Even as industry sources leak the news that 3 million iPhones will be ready for sale at launch, doubts are starting to surface that the iPhone will be as popular as it is widely expected to be.
Two sources, speaking to Peter Burrows at Business Week, revealed that Apple plans to have 3 million iPhones ready to sell in the US on June 29. Both Apple and US distributor AT&T have received more than 1 million iPhone-related inquiries each.
According to Burrow, analysts are predicting the Apple will sell around 3 million units this year (Apple hopes to sell 5 million) and 10 to 12 million in 2008 (Apple hopes to sell 15 million).
However, analysts, such as Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, predict that iPhone sales will really start making headway in 2009 when it's likely that Apple will have launched low-cost iPhone variants, made deals with carriers to offer high-speed Internet access, as well as moved into overseas markets. Munster predicts iPhone sales of more than 40 million in 2009.
However, even as Burrows paints an upbeat picture of iPhone prospects in his article, he also raises some doubts:
"And with its touch-screen keyboard, powerful battery-sapping processors, and a panoply of new applications, the iPhone is far more complex than the iPod. Glitches could lead to costly recalls and returns if buyers find the phone buggy or confusing."
These doubts are echoed by iPhone-skeptic John Dvorak, who believes the iPhone will be will be popular in the short-term, but then go out of fashion. He's not convinced that Apple can jump into the "deep end of the mobile-phone swimming pool without knowing how to swim".
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You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
VS
The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
the competition is doing and shows up whit. I guess a cell phone is coming with bigger HD maybe a Keyboard & Touch screen
It could be the next Newton but also has a chance of being next iPod.
It is an apple. It will be the next thing models and stars will be carrying around. It is a fashion statement. And more than 3 million will be shelling out money for it in 2007. I won't be one though. Will wait for the PSP phone. But dang - Apple knows how to make something look sexy....
to get the slim and sexy goodness that is the iphone. and I could care less about a psp phone. are you kidding me? those things arent even that popular. i want my iphone...........oh, the smell of it, the taste of it!
the rest, are happy with having their mp3 player, and cell phone, or having a perl/pocket pc.