Ben Thompson 是一位我很喜欢的独立产业分析师，这是他在 iPhone 7 发表后的分析文，
我相当喜欢也认同文章的观点：
Apple’s willingness and patience to lay the groundwork for new
features over multiple generations remains one of its most
impressive qualities. Apple Pay, for example, didn’t come until
the iPhone 6, but the groundwork had already been laid by the
introduction of Touch ID and the secure element in the iPhone 5S.
Similarly, while Apple introduced Bluetooth beacons in 2013 and
the Apple Watch in 2014, the company had actually been shipping
the necessary hardware since 2011’s iPhone 4S. I wouldn’t be
surprised if we look back at the iPhone 7 Plus’ dual cameras with
similar appreciation.
苹果为了新功能的布局可以延伸至数个世代以前，这样的意志与耐心已经是
他们最令人印象深刻的特质之一。举例来说，Apple Pay，直到 iPhone 6 才
出现，但是 Touch ID 跟安全芯片早就在 iPhone 5S 打下基础。类似的场景
，苹果在 2013 年推出的 bluetooth beacons 与 2014 年的 Apple Watch
所需要的硬件，早就已经随着 2011 年的 iPhone 4S 在市场上流通了。届时
如果我们回头看 iPhone 7 Plus 的双镜头也是走类似的套路我一点也不会意
外。
Start with the space: getting rid of the headphone jack fits with
the multi-year feature creation I detailed above; current rumors
are that next year’s 10th-anniversary iPhone will be nothing but
a screen. Making such a phone, though, means two fundamental
changes to the iPhone: first, the home button needs, well, a new
home; last year’s introduction of 3D Touch and the iPhone 7’s
force touch home button lay the groundwork for that. That
headphone jack, though, is just as much of an impediment: try to
find one phone or music player of modern thinness that has the
headphone jack under the screen (the best example of the space
issues I’m referring to: the 6th generation iPod nano).
从空间开始：移除耳机孔确实符合我前段所说花费数年堆叠功能的模式。谣
传下一个十周年 iPhone 将会只剩下一片大萤幕，而要制造这样的装置需要
两个基础改变：第一，Home 键，诶，他需要一个新家。去年推出的 3D
Touch 跟 iPhone 7 的 force touch Home 键就是为此打下基础。至于耳机
孔嘛，差不多就是一个阻碍：可以试着找看看，有哪一只手机或音乐播放器
，有现代的薄度同时还有耳机孔放在萤幕下的（这样的空间议题的最佳范例
是我曾经提过的：六代 iPod nano）
另外还有其他关于发表会的看法，有兴趣的话全文在这：http://bit.ly/2cnzV8n
关于 Ben Thompson，现在专职经营自己的科技相关产业分析文部落格 Stratechery，每
周有一篇免费的分析文（像是这篇）跟每天一篇需要订阅才看得到的文章，有点像是每天
科技圈新闻消化与分析，有兴趣的也可以多关注他或订阅。