After going over the article based on the sales of the iPhone 5s, I sit back and wonder "Do we really need a new iPhone?". Not really, but then again, look at who you're talking to, I'm Android type. Apple and I haven't been friends since the original iBook, from like, 1988.
It's not that I have a grudge against Apple, but seriously, what makes your new iPhone so different from the old one? I also find it quite annoying that the American people are falling for it again. It reminds me of a great conversation that Kevin Williams was having based on Materialism and he argued that Americans are materialistic. If we were, we'd worship and keep our old technology and shun anything new coming in, but that is quite the opposite to what we do.
Instead of keeping our old objects we keep throwing them away in place of something new. It would be like saying someone is religious, but keeps wanting the deity upgraded. Now, I'm not saying all of this to make Americans look stupid or selfish, but it makes me wonder if Einstein's idea of the human condition isn't already here. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." because think about it, people are freaking out over something "new and improved" and it's not just Apple, Android, etc, it is the people buying these products and throwing millions of dollars at the developers.
I wonder what would happen if developers stopped...developing for a year... I can see it now...people having fits and withdrawal over not having the latest and greatest technology. I find at least somewhat amusing, but then again you're also talking to the person whose phone is as low-tech as an old flip phone.
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