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35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen
judgecorp writes "Apple's iPhone 5 is not announced yet, but 35 percent of consumers say they will buy it, when it comes out, even though they know nothing about it. The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website."
Physicists have confirmed the ultimate speed limit for the packets of light called photons - making time travel even less likely than thought.
The speed of light in vacuum is the Universe's ultimate speed limit, but experiments in recent years suggested that single photons might beat it.
If they could, theory allows for the prospect of time travel.
Now, a paper in Physical Review Letters shows that individual photons too are limited to the vacuum speed limit.
That means that photons maintain the principle of causality laid out in Einstein's theory of special relativity - that is, an event's effect cannot precede its cause by traveling faster than light. It is violation of this causality that would, in principle, permit time travel.
While the limit in vacuum is a fixed number - some 300,000km per second - the speed of light can vary widely in different materials.
These differences explain everything from why a straw looks bent in a glass of water to experiments in cold gases of atoms in which light's speed is actively manipulated.
Some of those experiments showed "superluminal" behaviour, in which photons travelled faster than the speed of light in a given medium.
It remained, however, to determine whether or not individual photons could exceed the vacuum limit.
Now, Shengwang Du and colleagues at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have measured what is known as an optical precursor.
Like the wind that moves ahead of a speeding train, optical precursors are the waves that precede photons in a material; before now, such optical precursors have never been directly observed for single photons.
By passing pairs of photons through a vapour of atoms held at just 100 millionths of a degree above absolute zero - the Universe's ultimate low-temperature limit - the team showed that the optical precursor and the photon that caused it are indeed limited to the vacuum speed of light.
"By showing that single photons cannot travel faster than the speed of light, our results bring a closure to the debate on the true speed of information carried by a single photon," said Professor Du.
Thus, photons cannot time travel, and moving information around at faster-than-light speeds is impossible.
But the work has more prosaic implications.
"Our findings will also likely have potential applications by giving scientists a better picture on the transmission of quantum information," said Professor Du.
Time travel by other means, however, is not entirely ruled out.
... without even reading the summary or article!
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...that 65% or two-thirds don't want it.
They're probably people like me who own the 3gs (or older), still had time too much time on their plans (or who thought the 4 didn't quite justify an upgrade), and believe the next one is likely a good time to step up.
This is news? Coming up next you'll tell us that a new study predicts the Sun will continue to rise in the East?
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
In other words 35% of consumers don't care about the product but the social symbol it is and the status they think it confers on them.
35% of people who visit the Apple website on a daily basis? 35% of people who registered for some random website through their iPhone?
Seems like an awfully high percentage for just a regular average consumer survey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Yes, yes we will.
First Post???
By "3000 consumers", do they mean 3000 Apple consumers that just bought the IPhone 4 on that site by any chance?
Because I really doubt that 35% of "consumers" in general plan to buy a new phone, not to speak of a certain Apple phone...
ANNOUNCE IT ALREADY.
I have an android phone, but for my job I have been working a lot with iOS so would like to get an iPhone. In Canada, rogers is starting to roll out LTE. I could buy an iPhone 4 now, but I will instead wait for the iPhone 5 and get that once it is out.. as I am sure it will have LTE.
I want the iPhone 5. Do you have the iPhone 5? I want the iPhone 5.
of those 35% would put down money now - sight unseen - for it, as opposed to just saying that they "will" buy it.
Also, the article does not say where the survey took place - if it were on, and linked to by, a Mac user site, it's perhaps unsurprising that the result is what it is.
The power of Steve compels you... to buy a new iPhone.
Apple marketing department: Bend over ... this will be a pleasant surprise
Apple fanboi: Yes please
sheep
iPhone, iPad, iWhatwhatever Apple makes. It's nice stuff, but no one likes to talk about the weaknesses of the proprietary itunes tether...
Gotta give the Apple marketing folks credit though ... I can't think of anything that so many people would purchase without examining it first.
of all legitimaTe this 7ery moment,
That would be me, as well. I got an iPhone 3G, which has been in use for the past three years. That means that, by the standards of cell phones, I've had an obsolete phone for two years now. I can't bring myself to upgrade to a 4, knowing that a better model is right around the corner. Even if it was just a faster processor and better camera on the 5, that would still be sufficient cause for me to upgrade once my contract expires, since those would address my main dissatisfactions with the 3G.
