If Android 5.0 can run 4.0 apps, why does it matter at all? So they don't get a update, how does that make the phone not work? When i make apps for the iPhone, i don't compile them for the newest, i compile them for the lowest version possible.
So you would compile for Android 2.3?
Because the "Android has much cooler features than old boring iOS" is a wrong argument - all those cool features are not available to most people using the OS.
It's like saying Google has a much cooler product available with Google Glass than everything Apple offers, because 5 dudes have been allowed to buy the Google Glass developer kit.
Apple and Google work differently, while Gogle announces and releases every brainfart they have as a new beta product, Apple announces and releases stuff only when it's done.
Apple could have been working on something that makes Google Glass pale in comparison, but you wouldn't know until a few days (or in the case of completely new categories a very few months) before you can buy them.
Just look at the Galaxy S4 - it will not hit the market before end of April, they just announced it today to make sure that HTC and Sony look less interesting with their new devices.
Let me demonstrate how that works, we both sell phones. Lets say we both have 100$ profit. You Bank most of yours, I reinvest mine in research of new materials. New ground breaking computer chips and factories. This puts my profit to zero, but you have to buy and repackage all my technology to keep up. You may have 99.9% of all the profit in the market, but i have solid inventions and technology, not some crappy round corner dressing patent.
Ah, so you think that Apple is just a cheap company buying components, totally uninovating etc... The company doing the real innovations are Samsung, Sharp and Foxconn, hm?
You will most likely ignore this, but Apple asks those companies to develop and build components to their design, pays for machines for manufacturing those components, they design their own SoCs.
You think apple is not interested in having their costumer base for their apple store doubled? Putting profit over vision, will cost you in the long run.
But the majority of Android users don't use their devices to buy apps!!!
You can't increase the customer base with people who never buy something!
Apple is only a brand, they repackage technologies into neat cases with a good user experience, if the perception of their product would be damaged, they would have nothing left. Other than a stash of cash in the bank. When i upgraded my iPhone 4 to 5, i got what? an extra row of icons. The look , feel and my usage of it is still 100% the same. iOS has become stale look UI wise and people are getting tired of it.
Oh, Sony is just a brand, they repackage technologies into neat black cases with a gamepad.
Oh, Nintendo is just a brand, they repackage technologies into neat white cases with a gamepad, the real work is done by AMD, IBM and Foxconn... It's not the Nintendo Wii U, it's the IBM Wii U!!!
Oh, Microsoft is just a brand, they repackage.... Not Microsoft Xbox 360, Foxconn Xbox 360!!!!
Your comment is complete blahblah!
Oh, so the look and feel is all the same, people are getting tired of it...
Blah!
It's a damn operating system, it's not a game meant to entertain you, it's a platform to run the stuff that entertains you.
It's like getting rid of the mouse to replace it with a kinect like input method, just because the mouse has become "boring".
People's arms will fall of, but at least it's something new.
People are complaining about the new design of Windows 8 and want Windows 7 back - but the same people want a complete redesign of iOS?
