Do not believe the rumors about the big screen iPhone 6

Rumors swarm around the following model iPhones who have already called iPhone 6 (logical, yet the next number after five), and waiting for him this summer, suggesting the two diagonal screen - 4.7 and 5.5 inches. But most of these rumors have focused on new screen resolutions - 1280 × 720 and 1920 × 1080 pixels. And this muddy stream should be stopped.

I have long given up on Apple-mill of rumors, because I believe it is the duty of the journalist - to look for the facts, not to publish the delusional dreams of everyone who has written on the business card, "analyst." But, unfortunately, crap about Apple - catnip for Google News, so somehow we live ...

The next iPhone could actually release in summer: Apple announced earlier smartphones in the summer, and if the new model really will be equipped with a screen diagonal, other than the iPhone 5, they will be more likely to co-exist rather than to replace the current model. Then we can think about the free iPhone 5c of the contract, the 99-dollar iPhone 5s, super-iPhone for $ 199 and "ah-plafond" $ 299 (of course, we are talking about American prices - approx. trans.). All this is possible.

But to say that the new iPhones screen resolution is 1280 × 720 and 1920 × 1080 pixels, without considering the obvious counter-arguments - is irresponsible. It's more noise than useful signal, and the journalist should give a signal, and not to make noise for nothing.

Focus on real facts

IPhones with 720p and 1080p screen is not likely to appear. To understand this, just look at the history of Apple. Komaniya acted wisely, keeping its focus. Its worst years occurred in the time management of Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio, when Apple was just a huge product line in which all confused.

Focus Apple really like developers who, in turn, became the key to success of the iPhone. No, it's not magic, and Apple is not the reality distortion field. The matter of the proposed fruit company API-libraries for developers the best of its kind, and easy hardware platform for which the libraries have been written - that's you and a great tool for transformation programs cash.

And all this machine works on a small consistent set of screen sizes and aspect ratios. Currently programmers work with three ratios: 3: 2, 4: 3 and 16: 9, as well as with four resolutions: 320 × 480, 1024 × 768, 1136 × 640 2048 × and 1536. Moreover, 3: 2 and 320 × 480 is on its way into history: the last iPhone with these parameters - this veteran 3GS.

Although 720p, and 1080p resolution have a ratio of 16: 9, the graphics, designed to 1136 × 640 screen in enlarged form will look at least strange already 720p screen. Application developers later this year will be able to strike a resolution of 320 × 480 - specifically when, depends on the number of iPhone 3GS, which still remain in business. But to add new items to the list - a bad idea.

Let's say, Apple is ready to release zamorochitsya the ceiling with a screen of 1920 × 1080 pixels. In this case, we have to admit that the diagonal of the "enlarged" ayfon is not less than 4.7 inches. Can I leave this screen, the old 1136 × 640 pixels? To justify this step, you will need a very strong field distortion of reality, since in this case the pixel density to drop to 277 dots per inch, which is significantly lower 326-minute "retinovskih".

For some, this could be a definite plus: older users is much easier to work with more devices equipped with a screen with a lesser pixel density, because it provides an increased size of the text elements, and management. Big iPhone could become "an iPhone for the visually impaired" if it does not run counter to the philosophy of "apple" brand, which is to stay young and funny. It is unlikely that Tim Cook reality distortion field is so powerful to embark on such experiments.

Of course, it would be the end the triumph of Apple in the smartphone market and the beginning of a kind of Performa era for iOS, when a company without Steve Jobs gave a lurch. But I do not even want to admit such. Jony Ive, Phil Schiller and legendary analyst Michael Gartenberg (now in the Apple team) too smart for such nonsense. They've already passed, and I do not think that they hunt to repeat past mistakes of the company.

In contrast to the anonymous "sources from the supply chain" in Syntszyane, I do not seek to provide answers to all the questions at once. But I believe that this is the responsibility of reporters - not to repeat like ass, whatever catches your eye, and ask the obvious questions - and burn them if they remain unanswered.

— Sascha Segan, PCMag