In a nutshell, 'bigger and better' are good enough reasons to upgrade. Since that's a given with the 5, people will naturally want it, even knowing nothing else about it.
Apple has been making quality phones for years, so it is a reasonable assumption that the next one will also be a quality product, so it is reasonable for some people to say that they will buy iPhone 5 when it comes out.
Moreover, 69 percent of consumers indicated that they would prefer Apple’s iPhone 5 as a gift.
So jewelery and watches are replaced by iPhone. Buyers do not care about how many megapixels has iPhone5 camera, which OS is installed, 3G or 4G... It's just important to have the Apple logo on the device.
In love, war and slashdot discussions, everything is allowed.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
The masses are hooked on mediocrity in functionality, but will buy anything looking Gucci. Apple may become the first Trillion dollar valuation company in the world based on this kind of blind consumer interest.
"The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website."
So 3000 people who answer surveys on PriceGrabber is now an accurate reflection for the market?
I apologize for our fanbois. What's sad is that as more people move to the Mac OS/iOS platform, more of these idiots are gonna show up...
Of course I want an iPhone 5.. my 3GS is due for a contractual upgrade, so why not get the 5. I already know what the 4 will do, and each release of the phone has been progressively better.
It's not like I want to throw away my investments in apps and go to another OS (droid or win7). Sounds like a no-brainer to me, not a cultists mindless decision that commentators make it out to sound like.
99% of Slashdot users will hate on this story... Sight Unseen.
My first thought was the exact same as the above - "What are these people thinking? They know nothing about the product, and yet they're prepared to buy it?!"
Then it occurred to me:
1) For plenty of these people, it will be a free upgrade; so why not?
2) How is this exhibiting any higher a degree of faith in Apple than we do in e.g. Google or Facebook? They are essentially just trusting that Apple will do what they consider to be a satisfactory job, based on the last 4 efforts.
Also, never forget what caveats they might have in their minds when they answer this survey - e.g. I'm sure they weren't thinking "I'll buy it even if it turns out to be a banana with an apple stamped on it"
give me 20 minutes, a roll of duct tape, and a stack of business cards...im about to fashion together your new god in record time....and of course, its 5g.
just make that check out to 'cash'
Good people go to bed earlier.
Of course they do! The iPhone has gotten progressively better from the original to the current version; it's not like you're going to open the box for the eventual iPhone 5 and have it contain nothing but a loose collection of wires and poster tack, with a little sign saying "HAHA PWNED." My wife is squarely in this category, since she's still fighting with an increasingly balky 3G whose apps are getting crashier as they expect to have more modern amounts of memory.
35% of people don't have a smart phone. This lacks any sort of credibility.
I think the 35% is actually more likely, people who have loved the phones that have come out, their plan contract is completed, and they're waiting for the iPhone 5, to upgrade.
I know I'm in that boat, as are ~5 of my friends. We've all had them before, and we're waiting to upgrade. We don't want a 4, because then we'll be stuck with it, while the 5 is just around the corner. Which would be annoying. I've liked these phones since the 3, and each model out has been good, so I've nothing to suspect the 5 won't be good. More so, it's upgradin' time. I'm currently paying for the same contract, but without paying off the phone, this means the carrier is making uber monies. I'm in limbo. Apple, at least gimme a time line so I can make an informed choice.
The 65% are people who might want it later, or are still on a plan contract.
This is my footer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I'm surprised that the percentage wasn't higher.
There will always be a stubborn brainwashed segment of the market that favour style over substance. Had you asked them about crappy design causing signal loss, they'd just tell you how pretty it was. This won't ever change - its a basic trait of some personalities which Apple are exploiting.
Is this about Apple, or about successful brands in general? What do you suppose would be the percentage that would buy these hypothetical products, sight unseen:
I know, "Apple fanboys are all tools", "It's all about the shiny", blah blah blah. But people are always interested in followups to successful products they like. How many /. users are psyched for Linux kernel 3.0, sight unseen?
35% of people have a 3GS that they're dying to replace. Not because they need the latest and greatest but because a device you carry for two years straight is getting pretty banged up.
"The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website"
that's why US was established as a republic and not a democracy, because an average person should not be voting for anything.
You can't handle the truth.
I want an iPhone 6!
and a pony!
if you can't figure out that the iPhones are pretty high-quality pieces of engineering.
