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Anyone Else Ditching Their iPhone 5?
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I've been using this iPhone naked for the past week, because I had a replacement coming in and it's the best feeling iPhone I've ever had. The size, weight, speed, and finish are just perfect.
It actually makes me sad that I will eventually have to use it with a case due to my 2 young daughters.
It actually makes me sad that I will eventually have to use it with a case due to my 2 young daughters.
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Is this a script for upcoming S3 commercial?
Kidding aside. I think iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet...I love the screen my iPhone 4 feel dated. Even my wife iPhone 4s. It is responsive, I think the A6 processor has a lot do with it and the 1gb of RAM. Camera is magnificent even in low light. The size and weight, I don't even feel that I have phone in my pocket, so need to put a Otter case... the bulkiest case I can get. Just to feel the phone in my pocket.
If responsiveness is your problem... did you restore it from your backup? Or set it up as a new iPhone?
Is this a script for upcoming S3 commercial?
Kidding aside. I think iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet...I love the screen my iPhone 4 feel dated. Even my wife iPhone 4s. It is responsive, I think the A6 processor has a lot do with it and the 1gb of RAM. Camera is magnificent even in low light. The size and weight, I don't even feel that I have phone in my pocket, so need to put a Otter case... the bulkiest case I can get. Just to feel the phone in my pocket.
If responsiveness is your problem... did you restore it from your backup? Or set it up as a new iPhone?
lol at all those people that are getting defensive about this, caling the OP a troll. It seems to me that he articulated his opinions quite well with substantial evidence. I have to agree with what he wrote. Regardless, besides the iphone, ios 6 is quite bad too (imo) , and inconsistent with the quality that i've became used to.
In hindsight, with all of these complaints, apple will probably step it up next year and have something much better to reverse the bitter taste of this iPhone.
In hindsight, with all of these complaints, apple will probably step it up next year and have something much better to reverse the bitter taste of this iPhone.
Very true, but Apple ALWAYS has something better the next year with the "S" series to "reverse the bitter taste"; however, will the general public continue to buy this kind of marketing or start stepping away and moving to the competition?
Very true, but Apple ALWAYS has something better the next year with the "S" series to "reverse the bitter taste"; however, will the general public continue to buy this kind of marketing or start stepping away and moving to the competition?
That's an interesting question. The thing is, the competition isn't that much better when it comes to the issues I dislike about iOS 6 and iPhone 5.
As much as I am not a fan, an iPhone 5 would be less alienating than going straight to Android.
Without a doubt. That's what makes the iPhone so popular. You can almost start using the device with simplicity. You can't say the same with Android.
However, Android users will argue that that is a benefit to Android. I have both and I definitely prefer Apple in terms of overall OS functionality but I don't like the app restrictions and the mindset of Apple that we (the consumer) don't need a larger screen. And with Android, their OS is so fragmented and not pure except Google Nexus phones. Perhaps Google will one day have full control of their OS in devices like Apple has where carriers cannot strip features or bastardize the OS like what is happening now.
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Some media blogs and reports say Apple jumped the shark with the 4S. In other words, things will be just "hum-drum" from now on. Apple will just offer minor tweaks to their devices.
I will not do that. I love, love this iPhone 5. Just wow. I giggle every time I see my friends using their plasticky blinking phones which are almost as big as their faces. They hated or hating their phones, they say they are sick & tired and gonna ditch them.
According to this "person" I shouldn't express my opinion about the iPhone 5 in the iPhone section, in a thread asking for an opinion on the iPhone 5 on a message board dedicated to everything Mac, and I presume therefore that neither should those who have done likewise in this thread.
I won't feed it anymore. It needs to go back to patrolling its bridge, and besides, I'm too busy feeding myself breakfast.
I love my iphone 5. Having had the 3g, 3gs, 4, 4s and now the 5, I can definitely say that the iPhone 5 is the most comfortable to hold out of the bunch and the best iPhone to date. The 4s felt like a brick. The increase in screen size is a very nice feature and a huge upgrade in my opinion. The colors on the 5 are a lot richer than on the 4s. The iphone 5 is also a lot faster than the 4s in everything. There is no way I can go back to the 4s. The 4s is a good phone but the 5 is a much better phone. I was so impressed with the 5 that I got my mom one to replace her 4s at my expense. It's lighter but still feels solid. I love my iPhone 5 and won't be ditching it for nothing. Good luck with whatever you end up buying.
