This phone is a game changer. The next iPhone better be something phenomenal. I'm done with apple and their incremental change BS. Thank god the competition finally caught up and we have some real choices now.
Finally a thread with 95% icrap, and somebody called it like it is, at least two years of incremental bs from apple while they are killing off all the mobile competition in palm, in rim, in nokia, for what? A decent phone that couldn't place calls without being held with a case, with the apple logo, but with a pretty glass design (that 95% of people had it enclosed in crapware), redesigned subsequently so it could place calls... A bs voice app that doesn't work, a buggy bloatware of desktop os that almost no work went it because everyone was focused on ios to sell more i-things. Two years of the same thing in one model, that within these two years it's costing them less, and less, and less to manufacture at the slave factories they make it at foxconn but which they keep selling at the same price nevertheless, same screens, minor cpu and memory bumps... is it any wonder that with 8% market share, they have 70% profit share, and the 92% of the rest of the manufacturers are sharing a 30% profit between them? Might this be a small indication that someone's been ripping people off and it aint samsung, nokia, blackberry or any other manufacturer to give the fanboys here a hint.
But wow they new ipad is great, it's exactly like the old ipad in every respect but they 've stuck a high res screen to it that someone else made, and the tout that their graphics are better than tegra (that's when it suits them, because when it doesn't apple is not about specks).
If it hadn't been for the dev community for bringing so many great apps to apple's devices they wouldn't have much to show for. And how did they repay the dev community, with an app store having a race to the bottom pricing, and upon their gazillionth sale of an app, a $10,000 itunes store check to a rich chinese trophy wife... A store they are supposed to curate and while their execs get millions in compensation (because of course how could one replace a genius like Phil Schiller), even the newly hired bozo from dixons gets 60 mil, yet they can't afford to spend $100,000 around on the app store to actually curate a few worthy apps that are struggling to make money.
Notifications ripped from android, imessage to emulate blackberry, and a mobile os that looks the same after 6 years even on a device like the ipad. Wow, the innovation in that, you can't even add some live updates on you lock screen and you 're stuck with a big clock there...
If one cuts through the bs, and the branding, and the reality distortion field, for the past couple of years apple has been basically making boatloads of cash for doing pretty much nothing with their devices other than incremental bs updates. And on the desktop front with lion making things worse rather than better. Oh the ipad two added a camera, oh the air is redesigned so it doesn't have a **** latch and one usb and now it's smaller, oh the imac has a mirror glass that can't be used in pretty much any conditions that involve outside light and it's the same crap in ergonomics like it always was and with the same design for 8 years, oh every new mac is getting a higher res screen but no one in the os x team can be arsed to finally write some decent code for resolution independence and the font on the 27" imac are smaller than that on the ipad, oh now we have icloud that doesn't offer online storage like everyone and their brother are offering, but hey you can match your tunes with apple (not stream them of course) for a premium.
Apple has jumped the shark, and it won't become apparent any time soon to most people, but in two years, a bit more, a bit less, and if in the process they don't manage to eat up, lawyer away, or monopolize away the competition with anticompetitive practices, they 'll get what's coming to them for having lost their spirit and become an obese, money greedy giant.
/end of rant.
