- Before we get started,
a little disclaimer for fanboys, fangirls,
and Apple sheep out there.
Okay, are we good now?
Do I have your permission to criticize Apple?
Hey, everybody.
This is Roberto Blake and today,
I'm gonna be geeking out with you.
We need to talk a little bit about the iPhone X
and why you might want to reconsider buying one.
Currently, my daily driver is the iPhone 8 Plus,
which came recently.
I have a review of both this and the iPhone 8
coming out for you because I kind of like
actually using a phone for more than one day
before I put out a review on it on YouTube.
With that in mind, I want to talk about the iPhone X
because there are a few things you know
before you consider buying one.
I know everybody's super excited about this phone and
I know Apple loves to create hype about how revolutionary
these products are but the iPhone X, the iPhone 10,
is not what you think it is in a lot of different ways.
For one thing, it has some hidden costs that
you may not have considered.
If you crack or damage your iPhone 10
instead of your iPhone 8 or 8 Plus,
you're gonna end up paying $279 just to repair the screen
instead of either the $129 or $169 you would pay
with the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 8 Plus.
That's kind of a big deal
and I think it justifies paying for AppleCare,
so that's a built-in cost into what is a $1000 phone
at the base model to get started for 64 gigs.
Kind of pricey there, Apple.
It kind of makes the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus
a more practical option overall
if you want to stay in the Apple ecosystem.
If you're just looking to upgrade
your smartphone for 2017-2018,
then you might even want to consider the Google Pixel
or the Google Pixel XL 2 if you're not
tied to the Apple ecosystem.
Maybe even look at the Samsung Galaxy S8
or the Samsung 8 Note.
Those are amazing phones and
spec for spec, product for product,
they outperform their Apple counterparts.
The advantage is just the operating system experience,
the overall aesthetic and design and
maybe you are in the Apple ecosystem but, if you're not
and you just need a phone for having a smartphone,
go check out the Samsung or the Google products.
Additionally, for the price,
compared to either the iPhone 8 or the 8 Plus,
essentially, here's what you're paying for
for the $1000 base model.
You're paying for Face ID versus Touch ID,
which is a new technology and
it's Apple's first iteration of it.
I do not think that, historically,
Apple has had a good track record of
getting it right the first time,
so you're essentially paying for a beta product.
With the facial recognition stuff and what it can do,
you're getting Animojis but, other than that,
you're not paying for anything revolutionary
besides a full-screen display that you could have gotten
on any other competing product and
it's not even a full bezel-less screen because NotchGate.
The notch design.
That's a thing, a thing that, in my opinion,
Steve Jobs would have never signed off on.
But, we can't ask him.
Miss you, Steve.
Speaking of Steves, even Steve Wozniak himself,
one of the original Apple guys,
he actually said that this will be the first
iPhone iteration that he's going to skip.
That is very telling to me and this is a guy who buys
smartphones from every manufacturer that he thinks
is worthwhile and he doesn't think that the iPhone 10,
aka the iPhone X, is actually worth it
and you can skip this one and get it next year.
I think that that is a real strong indicator of the fact
that this phone doesn't offer anything that truly special.
The 8 and the 8 Plus, to me,
are practical because they offer
the new features and new technology
including the True Tone displays and the A11 chip.
The A11 chip is also in the iPhone 10,
so it's the same guts, it's the same processing power,
so ultimately, what you're paying for is
a slightly better display,
a slightly better front and back camera and the name
and, of course, the notch.
Those are things you're paying for with the iPhone 10,
iPhone X, whatever you want to call it.
I think iPhone X is kind of sticking and
I know that Apple's kind of salty about it.
But yeah, guys, I buy Apple products.
I give them criticism because,
if you're going to spend that kind of money,
I think it should be worth it.
I think that, in many ways, the iPad Pro
and the Apple Pencil are kind of a joke
within the product line right now and one of the things
that upsets me is I see no reason why the Apple Pencil
couldn't have been revolutionary and
why the Apple Pencil couldn't have worked,
because I actually talked to somebody about this,
and based on the design and based on the A11 chip,
they could have made the Apple Pencil work
on any of these new phones and they didn't.
That just doesn't make any sense to me.
They haven't done it for the iPad Mini and
they haven't improved that product line at all lately.
So, when Apple rolls out a new product and
they talk about innovation,
I really always have to take it with a grain of salt because
again, the iPhone 10 is not doing anything
really that special that the 8 and the 8 Plus
don't already do and don't already provide you.
You're paying extra money to be fancy and buy into
a beta product that isn't really ready yet
and is technology that Apple hasn't proven
that it can get right yet.
So, I think the next generation of the iPhone 10,
the second gen model, will actually probably be
an innovative product that has better features,
newer features as perfected the ones that
they want introduced and the thing is, design-wise,
it might actually have some improvements as well.
But, those are my thoughts on why I just don't think
that it's time to go in on the iPhone 10 yet,
not to mention that I think it might be worth
holding out until some people review it because
they're already having supply-chain issues.
They already are having issues with not being able to meet
the demand of the pre-orders that they're getting.
But anyway, how do you guys feel about
the new Apple lineup of phones?
Do you agree with me that most of what we need is in
the iPhone 8 and in the iPhone 8 Plus already?
Do you agree that there are competing products
that feature for feature, outperform it?
Or do you feel like the iPhone 10 is the bee's knees
and that everyone should just go out and buy one,
suck it up and fork over the cash to Apple?
Let me know in the Comments section.
I'm pretty sure you were gonna do it anyway.
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I'm going to be doing an honest review on what
my experience has been like after having used these,
pretty much day in and day out for a while.
I'm going to explain why I still bothered to get an 8
instead of just the 8 Plus and why this form factor
became my daily driver instead.
As always, you guys, thanks so much for watching
and geeking out with me talking about the new iPhone 10
and why we might need to wait on it.
Take care.
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