I'm getting older and find I often need to take off my glasses (I'm short-sighted) to read my iPhone 5's screen. I would cheerfully pay $100 extra for an iPhone with a bigger screen.
My guess is Apple plans to deliver larger-screened iPhones, but they want to do it the right way, i.e. without causing fragmentation. My guess is simply scaling up the UI display without increasing resolution violates their sensibilities (not "retina" any more) so it's a question of getting ducks in a row (true scalable UI elements). Note that the iOS7 switch away from skeumorphism and bitmapped UI components does a lot to pave the path.
The idea that a small phone is just better for everyone is -- I think -- silly. Apple just won't release a half-assed product.
Especially with all the websites locking zoom! Please quit doing that.
Apple should give Mobile Safari an advanced option to always let people zoom. This way, everyone who locks zoom on websites for the sake of clueless clumsy users are still getting what they want, and people who really need zooming for legibility can get what they want too.
You know what I'd buy in a heartbeat... an app that coordinates with other users of the same app to launch a DDoS attack against websites that disable pinch-to-zoom, or that railroad you over to a stupid mobile site.
I'd really rather just zoom. There's no real mode switch for me any more. To me, zoom is just a UI option that's a part of the mobile browser experience. Also, sometimes reader mode doesn't work, since it depends on one of a few technical tricks. Zooming is just basic geometry. If Apple wanted to, it could always be active, and it would always work.
My guess is Apple plans to deliver larger-screened iPhones, but they want to do it the right way, i.e. without causing fragmentation. My guess is simply scaling up the UI display without increasing resolution violates their sensibilities (not "retina" any more) so it's a question of getting ducks in a row (true scalable UI elements). Note that the iOS7 switch away from skeumorphism and bitmapped UI components does a lot to pave the path.
The idea that a small phone is just better for everyone is -- I think -- silly. Apple just won't release a half-assed product.