Will Apple's latest iPhones have takers? The jury is out

In 2010, Steve Jobs said of larger phones, “No one is going to buy them.” On September 9, Jobs’ successor, Tim Cook, officially announced the arrival to iPhone of what its far-sighted rivals have always had — big screens.

Here’s a round-up of what some of those who saw the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus at the launch in the US are saying 

“... the reasons to upgrade to either new iPhone over last year’s iPhone 5S are harder to find if you aren’t pulled in by the swelling size.” — Cnet “... [iPhone] is finally following, at least partly, the path laid out by the competition rather than steadfastly refusing to acknowledge that consumers are looking for something else... in the pantheon of Apple handsets the iPhone 6 will go down as a pivotal moment.” — Techradar 

“Apple has done everything engineeringly possible to minimize the downsides of having a big phone... Apple says the iPhone 6 is now the first phone in the world to have phase detection. Apple is wrong.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was the first with phase detection.” — David Pogue on Yahoo

“Apple is a company renowned for making products that are not only functional, but also beautiful. Given Apple’s design heritage ...I have to wonder how this carbuncle [the protruding camera] came to adorn the iPhone 6.

This is ugly. Really ugly.” — Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on Zdnet “... the new video features that come along with [iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus] mean... like other developments in filmmaking technology, [it could] give rise to a whole new style of moviemaking.” — Wired.