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- orrinward0
I'm very surprised at how many of my friends are so thoroughly excited about the 4S. I've got maybe 10 people in my Facebook feed talking about how they can't wait to upgrade from their iPhone 4 when it appears to be more or less the same phone - Mildly improved camera and a few new stock features that were already available through apps.
Dual Core Chip - Great if there is a need for it - More intensive applications and such. I've not heard of any iPhone4 user complain about responsiveness.
8MP camera instead of 5 - Improvement, but worth the money? The friends I have seen blabbering about how awesome the upgrade will be use it primarily for Hipstamatic and instagram.
1080p recording - Boastful, but I have not seen one of my friends record a video on their phone.
It is quite a pathetic update seemingly. Anywhere I can find the cliff notes version of new features in iOS5. Is iOS5 coming to the iPhone4 as well? If I were an iPhone4 user and they decided to make it redundant after a year in the market I'd be royally pissed off.
- randommail0
Feature creep, is the ongoing expansion or addition of new features in a product, such as in computer software. Extra features go beyond the basic function of the product and so can result in over-complication rather than simple design. Viewed over a longer time period, extra or unnecessary features seem to creep into the system, beyond the initial goals.
The most common cause of feature creep is the desire to provide the consumer with a more useful or desirable product, in order to increase sales or distribution. However, once the product reaches the point at which it does everything that it is designed to do, the manufacturer is left with the choice of adding unneeded functions, sometimes at the cost of efficiency, or sticking with the old version, at the cost of a perceived lack of improvement.
- monospaced0
Stop saying "need" as if they won't sell millions of the new model no matter what. The first iPhone was "amazing," the rest have been incremental upgrades, and each release sells 50% more models than the last. If history tells us anything, Apple will release a faster, nicer new model with some new features and upgrades (most of which we know about already), it will sell more models than any model preceding it, and people like fadein11 will still say it's a failure even though it sells more models than any competitor's phone.
- I guess my point is that every 6 months someone says Apple "needs" to do something or they'll failmonospaced
- but even when they don't, they don't failmonospaced
- utopian0
- 75% have a iphone 4?
cruddlebub - haha, probablymonospaced
- 75% probably bought a phone in the last few months and are stuck in a contractmonospaced
- i bought the 4s as i had a 3gs, and obviously love itcruddlebub
- 75% have a iphone 4?
- pango0
Just gonna throw this one out there.
"How to Prevent Google Maps From Collecting You Location Data in iOS 6"
http://www.mactrast.com/2012/12/…- "t’s unfortunate that Google has taken the route of tracking user location without permission – and equally disappointing that they’ve hidden this toggle beneath six pages of settings." what a load of bullshitWeyland
- what a load of bullshitWeyland
- Especially when it asks you the first time you load it if you want to opt out.ETM
- clearThoughts0
Get a life... Really. It's gonna be the same thing, slightly faster... With better resolution and maybe bigger/ lighter... You still gonna be checking email, instagram, FB and twitter with it...
- ESKEMA0
haahahah. stupid stupid people...- it's kind of sad, everyone thinking that they 'need' a better phone. Apple winsMiguex
- hulk hogan?cruddlebub
- Dum USAersqTime
- Haha greatHombre_Lobo
- clearThoughts0
Same old fucking shit
- futuremongolian0
Here's a crazy idea - what about if Apple were to make a computer ... that played video games?
I know I know, a bit ambitious. Perhaps sometime in the next 25 years.
- hurr derpernexbcn
- Pippin?detritus
- here's a crazy idea - stop playing video games, you overgrown 12 year old.CanHasQBN
- Why?
I mean, why stop? Why give up the things you like because someone else deems it unsuitable for adult life?Peter - unsuitable for adult life?
Seems extremely narrow to me, that attitude. Narrow and boring.Peter - Ha ha. Kinda taking it a bit personally.calculator
- I don't even play games.
Just a fan of encouraging people to self reflect :)Peter
- clearThoughts0
Same shit. Different smell.
- benfal990
my 3GS is soooo slow. I want the iPhone NOW!!!
all my money is there waiting for you, Apple!- get a 4S. First gen iphone 5 will probably be buggy anyway...ADP
- i love my 4s!cruddlebub
- yup the S models are always a better choice. 3GS to 4S. Will only change to the 5S.ESKEMA
- mew.. too close to iPhone5. I want the last toy this time.benfal99
- still 4 months away..ESKEMA
- fooler0
- http://www.qbn.com/t…monospaced
- I feel almost as dumb as I did when I realized the A to Z in the amazon.com logofooler
- My logo embarrassment was the arrow in FedEx. What a twat!Wolfboy
- FedEx is excusable, but not noticing amazon a-z is not!
*amazed at this new amazon a-z logo info!!*Hombre_Lobo
- GeorgesII0
ahhahah
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- chossy0
That article is a load of bollocks by the way.
When you install google maps it pops up a very large message which asks you if you want to let them take your information, it also tells you that you can turn it off at any point. So you chose in the very beginning to give them the information or not.
- CanHasQBN0
...except clearThoughts' negativity will be experienced in 3DSuperRetinaVoice®™
- benfal990
the big processor is a joke. I still have a 3GS and EVERY apps runs perfectly... nothing is slow or chunky... Apps developpers are not using the full potential of the processor in the iPhone 3GS yet... so having a A5 chip is worthless. It's like having a Lamborghini but always driving in the speed limit 30Km/h streets.
- They say Siri needs the A5 for speech processing, there are games too that can use it, just sayin'ernexbcn
- They also use it for video stabilization, etc.ernexbcn
- Cool self reassurance post bro. Trying to justify why it's not worth buying, when you know it is.CygnusZero4
- Apparently the processor speed allows downloads to happen faster while your phone is multitasking, for examplemonospaced
- And the difference between the speed of the 3GS and the 4 is easy to see.monospaced
- Install iOS5 and then come back... The 3G used to feel smooth.animatedgif
- My 3GS runs like pure shitfyoucher1
- Yeah I guess the iOS5 will start to kill my 3GSbenfal99
- autoflavour0
meh, that was it? hardly seems worth even sending out an invite about.
the video is 90% words like spectacular, innovative, amazing, phenomenal .. yet is really just more of the same, only faster and lighter.
dont get me wrong.. i still think its a good phone.. just seems like they probably could have played it down a bit..
- autoflavour0
also i just wish that apple would make up their fucking minds.. headphone jack should be on the top, but they keep changing it..
- Thought they'd settled on the top, obvs not. #ChooseTopRevolutionpig
- maikel0
I know what is coming up in the iphone5:
USB socket and larger stereo speakersO_O
- scarabin0
"Introducing the new iPhone 5. It's aiight."
- Lol much more modest than their current ads. If that was their slogan I'd totally buy one!Hombre_Lobo
- yep.. exactly. "the new iphone.. better than the old one"autoflavour