What does Apple have to catch up to, again?

2) Most of the features for 2.5 years? Care to list them? (I assume you mean features in iOS 6 that are not in iOS 5.) Android has a Passbook equivalent standard in a native app? Android has fly over maps standard in a native app? etc.

3) First, what has this to do with playing catch up? If it is improved as you say then you’re admitting Apple is ahead. Second, Apple NEVER said Android is 100% copied from iOS. Some patented features were copied. Several courts have said so.

4) Care to name those “many”? Yes, a few have significantly longer battery life. Those same phones are much heavier and much larger than an iPhone. Many, many people will prefer a PHONE to be the size and weight of a PHONE — not a luggable mini tablet or heavy weight battery with a phone attached that they cannot stick into their shirt pocket without it weighing the shirt down.

5) NFC is still a rare thing in the general market. It is the same as the 3G and 4G LTE issue. People faulted Apple for not coming out with 3G in the very first iPhone even though less than 5% of the U.S population (Apple’s entire market when the iPhone was initially released) had access to true 3G. The same with 4G LTE last year. People faulted Apple for not introducing the iPhone 4G rather than the iPhone 4S last year — even though less than 1% of the world’s smartphone buying population had 4G LTE access last year. Similarly, I’d be shocked if even 1% of the commercial market (stores, etc.) have NFC built n today. Additionally, if Passbook works they way it is rumored to work, businesses (and users) will get the convenience of NFC through the cloud without businesses having to retrofit their point of sale systems — or people having to “bump” their phones. Want a NFC experience with someone 100 feet or 100 miles away? Use Passbook or its evolved implementation.

Pattern unlock? Swipe to unlock is not good enough, easy enough for you?

6) You don’t know that iOS has let you group apps for some time now so you can unclutter your screen? You don’t know that you can move icons of apps around at will (even choosing to put NONE of the standard apps in the bottom row and just your favorites there)? You don’t know that you can move ALL standard apps off the home screen? Stop complaining about things that just are not real!

I’ve been living in the real world. Seems you are not.

Reality please. It wouldn’t surprise me that the word merchant didn’t know what LTE or NFC means.

2.) In 2012 where most of the features announced in iOS6 have been available in Android for the past 2.5 years.

3.) In 2012 where Apple took the concept of the notification shade from Android (and improve it in many ways to their credit) and still had the nerve to say that Android is all copied.

4.) In 2012 where many Android devices have better battery life.

5.) In 2012 where I still won’t have NFC on my phone or have pattern unlock.

6.) In 2012 where I stare at rows and rows of icons that won’t allow me to move infrequently used apps off my screen and Apple built in stock applications take up an entire home screen and I can’t even uninstall the ones I don’t use.

I think he’s living in the real world, in the current times with many other Apple fans such as myself just want more now and are tired of waiting year after year just to be fed bread crumbs of 1 or 2 useful features here and there with each iOS and iPhone release that essentially are just playing catchup. In the world where we remember when every year (up to 2010 and the iPhone 4) where Apple design was second to none and they seemed genuinely interested in pushing technology forward.

I think the question really is, where have you been?

Agree 100%. Should have kept the same thickness and use the additional space on a battery with 50% more capacity.

You may want to check into the nearest alanon/synanon

When?—Since the namesake presidential run in 1996 and 2000. Lacking the skipper’s firm grip on the tiller, the vessel began to founder.

Meanwhile—subordinates, befuddled by the novel economics of emerging technology, began to drift. And inevitably, the great man staking out political positions poisoned the publication’s fountain of wisdom. The once iconic journal of commerce drifted toward the Sargasso Sea of the mediocre…

In mobile computing space, this week the competition gathered strength. Microsoft is lying in the weeds with stealth Nokia warheads, Amazon’s entries are suicide bombers with explosives strapped to their bodies, Google’s comedy squad is spreading FUD like jelly on a bagel and Samsung wants a return to Pork Chop Hill.

The key thing, though, is that Apple’s opposition is TOO LATE. No matter what they bring to the rhubarb, Apple is doomed AND so is everyone else: the Mayan calendar ends December 21 of this year, and numerous sources infinitely better informed than the slack confederacy of tech pundits points to a definite end of times.

We who are weary of hyperbole, bile, cant, and needless hurt, say—well, if we must all die, then good riddance to a planet once lively with invention and promise but now mortally compromised by a repellant crust of minds diseased with envy and spite and oh so expressive of those emotions. Damn the Internet for a pig in a poke.

It took Intel to get PC makers to design better looking notebooks and whose design did they copy??? Now all the iMac copies are coming out. It’s obvious there is only one company in the tech sector that is innovating.

Bigger phones are not bigger to give customers bigger screens. They are bigger to use bigger batteries.

Apple doesn’t need humungous phones. Their OS is more efficient and their batteries have a greater capacity at a smaller size.

You think a bigger phone is a more advanced phone. The truth is, a smaller LTE phone with a longer battery life is the holy grail. iPhone 5 wins. Android and Windows 8 phone loses.

4 or 5 years of no more Ballmer’s left nut’s BS. Total bliss.

I plan to get the iP5 but if it fails to impress I won’t and will simply wait, my current phone works just fine.

May IP5 go nuclear on the completion.

And this is just one example, every last one of thoes listed can be debunked and set on fire.

In closeing, we are all very much aware of Forbes and the other news sites using the same “MO”, whatever they can do to increase readership until the iPhone is release tomorrow, all ridding the coat-tails of Apple.

Just a little twist of doom and allot of Fud to increase the “Chicken Little” effect and you have allot of page clicks people.

The big improvement should be features. Passport will make Google Wallet look cheap and Siri will be totally functional. The new map program will run circles around Google Maps and who knows, maybe the one more thing might be a new search engine linked to Siri.

Fingerprint recognition would be outstanding, but that may only be a pipe dream. I don’t understand what the other smartphone manufacturers are making, that the iPhone is lacking. They sure don’t have the abundance of apps that we have. Please let me know what else everyone wants (and don’t tell me a wider screen that is a total waste). I’d love to hear some innovations that anyone else is willing to recommend. Just list them here. Show me the practicality. If you can convince me, I’ll call my friends at Apple and back you to the hilt.

Otherwise, everyone needs to sit back and see what is offered tomorrow. I just don’t see what’s going to be so disappointing, or do the Wall Street jackasses have you convinced that they are so precognitive. It’s like Apple will give you a finger and you want the entire body. Slow down and relax, the world is not coming to an end!

A bigger screen. Nobody asked for a LONGER screen.