Forget iPhone 5 naysayers, this thing is big

Rob Fahey for Gamesindustry.biz:

Dear People On The Internet – you’re utterly irrelevant, out of touch, and seemingly possessed of absolutely terrible memories to complement your weakened powers of deduction. Remember when you passed precisely the same judgment on the iPhone 4S? Remember when it then went on to become the fastest-selling and most profitable phone handset of all time? Remember that? Tell me, oh wise Internet People, what is it about your logic that’s different this time around?

Fahey’s responding to early criticism from some tech pundits and bloggers that the iPhone 5 failed to live up to their unrealistic expectations.

There’s been so much douchebaggery posted about the iPhone 5 since yesterday, I barely know where to start. The old canard about opinions being like assholes is true: Everyone has them and they all stink.

Fahey makes a great point that depsite Android’s inroads and its massive success at moving large quantities of handsets from different manufacturers, iOS still rules for content, and content is king.

Regardless, though, we – meaning both consumers and content creators – live in an iOS dominated world. The oft-touted Android activation figures and handset sales are almost irrelevant, since they cover such a wide variety of devices – many of which are bargain basement handsets that are unlikely ever to be used to make purchases from any app store. All the Android devices in the world don’t matter to a game creator if few people are using them to buy stuff – whereas Apple’s effective cornering of most of the high end of the market, along with its deeply integrated App Store infrastructure, means its consumers tend to be big spenders.

http://twitter.com/abdoradus abdoradus

Well, Apple mostly brought this down upon themselves with their idiotic naming. Apple traditionally doesn’t do hardware version numbers. They slipped with the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4. Thus lots of fuzz when the iPhone 4′s successor wasn’t named iPhone 5 but “only 4s.” They rectified their mistake with the iPad but with the iPhone they made it worse by retroactively justifying last year’s critics. And of course it raises the expectations on this year’s model.
- http://blog.dp.cx dp
  
  “doesn’t do hardware version numbers”?
  
  They’ve been doing hardware version numbers on the iPhone the whole time. “3G” isn’t just a telecom standard. It’s a version number. Then “3GS”. A new version number. The “4S” was all but expected, except from those that couldn’t accept that the 5 wasn’t coming.
- http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido
  
  As if what the gadget is called has anything to do with how good it is.
- Player_16
  
  The iPod. There, I said it. Apple gives it a name and/or a number but due to it’s popularity, everyone knows what’s-what. You make it sound like a movie. I hate movie #’s. To me it shows they couldn’t think of a title so they stuck a number on it.
  
  I’ll tell you a ‘slip’ or idiotic naming: Metro. (Apple couldn’t hold a candle to MS when it comes to naming.) They just renamed the theme again! Can you guess what’s it called now?
  
  Windows Store apps.
- http://www.theuniversalsteve.com SSteve
  
  I can’t imagine that the number of the iPhone model had or has one iota of impact on sales. It’s just another thing for the out-of-touch Internet People to whinge about.
Adam

I think what underlies most of the disappointment/complaining is that “there were no surprises” — which is mostly true thanks to all of the leaks revealed on rumor sites. I don’t remember a single major thing announced yesterday that wasn’t previously leaked, except the new design of the iPod nano. Even the little “loop” wrist strap for the iPod touch was leaked a few hours in advance.

Of course the iPhone 5 will be a bestseller. No doubt about that. But when nothing in the keynote was a big surprise, it’s no wonder that people start complaining that Apple didn’t do something completely unexpected. It’s human nature.
Adriano Geletes

Seriously, who gives a shit about these crap talking naysayers whenever Apple comes out with a new amazing product. I think its pure jealousy, because the media does NOT care about Apple’s competitors. Everywhere on the news they are just talking about the new iPhone and the new iPods. No one even cares about any other phone – neither do I.

We will see the same reaction in a few weeks, when Apple is going to unveil their new iPad Mini/Air. Every naysayer is going to say that the Kindle Fire or the Nexus 7 are so much … bla bla bla … who cares!?

In a few months, when Tim Cook presents the quaterly figures, we all will be impressed!
jerryfrommontana

That was a very good point about gaming. wider aspect ratio gives more distance between the d-pads. more unobscured screen. double the horsepower from a 4s.

games on this thing are gonna be fuckin’ rad.