“Sixteen months of pent-up demand, and Apple gives us this? Consumers wanted the iPhone 5,” Andy Vuong reports for The Denver Post. “They got the iFail 4S, as it was quickly dubbed by the Twittersphere because Apple’s new smartphone features the same old design.”
MacDailyNews Take: Well, there’s a nice smooth media reception. Denver-area Apple Stores, you can cancel your October 14th stanchion orders.
“With so much hype leading up to new chief executive Tim Cook’s first product launch, Apple needed to unleash something special,” Vuong reports. “It didn’t deliver. The iPhone 4S is not thinner, and is slightly heavier, than its predecessor. It doesn’t feature a bigger, 4-inch touchscreen that’s been available on Android smartphones for more than a year, an update that analysts and consumers had expected. Like its predecessor, the iPhone 4S will boast a 3.5-inch display.”
Vuong reports, “In fact, the HTC Evo, released last year, still beats the iPhone 4S on two key features: screen size and access to a high-speed 4G mobile network. ‘Apple has been able to wow the world year after year since the iPhone was first introduced four years ago,’ said independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan. ‘Not this time… This iPhone is really not much different than the current iPhone. So un-Apple like.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Debacle. Not the device, but the way Apple led it to the media slaughter.
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