I just don't get it. Do I actively tell the average Android user how much the phone they're carrying around sucks? I mean lets be honest the hardware sucks, even the Galaxy S 3 and that is supposed to be the current flagship model. It feels cheap, it's made out of plastic, and the hardware, although admirable, can't produce the same type of usable performance as the iPhone 5.
What more do you want from the iPhone 5? Haters and Apple fans alike are saying that the improvements aren't that grand. It's longer, sleeker, beautiful, faster, it's also includes 4g, which lets be honest isn't that new. There is another option out there, and that option is Android or Windows phone. If you want an almost unusually large screen go to Android. If you want 4 cores and crappy battery life, go to Android. If you want fragmented technology in the form of NFC, go to Android. If you want the newest flagship phone without the new hotness of operating systems, go to Android. You see, you have options! Don't be fooled. We're in a war. The great Smart Phone War of the 21st century. A quick glance at any daily headline, on any tech blog will show this. The headlines read "competitor insults potential customers because of their phone preference" or "pick us, our phones come in colors!" Do not kid yourself, this is war and war is hell!
Am I disappointed in the new iPhone? HELL NO! Do I see places where the phone needs improvement? Not really, the improvements can be made on the OS, but there is little issue I have with the hardware. But on the softwar, there are definitive places where the OS needs to be improved. For example, it should not take more then 1 "click" to turn off common settings such as Wifi. Andriod does this well. I'll give them that.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm an avid jailbreaker. I've jailbroken every iOS device I've ever owned. I do this for very specific reasons, to get many of the features that Android gives you out of the box. I have discovered though, there are many features I thought I wanted, turns out I don't really care about, nor did I use. Features like live updating widgets. I have realized that my phone has a very specific purpose. This purpose is whatever I pull it out of my pocket to do. It changes as quickly as my mind. I do not need a HUD on my home screen. It's my phone, not the heads up display in my F-117 Stealth Fighter.
Mac fans of the world, I have a confession to make, one that may discredit my credentials. I honestly thought about switching to the GS3 in June of this year. My reason was simple, I was bored. This is a HUGE statement for me and I'm borderline ashamed of it. It also makes a statement of the current state of the OS. It works so well, I want it to be more difficult. I want to be able to manipulate and customize a bit more. It is so intuitive, I want to make it harder for myself. Is this any legitimate reason to want to switch? Well the answer is, no, I waited for the iPhone 5.
Lets go back to the hardware for a moment. I said it's perfect, it has everything I want from a phone (except maybe a slightly better battery). This doesn't mean it can't be improved. It just means that Apple hasn't told us how it should be improved. Apple hasn't given us the next groundbreaking hardware feature or design that we can't live without, even though for now, thats exactly what we're doing.
So I say, keep your live tiles and your widgets, and your quad cores of processing prowess. I need no HUD and Apple knows this. Apple does it differently with the combination of hardware and software, proving you can win wars with patience and by delivering quality in every facet of a product. If thats not enough, it's ok because I have the Black iPhone 5, the Stealth Fighter of smartphones.
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