Would an iPhone 5S make sense?

[darngooddesign]

...People will buy Apple products like sheeps because it's Apple.

While some do, most will buy the next one because they liked or loved their previous iPhone.

Since the 4S can be sold for more than what the 5 costs, and you can turn a profit when you upgrade, why wouldn't you get the fresher version of something you enjoy using.

 

[solo118]

It may be a bad analogy, but I look at Ferraris, Lambos etc and say how the hell can it get any faster or lighter. Yet every refresh has a faster,improved model.

There are always improvements as technology moves on, so there will be a way to improve the iphone 5 even if the next release is a year away.

 

[pnoyblazed]

It may be a bad analogy, but I look at Ferraris, Lambos etc and say how the hell can it get any faster or lighter. Yet every refresh has a faster,improved model.

There are always improvements as technology moves on, so there will be a way to improve the iphone 5 even if the next release is a year away.

that's a pretty good analogy actually

 

[TM WAZZA]

While some do, most will buy the next one because they liked or loved their previous iPhone.

Since the 4S can be sold for more than what the 5 costs, and you can turn a profit when you upgrade, why wouldn't you get the fresher version of something you enjoy using.

Trololo haha very funny

 

[darngooddesign]

Trololo haha very funny

I can sell a 16GB iPhone 4S for significantly more than the $199 it costs to buy a 16GB iPhone 5. I'm not talking about off contract phones because those provide no benefit to me. Hell my friend sold her 16GB iPhone 4 for $228.

 

[KittiFatale]

If they release a 5S, it would make Apple look very predictable. It will pretty much establish a pattern and more people will hold out from buying the iPhone 6 in favor of waiting for iPhone 6S.

 

[TM WAZZA]

You don't realize that you actually pay for it through your monthly cost?

Kthxbye

 

[cambookpro]

iPhone 5S

NFC
Fingerprint scanner
Apple A7
32 and 64 GB
10 mpx camera
ac band WiFi

Should be enough to justify the move to the 'S', along with some software features too.

 

[darngooddesign]

You don't realize that you actually pay for it through your monthly cost?

Kthxbye

Really??? The phone isn't magically subsidized???

1. My monthly cost is not reduced if I don't get a subsidized phone.
2. I can sell a 4S for what it costs to upgrade to the 5.
3. I'm not planning on jumping carriers and I would have a contract regardless.

There is no downside to upgrading to the next gen.

 

[bob24]

I think a 5S could happen. 3GS was for speed, 4S was for Siri, 5S for security

Or maybe 5S for scratch-proof?

 

[haruhiko]

And of course next year when we've had 3 S cycles, you'll say 3 cycles isn't enough to establish a cycle yet because they could easily do a redesign after one year just like the original iPhone --> 3G

Please, Apple has learned they can sell millions of iPhones with very little changed just by adding a major feature like Siri.

Actually the 4S was what the 4 should've been (hindsight is 20/20, of course) - dual core CPU, much better graphics, redesigned antennas, much upgraded camera, (a small point but...available in white at launch!), and full iCloud support in iOS 5.

Talking about trend, who thought that Apple would significantly upgrade the internals also when there's an external redesign this year with the iPhone 5? So it's not always predictable.

 

[FSUSem1noles]

lol'ing at the people who got the 5 saying they'll pass on the S version.. of course you'll pass, you can't get it for 199... lol

 

[ThisIsNotMe]

They should just call it the iPhone and end this BS.