It’s a minor product release. It’s not even targeted to you. It’s targeted to first time buyers and less saturated markets. 16GB sounds awful to the power users of America, but to kid in the Cuba or Myanmar (or a US red state), this is an epic first step that his parents can afford.

This article is so patently untrue (and even, astonishingly, admits that and contradicts its own premise right in the middle of the article) that it should make anyone with any amount of sense tend to believe that Gizmodo is an unreliable source of tech news.

Counterpoint: This is the biggest in-line upgrade any iPhone has ever received.

It’s useless and inaccurate articles like these that make me glad Gawker has been sued into oblivion. Death can’t come soon enough.

Articles like this are why so many of the respected tech journalist snicker at Gizmodo.

And yet it will sell great. I know a lot of people that prefer a smaller phone. Not everyone wants a giant phablet in their pocket. They do however want a phone with decent performance. The 5S while still a good phone is beginning to feel sluggish. Most people that are buying entry level phones don’t care about all…

You know, there was once a time when the Apple haters birches about Apple only caring about looks and not giving internals a proper update.

Another anti-Apple author with a chip on their shoulder swipes at Apple hitting only empty air... it’s a screwed move indeed.. a smart one. Folks looking for a smaller phone were forced to use an ancient (by industry standards) phone model.. now we have something that is just as powerful. Sure.. a new industrial…

It’s a shame how many people don’t understand that significant upgrades to computing devices have nothing to do with the outer casing. It’s embarrassing that a tech site is propagating this ignorance, but I guess the Gizmodo writers are under duress due to [something about Hulk Hogan].

People who think pretty aesthetics are more important than upgraded computing internals don’t deserve to own smartphones. Just give them a pretty box with a TI-83 inside.

This entire article is bullshit. They took their newest phone guts and put it in an older form factor that some people wanted. It is exponentially more powerful than the 5s. Having a similar casing does not make it the same phone. Two existing products merging creates something new. If you wanted a 6s that was 4in it…

Yeah, I’m not an Apple fan and have never own an Apple product ever but this article is really reaching. People like the writer here, is probably why some companies probably feel the need to change their look with every update for no damn reason.

Kate Knibbs releases a “new” article about iPhones today, and it killed all the previous articles. this was a shrewd blogging strategy and a dirty trick. The article is not new. It’s the same article.

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Nonsense. The A9 is not a ‘moderate upgrade’ from the 5S. It is a very large upgrade in terms of speed, graphics, and raw processing power. The camera (front and back) is a big upgrade too. The aesthetic is similar, but that does not make it a 5S. Should they have called it a 5SE?Is that what you are saying? It’s…

Sigh. So if someone offered you an iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, or and iPhone SE, you’d just say “Who cares, they’re all the same exact thing because it’s the same chassis, so just give me one at random!” I sort of doubt it.

This is a stupid stupid point. I love shitting on apple more then anyone but you rcomplaint is that they didn’t change the looks? That is so asinine. The hugely boosted the hardware that’s a massive change, and it’s the only change the phone needed, (if your into that). It’s a new phone, don’t be an asshole.

C’mon. That’s like saying the iPhone 6S is actually the iPhone 6, as it has the same look and OS, with only the guts updated. And the update here is much bigger — it’s a two generation leap (S to S, not “base” to S). So this doesn’t seem like a fair assessment at all.

2 things: Why is a phone with flagship specs being called the old phone? And why so mad. Also, I recall an article a while back asking while 4-inch phones couldn’t have great specs (or something to that effect). We get what we ask for, and we’re mad because it’s not in a new body? If it’s any consolation, although I…

Calling this a “new” phone is like McDonalds putting slightly nicer tomatoes and lettuce on a Big Mac and insisting that it had developed a new genre of burger.