“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.”
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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.
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