Returned mine today. It was awkwardly tall. I don't get the design.... It's easier to go across the screen with your thumb than it is to go up on the screen. They shouldn've went wider! I also experienced issues with the touch screen repsonsiveness. Like most have said we are stuck with this design for roughly 24 months unfortunately.
It's amazing how many people (obviously in need of anger management therapy) there are who have hastily thumped the life out of their keyboards hammering out aggravated replies to my OP having apparently not read my OP properly in the first place.
Perhaps if they'd read it in full they'd have realised I'm neither "troll" nor "Fanboy", and then wouldn't ended up appearing to be one or the other themselves through their replies.
I said in my OP that I would be going back to the 4S that I own, NOT getting a non-Apple phone. So this isn't an anti Apple piece.
I have had nothing but iPhones since the 3G and as a result of its simplicity and the promise of simple integration and ease of use with the rest of Apple's products in a way that other hardware and OS manufacturers hadn't managed up until then (and not sure anyone truly has yet either), I went on to buy various iMacs for home and business, MacBooks (including a MacBook Air which I didn't like either), MacMini, an iPad 2, 2 ATV 2s, a Time Capsule and an Airport Express.
Everything in my business, home and home cinema is integrated and works perfectly the second it's turned on, so I have no complaints.
Up until the 4S, for me at least, Apple have delivered upon its promise with all of the products I have had from them.
The 5 for me though is disappointing.
It is all relatively expensive equipment compared to its non Apple equivalent, but it also all feels and looks like quality equipment and performs as you would expect premium brand equipment to perform.
And that's why I am disappointed with the iPhone 5. It just doesn't have the same quality feel about it, and so far hasn't performed out of the box in the same way that my other Apple products generally do.
At the end of the day, it is just a phone, I have my 4S which does what I want it to do, and to and for my use is a better phone than the 5, even if not in terms of the technology inside it.
But if the complaints I and others have about this phone, and the way Apple's CEO has responded to at least one of those complaints is the new way forward for Apple generally, others are going to step into the company's shoes, compete hard and will certainly win my business.
It's a hypothesis rather than a prediction before the trolls start rattling their bridges and sharpening their keyboards.
Who'd have believed me if 5 or so years ago I'd said that in 2012 the company behind Blackberry would be in the mess it's in now?
The public at large are fickle, disloyal consumers and complacency/arrogance in business, taking consumers to be fools is a dangerous thing.....
If only I could constantly get away with placating my customers by telling them that the mistakes my business and the people who work for me make ocassionaly are "features"
Perhaps if they'd read it in full they'd have realised I'm neither "troll" nor "Fanboy", and then wouldn't ended up appearing to be one or the other themselves through their replies.
I said in my OP that I would be going back to the 4S that I own, NOT getting a non-Apple phone. So this isn't an anti Apple piece.
I have had nothing but iPhones since the 3G and as a result of its simplicity and the promise of simple integration and ease of use with the rest of Apple's products in a way that other hardware and OS manufacturers hadn't managed up until then (and not sure anyone truly has yet either), I went on to buy various iMacs for home and business, MacBooks (including a MacBook Air which I didn't like either), MacMini, an iPad 2, 2 ATV 2s, a Time Capsule and an Airport Express.
Everything in my business, home and home cinema is integrated and works perfectly the second it's turned on, so I have no complaints.
Up until the 4S, for me at least, Apple have delivered upon its promise with all of the products I have had from them.
The 5 for me though is disappointing.
It is all relatively expensive equipment compared to its non Apple equivalent, but it also all feels and looks like quality equipment and performs as you would expect premium brand equipment to perform.
And that's why I am disappointed with the iPhone 5. It just doesn't have the same quality feel about it, and so far hasn't performed out of the box in the same way that my other Apple products generally do.
At the end of the day, it is just a phone, I have my 4S which does what I want it to do, and to and for my use is a better phone than the 5, even if not in terms of the technology inside it.
