[Technology] New iPhones - 2018 edition

[Bozza]

The most exciting day of the year is nearly upon us.

Yes, it's not long now until Apple unveil this year's new iPhones allowing Apple fanboys to swoon over the new shiny things, whilst also allowing those in Android-land to tell anyone who will listen "that's now new - we've had <insert feature here> for years".

Everything suggests there will be three new iPhones this year:

- A 6.5" update to the iPhone X, supposedly the biggest-screen phone on the market, and called iPhone XS.
- A 5.8" update to the iPhone X, confusingly also called iPhone XS.
- A new budget-priced phone of the iPhone X form factor, ie with the notch (that nearly everyone else has copied)

Roll on September 12th.

 

[Husty]

Will you be bringing NSC down to implement a mobile-friendly design and finally drag NSC kicking and screaming out of the last decade?

 

[seagulls4ever]

- A new budget-priced phone of the iPhone X form factor, ie with the notch (that nearly everyone else has copied)

Everyone has copied it, but the notches on the Essential Phone and Sharp's Aquos S2 pre-dated the iPhone X's by a few months. They're all shit. The sooner they move onto the next fad the better.

 

[Napper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWT8e8CUDM

 

[Is it PotG?]

I'm waiting until November when the new, new one is announced.

 

[Bold Seagull]

[MENTION=365]Napper[/MENTION] cracking bit of standup. "you've not unplugged from the Matrix"...

 

[RandyWanger]

I was just reading up on the news this morning, lots of confidence that the leaked reports are true. Looking forward to getting myself an XS

 

[Bob!]

I was just reading up on the news this morning, lots of confidence that the leaked reports are true. Looking forward to getting myself an XS

I'm going for the XL

 

[LlcoolJ]

I'm going for the XL

I'm waiting for the XR3i

 

[Bob!]

I'm waiting for the XR3i

I'm actually waiting for the ZX3, but we're not allowed to talk about Sony phones on here.

 

[Chinman3000]

I'm waiting for the XR3i

Not sure i'll be able to A FORD that one

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I'm waiting until November when the new, new one is announced.

You're kidding me .... I've been holding off for the Sep update and now you tell me once I get this some smug t**t's going to say "Oh, you didn't hold out for the new one then?"

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

I'm waiting for the XR3i

Ah ha, the return of the clitoris car joke.

 

[Bozza]

You're kidding me .... I've been holding off for the Sep update and now you tell me once I get this some smug t**t's going to say "Oh, you didn't hold out for the new one then?"

The suggestion is it's going to be the "budget" version that is going to be delayed. Assuming you want one of the full-fat phones, you should be good for September, subject to the usual hassles of finding one to buy anyway.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

The suggestion is it's going to be the "budget" version that is going to be delayed. Assuming you want one of the full-fat phones, you should be good for September, subject to the usual hassles of finding one to buy anyway.

Phew, I thought I'd been sat here smugly aroused for the last couple of months for nothing!

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

I've just discovered that in 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, they were weeks away from bankruptcy, he reached out to his arch rival Bill Gates to help keep Apple afloat.

Microsoft were under investigation at that time, for running a monopoly within the home computer market and could not afford to allow their only real competitor go to the wall. So Gates agreed to help and actually pumped $150m into Apple, the company survived and the rest is history.

Im not sure if it was Microsoft or if Gates personally stumped up the cash, but either way it was a smart investment. In 1997 Apple was trading at around $3.56 a share, today they go for $228.36.

That $150m is now worth over $9.5b.

 

[clapham_gull]

I've just discovered that in 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, they were weeks away from bankruptcy, he reached out to his arch rival Bill Gates to help keep Apple afloat.

Microsoft were under investigation at that time, for running a monopoly within the home computer market and could not afford to allow their only real competitor go to the wall. So Gates agreed to help and actually pumped $150m into Apple, the company survived and the rest is history.

Im not sure if it was Microsoft or if Gates personally stumped up the cash, but either way it was a smart investment. In 1997 Apple was trading at around $3.56 a share, today they go for $228.36.

That $150m is now worth over $9.5b.

They sold them in 2003 and....

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft...-apple-was-craziest-thing-we-ever-did-1525752

 

[Bold Seagull]

I've just discovered that in 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, they were weeks away from bankruptcy, he reached out to his arch rival Bill Gates to help keep Apple afloat.

Microsoft were under investigation at that time, for running a monopoly within the home computer market and could not afford to allow their only real competitor go to the wall. So Gates agreed to help and actually pumped $150m into Apple, the company survived and the rest is history.

Im not sure if it was Microsoft or if Gates personally stumped up the cash, but either way it was a smart investment. In 1997 Apple was trading at around $3.56 a share, today they go for $228.36.

That $150m is now worth over $9.5b.

That $150m also bought Microsoft the license to write Office for Mac OS. Like you said, this helped both companies at the time.

Amazing how much involvement Gates had with Apple over the years. Supposedly Microsoft had more people working on the first Apple Mac than Apple did. Hence Jobs felt betrayed when Microsoft released Windows, based on all the work they'd done for Apple. Mid 80s, 50% of Microsoft revenue was through Apple software they wrote.

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

That $150m also bought Microsoft the license to write Office for Mac OS. Like you said, this helped both companies at the time.

Amazing how much involvement Gates had with Apple over the years. Supposedly Microsoft had more people working on the first Apple Mac than Apple did. Hence Jobs felt betrayed when Microsoft released Windows, based on all the work they'd done for Apple. Mid 80s, 50% of Microsoft revenue was through Apple software they wrote.

Strange that Apple didn't get Gates to sign a Content NDA, considering he had already licenced ms dos, which he bought for just $50k, to IBM.

 

[Husty]

Will you be bringing NSC down to implement a mobile-friendly design and finally drag NSC kicking and screaming out of the last decade?

I'll take that as a no then, [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] ?