I am not saying this as a good thing, but it seems that Apple has decided to “pull a Porsche” (I made this up), with the latest iPhone design of the iPhone 4S. If you look at the designs that Porsche have been doing for the last couple of years, they release a new Porsche and and call it amazing, but it looks exactly like the previous Porsche, but just with new insides.
If you look at all the hype over the past couple of months about a new iPhone 5 and a cheaper iPhone that will run exclusively on the cloud. Now that we know the truth, it seems like the whole Technology sector is disappointed.
They have made the iPhone exactly the same, but with new inside bits. See this article: http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/apple-iphone-4s/
So here are the new inside bits.
Cellular Connectivity: GSM + CDMA
Operating System: iOS 5
Processor: 1ghz Dual Core
Camera: 8MP
It might be much better than the original iPhone 4, but it seems disappointing when a company like Apple creates amazing products that then get emulated by other companies and that breeds competition and innovation to beat each other. This might just be a “safe” launch for the new CEO Tim Cook. But a safe launch means that my HTC Sensation, I feel, is streaks ahead of the iPhone.
The biggest thing in the new launch is that the iPhone runs part of the phone as a feature an “app” called Siri. Now the thing that might really irratate people is that this was an app that you could download on your iPhone, but now you can only run it on the iPhone 4s. How can incorporating an app into the main os be a huge selling point? NO Matter how good it is. Come on Apple!
Also with a company like Apple that has brought beauty to the IT world (read Macbook Air), that they couldn’t pull out the stops for this. It just seems very anticlimactic.