But if the complaints I and others have about this phone, and the way Apple's CEO has responded to at least one of those complaints is the new way forward for Apple generally, others are going to step into the company's shoes, compete hard and will certainly win my business.
It's a hypothesis rather than a prediction before the trolls start rattling their bridges and sharpening their keyboards.
Who'd have believed me if 5 or so years ago I'd said that in 2012 the company behind Blackberry would be in the mess it's in now?
The public at large are fickle, disloyal consumers and complacency/arrogance in business, taking consumers to be fools is a dangerous thing.....
If only I could constantly get away with placating my customers by telling them that the mistakes my business and the people who work for me make ocassionaly are "features"
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Learn to read. He never said he was buying a non apple phone, just stick with the 4S. Why are people like you so insecure, than whenever someone expresses dislike for any aspect of the iPhone 5 you feel the need to bash the OP?
Well said!
Thanks to some of the posts on here, I think I've worked out the true definition of a "Troll": A "person" envious of those able to read, understand and express themselves articulately and objectively on a given subject, whose frustration at such individuals compels that person to respond angrily and irrationally and to further publicly embarrass themselves by demonstrating their shortcomings to a wider audience via online message boards.
This is a phone, not an animal. It's made to be somewhat durable and it's made to be eventually replaced. Your issues with it are cosmetic. It's a lot faster than the previous iPhones. LTE is awesome. Sure the wire is different but to me that's a plus, it's such a nicer connection. But I guess I only think that because I have no accessories.
If we had not ever seen a 4s or the 5, I wonder which design people would go for...my money is on the 4s. As far as a bigger screen...a longer screen does nothing for the device unless you turn it sideways. This so called bigger screen is a joke..
Kind of have to agree. After about 10 minutes of playing thats the new iPhone 5 done and all the excitement has gone. There is nothing really that new or different from the 4S.
Apple does have a bit of a fundamental problems especially when they don't change the hardware design / look. As they are kind enough to make software upgrades backwards compatible, which is great, it does mean that new products just don't have that wow factor unless the bring out a whole new product field like when they released the iPad. I don't know what the answer is as I love how old phones get upgraded with newer software but it does means that product launches are just not that exciting once you actually have the product.
What is more exciting, actually having the product and all the new features or the thrill from ordering early, eagerly waiting, unsure when it is to be delivered, seeing the courier, opening the box and then getting all the excited comment from friends when they see your new toy. Apple are master at building up anticipation for product upgrades that are really not that massively exciting. Do we really care if the chip is a bit faster, can we even tell? Are Apple launches now a bit like Christmas morning, lots of excitement at opening presents and then a massive downer afterwards?
Now I love Apple products and use them exclusively at home and the office as they just work so well and intuitively. So don't take this as a rant against Apple but it is just more of a social observation that its amazing they can sell so many phones that don't actually do that much more and that once used for 10 minutes all the new product excitement has gone.
P.S. Have to agree the lightening cable is a pain, not so much it's design but that no one including Apple seems to have spare cables or adapters.
Apple does have a bit of a fundamental problems especially when they don't change the hardware design / look. As they are kind enough to make software upgrades backwards compatible, which is great, it does mean that new products just don't have that wow factor unless the bring out a whole new product field like when they released the iPad. I don't know what the answer is as I love how old phones get upgraded with newer software but it does means that product launches are just not that exciting once you actually have the product.
What is more exciting, actually having the product and all the new features or the thrill from ordering early, eagerly waiting, unsure when it is to be delivered, seeing the courier, opening the box and then getting all the excited comment from friends when they see your new toy. Apple are master at building up anticipation for product upgrades that are really not that massively exciting. Do we really care if the chip is a bit faster, can we even tell? Are Apple launches now a bit like Christmas morning, lots of excitement at opening presents and then a massive downer afterwards?
Now I love Apple products and use them exclusively at home and the office as they just work so well and intuitively. So don't take this as a rant against Apple but it is just more of a social observation that its amazing they can sell so many phones that don't actually do that much more and that once used for 10 minutes all the new product excitement has gone.
P.S. Have to agree the lightening cable is a pain, not so much it's design but that no one including Apple seems to have spare cables or adapters.