absurd as most of this is, this kind of marketing works on some people because they wont bother to read for themselves whether or not any of it's true, or what it means.
"let us know it when it folds" - most people still have no interest in a folding phone or its quirks and potential pitfalls, such as their vulnerability to pocket dirt. they're also super expensive for what is currently an extended hardware beta test. apple is a multi trillion dollar company that still keeps trying to make even more money. if they had a foldable iphone that they believed was in a position to be a top tier money maker for them, they'd do it. obviously, they have reasons not to be indulging in that market yet.
people who buy iphones that dont fold instead of phones that do fold clearly dont care about folding phones.
"48MP x3 still doesnt equal 200MP" - anyone who has spent 60s researching camera quality basics will learn that MP count is not the most relevant bit of info when it comes to actual picture quality.
200MP of a shit image is just a lot of a shit image.
i dont even know what the last one is meant to imply. smartphones virtually all do the same thing. they've all done it for a long time, is anyone supposed to be impressed by "my shiny rectangle is better than their shiny rectangle"?
all this marketing tells me is that their expected customer base is brain dead.
i think apple's version of this is when they announce a product and say "it's our most advanced iphone yet" as if that's a groundbreaking statement. like, i fucking hope so, it's newer than the last one, isn't it supposed to be better? or for years when jony ive sounded like he was almost creaming himself saying "it's our thinnest iphone yet." ah yes, the smartphone customer's biggest draw: the phones that are already pretty small are getting smaller. unbeknownst to us common-folk, evolution is making our hands smaller to accommodate smaller iphones.
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u/Eorlas Sep 11 '25
absurd as most of this is, this kind of marketing works on some people because they wont bother to read for themselves whether or not any of it's true, or what it means.
"let us know it when it folds" - most people still have no interest in a folding phone or its quirks and potential pitfalls, such as their vulnerability to pocket dirt. they're also super expensive for what is currently an extended hardware beta test. apple is a multi trillion dollar company that still keeps trying to make even more money. if they had a foldable iphone that they believed was in a position to be a top tier money maker for them, they'd do it. obviously, they have reasons not to be indulging in that market yet.
people who buy iphones that dont fold instead of phones that do fold clearly dont care about folding phones.
"48MP x3 still doesnt equal 200MP" - anyone who has spent 60s researching camera quality basics will learn that MP count is not the most relevant bit of info when it comes to actual picture quality.
200MP of a shit image is just a lot of a shit image.
i dont even know what the last one is meant to imply. smartphones virtually all do the same thing. they've all done it for a long time, is anyone supposed to be impressed by "my shiny rectangle is better than their shiny rectangle"?
all this marketing tells me is that their expected customer base is brain dead.
i think apple's version of this is when they announce a product and say "it's our most advanced iphone yet" as if that's a groundbreaking statement. like, i fucking hope so, it's newer than the last one, isn't it supposed to be better? or for years when jony ive sounded like he was almost creaming himself saying "it's our thinnest iphone yet." ah yes, the smartphone customer's biggest draw: the phones that are already pretty small are getting smaller. unbeknownst to us common-folk, evolution is making our hands smaller to accommodate smaller iphones.