A new manufacturing process is meaningful? To whom? Us geeks, that's about it. My wife could give a rats ass about the process. She wants it to do stuff.
A new shell and the fact they made their own chip is not revolutionary. The shell doesn't even factor into user experience much. If it does, then you are looking for a status symbol. Most put a case on it anyway. So your sweet aluminum housing is plastic now.
Who cares that Apple made their own chip? Us geeks. How does that change how the end user uses the device? It doesn't. I would bet if you took a poll of iPhone users, the vast majority wouldn't have a clue about the chip or who makes the display. The process and the chip were not done for the end users. They were done to benefit Apple.
I am not looking for any different shape. Why would you be stuck on the shape? Who would want a triangle or a cube? That's just silly
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Yes I did. And I stand by that. I like the larger screen. What I am finding is that I am also liking android more and more each month that goes by. I miss a few things that the iPhone does within the Apple world, but I also hear "How can I do that with my phone?" from my wife quite often and my response to her most times is..."You can't." Makes her not happy.
Revolutionary from the end user standpoint is making a device do something that the user had no idea was even possible. Not making changes to the way you make something so your profit margins can get even higher.
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Actually no. New screen size......to apple. Not the world.
So your saying Apple *should* build a new iPhone that has a larger screen and that will satisfy the *revolutionary* aspects of it? Or you mean the software? Or Both? Even Same-sung admitted that *changing* the form factor on every incarnation would eventually end as no one and their mother will ever make a dime *re-imagining* the form factor... God Apple has been so stupid to the point of still raking in the biggest profits yet underselling Same-sung at the same time. Idiots!
My thoughts (god forgive me) are lining up with Same-sung. Software is where it's at. The profit is so there. But be prepared to start paying for software to run on your phones in the not too distant future...Think I'm wrong? The app paradigm is shifting to "freeware" models and OS's wont be far behind. Site FCPX and it's a la carte of Motion, Compressor etc. Adobe now "renting" it's suites to you monthly...Microsoft office wont even let you *own* a copy....
If, if Apple does a bigger form factor for a phone, it will be sheerly a competitive move and my bet not "revolutionary". But, me, Im fine with that. I understand their game plan. Admit that everyone and their mother *thought* the iPad mini would fail, yet it appears Apple was spot on it's move, a move they *calculated* before the market itself, including most of us here knew we wanted -- clearly another WIN for Apple but way underplayed on Wall Street. Yeah, Cook and company knew a smaller thinner form factor was the way to go... And oh, the iPhone 5 was a complete rebuild -- it shrunk it's component size, it changed its power and input adapter, it's screen, it's chip(s), and is still a beautiful piece of HARDWARE. Just touching and feeling the PLASTIC of the Galaxy line is a no go no way for me ---ewwwww...tacky.
Big growth is still left in the iPad line, you'll see. It's software could really put into a much bigger market position than it is now. I predict the imminent death of the gaming console....Doh!
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Within the past two weeks there have been numerous articles written about Apple and the next iPhone release. NEVER have I read so many stories using these adjectives to describe the situation: complacent, tired, boring, lacking innovation, lacking the WOW factor, etc... In all the times that Steve Jobs was alive, these adjectives were never used. Why now? Because their true descriptions of Apple's arrogance to the world outside its campus. HTC and Samsung will kill them after Apple releases its ridiculous iPhone 5s with nothing new attached to it except the "s" at the end. This is soooo sad.
Yea it's so sad that the Mini has been a smashing success despite, despite the "adjectives" saying it would fail miserably because it was soo out of date. Funny, every single person that I know who has a mini is in love with it, literally and figuratively. They are making love to them as we speak!
I mean, that device alone DEBUNKS the "theory" they are so behind the times etc etc etc etc etc etc and etc. Their iPad mini plan shamed all of us including myself into the realm of FUD.