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Not to mention the fact that there was no iPhone 2. It went from iPhone to iPhone 3G. The numeric 3 didn't reference the third model, but rather the 3G data support.
iPhone = iPhone 1 iPhone 3G = iPhone 2 iPhone 3GS = iPhone 3 iPhone 4 = iPhone 4 iPhone 4S = iPhone 5 So while there's a bit of incremental model naming going on there, it's really only the iPhone 4 that truly follows that naming convention. Last edited by K. Molen; 04-11-2012 at 03:50 PM. |
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Oh wow. There is so much room for improvement that I could write an entire book on the missing features...
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04-11-2012, 04:17 PM | #49 |
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Yeah, I do the same myself. However, I know a lot of people (mostly older folk) still using their 5 yr old flip phones. Oh well, given general wear and tear, phones probably start acting up by the 2 year mark.
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04-11-2012, 09:33 PM | #51 |
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Smart phones are overrunning the market, though, and users are seeing a lot of the same upgrade pressures that drove PC sales from about 1990-2008: lacking the RAM and CPU to run new apps well and running out of space for more apps.
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The pc world is largely stagnant, with falling sales. Smart phones already outsell PC's and are in hyper growth mode. In a couple years tablets will outsell PC's too. Already the iPad sells more than HP (the largest pc maker). So current sales do a better job of displaying the trend than installed base. Of course the current installed base of computers is much larger. Nor does post-pc mean "no pc". It's just that the pc is losing it's place as the dominant force for advancement. Nonny |
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Also, each device gets the customer further entrenched into the 'walled garden' of the iTunes store and the App store. Now, if you're willing to spend $500 for a tablet, $1000 or more for a Mac doesn't seem unreasonable. And you get the added benefit of everything working together, syncing together, natively, and out of the box. Now, I'm not saying this was the original plan all along, from the inception of the iPod, but I think it has evolved into this. Get them a little closer, one step at a time, one price point at a time, until they make the 'big' purchase. |
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Eventually though, the lull in PC upgrade pressures will probably give way to a spike in new purchases, either in response to a truly new technology like optical RAM or quantum computing, or due to a critical mass of the incremental improvements we've seen in the last 4-5 years. I would say that time is still at least a couple years away; there's nothing revolutionary in the pipeline just yet. |
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Apple wants you to buy a tablet, a laptop, a desktop AND a phone. It's apple that pushed this idea into the world that a tablet is a "third category device". And the reason is simply that: they want you to buy 4 devices from them, not one. It's all about the money. Microsoft is now coming with windows 8 saying "there isn't a single valid reason why a pc couldn't be all 3 at the same time". You also overlook that even for home users, applications like Office and Photoshop is very important for a lot of them. Windows 8 has no problems running full versions of all those types of apps. In fact, it's designed to do so. Certainly in these financially unstable times, I'ld think people will be more interested in buying a single 1000$ win 8 device rather then a 700$ tablet, 1500$ laptop and/or 2000$ desktop. People have this false idea that Apple makes iOs tablets because they believe that people need it in that form. This is false. They make iOs tablets that aren't able to fully replace a mac, because they want you to ALSO buy a mac. It's all about getting the most money out of your pocket as possible. |
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Android users can get apps from either the google or amazon store (and many other places). You can define Android overall as being a walled garden, but not the stores within its ecosystem. Graham |
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