I'm in Dallas. Carriers are advertising their LTE networks here. Perhaps they aren't in other areas and that's why people don't know.
Maybe, my point is apple advertise this stuff to the masses, people don't have a clue what half of new **** in the iPhone even is.
Tangible stuff like faster, bigger,thinner,lighter etc, sure
**** like "44% greater color gamut than 4s, full sRGB specification, Dual band wifi, LTE" etc, you know what this means, I do, some of your friends do, but the average joe public consumer (apples demographic) don't.
Apple only cite tech specs when it suites them, if their hardware is subpar, they throw the old "we dun care bout hardware, only user experience" chestnut at us.
And incase nobody mentioned it, we now have some fragmentation introduced to the iOS ecosystem. Sure it's not alot, thin black borders in iPhone apps, but now there is some fragmentation. Price of product evolution I suppose.