And boohoo for them. Not only does apple not give a ****, nor do the carriers. What did the OP want us to do? Bake a cake and beg him/her to stay loyal to Apple. Just like OP had the right to bitch and moan about how they are breaking up with Apple, everyone on this forum has the right to respond to pointless (PUBLIC) temper tantrums.
How about make a counterpoint, or discuss the issues that he made in the opening post.
Or you can post some BS about $100bn cash, a share price, the number of people pre-ordering, profits or some other non-point completely unrelated the actual experiences of a user.
I don't think it's necessarily lack of real competition, as there is a whole heap of clever marketing out there.
Apple have only ever compared the 5 to the 4S, not the handsets which the 5 actually competes with. You know, the ones you might consider otherwise buying if you weren't so distracted by the branding.
Phrases such as 'twice as fast' get banded around quite a lot, which are completely nondescript if you're not already an iPhone owner, when a phrase such as 'twice as fast as a model we now deem to be obsolete, but not quite as powerful in geekbench testing as a 4 month old Samsung device' might have been more informative, and factually correct.
There's competition out there, with the two main contenders in my eyes being the Galaxy S3 or the soon to be released Lumia 920. The S3 should be getting the latest OS update soon including project butter, which will be a big boon to an already formidable handset.
I thought I would never say this but I will sell my iPhone 4S and get a Galaxy Nexus. I will miss the camera but Google is just better in search and mapping.
Siri vs Google voice search = Google dominates.
Apple Maps vs Google Maps = Apple isn't even in the game.
as long as you're happy.
See ya.
One customer is very unlikely to impact their profit margin much. In fact it won't impact it at all, which you would be fully aware of if you knew what a profit margin was.
But I digress. You've made the asinine and sadly go-to point of many on this forum, which is to say 'screw you, the company I like is making lots of money, from people like me, so they're right and unless you're going to join the circle-jerk, your opinion is worthless'
But there are a lot of people who don't understand why they should buy an iPhone 5, or what they gain out of upgrading iOS6, and apathy towards a product, especially one commanding the sort of premium that iPhone does will impact on Apple. Whether that's now, or maybe the next time the sheep that just bought a new iPhone on the upgrade cycle feel like they got their fingers burned, it may well happen.
loyalty definitely isn't what it used to be...
Apple screwed up with iOS6. I'm a long-time Apple customer, but the attention to detail has been thrown out the window with this release.
I Feel Substantially Underwhelmed by iOS 5
Negative Reactions to iPhone OS 4.0 / New Features
Kind of underwhelmed with 3.0
iPhone Firmware 2.0: It's just a disaster
I always love the first few days after a new Apple software release.![]()
I Feel Substantially Underwhelmed by iOS 5
Negative Reactions to iPhone OS 4.0 / New Features
Kind of underwhelmed with 3.0
iPhone Firmware 2.0: It's just a disaster
I always love the first few days after a new Apple software release.![]()
I smell a rat...a fAndroid in disguise.
Apple Maps is just fine, works with no issues. Are there places where the maps are incomplete or less than ideal? Sure. That's called growing pains, and it will improve. Google Maps remains available on iOS with a simple home screen shortcut.
I was just about to write that.
iOS6 maps is an abomination for the price we pay for the iPhone. It's a substandard product. In the UK it's not usable outside of major cities.
I'll be heading for a Lumina 900 on EE. Thank goodness Mas OSX is still good.
I have been playing around with iOS 6 and I am hugely disappointed.
Apple Maps - it's so bad, it's so bad.
Contacts - too cluttered. You have fields for Facebook profiles, Facebook chat, Facebook e-mail address, Facebook profile link, regular e-mail address.. There is also buttons for added accounts. "Name in iCloud" "Name in Facebook". Just if you forgot where where you added the contact?!
Colored status bar - sometimes black, sometimes colored. Ugh??!
Dial buttons - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
= how did they end up here when they tossed ideas around? Did they scrapped the idea of a wifi-bluetooth toogle for a colored status bar? It is obvious that they focused too hard on Facebook intergration. Was the new map solution included in the last second? Just not ready for prime time.
Siri vs Google voice search = Google dominates.
Apple Maps vs Google Maps = Apple isn't even in the game.
Hardware design = Users love curved backs on mobiles. The iphone 4, 4S just feelt odd. I stuck with iPhone because of the software. I thought I would never say this but I will sell my iPhone 4S and get a Galaxy Nexus. I will miss the camera but Google is just better in search and mapping.