First on Siri: Dick commented that it was uncool that Apple bought Siri and didn't keep the Siri App alive. It's a server side service, so keeping the app alive means maintaining a legacy service. If this is uncool then it's also uncool that Google has killed off a bunch of services they bought. Notable to me was JotSpot (I was a happy JotSpot user) - Google bought and killed it and never replaced it with anything decent.
There were a lot of comments about the 4s being a disappointing upgrade. 4S has a better camera, faster processor - just like all the Android updates. And of course the "global phone" feature - but that's probably a bigger deal to the Apple manufacturing process than most users. In reality, specs don't matter much. most consumers don't pay attention to specs - what really matters is real world performance. Is it easy to use? Is it responsive? Does it take good pictures? Does the battery make it through the day? Is it cool? I don't think Apple is going to update the look just to say they updated the look. The iPhone 4 IMO is the best looking/designed phone out there. If you notice, they have the same philosophy with the macs and iPods. They keep case designs for more than one product cycle. No change just for the sake of change. Most of the improvements are software. And they are huge. Apple addressed almost all the irritants: wifi synching with iTunes, doesn't lock your phone on sync, OTA updates, notifications. And added a bunch of cool stuff: siri, iMessage, iCloud, iTunes match, airplay, photostream. I agree on the glass back being a mostly bad idea on the iPhone 4 (well, it's great until you drop it). But you can always buy a case. From what I see, I bet 80% of smartphone users use a case (I don't, but I never drop mine). The main iOS/iPhone irritants left are: no background processing for grabbing data (this is partially mitigated by newsstand) no way to set different default apps (like a browser) iMessage only works on iOS devices (no mac, no open protocol) no user defined widgets (just the canned ones) no LTE (here is why: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4925/why-no-lte-iphone-5-blame-28nm-maturity . basically, Apple would have had to have a much larger phone to have anywhere close to decent battery life) only one screen size offered (I think this one matters more to the techies, but I personally would like something closer to 4") -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
