Were people expecting a new design? I certainly wasn't. It's the 'mid cycle' between the 5 and the 6, like the 3GS and the 4S before it, they offered no new design.
So? The competition have moved on.
Go to bed.
At 6pm?

Were people expecting a new design? I certainly wasn't. It's the 'mid cycle' between the 5 and the 6, like the 3GS and the 4S before it, they offered no new design.
Go to bed.
It was the mid cycle release, never going to be a redesign, just updated and a couple of new features, as per.
I think the best feature is the flash, it adjust to white balance ! You can't even do that with a £460 Canon Speedlite 600 EX-RT and have to resort to clear plastic gels that you put in front of the flash.....
I have 3 of these Canon Speedlite lol
That is clever.
Helluva a disappointment, looks like my 3gs will be going into it's 4th year of use.
If you bought a 5 at £500+ last week you'd be an idiot
The marketing execs at Apple are laughing right now - getting to squeeze more profit out of the mugs that buy the 5C by using pretty colours to distract from the fact that they should have been getting a iPhone 5 for the price they are paying
Tbf though, anyone believing the rumour mill that the 5C would be super-cheap must have been pretty gullible - just look at the iPad Mini price![]()
I'll still get the GF a 5C for Xmas, she's more interested in pretty colours than a fingerprint reader or playing Infinity Blade 3. Her old iPhone 4 is slow as hell now anyway, and the home button is knackered.
Personally I'm not sure I'll get the 5S, I skipped the 4S when I had a 4 and see no real reason to splash another £500 out on what are to me, new features that aren't that important (although the new camera features are nice).
Think I'll keep my 5 till the 6 next year, and just get myself a nice 5S leather case![]()
That's a tough one Raymond - I think that Apple is between a rock and a hard place because beyond doing something that knocks the game out of the park I think they've now got to swing a public and shareholder opinion. So much damage has been done through litigation and 'sitting on their laurels' with innovation (I know it's overused but I think it is justified) that they're now victims of their own success. I've said before that they created something far to close to perfection with iOS and the original UI that any changes for changes sakes would be a retrograde in user accessibility however they're also stuck because people like 'new' stuff. So what do they do, make it 'new' for the sakes of new and then live with all the hate for retrograding the user experience?
Delivering I think would be widening the scope of the OS UI - allowing for widgets and broader customisation. Accepting that people want a larger screen and a bit more cross platform interaction (at the risk of diluting the very thing that Jobs created with the Apple ecosystem and thus losing out on the corralled earning potential) and also an aesthetic shift - it didn't have to be huge but it needed to be more than a change in colour.
Overdelivering? I have no idea - but it would have to be pretty spectacular - it would have to be iPhone/iPad/Macbook Air all over again.
EDIT: I think they need to catch up significantly then build from a convincing platform rather than, excuse the term, rolling poop in glitter. (sorry a little harsh but it fits the analogy)
The betas have given developers plenty of time to make their apps compatible. In fact, it helps them test the current builds of their apps on iOS 7, see if anything causes them to crash, and fix it in the iOS 6 build and submit it to the App Store now, instead of when iOS 7 is released.
Get your missus a Moto xthat has pretty colours too hehe
Ray i disagree in some of your comments because i feel samsung offer more upgrade features then Apple.
Also, Google seem to push more features on there OS as well then apple.
I think Apple are still living in the past. They no longer seem to bring out a device that wow people.
Samsung and the likes have already caught up and continue to increase there market share day by day.
Like i said, No one stays top dog forever and i feel apple is no longer top dog.
I think Samsung are the new apple.
I'm by no means an Apple fanboy, they have their faults, but I detest Android so have no desire to support her when she breaks things
iPhone suits her needs despite the cost.
It's a long time since I had an android phone, yes I bought one and used it for a week, but what is "better"? Apart from bigger screen and NFC?