APPLE just unveiled its iPhone 7 but it seems most people are not that interested anymore.
After awhile, new features cease to amaze. This is not so strange. It happened to personal computers, notebooks, operating systems, cameras, and now, it is hitting Apple. I guess you have to make sure that new features are backward compatible. There is only so much you can change so that it is familiar to those who have used it, but enough new features so that it will be worth a buy.
That gets more difficult as time goes on. When the computers had one megabyte of memory, it made a big difference when you were now able to do two or four megabytes. But when you already have four gigabytes, announcing six or eight gigabytes just doesn’t make that much of a difference.
When the cameras could take two megapixels, it was a big deal when it doubled, or when the phone had only four gigabytes, it was a big deal when you could make it eight. But now, if you have a phone with 64 gigabytes of memory, 12 megapixels on the camera and a quad core processor with very high resolution screen, there doesn’t seem to be much of a compelling reason to spend another few hundred dollars to upgrade.
Many people were interested to upgrade to Windows 7 because Windows Vista was terrible. But when Windows 7 was good, they didn’t want to upgrade to Windows 8 or 10.
When the survey before Apple iPhone 7 was released, most people were just interested to see the design or the colors available. Over half said that they have no plans to buy a new one.
There are some new features you might want to know. The high-end iPhone 7 is water resistant, following the footsteps of Samsung. The high-end phone also has two camera lenses, (instead of one that just zooms in and out, you have two lenses--one wide angle and one telephoto) which allow better control and more options. But pretty much, other than the basic unit going up from 16 gigabytes to 32 gigabytes of memory, even the size of the phone (though thinner, and a slightly longer lasting battery) was almost the same.
On another note, you might be interested to see this site: http://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-programming-olympics. It conducted a survey to find out which countries have the best programmers.
The results are not what you think. In this analysis, it thinks the best programmers are from China, Russia and Poland. Japan ranked 7th, the United States ranked 28th and India 31st. The Philippines was in the 46th spot.
(wilson@ngkhai.com)
