Ars Technica:
Apple executives took the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater today to announce the company’s new iPhone lineup: the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. The company’s newest phones look a lot like last year’s iPhone X.
The iPhone XS and XS Max will arrive first, with pre-orders starting September 14 and shipments starting September 21. The XS will start at $999 for its 64GB model, and the XS Max will start at $1,099 for the same capacity. The iPhone XR will arrive later, on October 26, and will start at $749 for the 64GB model. All three phones will also come in 256GB and 512GB storage options.
The naming convention is as annoying as I thought but the price points seem pretty aggressive.
I’ve really denied myself the opportunity to get used to larger phones. Went from a 5c to an SE, and here I still am. Unless there is a new SE announced later (the original was announced in February 2016, I think), Apple will no longer sell the smaller phones. Now (or, when I finally give up my SE), I’ll have to get used to it all: larger size, dropping of Touch ID, camera bump.
And it’s not like the Xr is the same size as the X or the 6/7/8…it’s larger than those. I’m going to hate having to get used to the sleep-wake button on the side, where it’s at risk for accidental presses, and not the top where it ought to be absent reach issues.
And btw, with no Touch ID on the X and going forward, how does one do Apple Pay?
Face ID.
At https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ –> See All Models, they still list the SE and 6/6+/6S/6S+, but everything below the 7/7+ is no longer available directly through Apple (“Available at authorized resellers”)
I was seriously torn between the 5S (SE) and the 6 several years ago. I love the former’s shape and size, but the 6’s better readability won out.
If I’m at a pay terminal, and I tap my phone and Apple Pay registers, then it defaults to Card X. But what if I want to pay with Card Y? In order to do so I’ve got to look at the phone to choose a different card. How do I prevent the transaction from going through on Card X when I do so?
LIke you said, you look at the phone and choose a different card.
What I mean is, if Face ID is the mechanism for saying, “OK, go ahead and accept the charge,” won’t it just charge the default card the moment I look at it, not giving me the chance to change cards?
I don’t mean to suggest that this is a hole in the implementation…I’m sure there is a way to do it, and I just don’t understand. Is approving the charge now a two-step process?
If you have multiple cards in your Wallet, it allows you to choose the one you want to use.
I understand and expect that. I’m doing a poor job explaining myself, though, or explaining what it is I’m asking.
On my SE:
(1) I hold my phone near the terminal, no button presses. This activates Apple Pay.
(2) I can then choose the card I want. This doesn’t require hitting the home button, it requires nothing that might be mistaken for a Touch ID authentication.
(3) Having selected the card, I then use Touch ID to approve the transaction.
What I’m asking is, on a Face ID phone, if the process is similar, then doing (2) might set off a payment authorization before I’ve selected the card, because I need to look at the screen to choose the card. The actions for (2) requires something that is sure to be interpreted as (3).
As you’ve said, though, and as I expected, You CAN choose a card before authorizing. Of course you can. I just don’t see how that could be, IF the process is similar to the Touch ID process. So that must mean that there is some other step process in Apple Pay on a Face ID phone to account for this, and I’m just trying to learn what that is.