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Comment by numlock86 | Hacker News Reader

They talk about 5G like it's a new and revolutionary thing. Is this US or iPhone specific? I am on 5G for almost a year now.

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There's a difference between 5G and Ultrawide 5G. Some carriers in the US, for example, just rebranded their 4G LTE networks as 5G because the top of their speed range is above the minimum required speed for actual 5G.

They are playing up 5G to get people to buy a 5G phone, it isn't an attempt to get people to think Apple just invented 5G; its called marketing.

Their marketing works...Apple markets their fancy screens and people think they're better. But Samsung makes their screens and Samsung keeps the best screens for their own phones.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/26/samsung-iphone-12-displ...

LG also makes their screens. Apple almost never goes with just one supplier unless they don't have a choice.

Prior to LG, Samsung was their only supplier of OLED screens. Even with LG onboard, LG is supplying only 20% for the upcoming iPhone 12. My point is, Apple always slaps a fancy marketing name to their screens (Retina...) but in reality the the quality is worse than Samsung phones. But Apple buyers ask if Samsung Phones have a Retina display...and when the answer is no, they feel they're getting an inferior phone.

They even call shipping their phone without a charger revolutionary. It's Apple.

I laughed out loud at that. Explaining the deletion of the charger, which is effectively a price raise, through the environmental angle is genius-level marketing and margin improvement.

To be clear: I support the move and think Apple's environmental efforts are both sincere and meaningfully helpful. It's just the best, "aren't you happy we're raising prices!" I've ever seen :)

To be fair, the chargers are inferior compared to brands like Anker. GAN chargers are so much smaller. Apple took the easy way out instead of coming up with a decent charger.

At least they didn't tell us how courageous it was

It means US is one year behind in 5G adoption, as carrier tech needs Apple devices to be widely adopted in US.

It is revolutionary when Apple does it.

It becomes widely adopted in the US when Apple does it.

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