“I was really close to upgrading my iPhone 4 when the 4S launched last year,” Steven Kovach writes for The Business Insider. “Not because I was dying for the upgrade, but because I was getting sick of AT&T’s horrible service in New York. I wanted an excuse to make the move to Verizon.”

Kovach writes, “But for me, the upgrade didn’t make sense. I, like many other current iPhone 4 owners, was hoping for a bit more from Apple.”

MacDailyNews Take: As former iPhone 4 owners and current iPhone 4S owners, we can tell you that you’re missing out. And, because of that, the rest of your article is suspect, but we’ll play along.

“Luckily, it looks like the next iPhone could arrive as early as this summer, according to some new rumors. I might not have to wait as long as I thought,” Kovach writes. “Before I do upgrade though, I have a few demands for the next iPhone. Keep reading to see what I want.”

• It’s time for Apple to finally adopt 4G

MacDailyNews Take: Apple doesn’t half-ass things. When 4G becomes prevalent enough to be useful and the chipsets don’t send you to the nearest wall outlet every two hours (ask any Android settler with his “4G” pretend iPhone and its gigantic-yet-still-incapable battery), then Apple will do it. (BTW: Our iPhone 4S units are AT&T and, because of HSPA+, they’re as fast or faster in real life use than any Android POS on the market.)

• A 4-inch screen

MacDailyNews Take: If it’s edge-to-edge (or close) and it fits in our pockets easily and it’s not too heavy and it’s not too thick and we can still reach everything we need to reach while holding it in one-hand, then okay.

• It should play HD video

MacDailyNews Take: iPhone 4 and 4S already play HD video – on screens where you can see the difference. Apple never makes stupid “features” for stupid features’ sake. Displaying HD video on a 3.5-inch screen is what’s stopping you from owning the iPhone 4S, the best-by-far smartphone in the world?

• A faster processor for better graphics and speed

MacDailyNews Take: Mr. Hoping For a Bit More from Apple, seems to have failed to notice that the iPhone 4S packs a dual-core Apple A5 processor that delivers up to two times more power and up to seven times faster graphics than his A4-powered iPhone 4.

• It also needs more memory

MacDailyNews Take: We’re not decoding genomes with our iPhones while playing Angry Birds, so our iPhone 4S has never shown any issue with its memory allotment. Kovach’s point would be valid if he was talking about the original iPad, where browser redraws made the thing vexing at times (okay, most of the time). The doubling of RAM in the iPad 2 eliminated the issue. iPad RAM vs. iPad 2 RAM: Night and day. iPhone 4/4S RAM: No issue.

• Multitasking is still pretty awful on the iPhone: “Right now, running apps live in a tray you access by tapping the home button twice. If you want to close them, you have to painstakingly do so one at a time. It’s annoying.”

MacDailyNews Take: What’s annoying is a writer criticizing something he does not understand. Learn the difference between “running” and “suspended.” You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking. Emptying this tray of applications is nothing but mindless busywork. As Steve Jobs once told a user, “Just use it as designed, and you’ll be happy. No need to ever quit apps.” The silly Windows sufferers and Android settlers always get this wrong, but both groups do seem to be big, big fans of mindless busywork.

• After two years, it’s time for a fresh design

MacDailyNews Take: Insipid A.D.D.-ness. The 4/4S design in beautiful. By one of the world’s leading, if not the leading industrial designer, no less.

• Better battery life: “Compared to most touchscreen phones, the iPhone’s battery life is already pretty good. But if Apple is in fact going to add a larger screen and a 4G LTE chip, it’ll have to give the battery a nice boost to compensate.”

MacDailyNews Take: See our response to “It’s time for Apple to finally adopt 4G” above.

• Built-in integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and other popular web services

MacDailyNews Take: If Apple and the various companies can come to terms, like Apple already has with Twitter, then sure.

• Fix iMessage! “First of all, there’s no way to block people from sending you iMessages without completely shutting the service off. iMessages can also get lost if you switch phones and another user tries to send one. Finally, there’s a problem where iMessage can tie itself to your device, causing your messages to get sent to the wrong person.”

MacDailyNews Take: Okay, let us shut it off. Fine. “Lost if you switch phones and another user tries to send one?” Huh? Forgive us, it’s Saturday morning and last night was a long night. The last “reason” is, unsurprisingly, incorrect and there’s nothing that needs to be “fixed.” What happened is easily explained here: Apple: Reported iMessage ‘bug’ not a bug.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: So, of the 10 points above, we agree with about, let’s see… 1/2, a 1/4, another “maybe”… so, about 1 and a half of them. Several of them are completely wrong or just plain stupid. Bottom line: Nothing in Kovach’s article comes anywhere near to a valid reason for anyone of sound mind to not have upgraded from an iPhone 4 to and iPhone 4S. Siri, who was very tellingly totally ignores by Kovach, is worth the price of admission all by herself.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Castelbuono" for the heads up.]