Flooding the market with gotta have items every time you turn around probably hit the tolerance limit of the fanboys.
That and the fact that like with PCs and horsepower, they achieved a level of thech people are good with and don’t clamor for incremental upgrades.
I just did an upgrade on my graphics card to run Fallout 4 maxed. When I checked the CPU usage and memory/data transfer on my 2.5 year old motherboard/CPU I found not even 50% usage and nowhere bottlenecking the system under very heavy load. I would bet thats where the iphone is now. “Good enough”.
Exactly. Good enough for me. How fast do I really need my data anyway? Who is going to be impressed by it.
Unless I’m an engineer or surgeon, I can wait a few seconds without thinking the sky is about to fall.
Ah, forgive me, I keep forgetting the iPhone types stay plugged into Twitter and Facebook 24/7 with the damn things. And take selfies non-stop..
I just watched comparing the new PC hotness DDR4 ram and the new Skylake CPUs. The difference in real world benefit is not nearly worth the upgrade costs for anyone but professional users or technophiles wanting to be on the bleeding edge of performance.
Five years ago Nokia invented a $100 phone in order to sell a billion in India and China. When asked about it, Steve Jobs said something like, Let them sell a billion for $100.
iPhones are excellent but too expensive. I use an iPhone 3GS without internet and it syncs perfectly with my Mac mini with OS 10.8. Super nice.
Just think, if Steve approved of a $100 phone for the new middle class (making $12,000 a year) in India and China, then Apple would continue to be strong. As it is now, Apple has peaked.
Nokia and others will fill the gap and sell items to the new middle class. People who are starting to make $12,000 a year love their phones and shampoo and rice makers.
Eventually good enough is good enough, toasters got there decades ago. Computers got there in the last 10 years. Phones are getting there.
The only thing I am interested in is a better camera in my phone, every thing else has been good enough for a couple of years.