I feel like yesterday's announcement has left a news vacuum that is trying to be filled.<p>The announcement was not so amazing that the cheers are deafening; nor was it so disappointing or controversial that the opposite occurred. So, instead we're giggling at Jimmy Kimmel videos and long iPhone photoshops.<p>Perhaps this is why Apple hasn't announced the iPad mini yet -- to make sure the iPhone 5 gets a bit of time in the limelight. If it was announced yesterday, few people would be talking about the new iPhone today.
As usual xkcd provides just as much insight, <a href="http://xkcd.com/605/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/605/</a><p>And for something a bit cruder, but even more phone related <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-day-smartphones-stop-getting-bigger" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-day-smartphones-stop-g...</a>
Anyone can make a larger smartphone display. But if you go large for large’s sake, you end up with a phone that feels oversize, awkward, and hard to use. iPhone 7 features a 7-inch display designed the right way: it’s bigger, but it’s the same width as iPhone 4S, 5, 5S, 6, 6G and 6GS.
The iphone 7 prototype looks like a good start but they can take it much, much farther. A quick calculation: my arm is roughly 34 inches long and an icon row is about 1/2 inch. Factoring in for hardware chrome they could squeeze in maybe 64 rows for a whopping 256 apps on the home screen! There is TONS of room to grow here.
The only reason iPhone 7 mockup looks weird is because our laptops' screens are not tall enough.<p>I predict Macbooks Airs in 2014 will be 28 inches tall and will display the new iPhone 7 photos flawlessly.
When I started reading the article, I thought 21 icons meant they overflowed the first screen, and that the phone shipped with one icon on the second screen. That seemed very un-Apple-like and interesting. As soon as I realized that number includes the four in the dock, and that there are still three spaces left on the first homescreen, suddenly it seems like a non-event.
Question: Per this article, what iPhone version will be able to reach to the moon?<p>Assuming:
Increase in icons is quadratic over time.
Each iPhone version requires an extra 8.6mm in height to hold the extra icons.
The distance to the moon is ~240,000 miles.
The length of the iPhone 1 is negligible.<p>Step One: Regress the data from the article to get the equation "y = 3.25x^2 - 27.65x + 76.95", where y = # of icons and x = iPhone version number.<p>Step Two: Convert equation to mm. 8.6mm increase for every 5 icon capacity (difference between iPhone 4 and 5) => multiply our equation by 8.6mm/5 icons => new equation is "y = 5.59x^2 - 47.558x + 132.354", where y = mm.<p>Step Three: Solve for x when y = 386,242,560,000mm (240,000 miles in mm).<p>*Answer: The iPhone 262,864 will be able to reach to the moon, opening up a key market for mobile users in the year 330,592 AD. It will debut with a little under 225 billion apps, too.
There's also the iPhone 10, the tallest iPhone yet!<p><a href="http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-10.jpeg" rel="nofollow">http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-10.jpe...</a><p>And iPhone 20:<p><a href="http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-20.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-20.jpg</a><p>Thumb actions might be a little hard there.
I started reading this with my usual skepticism. (It isn't hard to believe that some of this could come from the likes of zdnet, or cnet.) I started to crack a smile at the exponential growth graph, then with the picture of iPhone 7, I absolutely lost it! too funny
IBM has a patent on this. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_SImon_in_charging_station.png" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_SImon_in_charging_stat...</a>
I would say, it's not only icons count, but the screen aspect ratio also. Now it is more to a stripe than to a square. Having an unpleasant feelings about this, and the future of Apple.
On that note, why can't we change the icon size already? I think I've clicked enough 1 hour ago | flag | 23 comments links by now to handle at least twice as many icons on screen...
If Steve Jobs was still around, i'd predict that Apple would wait a few years after Google Goggles. They'd work to get it right, and the future smart phone wouldn't have a screen at all.<p>In post-jobs world though, its going to be a me-too game.
Blog seems to be down: <a href="http://thequeue.org/cr?id=http://justinhileman.info/article/the-iphone-icon-ceiling/" rel="nofollow">http://thequeue.org/cr?id=http://justinhileman.info/article/...</a>
I have a feeling that pg should include an algorithm that penalizes submissions whose titles end in a question mark. (For the articles that aren't sarcastic, at least.)