hair).
My pants usually press against my leg when I am sitting, and I am almost certain this pressure would, over time and repetition, bend the phone. Possibly not the 6, but I'm sure it would with the plus.
I do like the larger screen though. Colbert had a joke where he was going to have a large pocket sewn into his suit jacket to carry his ipad around, and I actually considered having a phone pocket added to my jeans. But I think I'll stick with my 5 for a while longer and if needed upgrade to the 5s at some point.
I couldn't agree more. I'm still using the 4S because I want something that comfortably fits in my side jeans pocket. The 6? Forget it. When my 4S breaks... I'll probably just buy another one, used. I find it almost impossible to believe that the segment of consumers who want a phone that fits comfortably in a side jeans pocket -- since this is where a huge proportion of guys keep it -- is too small to cater to. (Yes, I've tried a 6, and it technically fits, but it is not comfortable.)
If things keep up the way they do, I'm hoping Apple is finally forced to come out with an "iPhone Mini". I really hope they do.