iPhone 6 poll

[silvarios]

Catzilla wrote:
I have been using an S4 for the last few months. I like the size, but not the android experience, and i'm not too crazy about iOS either.

Perhaps a nice Lumia? Or a nice Jolla.

[modelamac]

Apple pay is the only real attraction for me.With my iPhone 5, I would need an iWatch or an iPhone 6/6s to get it. It is not worth that much to me. I don't stream, use Mail or Safari on the phone. It is a tool, as is Apple Pay.

I will survive easily.

[deckeda]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
horizontal Home screen and so on.

Why is this not an option on other iPhones?
Product differentiation?

You're asking me why a design decision was made? Sorry, I was only in charge of coffee and donuts that day. And Tim said I got his order wrong! He said, "Here at Apple, you'll Pay for that kind of mistake!" I responded, "Great idea, Apple Pay!" and was immediately promoted to Lead B.S. Engineer and the rest is history.

[silvarios]

I was asking on account of you being a critical thinker, not necessarily because you were actually in the room. Product differentiation is lame when it's such a minor feature and since the code is already in the iPhone trunk, why not push to all iPhones? Sometimes I'm dumbfounded by Apple's design decisions.

[sekker]

For the first time, members of my family are not interested in my iPhone purchase (a 6+).

I suspect Apple may decide to update the 4" form factor, if nothing else in the iPhone 7 series.

[TLB]

I went kicking and screaming to an iphone last spring when my flip phone died and used replacements were beat to crap and new flips were basically unsubsidized and more expensive than a smart phone. That is as much excitement I can handle in a year.

Feel free to categorize me as a Luddite or Troglodyte, but I've always carried the smallest phone possible and generally kept it off--using it for outgoing calls only. Now that I'm in the modern world everyone wants to connect with me, especially work, like when my boss happily proclaimed I was now available 24/7. I went through Time magazine's top apps and populated my phone, but nothing really gets used except a local TV station weather app. Maybe I'll change my mind in a year or two but right now it seems like a costly ball and chain to me.

[silvarios]

TLB wrote:
Maybe I'll change my mind in a year or two but right now it seems like a costly ball and chain to me.

No, that's pretty accurate for many users. I feel like I get decent value for the money. Phones cost me less than $200 (occasionally under $100), and that's non the non subsidized price, and my plan four four lines is $129 and change each month. Could be better, but it could also be far worse.

[decay]

Despite their modern reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to technology nor inept at using it. Many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry.

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As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

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The original Luddites would answer that we are human. Getting past the myth and seeing their protest more clearly is a reminder that it’s possible to live well with technology—but only if we continually question the ways it shapes our lives. It’s about small things, like now and then cutting the cord, shutting down the smartphone and going out for a walk. But it needs to be about big things, too, like standing up against technologies that put money or convenience above other human values. If we don’t want to become, as Carlyle warned, “mechanical in head and in heart,” it may help, every now and then, to ask which of our modern machines General and Eliza Ludd would choose to break. And which they would use to break them.


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wh...hr5t0ZL.99