蘋果新品iPhone 6和iPad Max關鍵字:更大
China Mobile, supply chain rumors are emerging about Apple’s next significant product releases. Digitimes reports that according to “sources from the upstream supply chain, ” Apple is planning to release a 5-inch iPhone 6 “phablet” this coming May and a large tablet in October.
蘋果公司和中國移動之間的協議塵埃落定之後，有關蘋果下一款重大產品發佈的供應鏈傳言又開始浮現。Digitimes報道稱，據“上游供應鏈的消息”，蘋果公司正醞釀在明年5月發佈一款5英寸屏幕的iPhone 6“平板手機”，在明年10月發佈一款大尺寸平板電腦。The immediacy for a larger-screen iPhone comes partially from the Asian market where Samsung’s phablets have made significant inroads. Assuming that Apple’s agreement with China Mobile includes these upcoming products, the pricing adjustments that normally occur with new iPhones could make the iPhone 5C significantly more affordable and attractive to the Chinese market. This would begin to make sense of the 5C, which so far seems to be a sales disappointment for Apple. Perhaps the important thing about the 5C is that it is not the 5S, so that down the road it can be discounted without putting price pressure on Apple’s flagship.
iPhone推出一款更大屏幕iPhone手機的迫切性部分來自於亞洲市場——三星平板手機聲勢浩大地佔領了這個市場。假設蘋果和中國移動簽訂的協議包括上述即將推出的新品，那麼新款iPhone推出時通常會出現的價格調整將使iPhone 5C對中國市場而言更爲便宜且更具吸引力。而這對5C來說也是正確的方向——目前爲止，蘋果公司對該款產品的銷售額頗爲失望。或許關於5C重要的一點是，它不是5S，所以將來它可以在不對蘋果旗艦產品價格造成壓力的情況下進行打折。Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).” Previous reports have pegged the screen size at just under the 5 inches of Samsung’s Galaxy 4.
據Digitimes的消息，更大尺寸的iPhone 6將採用“臺積電（TSMC）生產的20納米處理器”。此前曾有報道稱，新款iPhone的屏幕尺寸將和三星Galaxy 4的屏幕一般大小（不到5英寸）。
Quanta Computer, ” in October. Samsung is also reported to be working on a 12 to 13-inch tablet, and it seems evident that “these large-size tablets will greatly impact ultrabook demand.” This “iPad Max” will be a defacto laptop with the addition of new cases with integrated keyboards and batteries and could well become a mainstay for high schools and college students who need better content creation tools than thos offers on existing iPads and iPad Minis.
上述消息源還稱，蘋果將在明年10月發佈一款12.9英寸的平板電腦，“目標消費羣是北美的教育市場（和）……生產商是廣達電腦（Quanta Computer）”。有報道稱，三星也在研發尺寸在12至13英寸之間的平板電腦，而現在看來，“這些大尺寸平板電腦將極大地影響超極本需求”幾乎是板上釘釘的事了。新款“iPad Max”，搭載整合了鍵盤和電池的新款外殼之後，實際上就是一臺筆記本電腦，很有可能在高中生和大學生之中成爲主流產品——這一人羣需要比現有iPad和iPad Mini產品更好的內容創造工具。These larger screen sizes will put additional strain on iOS 7 and developers who will need to figure out how to adapt their apps to even more configurations. These additional formats will provide some exciting opportunities for applications as well, and we can anticipate that iOS 8 will contain many features designed to accommodate multi-screen design.
不過，更大的尺寸將會對iOS 7和開發人員施加額外壓力——後者必須找出方法，使自己的應用程序適用於更多配置規格。而另一方面，這些額外的規格也將爲應用程序提供一些更爲激動人心的機遇，我們應該能看到iOS 8將包含諸多可適應多屏幕規格的功能。
