Apple announced the iPhone 7 on Wednesday and if you did n’t get your feature demand in during the last few days before the event , well … well , you plausibly bang that it call for a mint longer to get feature into a smartphone .
drop a line for ZDNet two twenty-four hours prior to the iPhone 7 entry , Adrian Kingsley - Hughes told us“What the iPhone 7 needs to stay put ahead of Android . ”
LAZER MONKEYS . ON ROLLERSKATES .
Rather than infinitely debate whether Apple will or wo n’t hit the headphone jack , permit ’s look at where Apple is lagging behind flagship Android handset God Almighty Samsung …
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Pyrotechnics is a feature film .
… and what features it ask to add in society to keep up .
Yes , get ’s encounter the feature ! Which , by the way , come from an a few different Android manufacturer , not just Samsung . See , because some of Android ’s 9 billion dissimilar smartphones have these feature , Apple must include all of them . Or it will … uh , well , it ’s not really clear what . “ return behind ” , presumably , but Kingsley - Hughes does n’t say what the ramifications of that are .
Wireless charging
Sure , why not ? intelligibly everyone loves it when Apple change world power connectivity on their devices .
A newfangled and unique thingumajig
Could you be less specific , please ? This variety of highly detailed techno - babble is exactly what turns lie people off technical school insurance coverage . Let ’s stay grounded . Just brandish mistily at the iPhone .
The iPhone , on the other hand , while unique in being an iOS equipment , is pretty generic . … It ’s been simulate and clone so much that it now feel awfully generic .
Now Apple ’s being derided for having been replicate . Meanwhile , it must keep up with Android OEMs who are copying it . We ’ll be lucky if the universe does n’t fall into this paradox and pop up out of existence .
Waterproofing
It seems to occur as a bite of a surprise to Apple that masses require to take their iPhones into the out-of-doors , where it sometimes rain .
Really ? Because Applehad already quietly made the iPhone 6s more water system - resistantthan previous genesis before it go even further with the iPhone 7 . Give them a fiddling credit .
… it seems unlikely that we ’ll see an IP68 snitch twist such as Samsung ’s Galaxy S7 .
Just pretermit it by one IP ! IP67 ai n’t bad , though . ( Also , tip o ’ the antler toJoel Teitelbaumwho target out that , despite the military rating , the S7failed Consumer Reports ’ test of the same conditions . )
Shatterproof screen
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A sapphire presentation would be awesome , but a baffling display such as that fitted to the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 would do mulct .
No , thanks ! As the Macalope’spreviously noted , non - sapphire shatter - immune sieve are either plastic or boneheaded . Does plastic and loggerheaded strait like Apple to you ? No , it does not .
It ’s fine to desire these things , but they ’re not why people bribe iPhones .
They did obviously justquietly make it cheaper to replace a damaged screen door , though .
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That happened , except for the iPhone SE which will probably get bumped up when it ’s next updated .
Somehow despite not fulfilling everything on Kingsley - Hughes ’s listing , the Macalope suspects the iPhone 7 will still sell fairly well . Which lead one to wonder why it supposedly should dog the ten thousand of features Android OEMs slap arbitrarily into devices in the first place . When Apple adds a feature , it normally does so with mentation . That ’s a discriminator its Android competitors have had trouble copying .
