Originally Posted by mogzyboy:
“This applies to all the major phone manufacturers. There's been nothing to get excited about from any of them for years.
It seems silly just to single out Apple for the stagnation when they're all guilty of it.”
Would agree with that. The iPhone is still compelling as otherwise you have to endure Android. iOS is still much better in my opinion and there are plenty of people who like the closed eco-system and 'it just works' functionality. My bloody Honor 7 pings at me all the time. What was that? Nothing. Nothing there. What? I want an iPhone again.
A phone is a phone. If I want complicated I'll get a PC. In my view Android need to shut down their OS and lock it down tight.
The fact is that most innovations in mobile tech come out for iOS first. Because it's locked down and it's easier for the networks to roll out. Wifi calling, VoLTE etc.
In my view, until Google sort out the mess that is Android, Apple are in no danger at all. The 7 or whatever it is will sell in millions and the doom-sayers will be wrong as usual.
Perhaps the thing is that the concept of the phone is what needs changing. We've tried watches and that was rubbish. Who knows what the next game changer will be? Did we pray for the internet in the 70's? No. Would we live without it now? No.
Something will come along that will change our lives again and there is no point trying to predict it as it will come from nowhere. Whether Apple will develop it is another matter but the mobile phone format is fixed and reaching the end of it's development curve. What more can we expect it to do?
If anything it will be less of a phone and more of a device to integrate your life with the world and others. It may not take the same form.