That's okay, there are lots of nontechnical people in the world and you are one of them. It's weird that you would hang out on a website catering to nerds.
Apple makes a decent phone that integrates well with other Apple products. The target demographic of Apple is the consumer electronics user, not the serious computer user. They only use computers to accomplish something else. They don't use computers for the sake of using computers. The polished and (reasonably) well integrated user interface is simple and lets them get on with doing what they want to do without getting in their way. The iPhone4 was better than the 3. Apple has a track record of solid and steady improvements, rather than some companies who completely redesign their user interface every time they come out with a major release. *cough* *cough* Microsoft *cough* *cough* When I'm happy with an appliance, I'm very likely to want to buy another one of the same brand when it's time to replace and/or upgrade. I don't see why the iPhone would be any different.
They've built up that brand by doing solid engineering that leads to lots of repeat customers.
iSheep, just sayin.
Choosing to buy now isn't completely a blind purchase. It's sure to have the A5 processor, Bluetooth 4 Low Energy and a dual GSM/CDMA chip. Less sure are a bigger camera with dual LED flash and the exact case design that is supposed to be thinner and lighter.
If you like these features, and you're looking to upgrade your iPhone anyway, it's a fairly safe purchase decision. It's certainly not buying in the dark.
if you think the right way to pick a phone is to add up all the numbered features and then take the phone with the highest total.
Apple customers really don't care about the logo, they care that it is a solidly engineered appliance.
I'm one of the folks who's probably going to buy it sight unseen. I could care less about if someone else things I'm affluent because I have an iPhone 5, or if I'm "trendy" because of it, or anything else. And just because it's got an Apple logo in the middle of the back doesn't mean it's worth it's weight in gold either.
I'm still using a 3GS, and after two years it's starting to get a little beaten up - the screen isn't cracked or deeply scratched, but it's got a few pits here and there, etc. I was going to upgrade to a 4, but I decided to skip a generation since we're so close to the release of the 5. And, since once of the reasons I wanted the 4 was a improvement in the camera over the 3GS (which I use a lot), I figure the 5's camera will more likely than not be slightly better.
Which brings me to the question: how may of of the 35% mentioned are people who decided to skip a generation because there wasn't a compelling reason to upgrade to a 4, but about the time the 5 rolls around their 3G or 3GS is due for a replacement?
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We've passed the tipping point.
Have gnu, will travel.
The only people that think owning an iPhone is somehow a social symbol are Android users with inferiority complexes. Having an iPhone stopped being unusual years ago.
They should rename it to iPhone 6 a month after launch. A lot of people would buy it again.
There are people that will buy a new Ford Mustang when it comes out... because it's a 'stang.
Choosing a car is a much larger decision than choosing a smartphone, but people are still swayed by brand loyalty. I'm not surprised that brand loyalty is prevalent in choosing a device that you will throw away after 2 years.
Sheeple
but many people don't care about replacing the battery and they'd rather not have some rickety plastic door on it that pops open all the time.
Every phone blocks signal based on how you hold it--I can understand why that isn't obvious to you but this is a technical website so you probably shouldn't hang out here if you don't care to understand basic RF.
I've never had problems with the iPhone 4 signal quality.
It is really totally okay if you don't want to buy Apple products and you don't understand anything about technology or engineering--the world will continue to rotate just fine.
'35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen'
"35% Consumers?"
Is it possible to be 35% consumer?
because there is now quite a bit of historical evidence of Apple building high-quality, well-engineered products. I can understand why that would be perplexing to you (a) don't mind fiddling with technology to get it to work, and (b) don't understand technology well enough to appreciate good engineering.
Okay this is just bullshit. First, this is not news for nerds, this is news for:
1) Apple Fanbois to thump their chest on
2) Android Fanbois to fires of their hatred of anything Apple
3) Business Marketroids, who are most definitely not nerds
Obviously I have to start voting with my eyeballs and look to some other site for quality news. There's nothing of substance in an article like this, it's just flamebait for all the Apple-Android flame wars.
But just to answer all three groups and point out my utter annoyance with all of them:
1) Just because you are popular doesn't mean you have the best product. Doesn't mean you don't, but "everyone else is buying it" is a top fallacy that everyone needs to stop using as a badge of honor. /rant
2) I love how you point out 35% of people are [stupid/easy to fool/lambs to the slaughter/insert overdone cliche] and then out of the other side of your mouth point out how Android phones are more popular in volume than Apple phones. To those of you who do, see #1 and stop thinking you are somehow better than Apple fanbois because you are not, you are 100% just like them.
