What do ya'll think it would take for Apple to grab back the crown?
Which crown? Profit per device sold?
What do ya'll think it would take for Apple to grab back the crown?
Critics = those critiquing Apple's current path and say they need to "innovate or die".
Uhh....my signature would indicate a negatory ghost rider....
Geez, I'm getting killed for being curious....this all stemmed from me asking myself, what resolution could Apple go to in the next iPhone that would keep devs relatively happy and still improve overall quality (i.e. 1080p+ and such).
That just got me to thinking about other ways the iPhone COULD potentially evolve....
I suppose I'll keep these thoughts and wonderings to myself from now on.
The biggest thing I don't like about the iPhone is iOS. Its too long in the tooth. Apple needs to innovate for me to come back. I love the hardware and the quality of it but the OS is boring to me. I'd like a larger screen too but iOS is the big kicker IMO.
I usually miss sigs. So, I'm surprised you jumped from a 4S to 5. I wasn't even willing to come from a 4 to a 5, which is why I left the iPhone world and went to a Galaxy Note. I simply couldn't put up with pinching and zooming all the time, when I mainly surf and read books. I might one day go back to the iPhone, but they're going to have to increase the screen size (and I know many people are happy with the screen size as is...I'm not).
He didn't say it was.
What is "innovative" about beefier specs and a bigger display?? People need to stop using that word! To innovate is to do something completely different and new - revolutionary in some way. Nothing innovative will be coming to cellphones in the near future. iPhone WAS the innovation. Now come the incremental improvements and iterations.
Name one "innovation" in cellphones since the introduction of the iphone. Everything you've seen from both Apple and Google in the years since has been improvements and tweaks and enhancements. There's been no "innovation" from either side since 2007 and I'm sure there won't be for some time.
Name one "innovation" in cellphones since the introduction of the iphone. Everything you've seen from both Apple and Google in the years since has been improvements and tweaks and enhancements. There's been no "innovation" from either side since 2007 and I'm sure there won't be for some time.
Given Apple's unparalleled expertise dealing with battery life and hardware/software efficiency, I give them the benefit of the doubt and say they figure out how to give us "the same amazing 10 hours"
On the other hand - go post that doom and gloom nonsense somewhere else....we don't want to read it. The $130 BILLION in the bank begs to differ....
You are the ONLY one using the word "innovation" here....
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That being said I have no problem seeing most things on my phone without zooming and pinching a ton.
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Nope. None of those specs are "innovative" enough.
Where are the GeeBees??? Where is the Flux Capacitor!?!?!
My prediction is that unless Apple changes radically the iPhone will:
Continue to make tons of money.
Dominate any single Android phone in terms of 1:1 sales.
Still cause lines around the building come launch day.
The HORROR!!! The fact remains, Apple has absolutely NO reason to make any radical changes to iOS or the iPhone itself. Why break something that is perrenially the phone everyone wants (even if the fanboy "critics" whine until the cows come home...)???
When (and only when) sales start slipping to the point they NEED to re-evaluate, they won't. Nor do they need to, nor should they...
Fixing it for the sake of fixing it is the dumbest thing I can think of. No matter what you do the "critics" will NEVER be satisfied, and you run the risk of ruining 5 years of goodwill with the MAJORITY of the base.
Stop looking at it like a fanboy and start looking at it like a business.
Uh. Not only do you use the word in your original post, but almost every reply also mentions the need to "innovate" - as if any of Apple's competitors have "innovated" in the last 5 years.
Nope. None of those specs are "innovative" enough.
Where are the GeeBees??? Where is the Flux Capacitor!?!?!
My prediction is that unless Apple changes radically the iPhone will:
Continue to make tons of money.
Dominate any single Android phone in terms of 1:1 sales.
Still cause lines around the building come launch day.
The HORROR!!! The fact remains, Apple has absolutely NO reason to make any radical changes to iOS or the iPhone itself. Why break something that is perrenially the phone everyone wants (even if the fanboy "critics" whine until the cows come home...)???
When (and only when) sales start slipping to the point they NEED to re-evaluate, will they... until then, they won't. Nor do they need to, nor should they...
Fixing it for the sake of fixing it is the dumbest thing I can think of. No matter what you do the "critics" will NEVER be satisfied, and you run the risk of ruining 5 years of goodwill with the MAJORITY of the base.
Stop looking at it like a fanboy and start looking at it like a business.
I'm probably older than you.
What is "innovative" about beefier specs and a bigger display?? People need to stop using that word! To innovate is to do something completely different and new - revolutionary in some way. Nothing innovative will be coming to cellphones in the near future. iPhone WAS the innovation. Now come the incremental improvements and iterations.
A bigger screen isn't innovative.
They haven't with the iPhone 5, it barely gets 7.
The hardware is, broadly speaking, okay (horrid new screen that's too big and no battery not-withstanding). The problem is with iOS, which due to lack of development and actively consumer hostile processes, has become a very bad OS.
I never said the things I listed were innovative. Though there is the perception that Apple will collapse unless they innovate.
Great advice.
Sincerely,
Blackberry
Critics = those critiquing Apple's current path and say they need to "innovate or die". Could also include those who aren't satisfied with the current offering (iP5) and feel they need to put out something fantastic.