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After the publicity settles from Apple's traditional Nuremberg style product launch even the pro-Apple press is finding little to get excited about by the iPhone 5.
According to Reuters, if Apple wanted to keep its grip on the smartphone market, it would have to come up with something pretty damn special, particularly after the iPhone 4S fiasco. And really, it hasn't.
Apple's last phone was essentially a fixed iPhone 4 with the edition of Siri voice search software and a better chip. While Apple fans still bought the 4S, sales of the gadget dried up a few months early. This cleared the way for Samsung's Galaxy S2 and S3 to clean up.
Apple needed something big to clean Samsung's clock and establish itself as the leader of all things Smartphonish. The problem is that the iPhone 5 is a big yawn.
Basically it is the same formula, only slightly thinner with a bigger screen. Nothing to see here, move on please. The camera is better and the chip is better.
To make matters worse, Apple has allowed the technology to break legacy apps and accessories that fanboys had invested in.
Michael Yoshikami, chief executive of wealth management company Destination Wealth Management, said that Apple had lost the plot and the new phone had no "wow factor". He said Apple had not done enough to satisfy anyone.
Apple shares ended the day up 1.4 percent at $669.79 which is unheard of after a product launch of this scale.
One of the problems is that Apple seems to be only pitching its products at the US. It is a policy that it started with the iPhone 4S where Siri only really worked in the States. In this case the iPhone 5's game changing feature is the use of a high-speed 4G LTE wireless network which is only starting to see the light of day in the UK with Everything Everywhere's expected launch. Samsung and Motorola already have larger and 4G-ready phones.
Much of the other innovations on the iPhone 5 are just playing catch up with Samsung.
Where does this leave Apple? It will take a while, but people will say that the iPhone 4S and perhaps the death of Steve Jobs will mark the decline of the company. At the moment it is not coming up with anything new or interesting that will stop the rot. A company which is built on hysteria starts to lose when the that hysteria dies down. Like it did with the tablet, Apple needs to find some technology which works but has not been successful, and repackage it and hype it to the nines. There does not appear to be anything that matches that yet.
A Simplicity which Eludes is that we cannot see for another, a fact which eludes preachers, re-presentatives, and similar nonsense of mesmerism. One might say that the blind-blinded cannot be blamed for their errors and that is true but when the blind-blinded is going for Gold, which is when they try to blind others too, then they must be countered. Not by those who are also the blind-blinded, those who have too much or too little, but by those who are beyond Over & Under. Those who have higher vision but yet realise that you cannot offer that vision to another via an external vision. Afterall, should one be a house, say, one could only see oneself through a reflection. this is exactly the same position of The Divine who is merely The Witness [to His reflection/s]. As such, Reality is Of Self and never, ever, Of Others.
Applings and Applites will always be there in one form or another because Infinitisers of The Material will always shadow the Infinity which is of The Spiritual. In other words, when Evolution is merely evolution, It is restricted to/bounded by The Material and will then be absolutely useless for Spiritual Evolution if only because its motion is circular and never elliptical/hyperbolic/progressive/"of the aura". When it comes to gambling, oka the visual activity of the blind-blinded, returning to Square One is the best outcome [when the conditions are prefect] whereas those who believed that gambling is some magical formula predicated upon luck/skill will mostly shoot off in a tanget to the circle. As such, what the chimp does in the jungle has no bearing on what humans are doing. In fact, when human encroachment begins, the chimp is in real trouble. For The Divine, He [through She], will always be unconditional until Devolution within Humanity has progressed to the point when He must act. Afterall, He, through Her, created everything from nothing [but how any human realised this fact via The Material?]
What Greed-Fear does has not only no bearing on those who lacks Greed-Fear, Greed-Fear is only for the greedy and the fearful. A Simplicty which Eludes most otherwise humans will not only be not selfish, we will not claim to be selfless too. Witness therefore, politicians, preachers, CEOs, Gadgetmen, The Judiciary & Law Enforcement, bankers, insurers, "Civil Servants", "Health & Safety Experts" and the myriad of Frivolity & Nonsense claiming not only be sensible, they demand others are that way too. The Control Freak who is The Abandoned Nutter. Afterall, should you not be overly conscienced like those who are forever thanking you or who are afraid, does not mean that you should then be underly conscienced, just like the Good Cop-Bad cop act. And those who have yet to see this insanity acting as the font of sanity ought to commit some minor "crime" and see the training seared into the foreheads of these jokers who believed that they are chosen to "serve" uinfolding into what they really are, which is when they had removed their garments. As if reality is some cloaking device.
There are very many good humans who should be evolving into their spiritual dimension but they are being denied by all the know-eet-all-really-know-nuffin-real. A sad reality because every human has the potential to be[come] a part of Divinity where "Health, Wealth & Happiness" is a reality, the realisation of which costs nothing instead of being of some conspiracy or of ignorance, their interaction thereof which then spins the biggest nonsense even The Bookie has known. To be actually owned by Fame, Fortune & Immortality whilst being groomed to believed that they are owning some FF&I, the MO of Humanity being Of Ownership Issues. Fear not Applings and Applites because your saviour will always be there when you have the urge/desire to "Open Wide"/for some purity, anything so long as the desire is for purity, of course, purity like eliminating evil dictators, perfect skin, and rounded rectangles - an impossibility when you lacked purity within your desire in the first instance. Realise too that the Greed-Fear of Human Behaviour do not exist in infants and other non-thinkers like animals and vegetation. The human version of Greed-Fear is a special category made in Bookieland with no sell-by-date. Just the type of purity which science and scientists are always sacrificing their sanity for.
FF&I. Yes. The font of sanity must be sans-serif, for every Nymph in the Grotto has a prick for every little fool who has a tail. There I shall prophesy: The Serif shall wag the dog. Happy are the spiritually dimented who is no Bookie tool and who nobody can deny and so says all of us and so and so as each as much as may whosoever will and no new nun naysayers shall own them for they are not the worth more than a penny a peck. The jokers are wild with tales of tails and they have not the font of sanity. surah.
Don't you all get it? The innovation that was the i1 was SO innovative because it was Apple's first phone. Every time Apple releases a phone, or Hell, any device, I can expect Nick and the usual suspects to come slinking out, bitching that they aren't innovative enough. Really?
Well Nick, I don't EVER see any suggestions from you as to what you think they should be doing. It's easy to be critical, but you aren't very specific, are you then?
What, should the iPhone have a 6.5" OLED screen to show up Samsung's own 'tablet phones'? Should they make the phone twice as thick as to include a 24 hour battery (ala Razr Maxx?) Should they put a quad core processor in, you know, to eat all remaining power not used by 4G?
Isn't it possible then, that Apple and Samsung have reached a point of usability where anything else is an unacceptable compromise? All the low hanging fruit are picked (user interface, battery life, graphics/processor, etc.) What more do you want...?
...Other than to not have Apple make it?