I love the refinement that goes into apple products and especially the screens are just to die for. Declaring doom and gloom for apple after ever release has become a global hobby. I can tell you for free that the iPhone 5 will be the best selling phone ever. Not that the specs are anything to call home about but something has to be said about reliability and consistency. The rigid apple ecosystem ensures radical apps do not take over your phone/gadget. Anyhow unto each his own. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Steve Richard <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
@Phillip you are spot on.. whats new to the public that I would rather have had Apple include in the iPhone 5. Well, that's the whole point. Doesn't Apple have the history of being innovative and others playing catch up?
Its been a while since Apple introduced something new. Clearly they have run out of ideas.
Then as you say, iPhone is bigger than Microsoft and Google. Again this is not new. Windows was once in that place, but we all know how crappy Windows has been in the past and that didn't stop Microsoft from becoming a behemoth.
All that I am saying is the keynotes have become underwhelming and Apple needs to find its creative spark once again.
iPhone5 brings nothing new to the ecosystem
you can still buy movies and music from iTunes straight to Windows devices and so that $24 billion in sales is not fully credited to Apple devices alone
Steve
So what's new to the public and you would rather have had Apple include in the iPhone 5?
If you may have notice, Apple rarely jumps to include new tech in any new device. If you remember, when they first iPhone was introduced in 2007, it was just when 3G was being included in some high end phones. The Apple felt it wasn't mature and polished enough to be include in the iPhone, so the first iPhone did not have 3G. Last year, LTE wasn't developed and power efficient to be include in the iPhone 4S even when Samsung was running to the market with all sort of crude LTE implementation in their devices. That did not make either the first iPhone or the iPhone 4S a failure. In fact they went on to be become some of the most profitable and fast selling products in the phone industry.
I know some thing the iPhone 5 should have had NFC. But this is just a fad and only time will tell if anything will come out of NFS in the long run.
But in the end it is customers who vote with their pockets, whether you feel underwhelmed or note.
Just note that the iPhone business is bigger that the total sum of both Google and Microsoft and I think these facts speak for themselves. Could Apple be so wrong then? _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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