famousringo said:
landguy1 said:
famousringo said:
adriane23 said:
Just like the 4, there's no compelling reason for me to upgrade to the 5S. Marginal increases/improvements should never warrant a yearly phone upgrade. That's like buying a new laptop every year. Sadly, all phone manufacturers are following Apple's footsteps as there's only so much you can "innovate" in a year's time.
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Who upgrades yearly? Only the most deranged technophiles. Most upgrade on a two-year cycle, because that's how the contract goes. Hence why the enclosure changes once every two years.
The 5S is targeted at 4S owners, who will be upgrading to a larger, brighter, more colorful screen, a far superior camera, LTE networking, four times the compute power, a fingerprint scanner and numerous other improvements. Plenty of incentive to upgrade.
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As an owner of a 4s, you are right. My contract ends in a little over a month. But, there is no real reason for me to upgraade to a 5s. It has very little difference from my 4s. Very small screen size increase. Same OS. Games run mostly the same and the interface is no different. I will be heading to a different company to get a better camera and larger screen. Also, I did my 4s on Sprint and it is the WORST cell service in the world.
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This is the first time I've ever seen Apple's software support actually spun as a negative.
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Then you either have no experience with it or don't read anything besides mainstream media reports on apple products. Between me and my wife we have two iphones, apple tv, ipads, ipods, and recently failed(got zapped) macbook pro. So I have some experience with apple products. Apple products do "just work". But, their ability to "just work" comes from very limited capability to personalize and upgrade. So, you never get to change things around or add more storage(unless you want to pay for apple's cloud service). It works great for beginner users or users that just have no interest in extending its life. That is why you have to buy a new phone for sure every two years(or 1 yr if money is no object). The phones used to have top line features, but they no longer do. They newest iphone usually lacks 2-4 innovations that are already on the market. So, by the time the 2 yr contract ends, you are 8 innovations behind and the newer iphone will only get you caught up to 2-4 innovations behind again. Not having all of the innovations wouldn't be bad if the newest iphone wasn't also the most expensive phone too.
