Originally Posted by Lyceum:
“Of course the finger print scanner is better than on a PDA released in 93. But it's not new and it's not innovative. In return. It's like a company releasing a colour television and claiming it to be new, different and innovative. It's not, it's a colour television done better than 20 years ago. But it's still a colour television.
Finger print scanners are not new, nor is having them on mobile devices innovative or new. Just because something has been improved upon and been implemented better doesn't make it new. Just better.
Apples biggest and best strength is it's marketing. No company can market like apple. They release a phone with a slight upgrade and make people believe it's a massive, vast, huge improvement worth upgrading too. There marketing is phenomenal.
What I'm saying is. In this day and age people want bang for buck. They don't want to throw cash away on small upgrades. Nobody is saying any company needs to do something amazing every year but the 5s isn't a huge step up from the 4s and if a company with the amount of cash, resources and supposed innovation as apple can't come up with something new and worth upgrading to every few years they're employing the wrong people. £550 is a lot of cash, more so when you're spending it on a disposable item like a phone. It's not unreasonable to want something a lot better than two year old tech when spending that amount of cash, not something marginally better.
Of course not everyone wants a bigger screen. Not everyone wants a smartphone. Not everyone wants a phone. A simple google search will tell you the market is now filled with a lot more people who want larger screens than those who don't.
100% more ram isn't 'a bit' more ram. It's double the ram. Yes. There's no iPhone with a big screen. Which a lot of people want when paying premium cash for a premium phone. For the spec geeks pretty much every other companies flagship device is better than apples. That's something many will take into account. So depending on what your idea of a premium phone is. Apple lacks in a lot of areas.
Btw. You're preaching to the converted. I have an iPhone. I love my iPhone. I just don't feel the need to believe everything apple tell me. Or believe apple are untouchable and the best available.”
I would agree that the fingerprint scanner was not a new tech
per se. But Apple didn't claim that a fingerprint scanner was a new, never before seen thing.
I would disagree about innovation though - I think Apple's implementation was innovative.
Again using colour tvs and digital cameras in the same context - if we would agree that colour tvs, digital cameras and fingerprint scanners have improved over time, would you not agree that
innovation has played a big part in those improvements?
Or would you say that although they had all improved,
innovation had no part in that?
I would agree that Apple are fantastic at marketing, but I also think the expression
you can't polish a turd probably applies.
With something like RAM, if the iphone performs on a par with other phones in real world use, then whilst it's headline spec may not look so good, I wouldn't be convinced it was lacking a premium feature.
With screen size it will be interesting to see how larger iPhones do. I'm not sure they will, but it would have been especially interesting to see the split would go if the released a 4" and 4.7" iPhone, both with the exact same spec, like they do now with the iPads.
With something like the Galaxy, if you want the flagship model with the best spec, by default you get the 5" screen by default. It tells us that people want the top of the line Samsung, but doesn't necessarily tell us that everyone who buys an S4/S5 buys one because they want a large screen.
Which isn't to say lots of people do, but if there were top end models of phones available with different screen sizes it would be interesting to how they did compared to one another.