Maybe it's me, but I never once compared my phone to what other people have. I don't care if you have the Motorola Razr or 1st generation iPhone and no I won't take mine out to show the world. I just want the 5s because of its battery life! 
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Yep, or "I'm happy I got mine a year ago as it was sooooo worth it at the time. Compared to mine your upgraded version isn't as special as mine was."
People with the 5 need to quit being so idiocentric and keep their mouths shut until next year
Most of the troublemakers here are being paid a few pennies a post to cause trouble. Never a forum where members in the minority are always extremely vocal skew your opinion of where public opinion lays. You'll find on tech forums such as this and especially CNET, those who appear to be in majority are always vastly in the minority in the real world, that is why they are so vocal. These type of people are never worth your time in any walk of life.
I'm hard pressed to remember ANY Apple event over the last years where folks weren't disappointed. Before it was even worse because fewer leaks meant crazier speculation and of course people's imagination far exceeded reality.
The recent iPhone announcement shouldn't have been a disappointment to anyone following the news building up to the event. The only big miss was thinking that the 5C was going to be more of a budget phone. Everything else was known, though the 64bit chip and M7 came as a nice surprise; maybe not useful quite yet, but they set a good path.
I always cringe when I see those "Steve Jobs would've never allowed this to happen" or whatever. I'm not going to pretend to know what SJ would've done, but being non-reactive to the market and analysts, being very focused on what to innovate and what not to innovate on, refusing to go mass-market and differentiating through experience rather than specs is completely in line with his philosophy. If Apple had come out with a $300 off-contract iPhone and the iPhone 6, that's when I personally would've thought that that shifted away from SJ's philosophy/strategy. People were repeatedly disappointed when SJ was there; let's not pretend that that wasn't the case.
The recent iPhone announcement shouldn't have been a disappointment to anyone following the news building up to the event. The only big miss was thinking that the 5C was going to be more of a budget phone. Everything else was known, though the 64bit chip and M7 came as a nice surprise; maybe not useful quite yet, but they set a good path.
I always cringe when I see those "Steve Jobs would've never allowed this to happen" or whatever. I'm not going to pretend to know what SJ would've done, but being non-reactive to the market and analysts, being very focused on what to innovate and what not to innovate on, refusing to go mass-market and differentiating through experience rather than specs is completely in line with his philosophy. If Apple had come out with a $300 off-contract iPhone and the iPhone 6, that's when I personally would've thought that that shifted away from SJ's philosophy/strategy. People were repeatedly disappointed when SJ was there; let's not pretend that that wasn't the case.
This reminds me of a guy I saw in D.C. one day, complaining that a car was touching the crosswalk, and then taking pics of it:
"You are blocking the crosswalk, have a nice day!"