4 -> 4S ->5 -> 5S -> 6; it is at least 4 generations old, especially considering iPhone 6S will be released this fall alongside iOS9, which would make it officially 5. iPhone 4 was released in 2010.
Hmm, you got iPhon4 and current is iPhone6. I can't count Apple-maths but 6 minus 4 is two, not five. They just fooled you into thinking its five generations old. You are their most cherished customer.
Hmm, you got iPhon4 and current is iPhone6. I can't count Apple-maths but 6 minus 4 is two, not five. They just fooled you into thinking its five generations old. You are their most cherished customer.
No, I'm pretty sure Apple has released 4 phones since the 4 I had, pretty sure...
They could have 75% of the market easily. They havn't done anything useful since jobs passed. Wouldn't be surprised if they had the ability to become pretty close to a monopoly.
YES SUPER SHADY! Soshady in fact they're making iOS 9 to where it will be able to run well on my old ass iPhone 4. GOD DAMN Apple for supporting devices coming up on 5 generations old!
Hmm, you got iPhon4 and current is iPhone6. I can't count Apple-maths but 6 minus 4 is two, not five. They just fooled you into thinking its five generations old. You are their most cherished customer.
Yeah, but they really only release a NEW phone design every two years. The "S" models in between those releases are usually just a spec bump from the prior phone.
They could have 75% of the market easily. They havn't done anything useful since jobs passed. Wouldn't be surprised if they had the ability to become pretty close to a monopoly.
Are you implying that the "s" iterations aren't vastly improved?
Yeah, but they really only release a NEW phone design every two years. The "S" models in between those releases are usually just a spec bump from the prior phone.
Samsung does the same thing, as does every other company out there. Specs wise every iphone has been a big improvement over the previous model. IMHO the 4s was a bigger jump over the 4 than the Note 2 was over the Note 1.
Having had a 4S and a 4 next to each other once upon a time, you're wrong. The 4S was a big bump in terms of usability, pretty much solely due to the CPU speed.I'm not so sure about that. Samsung seems to make noticeable design changes to their Galaxy S phones every year. Whether or not those design changes are good are debatable, though.
Personally, I miss having the option of getting one with a replaceable battery.
apple's future is locking people into the 'apple ecosystem'
for that to work, they need as many people locked in as possible
How is apple failing itself these days(or since the days of steve jobs), I'm writing a research paper on Apple for my business class.
My main thoughts were although they don't have an official company goal/mission statement they are not producing quality products and innovating/making the market better, they're just stifling it. That's what I'm going with but if you have better ideas feel free to shoot them.
I need something investors or consumers would easily notice, have they been having any kinds of problems?
Need to be done with this in 30 minutes :biggrin:
Having had a 4S and a 4 next to each other once upon a time, you're wrong. The 4S was a big bump in terms of usability, pretty much solely due to the CPU speed.
Apple's biggest downfall is their pride. They're too proud to make a low-end device that will appeal to the masses who don't want to flock to a store every time there's a new product release. That leaves room for other manufacturers to stake their claim without directly competing. They do well in areas where their device prices aren't outrageously higher than the competition (mobile phones, tablets), but not so well in other areas (computers).
They've done very well for themselves for quite a while now, but they need to diversify and innovate or eventually they'll suffer a collapse. The world isn't going to be crazy about mobile devices forever.
I wish I could fail this hard.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/07/apple-makes-92-percent-of-all-smartphone-profits/
You're being sarcastic right? I've owned mobile devices using every OS from Symbian to Blackberry to WM. NEVER had a device 5 years old still that still got updates. Hell I've had Android phones that weren't even a year old that stopped getting updates. So yeah, iOS 9 running on iPad 2's & iPhone 4's is a damn impressive thing.
But they looked almost identical, right?
Like I said, Apple doesn't really change the phone design much for the "S" versions, but the internals change.
It's not a knock against Apple per say, but the industry in general. There's no reason supporting 5 year old hardware should be a bonus, it should be the standard.