Let's face it, boys and girls, this is the first gen iPhone which does not exceed the competition in features. Worse, it lags the CURRENT gen of the competition. Aside from the ecosystem, there is nothing in the 5 which currently doesn't exist in other devices with some on the horizon which will look seriously better than Apple's on the 'features' check lists.
Apple will go big with this because it has momentum but so did many tech companies which currently either don't exist or exist in shrunken form. Apple's Jobs' strategy to hold back features so the customers will always lust for the next gen isn't working now. This conservative approach worked only as long as Apple's semi-crippled devices had a lead on the competition. As soon as that ended, which is now with the iPhone 5, the strategy is a lame loser.
Apple the company, is unique in being the only tech company which has come back from the dead. And it was dead with Jobs in exile, but soon returned and returned an a way which will be a business and tech legend for many years to come. But that was then and this is now. Jobs isn't at the helm any more and I'm afraid it shows in this, Apple's first lackluster major hardware release.
Beats me who or what can stop this slide but I don't see Tim as being another Jobs.
Apple will go big with this because it has momentum but so did many tech companies which currently either don't exist or exist in shrunken form. Apple's Jobs' strategy to hold back features so the customers will always lust for the next gen isn't working now. This conservative approach worked only as long as Apple's semi-crippled devices had a lead on the competition. As soon as that ended, which is now with the iPhone 5, the strategy is a lame loser.
Apple the company, is unique in being the only tech company which has come back from the dead. And it was dead with Jobs in exile, but soon returned and returned an a way which will be a business and tech legend for many years to come. But that was then and this is now. Jobs isn't at the helm any more and I'm afraid it shows in this, Apple's first lackluster major hardware release.
Beats me who or what can stop this slide but I don't see Tim as being another Jobs.