While I do like my iPhone capabilities - it appears that adding the Galaxy S4 to my hip this year as an added moble device may have been wise. And Keith Allen Miller - I stand corrected, you were right about Apple needing to keep up with Android devices Frat... Yahoo News [Today] While Apple may have practically reinvented what a smartphone could be in 2007, they are not looking as majestic as they once did. The company that wrote the blueprint on how to make the unveiling of a product look like an event, the unveiling of the iPhone 5S Tuesday was anything but amazing. Sure, the iPhone 5S is sleek, easy to navigate, simple to use, and certainly faster than its predecessors, but the problem with the iPhone 5S isn’t in the device itself. Instead, the problem lies in Apple’s mindset. With the unveiling of the iPhone 5S, Apple is still approaching iPhone launches as if it is still the only logical option when it comes to the smartphone market. Of course, this isn’t the case at all, and 2013 alone has proven this. We’ve seen incredible new smartphone devices hit the marketplace this year, such as the successor to 2012’s Samsung Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S4, HTC’s HTC One, