iPhone 5, meh....

[JClishe]

I think you're forgetting something critical: the "other" guys have lost control of their intellectual property, or are using SHARED IP, and are in a race to the bottom in terms of per-unit price. Yeah....a lot of cheap Windows phones and other windoid products are being sold...but Apple's market cap, share price, and profit makes the Windoze players for the most part look like what they are...makers of cheap,low-profit-margin "commodity" products. McDonald's sells HUNDREDS OF TONS of "food items" each week too....at an average per-unit retail of what? $1.49??? lol... Unit sales don't mean SQUAT...

That statement doesn't make any sense Derrel. The "race to the bottom", "commodity", high unit sales are occuring within the Android space, not the Windows Phone space. "A lot of cheap Windows phones" are in fact NOT being sold. You do realize that Android and Windows Phone are 2 different platforms, right? ANDROID, not Windows Phone, are the bottom-feeding commodity handsets of the mobile phone world.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

One can argue all day, but on the sales floor and world popularity polls the iPhone 5 is going to kill anything Samsung brings to the table.

 

[SamSpade1941]

One can argue all day, but on the sales floor and world popularity polls the iPhone 5 is going to kill anything Samsung brings to the table.

Pretty much...

 

[Derrel]

Funny thing....I was browsing the web,and found this article. Let me quote the first paragraph of it...

As Expected, The Boring iPhone 5 Breaks Previous Sales Records | TechCrunch


"The iPhone 5 was supposed to be a flop. Consumers were supposed to be disgusted with the lack of innovation. No one was supposed to buy it. That is, of course, if you listened to the buzz during last week’s launch. The opposite turned out to be the truth. Apple announced the iPhone 5′s first weekend sales this morning and they are stellar. The best ever. Apple sold twice as many iPhone 5s as iPhone 4S during the first few days. And, if you recall, this is all from a phone that due to lack of wild specs, connectivity options or something truly new, was deemed “meh.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Apple has done it for years."

---end quoted passage---

LOOK how the author at TechCrunch used the word "meh"!!!!!!! Just like you did! {grins}

Sooo...when ya'getting yer iPhone 5, dood???

 

[Ballistics]

I'm trying to figure out how high sales automatically equal a better phone?

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Leaning towards iPhone 5 actually. But not until I hold the technically superior S3 and play with it. I just can't stand ANDROID os...

 

[pixmedic]

android vs apple is like canon vs nikon.
who cares. use what you like. they all do the same damn thing. take pics and post them to facebook.

 

[Derrel]

YES--the "upload to Facebook" feature is killer!!!!!!!!! I heard that the iPhone 5, the one so many people said was "meh", has an absolutely killer-pretty icon for Upload to Facebook. Plus, it has the Fox News Effect filter, which makes everything in your photos look bigger, better, and more amazing than is even possible in real life.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Fox News effect filter? lol

 

[bhop]

iPhone is fine, but after switching to an android phone with replaceable batteries and a bigger screen, I can't see myself going back. Whoever said they couldn't find the app store easily.. you're doing it wrong. Android OS isn't quite as refined as the apple iOS, but it works the same way for the most part.. not rocket science..

As far as build materials, who cares.. today's phones have a shelf life of only a few years anyway. My original iphone is still built nicely, but it's literally just a useless paperweight now. My S2 is still surviving nicely and is light in my pocket. I like that. I love apple, I use mac computers at work and home, yes iphone will sell like hotcakes, but it's not the best for everyone. Can't we all just get along?

 

[pixmedic]

OtterBox FTW!

 

[Buckster]

 

[SamSpade1941]

I'm trying to figure out how high sales automatically equal a better phone?

Take business and marketing in school ? High sales means you are delivering what your target market wants. That means of the available products on the market its the better one thats how it works and no I am not joking.

Do you know Buckminster Fuller ALMOST succeeded with a proposed plan to build homes for returning GI's after WWII based on his Geodesic dome? Architecturally speaking his design was and is far superior from a design stand point and is very economical to build. It did not stop millions of two and three bedroom ranch style homes from being built instead. Sometimes good enough is good enough and sometimes good enough is better.

 

[pez]

About 8 years ago I had a couple of different Windows Mobile/Windows CE type phones. They were all TERRIBLE.

Agreed. Which is why Windows Mobile doesn't exist any longer. But what does a comment about a retired operating system have to do with this discussion?

Windows sucks... Thats what it has to do with. Windows mobile/CE was based on the most stable OS windows has ever had and it was STILL terrible. If Win7 was decent and wasn't riddled with constant freezing, crashing, periodicly slow response, and everything else under the sun, then I might have more faith in their new mobile platform.... But that isnt the case. It seems some things never change.

Seriously?? Do you even use W7? Unless you go out and find some nasty virus somehow, W7 is the most stable OS ever- it never crashes. If you're talking IE you may have a point.
I build gamer PCs for people at home, and maintain all the W7 machines at work: W7 is nearly bulletproof. And if you haven't tried one of the new windows phones out, you have zero idea what you're talking about. The new windows phones ROCK. Period.

 

[SamSpade1941]

Agreed. Which is why Windows Mobile doesn't exist any longer. But what does a comment about a retired operating system have to do with this discussion?

Windows sucks... Thats what it has to do with. Windows mobile/CE was based on the most stable OS windows has ever had and it was STILL terrible. If Win7 was decent and wasn't riddled with constant freezing, crashing, periodicly slow response, and everything else under the sun, then I might have more faith in their new mobile platform.... But that isnt the case. It seems some things never change.

Seriously?? Do you even use W7? Unless you go out and find some nasty virus somehow, W7 is the most stable OS ever- it never crashes. If you're talking IE you may have a point.
I build gamer PCs for people at home, and maintain all the W7 machines at work: W7 is nearly bulletproof. And if you haven't tried one of the new windows phones out, you have zero idea what you're talking about. The new windows phones ROCK. Period.

Actually Win 7 is not the most stable OS ever by a long shot, but it is a big improvement over Vista and XP in so much as we are talking about Microsoft Operating Systems . The most stable OS ever is Unix and by virtue Mac OS X which is based on a UNIX kernel. Unix based Operating systems are known to run for years and even decades with no issues, let alone having to re image a system on a somewhat scheduled basis like what has to be done in many enterprise environments with Windows based systems. I have all types of cool letters behind my name concerning my IT expertise, I just don't typically bring it up. Some cool ones are ACMT A+, Security + , MCSA, MCSE, GCUX. As for the new Windows mobile phones they really have very little in common with Windows 7. They have quite a bit more in common with Windows 8 and the charms that run on Windows Mobile will run on Windows 8 as well. I don't think that the new Windows mobile OS rocks, but it is an improvement over the older windows phone offerings.