Some thoughts on the recent public negativity toward Apple

I think you're setting up a strawman here, and ignoring the legitimate complaints.<p>Certainly you can find people who have ill-founded ignorant reasons for avoiding the iphone 5. and then you have entire countries full of people who can't use maps anymore. It is utterly useless for them.<p>Personally, I am not enthusiastic about upgrading because I don't like the new screen size. I think 3.5 inches is pretty close to perfect, and 4 is heading towards unwieldy.<p>This is coming from a guy (me) whose entire livelihood comes from writing iOS apps. So you're going to have a little trouble branding me a "hater."

This isn't meant to be a weak attempt at trolling, as I'm genuinely interested and I may be out-of-the-loop: Do people really care about portable telephones __this_much__?

&#62;Really guys? Nobody gets that it was actually a design solution to fit in the slimmer body of the 5, as well as a step forward technologically.<p>Fanboy.<p>&#62;I picked up the iPhone 5 on launch day<p>Fanboy.<p>&#62;it’s a beautifully crafted device with incredible attention to aesthetics and an impeccable operating system.<p>Fanboy.<p>----------<p>This is poppycock. People are this far into the hype? It's good phone. Not 800$-good, but good.<p>People are just not that into the iPhone hype-machine because information is more readibly available online. PEOPLE HAVE CHOICES - that wasn't true in 2007.