A) No one on this thread said anything about a 5 inch screen. 4.7 inch maybe, but not 5. (4.3 - 4.7 would be ideal.)
I'm not sure ideal means what you think it means. You're looking for something between a phone and a tablet. This isn't exactly ideal. These products are designed to handle two tasks at a mediocre level rather than one at a solid level.
One of the largest problems Android has is the fragmentation, even on same versions of the OS. Open up Xcode sometime. In order to develop the same app, you have to change quite a bit to work with different resolutions. In order to make things seamless for developers, it is in Apple's IDEAL interests to keep things less complicated. You'll see changes like ARC used in more recent versions of iOS to encourage developers to work with iOS. Making things more difficult without any TRUE gain is hardly ideal.
B) Yep, a lot of people have left iOS for a larger screen.
Let's just assume that your speculation is correct. We'll grant that many users left iOS purely for the larger screen. Let's even go crazy. We'll say millions left.
Market share increased. That means that for those millions that left, at least one more than those millions left their prior phone for iPhones.
• Apple iPhone: global sales 2007-2013, by quarter | Statistic
When you compare your speculation against numbers, it's irrelevant. A terrible business model is an attempt to pacify everyone. It simply cannot be done. Again, you'll go to that world where you do all sorts of things on a mediocre level and nothing well.
Again, for everyone that has left iOS, for any reason, more have chosen to gain iOS.
C) Blackberry once dominated the market, much more so than Apple does. They laughed at Apple and Android. Kind of like you're doing. Where are they now ?
We're laughing because you come here with asinine logic and present it as undeniable truth. That's simply not the case. Hell, look at this bullet point. You're comparing a company that had its hands in enterprise software prior to Blackberry. Blackberry was nothing more than a mobile solution to spread their software. Without the mobile solution, their software is mostly useless. Neither Apple nor Android are likely to make it easy for RIM to include their software widely on the products. The entire success of RIM focuses on Blackberry.
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Neither Apple nor Samsung are built entirely into one product the way RIM was.
They had a large market share in one small market. Keep in mind, the market share RIM had isn't nearly as impressive when you compare the raw numbers versus today's smartphone numbers. You're comparing apples to oranges in multiple ways with this bullet point. It's absurd.
E) Lighten up none of use are the CEO of Apple (at least I am not
), we are just expressing our opinion. It just happens to be different than yours, and that's ok.
I'm not sure if you understand these words either. You're getting feisty and drawing up irrational bullet points in response to a harmless remark. That's not exactly light yourself. Perhaps take your own advice?
F) Change is going to happen embrace it.
On its own, this is a borderline irresponsible statement. Change often happens. But, that's not enough to blindly embrace. Many terrible movements have been embraced as change throughout history to varying impacts. Let's avoid making such empty statements?
G) And while I have the floor, I would also like to see Apple add NFC and inductive charging.
Until I trust NFC more, you won't catch me leaving it enabled in any device. The gimmick of sending a playlist, without sending any of the songs, by tapping phones is on par with the satire Samsung used in their recent anti-Apple advertising campaign. "You mean the headphone jack will be... on the bottom!?" The same minds that would be impressed by the jack on the bottom are the type that are impressed with the ability to share playlists by tapping.
The charging may be nice, but I'm willing to pass on it to gain many of the other features I enjoy.