But maybe not just "another" car magazine. They would probably be from well-known/well-established/long-time car magazine who earn a living by reviewing cars.
Much like GSMArena or Android Authority who have been around for a long time reviewing phones et al.
You lost me here... are you suggesting that YOUR points about what the iPhone is missing are analogous to what a well established car magazine would list as gaps in a car? If so, that is kind of ridiculous. A well established car magazine would understand the market for the car and how the majority of buyers would use it.
You are nothing close to the target customer for Apple (for sure), or even for most smartphone makers. You don't use it for social media, banking, business, or personal things. You apparently are most concerned with ring tones and features in the music player. Android has that stuff, so go with Android.
Apple does have a clear vision alright. But on where i am right now their success is giving their hardware fancy and catchy titles, being "ahead" of its competitors with expensive hardware, etc. Yes it has been proven countless times that with cheap labour they are selling (for example) a Macbook for £700 which in actuality has been put on almost half of its original price. It's sort of like a dress from a well-known high street shop such as Zara or Mango. A £70 dress is actually only £30 with materials made, labour, etc. Dunno if is see my point here. They try and inflate the prices thinking that people will think of them as "high' quality" or posh-looking.
I would maybe agree with you on my comment about incremental upgrade. Yes your user base might be a lot but you can never tell if they actually like the incremental upgrades or not. If you have a camera of 8MP for 3 years surely one would be bored by now and perhaps consider looking at the competition for better features, etc. Yes again there were incremental updates to the cameras through the years. I had a 4S, 5C, 5S & 6. It was incremental updates to the camera. And i had to keep coming back to Android because they offer a lot. Again for conversation sake who still does mono video recording in this year? Only Apple. Who doesn't have Manual controls on their camera? Only Apple.
Apple has good innovations and updates to their phones. I know coz i had iPhones in the past. But i will admit i did not have them long (perhaps 3 months is the longest and that's with the 6) again because of reasons i gave in previous replies.
I agree Of course no company would "hide" their weakness. That would be brave of them. But if compare your device to another then that creates an environment of healthy competition and gives the consumers a choice.
And yes Apple does offer support to their customers. What of the expensive 3-year Apple Care? And where is the chat service in their website? And i noticed Apple seem to really care about the environment with this & that free on devices. But not a single donation or support to charities? Could be wrong here.
I think you finally revealed your agenda here... Apple is bad because they are a greedy capitalist American company. If you don't like them, then you are welcome to not buy from them. That has been suggested to you numerous times in this thread.
The fact is that their products are successful is not because Apple has a slick marketing department that gives things fancy names. They are successful because they make high quality products that their customers want, and they provide great service. If anything, they are not as aggressive marketing as most of their competition (and you can't count what they say in a keynote once a year, because the only people hearing those are mostly fans of Apple already). The fact that you said it would be "brave of them" to advertise their weaknesses vs. the competition is completely ridiculous. Apple has compared their devices to others in their keynotes... I believe you pointed that out as a bad thing earlier in the thread.
You don't like the cost of AppleCare, then don't buy it. Now you want them to charge less for that.. charge less for memory... etc, etc.. You just don't like that Apple is successful selling their products at a premium highly profitable price. Well millions of their customers would seem to disagree with you.