[Star Traveler]

You know..., other manufacturers seem to want to “milk the market” and let a particular manufactured product go as long as it can, before offering up improvements. But, with Apple, they just *keep at it* and keep improving, no matter what.

AND..., many of those improvements with the iPhone are passed right on back to the original iPhone users, because those improvements are in “software” and thus the User Interface is changed and improved for those original iPhones, too.

I don’t think a lot of people (who are not familiar with the iPhone) realize this aspect of it very well...

[Erik Latranyi]

You know..., other manufacturers seem to want to “milk the market” and let a particular manufactured product go as long as it can, before offering up improvements. But, with Apple, they just *keep at it* and keep improving, no matter what

I agree. The downside is oversaturation where the consumers cannot keep up with the latest technology...so they burn out on it.

However, Apple is moving faster than Microsoft on making their product better and better....perhaps having full control of the OS and hardware is the key to early-stage devices like smartphones.

Once the hardware matures, it may change the game back to Microsoft like it has done for PCs.

But only time will tell.