*Flinchs*
Ok well, im going to make this brief because there is not much to say but....
personally I think I really like what apple did with this new update.
I love the faster ipod touch, I love the better camera, I love the new form factor. Even though it wasnt a big suprise, Im genuinely impressed.
As for the iphone, Im going to have to say I like it also EVEN THOUGH it also wasnt a suprise
As for the nano, Im kinda iffy but we will see how it turns out
JUST MY TWO CENTS
haters gonna hate
No shocker really, we all know by now Apple has the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. When Apple does come out with something new and interesting I'll give Apple my respect. Though as they stand now nothing impresses me. iPhone 5 looks nice I suppose, but I still dig the Razr and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 3 form factor way more.
No one is going to "hate" you for an opinion, we may hate the company, but not you.
Personally, I think their products are great, but it's just their business and marketing are so oblique.
For example, their recent presentation on tablets vs PCs is so biased, this is what are they currently:
http://www.neowin.net/news/apple-continues-its-we-are-in-a-post-pc-world-theme
^^ pretty cocky
They did well but I am still extremely underwhelmed. They released a 16:9 screen and didnt use 720p as the resolution. Made me lol that it was anything smaller. There really isnt anything crazy going on with that phone. The only thing that was really interesting is the single radio they have. Thats the only thing that made me raise my eyebrow.
What ever you do don't read the comments.
I think Apple's tight control over hardware and software is a very smart way to do things for these smaller devices. I've had an iPhone 3Gs for three years. It still runs, plays my music, lets me surf the web, and does everything else a smartphone should do. I don't even have a case for it, and yet it remains intact and operational. My family has an ever growing collection of hand-me-down MacBooks, iBooks, and iPods.
I will concede in a heartbeat that their legal department is a nonstop source of asinine behavior. However, just fiddling around with a MacBook Air for twenty minutes should be enough to convince you that there is some credence to the way they construct their products.
I had my old Nokia 3310 for like 6 years and it still worked just fine. You could even trow it off stairs and it kept working. And if you broke it, you could get a new cover for like 10 euro.
I've had my first smartphone for over 2 years (then it got stolen) and only had a few scatches on it.
A phone that works 3 years shouldn't be something special, it should be normal.
I know more people that needed to get their iPhone repaired then their Android phone (and I know a lot more people with Android phones).
Because of Apple's closed gate modus operandi they do have the advantage of a practically bug-free system. The problem I have is, I really don't feel like I would own an Iphone or Ipad if I bought one. You have to ask yourself, who really controls the content on your phone, you?, or Apple?
The iPhone is an order of magnitude more complex than your old Nokia, many pieces of older tech are still kicking it (Original Gameboy, N64, T-83 calculators, etc.) because they are simpler and therefore more robust. Given it's sophistication I'm still impressed with my iPhone's longevity, I use this thing every single day.
As for your comment about Android phones vs. iPhone in terms of build quality I have no idea, I've only played with a few of Samsung's phones (very impressed with them btw, felt solid). I'm trying to google some statistics about the phone's lifespans but I'm not having much luck finding good data.
Either way you're right about the three year thing, I'll always drop a few extra bucks for something that will last three times as long.
I would like the person to bang his head on a wall near him cause when I got to the point where you mentioned you the ipod.. I wanted 2 shoot myself. You guys do realise that the ipod touch costs as much as the ASUS NEXUS 7 tab? value for money guys seriously? This does include prices per Gigabyte.
woh 3 years for an iphone thats like almost 10 years for a normal phone
The only laptop I've ever had that has lasted me less then 5 years was one of those first small type things(Acer ONE I think it was), and that died because I was lugging it around with me everywhere, it was dropped frequently, sitting on top of generators, I think at some point I might have used it to swat a fly, still lasted over a year. None have been Apple products.
After playing with Apple products, and playing with other products, I can't say that I feel that the difference in build quality justifies the difference in price.