3) You are not nerds, get off this site so the nerds can mod these stories into oblivion.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
choose an iPhone b/c it's a good phone
You've just illustrated the point. The iphone 5 isn't out yet, but you're saying it will be good - simply because that's what you think of the ones that preceded it (all their faults notwithstanding).
Maybe it WILL be a good phone, maybe the designers and marketeers will have learned all the lessons from past mistakes. Until it comes out, nobody knows. Therefore the only people who would buy it sight-unseen and price-unkown and without knowing what the voice/data package will cost appear to be people who put their faith, willingly, in an untried product without doing any sort of critical analysis or bothering to look around to see what else is available.
Sounds like you're their ideal customer
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No. Not 35% of consumers. 35% of people who filled out the survey. There is no qualification of the sample in the article. Who knows how they were chosen?
35% seems shockingly high. Shockingly convenient for a who-the-heck-are-you website that could really get attention.
With any cool new tech toy, people are going to want it. Consumers like cool things. Consumers are also interested in getting in on the latest and greatest (they aren't necessarily dumb, they are more likely ignorant). Besides, how accurate are those survey results? What if not much thought was put into the participants choosing the right answers? Keep in mind also of the halo effect: Apple makes a great product, consumer purchases that product; suddenly, all Apple products become awesome in that consumer's eyes. This goes for anything else too.
The more you know, the more you have to say and the more you should listen.
As I've often been flamed for saying before, Apple product sales have very little to do with quality or features yet have everything to do with the current fad of apple being "cool". This just goes to prove that 35% of apple users openly admit it since they don't know what will be in the iphone5. Reminds me of that skit on the onion where the guy says "I'll buy anything if it's shiny and made by Apple."
for its entire history--it has covered all manner of technology (closed or not). The PS3/Wii/Xbox are all far more closed platforms than iPhones, and they've all gotten plenty of ink here. The space shuttle program has also gotten a lot of ink, I assume you don't believe that's an open platform, do you?
So do you ever upgrade your kernel sight unseen?
... and actually doing it. How many of those 35% that responded will actually go out and buy one as soon as it comes out? Not many I'd suspect, even if only because most will still be bound by contracts etc.
Lots of people get a new phone every X years and if they currently like the iPhone and possibly have a bunch paid for apps that only work on the iPhone then of course they'll buy an iPhone 5. Unless when it comes out it really sucks, but that's unlikely given Apple hasn't screwed it up yet.
If asked I'd say that yes I'll be buying Mass Effect 3 (though most likely after it has been out long enough to be discounted) even though for all I know they could release a tetris/tower defense hybrid and call is Mass Effect 3. I liked the first two so it seems a fair bet. I won't be pre-ordering and I'm sure these people aren't suggesting they'll pay for it right now before the hype starts...
That 5G is gonna be BLAZING FAST!!!!
That Apple customers only buy Apple junk because it's trendy and cool. Why else would they by second rate hardware that's slower and crappier than real computer maker stuff, for twice the priceseses.
and the percentage sounds about right for this kind of blind stupidity.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Bullshit. No one likes new tech. We always prefer the older, slower, known quantities of grandfathered hardware. It comforts us in our dotage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-D7bVxhQB0
My iphone 3G is getting 'phone Alzheimers' (It may have been dropped a few times as a child...and adult), therefore I think it's getting about time to take it out back with the shotgun and bring home a cute new iphone 5
Nice summation of the idiotic Android/iOS fanboy mentality. I salute you sir.
"blah blah blah samsung galaxy tab 10 blah blah blah... now explain to me why ipad sells more"
I said nothing other than that the iPhone hasn't been a status symbol for years. Your brain filled in all the ridiculousness required to leap all the way over here.
I'll bite anyway. Could it be because of the huge number of mature, high quality applications that attract users as opposed to technical pinheads?
Naw... that couldn't be it.
Next Media Animation in Tapei has Apple fandom covered. "When the Iphone 5 comes out, I'm screwed".
One of the things I like most about the iPhone is that Apple sells a whole lot of them. That means that if there's a problem, millions of people will be upset with Apple until they fix the problem. That also (in theory) pushes apple to get the product right the first time.
