You don’t think the next iPhone will be revolutionary? You’re a fool
I’ve seen people all over the web saying that they don’t think the new iPhone is anything ‘ground-breaking or 'revolutionary’ compared to previous models that Apple have released. So far, I’ve attempted to hold in my rage, but I’m tired of all the bullshit today.
If everything we know about the next iPhone is true so far, we’ve got these changes (that we know). Some of them are big, some of them are small:
- New housing (Unibody metal back, 1.2mm thinner than iPhone 4S)
- LTE radio
- New, larger screen with multiple previously unreleased technologies, including In-Cell, IGZO Retina display AND Gorilla Glass 2.**
- New dock connector
- New headphone jack location
- New FaceTime camera position (VS previous iPhone and other competing smartphones)
- Thinner bezels (I wouldn’t exactly call this revolutionary, but it’s just another change)
- 32nm processor (Not used in Apple devices unless considered ‘refreshed’ such as the iPad 2 line up)
- NanoSIM standard
- Possible NFC
- Rumored 1GB RAM
- iOS 6
Now, I don’t know how people can’t look at that and think there aren’t some huge changes in there. Some of them are small – incremental – and others are big shifts. What exactly is everyone expecting from Apple?
There are only so many “drastic” changes that a company can make before it’s a whole new form factor/product, like the iPad. Users are used to these products and the way they interact with them, so if Apple were to change up the UI like some have mentioned, they would have a similar issue to what Microsoft is experiencing now with their shift to Metro.
Some of these technologies do indeed exist in rivals devices – like NFC – but so far it hasn’t seen wide adoption. Historically, when Apple adds a new/emerging technology to their devices, they literally open the flood gates for mass adoption. Perhaps the revolution in each iPhone release is actually the way the user base drives mass adoption of new technologies, like NFC.
Either way, we’ll know what the market thinks of the next iPhone in just a few weeks.
** If that doesn’t get you drooling, I don’t know what does.
*** I realize that cable changes and port shifts aren’t ‘revolutionary’ if you’re talking about Smartphones VS the iPhone, but if you’re talking about between iPhone generations it’s a big shift for Apple.