Do you think Apple can make any big improvements with the iPhone on the next model?

[saud0488]

The 4S had Bluetooth 4.0, but yes - it peeves me the same when people say the 5 is just the same as the 4S. Physically they are much different & internally much different.

but experience wise, exactly the same.

 

[maccompatible]

but experience wise, exactly the same.

That's the point. That's why it just says "iPhone" on the back. THE iPhone experience.

 

[Hooterville]

I'll bet they will change the finish and maybe the material used for cases.

 

[The Phazer]

Move the screen back to the previous, better, size and make the device thicker in order to include a much, much better battery and provide the camera lens with enough space to actually work.

 

[From A Buick 8]

I look for Apple to leap frog NFC, to what i am not sure. I think that will be the big "must have" feature in the iPH5s

 

[tymaster50]

ah I remember when the iPhone used to have its model on the back
mine said iPhone 3G but yea that changed with the 4

 

[BaldiMac]

What I said was apple was losing its competitiveness with the aging iPhone 4.

No, you said the iPhone 4S was not competitive after 6 months. Do I need to quote you?

Calling it a non sequiter is poor use of English and logic.

The non sequitur was your implication that because other best sellers had failed, the iPhone 4S was not competitive even though it was the best selling smartphone.

Because Samsung during exactly this period doubled Apples sales in smartphones.

By pricing their smartphones at less than half the ASP of the iPhone.

The most serious advantage Android phones have is constant technical advances brought to market over quarters instead of yearly. Androids are the phones of early adopters unless the cadence of your contract matches Apples release schedule.

A statement of which you have no evidence whatsoever. The fact that 75% of Android users are on a 2+ year old OS would speak to the opposite.

As a clear example of my claim, look at AT&T. The one carrier where Android does not have a pricing advantage. 77% of all smartphones they sold were iPhones. The iPhone outsold their feature phones!

 

[itjw]

More "innovation". "Revolutionize". Other buzzwords. Etc.

The fact is, most of the complainers will spout off how Apple isn't innovating, yet have no idea what they'd consider innovation. NFC? They'd just say its already been done. Bigger screen? Same thing.

I'm perfectly happy with the "incremental" improvements.

Why? Because unlike the whiners I'm smart enough to realize those "incremental" improvements were 95% of what we were begging for pre-launch.

They give us what we want (sans a few useless things like an sd slot or NFC), make it thinner and lighter in the process (people complain about that too), and its not "innovative" enough for the complainers.

If you're looking for 2007, better think of something other than the phone. It's already been "revolutionized". It doesn't keep happening over and over again. Sorry