Can people stop making these threads already?
The reason that you're bored is because it's going to be the seventh iPhone keynote. The seventh, eighth or ninth keynote is always less appealing than the first, second or third.
Second, keynotes have never been that special after the first. iPhone 3G: same iPhone, different back with added 3G (yay). iPhone 3GS: faster and better camera (yay). iPhone 4: new device but was nothing new due to extensive leaks. iPhone 4S: same phone, different internals. iPhone 5: new externals, but was already leaked. Etc.
The loss of appeal has nothing to do with Apple but all to do with you. Or are you still as excited for your birthday as you were when you were 7 or 8? I think not. People grow up, they get used to things, the excitement stops. Nothing new here, no reason to open a thread about it.
Cheers.
The other thing that is ridiculous is buying an iPhone 5, loving it and expecting the S version to be radically different than the previous S versions have been and being disappointed in this hugely predictable upgrade to the point of considering leaving Apple phones. Oh ffs. The S version has historically been about catching people on 2 year contracts coming off theirs and allowing them to get the latest iPhone (because they couldn't upgrade when the 5 was released and they should get something new too), but with upgraded stuff from last year's bigger upgrade.
And one more thing, I'm sick to death of people expecting a phone to make them toast, like these devices are all of a sudden going to start performing some function no one saw coming. This is a maturing device, there are only so many things a stupid phone can do, hell it's got a camera, yes a phone has a camera, who'd a thunk? A phone has a calendar, a phone is a game centre, a phone can play music and videos, a phone can allow you to browse the internet, and on and on. What else do we expect these devices to do?
Some expectation resetting needs to happen with a big swathe of the population of people who buy phones - stop expecting major changes to this device, look elsewhere for big innovations, the phone is pretty much at the top end of big earth shattering innovations.
What we can expect in the future is thinner, lighter devices, we can expect integration with other and new devices, we can expect perhaps some of these new devices might offload some of the functionality we find in the phone, and in the future we may realise that the device on your wrist holds the radio antennae and all your other devices tether to it, and you use a BT ear piece so it acts as a phone too, and you stop carrying something in your pocket that is your phone, but is rather your tablet device (of some size that makes sense, but isn't phone-held-in-one-hand-sized necessarily) and CPUs mature to the point that you can link a keyboard and larger monitor to it and it's all of a sudden you've got a desktop with adequate power to run average desktop stuff, but what we do with them is pretty much not going to change too much at this point, just how we interact with them and which devices are responsible for which functionality. That's what I think anyway.
