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It's pretty amazing that Apple is bucking the trend by releasing the iPad and iPhone once a year despite the rest of the industry releasing new models every mon
by bstar77 15y ago
It's pretty amazing that Apple is bucking the trend by releasing the iPad and iPhone once a year despite the rest of the industry releasing new models every month or two.
There's nothing more frustrating than shopping for an android product knowing that it'll be out shined in a few weeks and out dated in a few months.
Edit: this is coming from someone that owns 3 android phones and an android tablet and zero ios devices (at the moment).
- nextparadigms 15y agoI don't really understand this point. That should be true even if you buy an iPhone. If there are better/more powerful/higher resolution phones out there 2 months later, that will be true when compared to the iPhone as well. This is just competition in a high-growth market. So yeah, that doesn't make sense to me, unless you want to pretend that once you get into the Apple ecosystem, there is nothing better out there until Apple releases the next version of the device.
- bstar77 15y agoI guess I look at the iPad/iphone/ipod touches more like consoles than computers, where I look at android more as computers. When you have a console, you want that eco system and hardware to last longer than it takes to develop the next gnu or cpu. Android updates on every single new advancement in mobile tech, which I find completely overwhelming. It's very obvious that the carriers get overwhelmed because they have significant trouble updating their devices that are over a year old.
- moonchrome 15y ago>out dated in a few months This is actually the problem, I don't mind it getting "out shined" I'm not buying it to look/feel cool/for bragging rights - but I expect new software/OS to work on my "old" hardware, at least for some amortization period that's proportional to the price of the device.