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You know, you're right. It's definitely a very "nice" phone. Innovative? Not so much. 29MP cameras taking pictures of parts to match the case? Cool, but 99% o
by dakrisht 14y ago
You know, you're right.
It's definitely a very "nice" phone. Innovative? Not so much.
29MP cameras taking pictures of parts to match the case? Cool, but 99% of people won't care. I know Jony does. And I have A LOT of respect for that. It's like a $30k Patek Philippe watch - a lot of polishing, precision, care, subtlety, microscopic advancements - but most buy it because of the name; the brand.
Gruber's reviews are very Apple influenced. I wonder how much cash they're giving this guy. I remember reading one of his posts where Phil Schiller met him in a hotel room to intro Mountain Lion, how perfect the presentation and the conversation was. Clearly a very pro-Apple journalist (blogger? reviewer?) There's nothing wrong with this but his iPhone 5 post is pure "this is the best iPhone yet"
Anyway - nice phone, best iPhone? Sure, why not. It's the "biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone" That kind of says it out. We're out of ideas here, thinner, smaller, lighter, different materials - whatever.
I don't remember where I read it but I remember reading a piece that mentioned a few very wise things: smartphones will become so standardized in the next few years that we won't even notice what it is we are using. After all, we can't really go much thinner and lighter, we're reaching an apex here. Smaller? Not happening. People have hands that are a certain size. Smartphones will be replaced by something - be it Google Glass, foldable displays, chips in our brains (can't wait for this one! haha) --- the bottom line is that we're reaching levels of engineering where we just can't go much farther.
- gmac 14y agoa lot of polishing, precision, care, subtlety, microscopic advancements - but most buy it because of the name; the brand In Apple's case, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The brand surely is created by that precision, care and subtlety.
- msh 14y agoYes, it is not that many years ago that allmost all people in the HN demographics would have found the idea of using a mac as their main coding workstation amusing.