Before getting the iPhone 4, I had a Samsung Glyde. I thought it would be a great phone. It wasn't. People quickly found out that it was a turd and stopped buying it shortly after its release. Support from the manufacturer was pretty much non-existent. That's part of the reason why I avoid Android phones (for now). If I happen to get the turd Android phone that the carrier and manufacturer don't want to support, I'm stuck for a few years. But the manufacturers and carriers don't care because in a month they come out with the newer, improved phone and people forget about the turds. I have less fear about getting a turd phone from Apple.
They know nothing about it? Hardly. Quite a bit is known. The iPhone has been around for 4 generations of devices, each one being an extension of the last. Generation 5 will be an extension of gen 4. So already there is quite a bit known.
The summary and article is just a bunch of FUD.
One could make the argument that they have a pretty reasonable expectation, based on past performance, that the new product will be similar to existing offerings but with as-yet-unspecified improvements. If you asked people whether or not they intended to buy a phone produced by an unknown company with no track record then, indeed, they would "know nothing about it." Not the case here.
I'm going to hold out on this and wait for the iPhone20 (to go with my Mach 20). I expect good things from such high numbers
Old McJobs had a store, EE-I-EE-I-Oh
And in that store he had some SHEEP, EE-I-EE-I-Oh...
The hype is justified if you understand the technology, but since most customers don't then the hype from them is unjustified? Do you have any idea how that sounds?
Even non-technical people can appreciate good engineering. You don't have to know how bridges are built to appreciate that good ones don't collapse and bad ones do. If you then associate the good bridges with the companies that made them, does that mean that you only care about that company's logo?
Do you think anybody buys an iPhone because they were tricked into thinking they could do some C++ coding for it right out of the box?
The technology is impressive and well-executed. If it isn't something you want, then don't buy it (there are alternatives). I don't see why you have to shit all over anyone who makes a different value judgement about what they want from a phone.
I'm in the 35% that wants the iphone 5 to be an unseen sight.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
At least 35% anyway, but probably more than that.
Roughly 50% are under average intelligence .... you do the conclusion.
This is marketing not news - anyone gonna check that these people were honest? I make it a principle to lie on any survey.
Amplitube. And scads of other applications for musicians that don't work on Android because of latency issues.
There's a bit of a lock-in to having a bunch of stuff already in the app-store/iTunes.
My fiancee has been looking at getting an iPhone 4. She's got a lot of apps she uses on the iPod, and was looking at a "Galaxy S2" VS "iPhone 4." I mentioned that the 5 is probably coming out, and would expect some features to include a multi-core processor etc in order to stay competitive with the newer Android phones. So does one consider iPhone5 as a competitor for the other phones, or mainly against the iPhone4? For those that are looking a "new iphone", it makes sense to at least wait until the 5 is out and then see if the full features list warrants an upgrade.
Sad about your life though
People buy iPhones because they are well-built with a user-friendly interface and a well-executed ecosystem for media (tv/movies/music/apps) across iOS products (iPad/iPhone/AppleTV). iPhone [generally speaking] don't want to tinker with their phones or write code for them.
You are mad that what the majority of people want is not what you specifically want. You want something you can fiddle with and hack at. And that's great, but it is unreasonable for you to expect the rest of the consumer world to subsidize your desire to tinker.
Apple has not misled anyone. People are getting exactly what they want and paid for. It just isn't what *you* want.
Nokia does have a proud history and they rode the value of that brand quite a while after they stopped making the best smartphone on the block. What existing product do they have which is comparable to an iPhone4 or an iPad2?
Apple is still making excellent products. If they stop making good products and then 3 years later people are still buying it then you could maybe make a case that they are buying it "just for the logo".
The "just for the logo" crowd is just so outrageously stupid. The logo has basically been unchanged for about 30 years--during which time Apple has nearly gone out of business several times (coincidentally when they were making crappy products)--why didn't the "logo" save them then? Why don't other companies get themselves magical logos if it is that frickin easy?
I'll just leave this right here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Nokia has a number of Symbian phones that are in engineering and quality terms at least the equal of the iPhone.
Apple's logo is currently fashionable. It wasn't in the past, but it is now. Excellent marketing (and adequate design coupled with excellent software support) of the iPod caused that; the phones have leveraged that and Apple has continued with its marketing excellence.
The devices themselves are by no means shabby, but don't dismiss the power of that status boasting logo.
for the CPU and IIRC 7 times as fast for the graphics, all at the same price. A lot of people dump their current computing products for something like that.
