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apple blew it

techkidd4400 said:
Yeah, I can't believe they stumbled this quickly after Jobs left the CEO slot. Maybe that's an unfair statement, but you have to wonder why they thought they could deliver the 4s and not disappoint customers and shareholders.
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Yep, Cook probably dreamed this phone up by himself in the last two months. This isn't what Jobs had planned at all.

It would have been wiser to delay the announcement until December (or whenever) and deliver a real hardware upgrade.
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Do you have any idea how retail in America is driven around 4th quarter Christmas sales? You can't release a product in December.
 
thinking more about it ill prolly still get this since i dont wanna learn a new os

despite the small screen the white design is nice
 
I completely forgot until now... NFC.

Huge revenue opportunity if Apple had their own NFC system...
 
The hardware upgrade is spot on, however they should have made it distinguishable from the iPhone 4 physically.

The things i think they missed is giving it an edge to edge screen (to make it physically different from the 4) and 5Ghz 802.11n.

I said to people earlier today i would upgrade, now i'm honestly not sure. I'm not bothered about Siri tbh. I wouldn't use it.
 
Wow. I guess the 7,000 guesses on what the icons on the invite meant, were wrong.

What are ALLL those companies going to do with their iPhone 5 cases?
 
I can certainly wait another year with my 4 and just upgrade my OS.

Wasn't impressed. If Siri really turns most people on, I'd be surprised.

I like the new camera, but I can wait till next year for (hopefully) a major upgrade.
 
I think the 4s will be a competitive phone, but it seems like Apple had an opening, after such a long release gap, to showcase their industry leading design and production capabilities. Why did they back off? I am guessing it is related to something like LTE chip maturity and/or cost/yield on key parts like new (larger?) screens. In the meantime, the door is open for Google and its android partners if they can deliver with ICS.

Siri sounds great if I lived in a cave by myself. Seriously, I see a whole bunch of Siri rage out there: Siri, will apple send me a "card" while I am in intensive care from the mishap while I was talking to you this morning on the bus?
 
Shockwave78 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A5313e Safari/7534.48.3)

Prime here I come
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I'll give Android's Nexus Prime a go too :cool:
 
mtcowdog said:
I think the 4s will be a competitive phone, but it seems like Apple had an opening, after such a long release gap, to showcase their industry leading design and production capabilities. Why did they back off? I am guessing it is related to something like LTE chip maturity and/or cost/yield on key parts like new (larger?) screens. In the meantime, the door is open for Google and its android partners if they can deliver with ICS.

Siri sounds great if I lived in a cave by myself. Seriously, I see a whole bunch of Siri rage out there: Siri, will apple send me a "card" while I am in intensive care from the mishap while I was talking to you this morning on the bus?
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LTE sucks battery life like crazy; that would interfere with the connotation of Apple products and long battery life, something they talked about during the keynote.

Also, LTE isn't "that" widespread, at least here in the US. It's in a few major cities, but the iPhone is ubiquitous; to put something in that would only positively benefit a few (while carrying the large negative) and increasing manufacturing prices of the unit isn't a great idea.

Siri will be interesting; as I would love to just tell my phone, "Remind me to do Organic Chemistry homework" or "remind me to study pages x to x tonight". I use Fantastical which works the same way for my MacBook (and honestly, the software isn't that "amazing", it just looks for key words and uses that as commands, it isn't anything new or processor intensive) but I don't have my MBP just out and open all of the time.
 
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CD3660 said:
It's disappointing, yes. Android though? Not a chance!
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You know, I had the same attitude and then over this last weekend I sold my iPhone 4 and went into a Sprint store and got the Galaxy S2 figuring I would return it if the iPhone turned out to be what we all had been hoping. I must say that I am very impressed with the Galaxy so far. Beautiful large screen and as fast as heck, silky smooth with no lag anywhere. It's going to take me a while to get used to Android, but I don't mind it so far.

I have no idea where they came up with this nonsense in the keynote about it taking 2 sec for the camera in the Galaxy 2 to come up. When you touch the camera icon, the camera is ready to shoot virtually instantaneously. Also, much of the new voice control features in the 4S are already baked into Android. I will admit that the new Siri integration is pretty impressive, but not enough to make me get one.

Apple will sell lots of these of course, but I think we will look back on this as the turning point where Apple started to lose much of it's dominance and momentum (it's mojo), where mobile phones are concerned. I think this phone will be a comparative flop by Apple's standards.
 
All of you idiots got me over excited about a larger screen, I didn't even care for a larger screen at first but got caught up in the hype. LOL

I've been wanting 64gb since 3GS.... FINALLY IT'S ARRIVED!!!

Don't really care much about the new voice assistant, but if it can read texts to me via BT earpiece then I might find it useful.

Would love to see how much faster iOS can actually be since it's already blazing fast. Or will iOS5 even things out?

Apple didn't disappoint with the actuall upgrade, they just disappointed our high hopes for something completely new.
 
utl768 said:
thinking more about it ill prolly still get this since i dont wanna learn a new os

despite the small screen the white design is nice
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This ironic statement coming from the the OP.

Apple is clearly doing something wrong since even people who think they blew it will buy the 4S :rolleyes:

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LIVEFRMNYC said:
Apple didn't disappoint with the actuall upgrade, they just disappointed our high hopes for something completely new.
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Tech blogs and macrumor disappointed your high hopes, not Apple.
 
DeusInvictus7 said:
Yeah it definitely wasn't the upgrade I was hoping for, but I really don't like Android enough to keep it for one more year, so I will be getting the 4S.
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I'm with you. I bought a Droid X last year and can't stand it. I'll be picking up the 4S but I'm going to miss the larger screen.
 
Big time disappointed with the 4S.

Time to try this other thing called Android.

Don't hate the player, hate the game
 
I agree they blew it. I have had every iPhone since the 3GS and I was looking forward to upgrading however I want a slightly bigger screen also. The specs look great but not enough for me to get into another two year contract. If this would have been the iPhone 5 I would have got one instantly. Apple will sell a ton of these but they could have sold even more with a newer design.

At least I get to save a few hundred bucks!
 
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