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I am still not impressed. First, because it's underwhelming in my view from a hardware standpoint. No increase in storage capacity. No water resistance. No push for a bigger display (4.3 inch with the same resolution and still keeping it at above 300ppi for the Retina claims would have been more legible and more finger-friendly than what they chose). Not enough battery life (apparently shaving off two millimeters instead of one is more important than adding four hours of battery life). Second because iOS still is lacking with notifications and customizability compared to Android. And third (though Android is guilty of this too), because it is so obviously overpriced. It costs less than $200 to manufacture a smartphone. But the hysteria is still so great, and the manufacturer-driven, phone company-supported BS about "subsidies" so effective, on both the Apple and Android side of the coin, that people will effectively pay, not the typical 40 percent markup on electronics ($300 to $350 after allowing for shipping and marketing costs), but $550 to $700 for an Android and $650 to $850 for an iPhone.
I look forward to the day when commodity pricing takes hold and the hysteria and me-too faddism of smartphones abate.
What we all seem to fail to note, or appreciate, is that Apple is just a single company, putting out a single phone, versus the ENTIRE INDUSTRY. The industry puts out hundreds of different models, with dozens of different form factors. Handset makers and software makers all making dozens and dozens of upgrades, bells and whistles that their phones can do. Most of those phones are substandard to the iPhone (In my opinion).
Apple cannot keep up with the improvements and 'innovations' of the entire industry in one phone. Some makers seem to come out with a new phone every week. Apple upgrades one handset, once a year. They don't rush half-or even quarter-baked products out into the the market for consumers to fumble with. "The beta test of Windows phone is over!" I'm not even sure what that slogan is supposed to mean. An admission of guilt? Tongue in cheek?
My point is, that Apple puts out the best product they can, with the features they feel are the best for that model. Even now they are working on the new features for NEXT year's model. Don't expect this, or any iPhone, to be able to do everything every other phone can do. In the mean time, Shamesung will have introduced 400 models in that year.....
Edited by Maecvs - 9/15/12 at 1:58pm