Basically, "sight unseen" is irrelevant here. We know it's basically going to kick-ass. There is almost no chance that it won't. It's a pretty safe bet to say you'd buy it, especially if you're already invested in the ecosystem. Love that lock-in.
I for one would like to know how many don't want one, regardless of changes.
I assume it will still be overpriced and hyped as well as limited and very easy to break.
...that's the fundamental problem.
You think the value of a technology is measured by gigabytes and megapixels but in fact the point of all technology is to improve the quality of life for some human. Nokia's symbian phones might have some good engineering but they don't have the full package the way Apple's products do, with great hardware, great software and a large & well-executed media-delivery ecosystem (tv/movies/music/apps/books/etc.) on a platform which extends elegantly across phones/tablets/computers.
Because you aren't capable of understanding the complete story of how that technology really affects peoples lives then you are left grappling from some explanation of the overwhemling success Apple's had--and so you dismiss it as "good marketing" with a "trendy logo". It's sad and pathetic.
Many, many moons ago (see my UID), this was a site founded about open source (with emphasis on Linux), science, and technology (with emphasis on IT). It was good, and attracted many interesting and smart people. The articles weren't always the best, but you could read comments from people who were knowledgeable in their field, and learn about really cool things you otherwise would never hear about.
But then, MS started to astroturf, and with popularity came misinformed bigots and those ignorant of science and the reasons for Free software. Microsoft and most of their shills have been (rightfully) discredited, but there has been a resurgence in people too blind to look past their brand loyalty and not satisfied with other sites that might better meet their needs. Why they feel the need to push their agenda to every inch of the Internet, I do not know.
Many good people have left slashdot; some of us still stay to try and clean things up. But it's hard when you see tons of spam and slashvertisements for companies who are hostile to freedom filling up the firehose everyday, and very little of note about open source and science and real technology getting through. Though there are still many wise people posting insightful comments here, I fear it might be time for me to leave. I'm not sure where I'd go; preferably somewhere that focuses on more technical issues; somewhere that cares about Freedom and open systems. Slashdot does not appear to be that place anymore.
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It runs the software that most people want to run and it interacts with their lives in a positive way.
If you have special wants and needs then that's a great reason for you to look elsewhere, but it doesn't invalidate the value of Apple's technology for everyone else.
This is so obvious that you must know it so I'm going to assume that you are either (a) trolling or (b) far too stupid to grasp these basic concepts--either way, I'm bored.
No, friend, Slashdot has never been that. I've been visiting this site for over 15 years, and it has always had articles from a broad range to technical themes, and a diverse array of opinions expressed in the comments. It used to be very anti-apple, it's true, and some explained this by claiming apple was not open, but the change happened around the time apple released the iMac.
This was the time when the quality of Apple's products improved dramatically. Apple started innovating and their products were no longer overpriced and underpowered. Apple reinvented the music industry and the cell phone industry. You complain they are not open, but maybe you don't remember how things were before apple moved into these industries (much, much worse).
I'll admit that apple does a lot of screwed up stuff, but the reason they get traction here on slashdot is they move the state of the art forward, and they produce products of supperior quality. Open platforms will win out in the end, and Apple will be forced to capitulate some day, when the rest of the market has caught up to them. But in the mean time, Apple has the support of most slashdotters because they actually release new products from time to time.
No apps for it.
We don't buy computers to have specs. We buy computers to do work.
iPad is so far ahead of everything it's not even funny. We use it as a Point-of-sale terminal, for example. Can't do that on a Tab.
It should read "35% of self-selected respondents to an online poll at an online shopping website indicate that they will buy the iPhone 5." In other words, it's meaningless. I am impressed by the brand loyalty that Apple has managed to generate in the short time they've been in the phone market, but it'll become increasingly difficult to sell $650+ handsets to consumers as the market matures.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they all want iPhone5. Are they willing to buy it? Or they want someone to give it to them? So 65% of the people would not even want an iPhone5. Even if it was just handed to them. It puts the headline in a completely different light!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I'm waiting for the iPhone 6!
The CB App. What's your 20?
