iPhone 4S or the 5

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Originally Posted by TheDude

Warning: biased Apple-hating drivel.
I predict this is the beginning of the end.

Apple laid an egg, pure and simple. Microsoft hit a home run with Mango, and Google has ICS riding in on the unending Borg-like onslaught of fast 4G phones. Apple has never had such a strong set of competitors to the iPhone so this meager update is quite a gamble.

Regardless of how sales are, you have to wonder why Apple couldn't deliver more. It has been more than a year since the 4 launched.

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The iPhone has been out for four years. Sales and margin growth continue not just to accelerate to but to grow at an increasing rate of acceleration.

At this point in the iPod's life, we were hearing that the latest versions were "disappointments" because they weren't 200% better than the previous models. We were told that PlaysFerSure was going to walk away with all of it, Microsoft had hit a home run. Or maybe it was the Zune that would be the music player home run. Not sure which. Anyway, the only thing geeks knew with certainty in 2005 was that Apple was going to lose the MP3 player market and probably lose their slim share of PC sales. That much was "certain".

Mango is a Microsoft product that will not be mandated by IT. How has ANY Microsoft product ever fared without IT forcing people to use it? We could look to the Xbox, but can MS really pour billions of subsidy into Mango after seeing that Xbox was never able to earn back the loses? And Jeff Bezos just sentenced ICS to living death. The Android OS that can dominate will remain the same one it has always been... "The next one". WebOS tried that trick for awhile, and never even recovered the cost of development.

I totally get that hatred can cloud judgement, but it would take more than an Orwellian "five minutes of rage" to push the historical record and the current data into the background!

Originally Posted by JPS

Personally, now they should just be selling the iPhone 4 and new 4S, not the 3GS still I'm afraid.

Yep, selling the 4 and 4S, giving away the 3Gs.

Can you imagine the joy at Sprint! The can FINALLY tear the first page out of the training manual:

Answer as follows: "No, we don't carry it, but we do have this and it's just as good". Then direct customer to most recently released smartphone with highest spiffs.