Agreed. I know plenty of Apple folks that weren't very impressed by the iP4S. I have a feeling that iPhone users who were perhaps thinking about trying Android for a change, may have just been given the push they need. No iPhone 5, plus the best Android device on the planet only days away from being announced. I think there will be a good number of people going with Android this time around. If ever there was a time to give Android an honest test, ICS and the Nexus Prime are the time to do it.
But I digress.
I've heard remarks such as "nothing changed."
I think this has just affirmed my previous belief that people need crazy buzzwords that they don't understand. If you asked some random Apple (or not Apple) fan what a "retina display" actually is, do you think they can answer it (correctly)?
Exactly. A bit of armchair analyzing here, but what Apple has succeeded is not in the enterprise market, but as a consumer-grade goods company.
I can see Windows platforms surviving if only because it is integrated so much into business computing - changing OS' would require - on top of changing the OS itself - finding and implementing new 3rd party solutions that may/may not work, security overhauls, etc. as opposed to making sure that the OS has been upgraded and that it has a legacy function for older programs to function properly. Outside of a few niche markets I just don't see Apple as a necessity or a must-have in the enterprise sector.
Which would mean, to me, that Apple is at the mercy of the general consumer's whims and tastes, which is fickle and not necessarily a good place to be.
Think about it this way:
- Do you want to run a business? Run Windows.
- Do you want to play games? Run Windows.
Where does it leave Apple in terms of finding solid ground? I realize that Apple's strength/majority marketshare was never computers, but what I see as Steve Jobs' genius was that he brought new markets to the masses - he didn't invent them necessarily, but certainly made it hip/popular.
The question is, can they maintain what they have in the smartphone/tablet sector? I don't rightly know the correct answer, but I'm inclined to say no; while we gadget nerds can say, "yes, there is a valid reason to upgrade", the general consumer - the ones that Apple is and should be gunning for - doesn't know the difference (my coworker, a mom of 4, didn't know if the iPhone 4S was new or not, even going to the website) and won't rightly see the need to upgrade. And I may be assuming too much here based off of 1 announcement; they may come out and say "Hey, that's fine, but here's the REAL announcement" a month down the road but if this is
the general trend of the company it will not bode well.
It is really a fragile time for Apple; we'll just have to see where it'll lead them next!