Agreed. Happily typing this from an iPhone 5s, because it's a great phone and I continue to get amazing value from it.If Apple does charge more than $1000 for the coming iPhone, will Wall Street still expect those tens of millions of iPhone purchasers to upgrade to a newer iPhone the following year? And if they don't, will analysts still claim it's due to Apple being unable to innovate? Why doesn't the same logic apply to toasters and microwave ovens? Use them a year and then upgrade to new ones. I honestly don't know when this requirement to upgrade products on a yearly basis started. When I was growing up 50 some odd years ago, I'm sure products tended to last a lot longer (many years) and we were quite happy to have a product last a long time. Why has that attitude changed so much? One would think with so much talk about dwindling resources consumers would be a lot smarter than to simply stop using perfectly working products just to buy slightly newer ones. I really don't understand this type of behavior.
For me, it's not a matter of whether or not Apple can produce another iPhone good enough to seduce me into buying it -- I'll buy a new iPhone when this iPhone is no longer of use to me. Which will most likely mean that it stopped working all together or Apple nag-forced an iOS upgrade on it that crippled its performance to the point of constant frustration, like they did to the iPhone 4. But for now it's an iPhone that works like a charm.
Upgrading your iPhone every year is nothing to be proud of.