“Over the weekend, my colleague, TheStreet‘s Jason Notte, broad-brushed Apple’s iPhone as a ho-hum, everyday device every bit as routine, mundane and exciting as ‘a Kitchen Aid mixer’ or ‘Vitamix blender,'” Rocco Pendola writes for TheStreet. “Useful, but no longer revolutionary, Notte contends the thrill is gone as investors and Apple fans await iPhone 6.”
“I use an iPhone 5 in my everyday life. In late September — when my contract with Verizon (VZ) expires — I will upgrade to iPhone 6 like millions of other folks who will combine to open the floodgates on Android’s low-hanging marketshare. Just recently — for reasons I cannot yet to disclose — I was issued an iPhone 4s. After using it alongside my iPhone 5 for a few weeks, I have an entirely new and fresh appreciation for the evolutionary versus revolutionary dichotomy,” Pendola writes. “Relative to iPhone 5, the 4s is slow and heavy. Even clunky. It simply doesn’t sit (or fit) in my hand quite the same way as the redesigned 5. The battery stinks. The phone gets hot really fast when I run an app that utilizes GPS. For as great as this phone (and its predecessor) was when it came out, it feels inferior to iPhone 5.”
“Along the trajectory of iPhones, Apple has made nothing but incremental improvements. Incremental improvements that — at different times for different people — add up to or at least feel like revolution,” Pendola writes. “Apple will sell more iPhones in Q4 and/or Q1 than it ever has in its history… The blowout sales numbers iPhone 6 produces will continue to lift an already resurgent Apple stock price. Evolutionary revolution will ensure iPhone 6 is a hit.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: With the revolutionary iPhone, Apple changed everything. Again.
There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, especially when you’re the one who invented the wheel.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
My gf has a Samsung Galaxy.
It’s slow, clunky, preloaded with all sorts of junk she doesn’t use – and can’t throw away.
She’ll have an iP the moment her contract ends.
A friend had a $0 Android and just recently upgraded to a $0 iPhone 5c (she was going to get a 4S since she didn’t like the colours, but I convinced her to go with newer since they were both $0).
Night and day. She actually uses her smartphone now, rather than be frustrated with laggy screen and twitch UI.
Your girlfriend says similar things about you! Get ready to be dumped idiot!
So rude.
I got to use my sister in law’s Galaxy Tab over the weekend. The scroll was sluggish, the touch screen at times was unresponsive and the screen transitions were jerky. Don’t know what version of Android she was running, but I never experienced anything like in any of my iPhones since 2007.
I have jerky scrolling and when I push the phone icon in Contacts it opens Safari and, several other things. Each version of iOS gets worse
If revolution is an everyday thing is it really revolutionary or is it just change for the sake of it? Too much revolution would surely just be chaos?
Apple: creating beautiful chaos wherever they go !
The KitchenAid mixer of course, is always Revolutionary!
You guys are all nuts! There are great Samsung phones including the quasi Samsung iPhone which does not exist if not for Samsung! Get a life!
If stupidity were a currency, you’d be a multimillionaire.
You guys are all nuts! There are great Samsung phones including the quasi Samsung iPhone which does not exist if not for Samsung! Get a life!
Wow! You and JP certainly agree! What a coincidence!
Cut and pasted his comment as I echo it to its fullest!
I see, you’re not smart enough to post your own comment. You are exactly samdungs target audience.
Wow!- that makes it super easy to get that Shitscum paycheck, doesn’t it?
Cut and paste? Or did you copy and paste? Do you know the difference?
I have an iPhone 4S and I have not had any of the issues described in the above article. Maybe he got a defective unit.
I love how no one will talk about 64bit, a Touch ID that works, and coprocessor that controls the movement of the phone (something that’s more important than a GPU on a mobile device). These are revolutionary advances. They are not things that you can see in a store, so people only judge screen size. Of course this guy is judging phones on 2 and 3 year old tech. What kind of tech writer does this?
A Bad Historian
If I see “revolutionary” on an MDN article one more time I might freak out.
You know someone will give exactly what you ask for, just to see the show.
Actually, the LG Prada came out before the iPhone. And it had a capacitive touch screen and candy bar form factor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Stop acting like the iPhone was the first to have that design.
The LG KE 800 Prada did not have a multitouch screen, it could not distinguish more than a single touch. Apple demoed a working prototypes on January 9, 2007, six days before images of the “Prada” were leaked to the press. LG claimed Apple must have seen the prototype mock-up sent to a design show in September and stolen the design, although the show would not be held until later in 2007, where the Prada would win. However, Apple has shown examples of prototype phones from 2004 through 2006 including one code named “purple” which looked almost exactly like the 2007 released model, in which the form factor had already been well established. Apples preliminary patent Applications far predates the LG Ke800.