Yea, CM ICS here. Maybe it just likes my finger better?
Idk, my point being in all this. They both scan a finger. Big ****ing deal. Although this isn't a 5s thread, the A7 is much more interesting to talk about. It actually achieves awesomeness. Almost literally double the performance on all benchmarks.
I wonder how the 5S stacks up to the Note 3... Although at 5.7" the Note 3 seems more like a tablet than a phone to me.
It will be interesting to see if Apple keep the trend of a 'C' phone each year. Maybe we will see an iPhone 6C with the same specs as the iPhone 5S?
I doubt you will see a C model again. It sold less than Apples expectations. Orders were cut just weeks from release, orders for the 5S however were increased.
I think it is more to do with the fact that the 5C is priced too close to the 5S while clearly being the cheaper, inferior product. It's still a £449 phone, and yet you get last years specs. It may have done better for something like £399, or even £349.
In the case of the 5C, I think the rumor machine is what killed it. Rumors flew for months about a "cheap" or "watered down" iPhone that would be more anti-iPhone than anything else but what we got was an iPhone 5 with colored plastic. People were ready to buy a brand new low-cost product, but that wasn't what Apple delivered.
The 5C was never meant to be a sales leader or innovator, it was just made to fill the gap between 5S and 4S at the retail level. (Which it did beautifully, I might add)
Kind of disappointing on Apple's part, although I can see that if I was in my early 20s and I was due for an upgrade, the $99 5C would be appealing, so it does make a little bit of sense.
(But in reality, I'm a tech-snob in my late 20's so of course I pre-ordered the 5S don't be stupid.)