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mrs quoad said:
Tbf, that's why I fucked off Android and Windows, after 2 & 12 years respectively :thumbs:

It has been lovely to have both a laptop and phone that don't work like a wet sack of shit that someone's thrown up on, lots.

Though I appreciate that my particular experiences of Windows, over the 1.2 decades, and Android, over the 0.2, are clearly not cosmologically representative.

And should iOS / OS X ever turn into the wet sack of shit that was my experience of android / Windows, rest assured it'll be back to the whole conversion experience :thumbs:

Wet sacks of shit have, ime, been remarkably effective conversion tools. (Only I there, obv). I keenly look forward to experiencing one half as bad as the daily / weekly shit I used to experience, on my current not-yet-a-sack-of-warm-shit systems of preference :thumbs:
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Each to their own. I had a Palm Pre that started off brightly and then went completely off the rails. Then I had an iPhone 3S and that was truly a sack of fucking shit. I had a Windows Phone for as bit - great but no apps - and since then have swapped brands as the fancy takes me. If you're happy with Apple, that's great, it's a mighty fine system - it's only when people who haven't got a fucking clue start telling me that I am in fact burdening myself with a supposedly inferior OS that I get miffed - particularly if they're mixing in liberal levels of unwarranted smugness in their clueless pontifications.

Amen.
 
Well then perhaps reflect on the idea that you generate similar miff levels in others when you do things such as sneer about how they must have money to burn.
 
So, first impressions of the 6s.

It's fast. Very, very fast. Everything is instant, animations are utterly fluid and web pages in safari load as fast as you can click on them.

The fingerprint reader is instant. No lag whatsoever. To the point where it is now almost impossible to access the lock screen using the home button.

Force/3D touch isn't just a gimmick. It's already useful and will only get more so as developers find new things to do with it. I expect to see versions of it on Android phones soon, it's too good not to copy.

I'd still rather it had a 4" screen. It's now ever so slightly uncomfortable for me to use one handed, compared to my old 5s.

:)
 
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Each to their own. I had a Palm Pre that started off brightly and then went completely off the rails. Then I had an iPhone 3S and that was truly a sack of fucking shit
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The iPhone 3S never existed :p [/pedant]

edit: don't take this as being uppity by the way.... its a joke ;)
 
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The Guardian - which normally works itself into a hyperbolical froth whenever a new Apple product hoves into view - isn't so enamoured with the new iPhone 6s, and they're not so impressed with 3D Touch either:

Apple’s new pressure sensitive screen is the marquee feature for the iPhone 6S Plus. It allows more gestures based on how hard you press the screen.

Apple’s peek and pop gestures allow you to preview an email without opening it by pressing slightly harder, or enter the email fully by releasing that increased pressure and doing it again. A similar thing can be done with messages, images, links in Safari, contacts in the phone app and so on.

Most of the time it just shows you what you would see if you tapped the email, link or message normally. It’s meant to be quicker than popping in and out of messages, but the only time I found it useful was previewing days in the month view of the calendar app.

More apps will come, and 3D Touch might become a killer feature, but for now it’s a novelty that quickly gets old and has a relatively annoying learning curve as you stab the screen to see what works and how hard you have to press.
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The iPhone 6S Plus is the best phablet Apple has ever made, but only just. It is not a significant upgrade over last year’s 6 Plus, with most of its new features take it or leave it affairs.

It is also not the best phablet available, but most prospective buyers will be upgrading from an existing iPhone and so are unlikely to consider the Android competition.
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iPhone 6S Plus review: barely better than the iPhone 6 Plus
 
I can't think of an iPhone 6s feature that would make any difference to my day to day iPhone usage.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
So, first impressions of the 6s.

It's fast. Very, very fast. Everything is instant, animations are utterly fluid and web pages in safari load as fast as you can click on them.

The fingerprint reader is instant. No lag whatsoever. To the point where it is now almost impossible to access the lock screen using the home button.

Force/3D touch isn't just a gimmick. It's already useful and will only get more so as developers find new things to do with it. I expect to see versions of it on Android phones soon, it's too good not to copy.

I'd still rather it had a 4" screen. It's now ever so slightly uncomfortable for me to use one handed, compared to my old 5s.

:)
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I upgraded and this is the first phone I've had with the fingerprint scanner. You don't notice you're even triggering it. I keep using my other fingers to check it's actually working. :D

3D Touch. It will undoubtably get more useful. I'm using it with Voiceover, - it's a little tricky with that but I like the web preview thing if you press on a link.

Just started trying Purify ad blocker now.

So for me, I wouldn't have gone from a 6 to a 6s but over my previous Iphone 5, I'm getting a lot of new features and the obvious performance upgrade.
 
Work bought me a 6 Plus earlier this year. I'd been Android since the 3GS. I hated it at first, but now I wouldn't go back to Android.

Anyway, as you were.
 
I'm definitely going to be upgrading from my iPhone 4 in the next couple of months. My home button hasn't worked properly for a long time (a common problem with this model, I think) - I have to stab at it over and over to get it to register, which is particularly annoying when you're trying to get it to register two presses in quick succession so you can close open apps.

I'm not sure whether to get a cheaper 6 or a 6s. I'll leave it a bit and see how the 6s beds in with everyone else first.
 
I cannot overstate how shit this phone is.

I was supposed to "upgrade" from a Samsung S3 for fucks sake to this piece of shit...
 
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