[coldtea]

>I'm a six year iPhone owner who based off of the iPhone 7 rumors it's going to underwhelm in the innovation department and lose this customer.

Yeah, because better CPU, GPU, camera(s), and such are not innovative enough...

>The Note 7 looks awesome due to it being waterproof and other features Apple hasn't bothered to include.

Yeah, for those of us using our phone on the shower it will be a god-send. Waterproof! Such innovation!

[LargeCompanies]

Also, I mentioned Google Now vs. Siri where Google Now is light years ahead. It understands all my spoken requests and that's a big deal when driving!

Overall, I want waterproof.. wireless charging... Google Now type AI vs. Siri. Their competitors have this .. iPhone 7 should have all or some of these features yet it won't.

Only good thing about the iPhone is it's more secure then Android. Putting my credit on an Android device to use Android Pay vs. Apple Pay is something I don't feel comfortable doing.

Per all my downvotes it looks like the majority still here love Apple. Personally I love innovation and Apple isn't innovating and or being the pioneer they use to be.

[thewhitetulip]

Not to be nitpicking, but light years is a measure of distance and not of time :-)

[coldtea]

Not to be nitpicking, but parent didn't say it was a measure of time :-)

"Light years ahead" is a common expression meaning "much more advanced".

And there's nothing that says it refers to time (except if we insist on the idea that technology advances with time, so every related analogy must refer to time).

But as an analogy it just as well means "it's much further ahead", as if we were speaking of a race.

[thewhitetulip]

I know I am going to get downvoted :D

Whilst it is true that parent didn't say that light years is a unit of time. But I find the general usage of the term incorrect :-)

Light years = distance traveled by light in 365 earth days!!

[bitmapbrother]

>Yeah, because better CPU, GPU, camera(s), and such are not innovative enough...

They're not. They're expected.

>Yeah, for those of us using our phone on the shower it will be a god-send. Waterproof! Such innovation!

Right...

[coldtea]

Innovation != surprise. If that was the case, the 1000x improvements we got by Moore's law would not count as innovation (except maybe when we completely change CPU architectures, e.g. from CISC to RISC etc).

And the kind of work, research and investment in getting new and improved cpus, gpus, cameras is hardly trivial.

If anything, the innovations mentioned (wireless charging, waterproof case) are both existing and trivial to adopt (if one wanted).

[jacalata]

Bizarrely, none of the phones I know of that died from water damage were being used in a shower. We must move in different circles.

[coldtea]

Pretty different, yes, cause I hardly know of anyone who lost their phone that way. I'm pretty sure there are a few. But I seriously doubt there are that many.

In contrast, a phone being damaged because it fell and broke its glass etc, I've seen and heard stories of dozens of times.

[Pxtl]

I just got back from a Caribbean trip. I wish I'd had a waterproof phone+camera. That feature will be on my list of considerations next time I'm phone-shopping, since they're all sealed with glue and have non-removable batteries anyways these days.

[detaro]

Isn't "faster hardware" by definition not innovative?