Maybe they will have better success with $10,000 iphones.
The problem is, there is only so much you can do to differentiate $10,000 iphone and $1,000 iphone from feature perspective, other than capacity, materials, and service.
IF you're driving $120,000 Mercedes, people know you drive a $120,000 Mercedes. It's not 3 times better than $40,000 Mercedes, but it is substantially better AND different in all aspects.
If Apple wants to charge $3,000-$5,000 for an iphone, they'll need to create a separate line, new name, new design, and new everything. And convince developers that it's worth their time developing software with functions exclusive to them.
(Thanks for the recommendation -- it's a huge improvement.)
iOS has had Swiftkey and any custom keyboard you want since iOS 8.
are we really going to have a semantical argument about how this idiom works?
I never want to plug in an iOS device. But, after you accept the iTunes thing if did plug it in as mass storage, you'll see that you can move arbitrary files to the app that can open them. Do you really want the extra storage or is there another particular use case you want that requires it as a mounted drive?
> is there another particular use case you want that requires it as a mounted drive
I don't want files to be per-application. I have various audiobook reading apps, music players, video playing apps, etc. I don't want to copy my music once per app, I want to put it on my phone and choose which app I want to play stuff with later on.
If iOS isn't really any more featureful, why is Android a clunky piece of crap compared to it?