The non-metal rear back plate, and the absence of a headphone jack are really stiff turn-offs considering the price. Also, it’s kinda big and heavy in terms of the physical dimensions of the form factor, and besides, I’m just not that into photography.
Also, the whole thing with the batteries, and not so much the surreptitious performance throttling, but more the eternally non-swappable battery locked behind delicate ribbon leads inside the pentalobe-secured chasis.
So, sorted in preferential order (most desirable first), for an extra special X model, I’d have enjoyed seeing:
- the all metal, black gloss finish introduced with the iPhone 7 (yes i’ll be clapping inside some stupid mil-spec plastic envelope because it’s $1,000 but metal doesn’t shatter into a gritty spider web on a bad drop)
- normal wired headphones
- USB-C replacing the lightning port, because one less dongle for my macbook pro
- sane, toolless battery options, ...maybe a universal apple battery format? (yeah right)
- maybe smaller and pocket friendly? i dunno... maybe the bigger screen is nice to have...
- and whatever other extra crap they bundled in lately
Also, a watch without the weird red dot on the dial? Christ, almighty. Why the red dot? Why?
Also, the whole thing with the batteries, and not so much the surreptitious performance throttling, but more the eternally non-swappable battery locked behind delicate ribbon leads inside the pentalobe-secured chasis.
So, sorted in preferential order (most desirable first), for an extra special X model, I’d have enjoyed seeing:
Also, a watch without the weird red dot on the dial? Christ, almighty. Why the red dot? Why?