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Except every year there for quite awhile, there were innovations on the iPhone and iPad. There haven't been, for two years running.

siglesias 13y ago
Really? Let's look at diffs. iPhone -> iPhone 3G: Addition of 3G, GPS. enclosure became plastic. iPhone 3G -> iPhone 3GS: Video camera iPhone 3G -> iPhone 4: Retina, significantly improved camera, new enclosure, addition of front facing camera iPhone 4 -> iPhone 4S: Siri, better camera iPhone 4S -> iPhone 5: New screen form factor, significantly improved enclosure, lightning connector, LTE iPad -> iPad 2: thinner and lighter, cameras iPad 2 -> iPad 3: LTE, Retina iPad 3 -> iPad 4: lightning connector I don't see any significant decline in diff quality over time. edited for correctness
- smackfu 13y ago
  4S doesn't have LTE, and Siri is very debatable as requiring the new hardware, so that one was a pretty weak update.
  - siglesias 13y ago
    As it is, 4S was developed under Jobs.
    - quaunaut 13y ago
      No, it really wasn't. Did he have some idea the 4S was the direction it would take? Sure. But for God's sake, that phone was released a week and a half after he died. He hadn't been at work very much for a year before that.
- daigoba66 13y ago
  not to mention, each product iteration is much faster than the previous
- quaunaut 13y ago
  The 5's screen form factor hasn't been taken advantage of at all, the new enclosure, while nice, you literally cannot call innovative, LTE isn't innovative, it would've been 4 years ago but last year it was old news. And the lightning connector isn't innovative in a world where it's getting clocked hard by USB 3.0, which was a done-deal standard by the time Lightning was announced. The 4S, while having a better camera, it wasn't a huge jump, and Siri was software they removed(which had more features) from the 4's app store. The 4 was the last truly innovative iPhone- no one was talking screen density, and they nailed it. The new camera was a gigantic step up, the front facing camera was as well. Also, you missed with the iPhone->3G that the App Store came into existence. As to the iPad, the iPad 2 was commonly referred to the moment it came out as "The iPad that Apple meant to release." because of all of the small, but numerous, improvements. Adding Retina to the 3 is arguably a similar jump, though admittedly I don't have a lot of room to really know, as I don't own one.

siglesias 13y ago

Really? Let's look at diffs. iPhone -> iPhone 3G: Addition of 3G, GPS. enclosure became plastic. iPhone 3G -> iPhone 3GS: Video camera iPhone 3G -> iPhone 4: Retina, significantly improved camera, new enclosure, addition of front facing camera iPhone 4 -> iPhone 4S: Siri, better camera iPhone 4S -> iPhone 5: New screen form factor, significantly improved enclosure, lightning connector, LTE iPad -> iPad 2: thinner and lighter, cameras iPad 2 -> iPad 3: LTE, Retina iPad 3 -> iPad 4: lightning connector I don't see any significant decline in diff quality over time. edited for correctness

smackfu 13y ago
4S doesn't have LTE, and Siri is very debatable as requiring the new hardware, so that one was a pretty weak update.
- siglesias 13y ago
  As it is, 4S was developed under Jobs.
  - quaunaut 13y ago
    No, it really wasn't. Did he have some idea the 4S was the direction it would take? Sure. But for God's sake, that phone was released a week and a half after he died. He hadn't been at work very much for a year before that.
daigoba66 13y ago
not to mention, each product iteration is much faster than the previous
quaunaut 13y ago
The 5's screen form factor hasn't been taken advantage of at all, the new enclosure, while nice, you literally cannot call innovative, LTE isn't innovative, it would've been 4 years ago but last year it was old news. And the lightning connector isn't innovative in a world where it's getting clocked hard by USB 3.0, which was a done-deal standard by the time Lightning was announced. The 4S, while having a better camera, it wasn't a huge jump, and Siri was software they removed(which had more features) from the 4's app store. The 4 was the last truly innovative iPhone- no one was talking screen density, and they nailed it. The new camera was a gigantic step up, the front facing camera was as well. Also, you missed with the iPhone->3G that the App Store came into existence. As to the iPad, the iPad 2 was commonly referred to the moment it came out as "The iPad that Apple meant to release." because of all of the small, but numerous, improvements. Adding Retina to the 3 is arguably a similar jump, though admittedly I don't have a lot of room to really know, as I don't own one.