Yep and I think it's likely that there are and will continue to be more critics as the trend towards smart phone use increases and more and more people begin to chime in through their own experiences
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Yep and I think it's likely that there are and will continue to be more critics as the trend towards smart phone use increases and more and more people begin to chime in through their own experiences
Very true, I can see where I could lead anyone to think that.
But here's my perspective on it. I was looking over the "iOS version history" page on Wikipedia, and through my own memory (as I've had an iOS device since the first iOS). Each successive iOS has included some major changes that were clearly worthy of a title as the "next iOS." For example, 2.0 added the App Store and the ability to install apps... a huge fundamental change. 3.0 added OS wide features of Copy/Paste and Voice Control for 3GS, which I think is a fundamental change (though I'm not sure how easy/hard it is to implement). 4.0 added multitasking... again, a huge fundamental OS change. 5.0 added a Notifications bar (finally!) and Siri and iCloud, which would all have required at least some level of programming.
6.0 added... Maps and a better Siri?
I hope you see it from my perspective. The major "features" that the highlight for each release, you may notice, has gone down in quality. I mean, just look at the 10 new features they highlighted for iOS 6... one of them is FT over 3G (only for 4S). Really? that is a highlight/major feature of a major software release? I remember when it took Skype a simple x.x update to enable 3G video chat, and AT&T a simple update to enable MMS.
I dunno. Perhaps I am a bit spoiled from the previous 5 years of having something major per each x.0 release. But if any pattern has been established over the past 5 years, it is that each x.0 release has included some fundamental, OS wide new features, which I just fail to see in 6.0.
well people surely want quick reply in sms ...and yes we know the iphone audience is for the people on the short bus
Did you just insinuate that the iPhone audience (which probably includes most people in this very forum, though not me) are intellectually challenged?
5 years ahead of what ? They were behind other players on the market in a number of features with the first iPhone (copy/paste, multi-tasking, MMS, 3G to name a few).
Don't always believe the hype Apple spouts.
Heh, the most interesting part was reading all the reasons why those things didn't matter:
Copy/Paste: too complicated
Multitasking: who needs to do more than one thing at a time
MMS: Email!!
3G: it doesn't exist everywhere, EDGE is fast enough, (free) WiFi is everywhere who needs slow 3G!
note: not from Apple, but from folks here
None of what I listed is "techy". Non-tech people use it everyday now that its on iOS. But that's always been the party line around here. If Apple lacks something it's "techy" and "tech specs don't matter". Then Apple adds it and "it's great that Apple innovated again!".
Apple hasn't had an innovative iOS release in 2 years. iOS 4 barely made the cut (wallpapers, really ? Slow clap... reminds me of my dumbphone from 2002).
My Galaxy S3's screen stays on while I'm looking at it.
THAT'S innovation.
I think HTC was the one that came up with this, but a lot of Android phones now ring louder when they're in your pocket.
THAT'S innovation.
Apple aren't the only innovators.
THAT'S innovation.
I think HTC was the one that came up with this, but a lot of Android phones now ring louder when they're in your pocket.
THAT'S innovation.
Apple aren't the only innovators.
My Galaxy S3's screen stays on while I'm looking at it.
THAT'S innovation.
I think HTC was the one that came up with this, but a lot of Android phones now ring louder when they're in your pocket.
THAT'S innovation.
Apple aren't the only innovators.
Wow that's all you got ? ####
Are you serious? My entire family never pays attention to marketing. Everything they heard was word of mouth and they all now have iPhones.
My Galaxy S3's screen stays on while I'm looking at it.THAT'S innovation. I think HTC was the one that came up with this, but a lot of Android phones now ring louder when they're in your pocket. THAT'S innovation. Apple aren't the only innovators.
Both very cool features. Now if it just one company that could build a marketing campaign around them, it might resonate with more buyers. Until then, there will continue to be a scattering of cool features mixed across hundreds of competing devices, many of which people won't even be aware of.
It's essentially old-school behind the times selling of Feature-Benefit but without showing consumers the real advantage. It's gotta be known and it's gotta be more than just a cool feature listed as a bullet point on a datasheet.
I like my iPhone a lot, I moved away from the Samsung Epic (failure) to the 4S last year. But I surely wouldn't call it innovative in this day and age either, however it is stable (5.1) and does what it does well. The new updates, while not earth shattering, are some of what I was hoping for. But for innovation, Apple was innovative in the 1980's when they introduced the Mac, that OS was ahead of it's time, this one is with the times.
It wasn't meant to be a competition, just showing that other companies are coming out with innovative features..
How about NFC tags, where your Android phone can perform actions simply by swiping it across a tag? I have one in my car that enables Bluetooth, GPS and turns my volume up to max. When I get home, I swipe again and it disables Bluetooth and GPS.