Even before this announcement, it is beyond me how anyone can argue that this is not the best smartphone on the market.
It has an incredibly fast processor, fantastic camera, one of the most popular music hubs (iTunes), the largest app store and probably the most advanced AI technology in a phone.<p>When the technorati (and, to be honest, most bloggers have been supportive of the product) diss this phone, are they actually suggesting someone would be better off with a Android, Blackberry or Windows 7 phone?
It's a plain and simple fact that people refuse to accept - people purchase Android because it's available on many different carriers and comes in many different price points. People choose blackberry cause sometimes their work requires it or they want blackberry messenger. And no one chooses Windows phones.
With the iPhone now available on more carriers at different price points, the game will continue to change.
Me and the rest of the developer community laugh at the contrary blog posts, all the way to the bank. This weekend, there will be hundreds of thousands more iPhone owners, and the developer community will make a fortune.<p>I applaud Apple for focusing on what's important - speed and sex, not features and fapping. Because when they do, all my apps get faster and all my customers get happier, and I don't have to do much work at all. Integrating with new APIs and hardware is a necessary evil, but we just want the devices to keep getting smaller and faster, as do the consumers.
Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market.<p>A visual chart of this phenomenon:<p><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/smartphone-OS-share1.png" rel="nofollow">http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...</a>
The iPhone 4S will probably be my mom's first cell phone. She doesn't like tech and likes her big button home phone (as in 3/4" button big button). My father and her just moved and my Dad doesn't really want a home phone anymore. He has been looking at getting her a JitterBug. She uses and Apple TV fine (netflix, mlb, and iTunes), so it isn't like she cannot use technology. She just has a phobia of current cellphones. I think it is more from her not wanting to wear her glasses and not being able to read the phone (she sees the TV fine).<p>Given Siri, Mom will be getting the iPhone 4S.
Are these numbers from worldwide pre-orders? I might be wrong but I thought that this was their biggest launch (different countries same date).<p>Even if that's the case, the significantly higher (~66%) orders is something that people in Apple can take a bow for. Well done.