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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
With Apple it's form first, function second.
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With Apple, form and beauty are certainly considered as well as function. You'll never see a big "camera bulge" like the Lumia for example.
For the opposite aesthetic you have Samsung which will through every imaginable feature just to put it on a checklist for marketing whether or not it makes sense as a whole.
Tim Cook has said that the trade offs that today's large screens require are not the kind that Apple is willing to make. Just like those first gen Android LTE phones with their terrible battery life. Apple waited until they could make the phone the wanted to make, at the size they wanted it to be, with the battery life they wanted to have -- and then ability to have LTE. The day may come when Apple overcomes the tradeoffs or changes their opinion.
Apple means it when they say the ability to say no is very important.
Horses for courses. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking Apple "can't" create a large screen phone. They just simply aren't. And for those where large screens are a deciding factor, Apple is willing to not have their business. Just like Apple is willing to not produce a cheaper iPhone at this time leaving all kinds of sales they could get.
Apple will make it's moves...and they will be considered moves according to Apple's timetable. For all the fury on this topic, the huge sales in Android are not coming from the large screen Hero phones. They are coming from cheap low end phones. Apple has 65% share of the >$400 market.