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Abdel Ibrahim:
[W]hy must a device take us by surprise and beat us over the head with its novelty?
Other than a few of the vocal minority, how many people are genuinely bored or feeling let down with the new iPhone?
The technology and whizbangery the average consumer has available to them today is absolutely amazing. If you’re bored by that, it’s not the iPhone 5 that’s boring, it’s you.
Think about that for a second. Their entire first run of pre-orderable iPhones sold out in an hour. And that was during the middle of the night.
…and why Apple developed the Lightning connector.
I’m pretty sure this is a major violation of his NDA.
My Elevation Dock arrived 5 days ago. It is fantastic, but I’ll only get one more week of use out of it until it becomes the property of my wife. I should have left in its box and saved it as a Christmas present for Anna who is not upgrading her 4S. She’ll love using it as a charging station at night.
This week on the new B&B Podcast, Ben and I share tips and tricks about LaunchBar starting with a bit of history. For example: did you know LaunchBar is the original application launcher to use the Command+Space keyboard shortcut?
In the After Dark we talk iPhone 5 and considerations on switching from AT&T to Verizon.
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Jim Dalrymple:
What was important to me for an updated iPhone was the larger screen. However, making a larger screen does come with its drawbacks if it’s not done right. Specifically, if you can’t operate it with one hand, it might be a difficult sell for a lot of people.
I’m happy to report that I was able to operate the iPhone 5 with ease using one hand. That means I was able to reach the top of the screen with my thumb, change options and navigate through the screens without having to reach uncomfortably.
Ben Brooks:
The photos you take with your iPhone are, themselves, a lasting marketing tool for Apple to sell more iPhones — so it only makes sense that they spend so much time improving the camera with each version.
This is an angle that I’d never thought of.
As a consumer, I love that Apple keeps pushing the bar higher and higher for their iPhone camera because an improved camera is one of the things I most look forward to in getting a new iPhone.
And look at the Lock screen now. From there you’ve got two actions: slide that icon up to take a photo, or slide that square to the right to do anything else.
Nice touch for plugging the tall iPhone 5: the Apple homepage is responsive to the vertical height of your browser window, not the width. (Thanks, Matthew.)
A way better camera, LTE, great battery life, taller screen, and all new hardware design. Pre-orders start this Friday the 14th and the iPhones ship next Friday the 21st.
If you’re only going to track with one site, I’d suggest gdgt. Ryan Block has become my new favorite “liveblogger” for the Apple Events. He did a great job last year for the 4S announcement and again earlier this year for the iPad 3.
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And I’ll be tweeting on Twitter, of course.
Last year, before the 4S was announced, I wrote about one of the reasons Apple’s product launches are so successful:
Good marketing may get people in the door the first time, but it’s good product development that gets them in the door the second time and the third time.
Marco Arment (via Michael Mulvey):
When Apple makes a new product, usually the message is, “Can you believe how great this is?”
And when Amazon makes a new product, usually the message is, “Can you believe how cheap this is?”
Dan Frommer:
Apple and Amazon are both in the business of designing small computers – tablets, ereaders, phones, media players – and selling them to the public. But how they do it is the big difference. And that’s best depicted by the astonishing difference in the two companies’ profits.