Why I Still Use an iPhone 4

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by aadilrazvi • 13 years ago

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melling2• 13 years ago

tl;dr "It does everything that I want it to do."

I'm almost 50. I've been hearing this one since the Commodore 64 days.

aadilrazvi3• 13 years ago

valid point! I just think the line has moved just a tad since then and its important to define where it currently lies.

drzaiusapelord• 13 years ago

Except in the 1980s the leap between a Apple II to a C64 to a 386 PC were tremendous.

Nowadays, the leaps are tiny and marketing based. Or artificially inflated "Oh, no Siri for you!" Incremental change really is worth criticizing and people just don't like to upgrade just because marketers tell them to do so.

The 4S is barely 2 years old. Early adopters are only getting off contract now and might be waiting to see if the newer WP or Android phones scratch their itch. No need to make an urgent move to the 5 series iphone. Heck, if it was me I'd wait out for the next iphone in the hope that the incremental leap is larger. Why not keep this phone running 2.5 or even 3 years? "Good enough" is a relative term. Its good enough because the alternative just isn't compelling yet.

melling2• 13 years ago

The blogger has an iPhone 4. We are making quick improvements in mobile CPU technology. It's actually surprising and impressive:

http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/publ...

I've had the iPhone 1, 3Gs, and 5. Three years probably is a good amount time to wait between purchases to see a big improvement. The only problem is that since the phones are subsidized and we're paying for them in our data plans, AT&T is making more profit off of you after 2 years.

caruana• 13 years ago

I think the Lumia 1020 has introduced some pretty awesome features. In fact I think Nokia is the only company (soon to be Microsoft) that is innovating in the mobile space. *I have an iPhone 5 and probably won't switch ... MS needs non-ported apps.

aadilrazvi3• 13 years ago

yeah the new Lumia is pretty interesting, as is the new Windows platform. I would be willing to consider the switch once there is truly seamless integration with Windows 8.1, as well as when the app store finally has quality apps.

dankoss• 13 years ago

While the 5S is a pretty awesome phone, I have to agree with the author that it doesn't enable us to do anything fundamentally different than the 4. The major generational innovations:

3G - 3G data 4 - Retina display, FF camera 5 - LTE, screen size

All of those things are nice, but they simply make use of the phone faster, at a higher resolution with slightly more screen area. So I can check Facebook faster on a nicer screen.

I'd like to see some fundamental improvement in user interaction, something that enables us to do things we couldn't before. Google glass is pointing in that direction, but it's still along the same vein of more immediate, always on computing power. I don't think we've fully tapped the innovations that these devices can allow.

For example, I think the idea of the universal Ubuntu phone would fundamentally change the way people saw their phones, because it would allow their phone to become their ONLY personal computer by simply plugging into additional human interface devices (larger screens, keyboards).

aadilrazvi3• 13 years ago

+1 for Ubuntu phone: THIS would be a fundamental game changer, and I can't wait to try it out.

I would have loved to expounded upon my thoughts on what the future looks like but I'm budgeting a certain amount of time every morning to blog and ready or not I'm hitting the publish button!

Why I Still Use an iPhone 4

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