Holy **** you actually think you are better than 1000's of people actually dedicated to designing phones.
Maybe not all of them
. I wonder why you are taking this so personally. You obviously see no reason to upgrade from your 5s. Is that a financial decision or do you agree with me that Apple is out of ideas? And if you do, then why are you defending them when I point out other companies are innovating in the same field?
You instead placed the onus on me, the consumer, instead of a company worth billions and asked me to innovate, so I did. And then you picked apart my ideas as if I had been working on cell phones my entire life.
The simple truth is you are just as disappointed with Apple as I am. Come to terms with it.
And now I have an attachment to my ideas so I'm going to defend them
. It's your right to **** right off if you don't like where this is headed or continue the discussion and maybe add some of your own ideas on how Apple could innovate?
1. You have no idea how encryption works, stop it. If you want extra security features you use self deleting messaging apps and/or encrypted data links not some butchered $16000 phone. There are a range of software solutions that already solved that problem.
You are right about that! I am curious though. Why is a hardware lock such a bad idea for a phone or any electronic?
2. Now you got 2+ bits of a phone running around your pocket with 2+ batteries to content with with the additional power consumption of radio links. The radio part of a phone is small even when you include the antenna. That's why it isn't some second attachment or standalone box. You can have your silly non-functionality right now if you have an iPod touch and a dumb phone. You can test it out yourself right now by carrying a useless object of your choosing along with you phone and see how that works out for you.
Well let's see. I got my wallet in my back left. My phone in my front right. My front left pocket are my keys and my back left is empty. Sure why not!
Useless or not that "
thing" can take a beating while the phone you have right now cannot. Your phone also can't last for more than 18 hours, but that "
thing", without a screen, could potentially last a week. Also that "
thing" could be the size of your credit card and eventually the size of your apartment dongle.
At the same time, your "
phone" now costs about 50 bucks to replace. So don't worry if you break it, burn it, flush it, lose it, toss it over a cliff, microwave it, get mugged, etc. You can stop into your nearest gas station and pick up a new one. There are about 10x^10 different variations to choose from. Some have large speakers. Some have better cameras. Some have a joystick and buttons. Whatever floats your boat. Oh there's also one that floats. Buy one, two, or three. And since it doesn't have a "
phone" in it, there's a large battery in there, making it last a week as well.
Oh I almost forgot. There's neat feature about that "
thing" BTW. You can pop it in your computer monitor at home (you know the one that houses a GPU, RAM, and an HDD?) and use a keyboard and mouse to peruse the web, work, or play games. Don't worry though, you can still make calls from your "
phone". That is, unless you want to facetime with your monitor instead?
And I will kickstart it if I doesn't happen in the next 4 years for the absolute **** of it.
Have a look at how far smart watches have taken off. I have yet to see someone have one let alone use it.
Hahaha. I was the first person to **** on smart watches. They're an awful idea, at least right now. Still, I do think I can make it better
. If it were a little bigger, more rectangular and there was someway to take it off your wrist without undoing the strap (maybe a swivel lock), you could probably text on it, and that'd be enough to make it popular.
3. Including a feature for the sake of including one drives up the price. Things with such niche purpose is always better off as an separate device. No one outside of those specialists would use it as the data is worthless to your average person. What happens if the sensor costs the same as the previous full size one that runs into the tens 1000 dollars? Are we still including that just because we can?
Well of course there's a cost/benefit analysis you'd do. This is a
fake business we're talking about. The point I was making is you'd probably not add it if it costs pennies on the dollar because it serves no immediate purpose to you, and therefore Joe the Public (starting to love that name) won't have anything to do with it. As CEO of my fake company, I have more faith in Joe.
The barometer isn't used for what you think it does. It acts as another GPS "satellite" to give you a more accurate fix as to where you are. GPS sucks when giving you elevation data. It can place you on the surface of Earth within the meter but elevation error is measured in hundreds of meters if not more. That's why when getting a GPS coordinate it never gives you an elevation. Even with a barometer I wouldn't trust the height information as it wouldn't be calibrated properly.
Crowd sourcing barometer data wouldn't be useful as the barometer wouldn't know what the specific nature of where it is at. Inside a small building the pressure difference might be 1 or 2 (30-60 feet height difference!)points but if you go into a high rise the error increases. If you go into a pressurised building like a skyscraper the data is worthless. Long streets with building on both sides would give you false data. All this is assuming people would be willing to part with this information at their expense.
There far more to weather than local pressure differences and I bet that developer is BS by reselling you data from other weather services.
I am aware it's used for location purposes as well. I am also aware people (Joe) wouldn't send data when they're inside their homes, similarly to people not sending traffic info to Waze when their not driving.
Your point about the unpredictability or faulty data becomes moot when you add several million data points. And that's what I'm suggesting, and that's what these developers are doing.
And people are willing to part with information if it benefits their lives. There's countless examples of that already.
4. A squeeze phone is a too inaccurate of an input. Do you know how much force you unconsciously hold a controller or steering wheel? Do you know how much your grip changes as you move or balance yourself? Have you ever thought about why the Gamecube controller trigger has so much travel? or why no one uses the two button sensitivity of the PS controller? Think how inaccurate motion controls are.
What happens if you forget to lock your phone before you put it into your pocket? There be some epic butt dialling, hope 911 doesn't show up. You already scoff at Siri which can be pretty imprecise at times and you want to apply the grip equivalent to the outside of your phone.
I wasn't thinking the whole phone was squeezable like a chew toy or something, just the sides, so sitting on it wouldn't do anything. Still, your point is well taken. Maybe there should be a sensor on the back in case you sit on it. You could program the phone to fart. And that, my friends, are how great ideas are born.
5. Did you not watch Apple's press conference when they offered wireless ear buds? Have you had a look at the minimum size of ear buds have to be? People don't want phones to be that bulky.
Most people don't use a wireless ear piece not because it isn't available but because it is too inconvenient and fiddly and people don't want to be carrying around another piece of equipment especially one with another battery they have to keep an eye on with a short life. It's 2 part phone redux. I followed links on Google and they suck.
You're right. I don't see Apples earbuds being popular either. Maybe if they somehow had them come out of the phone instead.
Fake CEO time: I'd ask my engineering team to make an earpiece that looks like a stylus when you pull it from the phone, but bends when placed around your ear for a snug fit.
It isn't that I don't have an "Imagination", it is that I filter it through reality before I spew it out on paper. Please self filter more. The lack of self filtering is why we end up with dumb gimmick kickstarters that fail. You're not "innovating" anything, you're just spewing **** out. Do your Kickstarter now, see how far you get.
There is no point in continuing this discussion as you're going to continue your manic rant and I am no longer going to invest anymore energy trying to talk you down. I shouldn't have tried in the first place and just let you ramble on. I regret this waste of energy now.
Eh...I'll give you my first post...It was a bit ranty. The others? Those, my friend, were responses.
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