Apple released the new iPhone 7 with lots of new but elementary features: dual camera, improved processor speeds, water resistance and a new Home button.
One of the new features is its removal plugof headphones – heralding the end of decades of universal compatibility.
But the truth is that unplugging is an incredibly well-designed distraction from what's really going on: Apple just couldn't roll out a major new update. version of the iPhone on time.
Did you really think so? Is there any real reason for removing the plug at this time, other than distraction?
While everyone is shouting how stupid the removal of the plug is, Apple has placed another iPhone.
The same move is also smart, because it signals the next big innovation while at the same time postponing it… Remove it reception headphones to avoid criticisms of mixing the same features, and the real innovation will come in 2017, as Apple itself has already announced.
So the company faithfully following Moore's Law, gives crumbs to pull it out this year and is preparing for the next big release it has planned and announced from now on for 2017.
Every other smartphone manufacturer follows the same Law. So almost all smartphones look and work in the same way within 2016, they have similar standards and a similar thickness.
The iPhone 7 is a compromise, along with an admission that smartphone technology needs significant additions. But it came as a way for the company to appease its customers by providing something that looks innovative while maintaining its release cycle. productand essentially buying the time needed for the next big thing.
Unless you really believe that water resistance or a new color is worth spending hundreds of euros.
Personally, I like the iPhone 7, but I will not get it. I still have the iPhone 6 and maybe if at some point I see something worthwhile I might be tempted. But not now…
Apple seems to know this as it is totally coincidental that 2016 will be the first year that the company will not share the numbers of pre-orders in the press. Coincidence; or does the company know that iPhone 7 traffic was an elemental step, not a pioneering leap?
However, the iPhone 7 is the pinnacle of perfection. It's a beautiful phone, refined with maturity due to three years of work.
You probably will not find a more perfect iPhone from iPhone 7, but in fact if you have an iPhone 6 or 6s you do not have to upgrade.
The fact is really scary for the entire smartphone industry.
