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Why iPhone 11 Is Apple’s Least Innovative iPhone Yet
Apple, the company that created the modern-day smartphone, is relying on technology customers are already extremely familiar with, like cameras, and taking a backseat when it comes to smartphone innovation. But could the company’s dedication to familiar technology be a benefit to the iPhone lineup?
The iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max are Apple’s newest phones, and both tout a triple-camera setup. But this is not new. In fact, it’s one of the last smartphone manufacturers to include a wide-angle lens on its phones. LG added a wide-angle lens to its G5 and V20 phones in 2016, and Samsung introduced it on the Galaxy S10 and S10+ early in 2019. And besides cameras, Samsung has experimented with folding screens, mobile desktop interfaces, gesture controls, and more in the past year.
Apple, the company that created the modern-day smartphone, is relying on technology customers are already extremely familiar with, like cameras, and taking a backseat when it comes to smartphone innovation. But the company’s dedication to familiar technology could be a benefit to the iPhone lineup.
Android-based companies have a roster of smartphone firsts that later found their way to Apple products. Motorola built a fingerprint sensor into its Atrix 4G phone back in 2011, 2 years before the iPhone 5S brought TouchID to the iPhone. Also in 2011, Samsung brought big phones into the mainstream with its Note series, creating the “phablet,” or phone-tablet hybrid, something Apple took note of for its Plus and Max versions of iPhones starting with the 6 Plus in 2014.
But at times these innovations come at the cost of quality. Take the Samsung Galaxy Fold for example. Though Samsung wasn’t the first phone company to release a foldable smartphone, it was the largest company to do so, and created the most buzz around the technology in the US. But the phone has not been in good standing, reporting numerous problems with the screen and hinge mechanism.
Apple knows what its customers what. According to a recent study, the camera is one of the top 5 most important features in a smartphone. Apple ticked that box on the iPhone 11 Pro lineup. This same poll also suggests battery life, ease of use, memory and durability as important to phone buyers, most of which were addressed during the most recent iPhone announcement. This reliance on familiar technology also allows Apple to focus on new ventures, like Apple TV+ and other devices and services Apple has not made public yet.
Looking at Apple’s history as the creator of the modern smartphone, it’s disappointing to see a lack of innovation on the newest iPhones. It’s also hard to argue with Apple’s decisions when it holds a 41% market share of smartphones in the US. We’ll just have to wait and see what Apple has in store in 2020.
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@AllenLu
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
they should concentrate more on battery life, suprise us with some innovation
@sleazyeezy9452
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I think Apple has done it again with the vision pro they’re releasing next year. A lot of people were impressed by the presentation like they were with the iPhone at first. It’s something new. I mean you can’t really change the iPhone much more than making it foldable.
@lokesh303101
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Apple Electric Cars and Drones are needed.
@deficator750
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
literally they have'nt inovated anything on the iphone. for example if you project a 3d image off the iphone thats what i consider 'innovative', but simply making existing features better, brighter, faster, or simply adding more of it to me is'nt what i would call innovation.
@yuzhang2755
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I don't know why this is recommended to me. Can any one explain to me what's the meaning of the title "Why iPhone 11 Is Apple’s Least Innovative iPhone Yet"? Why copy the marketing jargon?
@manishjoshi6019
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
This is the most advance iPhone we've ever built 🤣 wtf is that supposed to mean, i mean obviously it will be the most advance
@toboekey1273
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Samsung should counter sue apple for $539 million dollars for copying the ALWAYS ON DISPLAY 🤷🤷🤷
@Jamesthomas007
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Why is google algorithm suggesting this video after iPhone 14???
@Elwood128
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Apple has been downgrading since Steve Jobs died, they're no longer pioneers in their industry and simply wait for others to do the real work because they know the mindless majority will pay more for less.
@F.R.E.D.D2986
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
The fact that its taken 6 phones to realise that they're not innovating is incredible
@junyaiwase
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
the iphone 5c exists.
