Chinner said:
im not making fun of you, you seem p sensible compared to the other loonies. as ive been saying, as a consumer its far better to work by the 2 year cycle both from a financial and technological point of view. i'm on a 3gs, so a 4s seems like the logical step-up (if i bother) because the the iphones have advanced greatly over the last 2 years. if i had a iphone 4, id wait until 2012.
what im trying to say is, you have to wait to see large improvements of what you want (which appears to be design etc). its really the nature of the beast when apple is releasing models every year. they're probably on a redesign - refinement cycle and it wouldn't be worthwhile otherwise.
I totally understand what you're saying and, in fact, our statements have not contradicted each other. You can have a great phone, that for someone upgrading to it or getting a new one, is a great and logical choice. But at the same time, that doesn't make it exciting.
It's why I don't get excited when a dual core 2GHz Android phone comes out (or whatever), or a 1.4GHz Windows Phone compared to the 1.0GHz model. Or when the Macbook Pros get a minor spec bump.
Those are great, but unless you show me something that is tangible, like the Thunderbolt port, or flash memory in the Airs, or the retina display on the iPhone 4, or the software in iOS 5, or Windows Phone Mango or Ice Cream Sandwich, I'm not going to get excited.
And it probably doesn't make sense for Apple to make a new design for the iPhone when they can still compete with this design, but as a geek, I don't really care about that.
They could've come out with a new design with a 4.0 inch screen and that alone would've made it more exciting. Even if it was the same internals as the iPhone 4.
But if you were to hand someone an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 4, outside of Siri, would you really be able to tell a difference? And that, as a geek, is disappointing.
And with that, I am truly 100% done running my point into the ground.
