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Re:Apple Special Event [video] by scarface74 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:10PM (#17972705)
Apple wouldn't leave money on the table in an effort to save face. It came out in the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits that they were caught flat footed.

From a technical standpoint, they could have released larger phones before they did. What stopped them is that UIKit and iOS apps were not designed to handle multiple screen sizes or any screen except for the 4 inch iPhone and the 9.7" iPad until iOS 7 and support improved in IOS 8.

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Re:Apple Special Event [video] by jodrellblank on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:20PM (#17974435)
From a technical standpoint they could, but they didn't because their technology wasn't ready?

So .. they couldn't?

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Re:Apple Special Event [video] by scarface74 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:34PM (#17974538)
Hardware - they could release bigger phones.

Software - they didn’t have the framework to allow for it.

It would have been like all of the Android phones that copied the notch before the OS was ready.

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