@caseymaples19xx
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
They were just waiting on Android to come out with new stuff. They literally years later do the same thing Android does. Facial recognition, yes that was android fingerprint recognition, yes that was android Irish recognition, yes that was android better cameras yes that was android pretty much everything than an iPhone has ever put out was first on an android
@brianoleson9224
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
nobody in the whole video would make the notion that there is no reinvention of the phone like in 2007 better cameras? thats not that important these are improvements year over year. my exceptions would have been the next big thing around 2017-2020 think hologram displays, bouncing a display from your phone to a black wall and using finger gestures to customize the display size
@kojo5928
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
The SE 3 is the new White Elephant.
@edselgreaves6503
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Apple is where has-beens go to work.
@KingTriton1837
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I think the days of folding phones are over. They've gone the way of rotary dialing
@medicinaemdia4895
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I fell that people are willing to buy the iPhone because of its security settings, not because it’s trying to make something really new. We already got to 4K years ago, do we really need an 8k camera on our photos and having to either upload all to the cloud or end up with no memory on the phone ?
@chadweirick
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I don’t know if I would call it a plateau. Look at the Porsche 911. You can find one from a few decades ago and it is clearly and strikingly similar to todays car. Sure there are substantial under the hood performance increases, safety increases, etc. the point is that the iPhone is not dissimilar. It is iconic and when you look at things like the quality of the images you can see why discussions on the cameras are more or less superfluous. Is a 911 going to haul more than a RAM 3500? No. It wasn’t meant to. This thing, whether an iPhone or a 911 is a singular thing. If you want to compare it to an array of things that are broadly similar yet dusty, you will find that a variety of features are likely to exist to appeal to different needs and wants. That is called capitalism. It doesn’t make one product inherently inferior to another, just perhaps more targeted at a specific audience.
@rindodenervoso6475
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Well after this video i can agree that apple turned into the "fast and furious" smartphone company, they make new phones, and they know that people is goint to buy it, not because its very innovative, but because the past was a success and the hope is still in the consumer's mind
@Pschokid
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Apple always has been a bit of a copy cat while complaining if others copy them but they haven't really been innovative since the iPhone 4 it feels like. What have they done since? Taken away the hole for the aux cable. Which I still kind of dislike
@antbotsquad6769
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
iPhone 13: haha hold my spot
@xXIronSwanXx
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Until the iPhone 13 came out🤭
@krash761
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I wonder what they ll say about fold3 now.. lovely phone
@amymiller3313
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
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@BFP2021
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Tim cook aint no Steve Jobs. He is a 3rd rate version..
@paulhickey6896
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
You could call me an Apple fan boy. My first computer was the Apple Performa, over 30 years ago. Today I've a new iMac on order, I can't wait for it to arrive. I'm typing this on my trusty MacBook Pro. I like Apple and Apple products.
I purchased the iPhone 11 a few months ago, it was my first iPhone. I had been using Android up till then. I did so on purpose. As a tech fan I liked having, and using different OS's but decided that going all Apple would be an interesting experiment.
Within minutes of opening and setting up my brand new iPhone 11 I was underwhelmed and quite bored with it. Within a couple of months I was so disheartened by the iPhone 11 that I, without exaggeration, gave it away for free.
I've replaced it with a OnePlus8 Pro. The iPhone 11 had nothing whatsoever to want to make you pick it up unless you had to. The OnePlus8 Pro has a strange magnetism that makes you want to pick it up even if you don't need to. It's an exciting and interesting phone. The iPhone 11 was, is, a phone that has nothing to say. It is featureless, devoid of any personality and totally boring.
Sure, Apple is one of the worlds biggest companies. So too was Nokia, Blackberry and a host of other companies that got on top of their game and started to dial in their products. And where are they now? You asked is there any innovation left the smartphone ? Yes there is! The OnePlus8 Pro has a stack of innovative features that the iPhone 11 can only dream of, and that's just one Apple alternative.
Apple can dial it in for some time to come and not feel the pain. But unless they pull something extraordinary out of the bag their days as the leading smartphone manufacturer are numbered. And that will be bad for all of us and it will stifle innovation and competition.
@roycedizon8630
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
APPLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE IS BATTERY POWER-EASY TO USE-MEMORY STORAGE -DURABILITY-AND THE BEST IS CAMERA QUALITY
@jaaz5531
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
I bet 99% of people who buy iPhone didnt know this!
@IEJ7654321
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
It become some of the best selling phones ever.