September 22nd, 2012, 1:19 pm
QuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMintQuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxQuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMintQuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxI do have an iPhone 4s, and it is OK. There are somethings I like (some of the apps) and somethings I hate (e-mail/sms/phone/contacts integration). It does work though out of the box and seems to integrate. I do not want to spend 15 hours patching and organising a sodding phone. I just want to use it.iPhone 5 does not seem to improve on this. I thought and iPhone4S was better than an iPhone 4 (this is my first iPhone), but I have yet to see the improvement.To use CM's analogy. It is bit like the Earl of Sandwich got bread and ham, and then decided that he could charge double if the bread has seeds.Maybe seeds make it better than adding an entire suisse cheese on that sandwich which appears to be the strategy of the competition?The funny thing is that Apple is generally attacked for being all about design and optics, yet when they don't change the design they are attacked for being stale. But why would they change the design? It's not like Porsche is updating their 911 yearly, or Leica their M, or Bloomberg their terminal. At some point they found a design that works for them.I have no problem with the design not changing. Taking Arne Jacobsen - his designs are pretty timeless. What is odd is that people are rushing out to buy something that has not changed that much. That is what I don't get.I'm not sure they are actually rushing. My guess is that there is a constantly high number of people buying iPhone, but in the months before the new one they will simply wait. So basically we're seing June, July and August's customers right now.I think this is a big part of it. There's pent-up demand from people with older iPhones and there's pent-up demand from disappointed Android/Blackberry/Winphone users. What's interesting is that early-adopter demand for the 5 seems about double that of the 4S.In many ways, the iPhone 5 is a significant upgrade with 2X the CPU power, faster wireless, larger screen, better screen, better connector, and a bunch of other smaller improvements. Personally, I don't want a larger screen but the success of phablets suggests there's enough people who do like a bigger display to warrant that change.