Seriously, the only reasons anyone upgrades:
1) because it's new
2) because it's prettier
3) because it's thinner (see #2)
4) because mine sucks (see #1)
Nobody ever upgrades because:
1) The hardware guys cut radiation emittance by 35% in the new model
2) The dot pitch has been embiggened. I can actually see a whole page of email now
3) On screen keyboard keys have gotten 15% bigger. I can now type easier.
4) Devs have added support for IMAPS now so I can use my home mail server
5) The new model uses 12% less electricity now so it's better for the environment
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I'll buy it if it is a compelling upgrade. Will it be dual core, and will it feature 64GB or 128GB of storage, and a larger display? I don't care about 4G/LTE since 3G is fast enough for my purposes; I can stream netflix without issue, Rhapsody without a problem, and I expect Apple's iCloud services will work just fine once they work through MAFIAA insanity regarding streaming content users own (remember, when you buy creative works, you OWN that copy; you have the right of first sale. You just can't violate its copyright, so spare me your propaganda).
If it's not a compelling upgrade though, that is, if it's still limited to 32GB with no SD slot to expand storage, I'll stick with my iPhone4 until there is a compelling reason to upgrade. Storage is the deciding point for me; I am constantly juggling my play list, especially as I re-rip my CDs to replace old 128kbps rips (which, after years of going without using a home stereo system, I'm building a new system with Klipsch Reference speakers and a new Elite receiver to replace Elite VSX-26TX that is so obsolete that I probably couldn't even give it away at this point) because my new system will easily make the flaws in 128kbps rips apparent.
So yeah - between purchased videos and my music collection, which as I dig up my CDs and re-rip them, my media collection would exceed even a 128GB capacity by far, especially when you figure that iOS will probably take up 1.2GB, then my purchased apps another 8-12GB, and then my Free/Free apps (sbsettings, BSD userland, mobile terminal, openssh, assorted utilities and shell scripts for monitoring servers, etc.) via Cydia taking up another couple gig.
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Yeah I love stupid articles like this.
Hey guess what... Most people want a flying car can we get a percentage on that as well and useless article behind it?
I'll buy one when they have LTE and AWS 1700 (T-mobile and Wind(Canada)) support, otherwise it's a maybe.
NFC will peak my interest, but not much yet.
Not hard to imagine these numbers.
Q: Would you buy a phone that's better than the iPhone4 (one of the best selling smart phones)?
A: Survey results: most everyone says yes..
"better than the iPhone4" = "iPhone5"
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Zombies. They probably vote the same way, without a thought of who will have to pay for all those social programs.
Phacops says-
Given:
* A 3,000 user sample size;
* The resident population of the United States is 311,852,895 (via the U.S. Census Bureau);
* 35% of the sample size wants the unreleased iPhone.
Then,
1,050 of the participants wanted the iPhone. This induces the fact that for every 1 person that wants it, there are 297,002.757 people that either do not know about it, don't care, or are undecided etc., This is .000336697...% of the U.S. population.
~3.36697 x 10 ^ -6 which is
Niche market?
the iPhone 5 was really a lethal injection, we could stop pretending these toys are revolutionary or that they have any place in an organization with security, efficiency, or environmental standards.
I'm one who definitely doesn't want it, seen or unseen.
What this shows is that even when people have the IPhone 4 it can not satisfy them. It's a shame they are willing to get rid of them for something they have never seen or have no idea what it will do. Like sheep the follow the person infront of them, no idea where they are going. They all must think (no HOPE) the Apple is greener on the side as the current Iphone has just not lived up to their expectations due to the hype surronding it.
The Apple device is a great device, if you really need it. With your "Must have it or I will not sleep at night" syndrome, you are victim to hype.
I use my phone as a phone and for some messages. I do enough emails that I don't need to do more while I am walking or in a meeting.
So, my toy cost me $60.00 and that's it. Not a penny more. I prefer to put my money into paying down debt, and building up a pension fund for my wife and me.
35% of the sample population has or has a friend that has an older generation iPhone. Having not been disappointed in the past, by said product, they can say that they will likely want the new iPhone after their current mobile contract is up. If that is the iPhone 5 then so be it.
I know I fit into that category. I bought the 3GS a while back and have to say I have been very happy with it. Do I want an iPhone 5? Hell yes. Will that stop me from looking at alternatives? No. But will my positive history with the device add to my purchasing decision? Definitely. If when released, the iPhone is a dog, will I still get it? Likely not. Depending on when my contract ends, hopefully I won't be a first adopter, and can find out from someone else if it had problems.