So, completely new screen, completely new CPU, completely new GPU, completely new case -- completely new all hardware, coupled with a major OS update, is a "small new feature" to you, as long as it's Apple doing the update. Yet you probably think a simple accessory for the XBox is a major revolution, the Kinect.
Apple will be right back where they were 4 years ago
Let's see, in July 2008 the iPhone 3G had just been released, and sold an unprecedented one million units in only three days, doing what it took the original iPhone over two months to do. It would surpass overall Blackberry sales a few months later, the sealing the death of their mobile business. Four years ago, Apple was a few years into the beginning of a huge climb.
So if Apple is where it was four years ago, the outlook is indeed rosy. You may have finally made a correct prediction about Apple's future strength.
Barring some new “miraculous” innovation from Apple (which they will have copied from some other company),
As I say, Apple is usually not the first to do something, but Apple is often the first to do it right.
People had done touch phones, never well enough to get the buying public excited about it, until the iPhone redefined it (at the time everybody thought smart phones needed a stylus and/or a keyboard). The public had resoundingly rejected tablets until Apple reinvented them. Digital music players were mostly geek toys until the iPod came around (PC users were pissed because they couldn't use one, it was Mac-only originally). Online music stores had existed, but were kludgy and restricted your use of the music too much, then came the user-friendly iTunes Store. Even the GUI idea from Xerox wasn't really usable for a personal computer, Apple was responsible for making the idea work.
So, yes, another great implementation is likely for Apple given the history. It is possible others had worked with that idea before with little commercial success, but yet again it will be Apple that does it right so that people will want to buy them.
I notice no more talk about R&D and purchasing companies since I mentioned Apple's hard-core chip and metallurgy R&D, and Microsoft's $6.2 billion spanking for trying to "diversify" just for the sake of it ("Ooh, the online ad business is hot, let's buy a company so we can get into it!"). Apple buys strategically to strengthen products and solidify supply of appropriate technology.
You don’t get it, do you?
When it comes to an iPhone, each new iteration has not been drastically different from the previous, and likewise, with the iPad.
In fact, what people needed an iPhone version one for, they could still do with version 2 and 3 and 4. Likewise with the iPad, where, what the iPad 2 could do, the iPad 1 could do. Changing the screen to higher resolution, or the CPU or GPU, is not something which was needed in order for people to get things done that a smartphone needed to do. Most people don’t need a 4 core CPU or 12 GPUs, or even a retina screen to see what is on those tiny screens. In fact, most of what’s on the later versions of the iPhones and iPads, is overkill and go mostly unused The only people that get excited by the faster and better components, are the techies and geeks. Most regular people don’t really care, as long as the device performs as expected or promised. In the end, the biggest reason for Apple to include the faster CPU or the multi-core CPUs, or the better graphic cards, is to create a new sales cycle in order to keep the iFanatics buying and the riches flowing into Apple’s bank accounts.
But, if you’re one of those that still insists that, whatever Apple dictates is what you need, then go ahead and continue giving your money away; it won’t matter to me. But, eventually, most other smart people will begin to realize that, they don’t really need to keep “upgrading” every time Apple says it’s time to add a new feature or speed up the processor or change the screen to something that won’t really make much of a difference in the “real” world.
Like I keep saying, Apple’s time will be quickly be coming to an end in about 2 years. People won’t continue being had, and they’re wising up. Why won’t you?
You don’t get it, do you?
When it comes to an iPhone, each new iteration has not been drastically different from the previous, and likewise, with the iPad.
In fact, what people needed an iPhone version one for, they could still do with version 2 and 3 and 4. Likewise with the iPad, where, what the iPad 2 could do, the iPad 1 could do. Changing the screen to higher resolution, or the CPU or GPU, is not something which was needed in order for people to get things done that a smartphone needed to do. Most people don’t need a 4 core CPU or 12 GPUs, or even a retina screen to see what is on those tiny screens. In fact, most of what’s on the later versions of the iPhones and iPads, is overkill and go mostly unused The only people that get excited by the faster and better components, are the techies and geeks. Most regular people don’t really care, as long as the device performs as expected or promised. In the end, the biggest reason for Apple to include the faster CPU or the multi-core CPUs, or the better graphic cards, is to create a new sales cycle in order to keep the iFanatics buying and the riches flowing into Apple’s bank accounts.
But, if you’re one of those that still insists that, whatever Apple dictates is what you need, then go ahead and continue giving your money away; it won’t matter to me. But, eventually, most other smart people will begin to realize that, they don’t really need to keep “upgrading” every time Apple says it’s time to add a new feature or speed up the processor or change the screen to something that won’t really make much of a difference in the “real” world.
Like I keep saying, Apple’s time will be quickly be coming to an end in about 2 years. People won’t continue being had, and they’re wising up. Why won’t you?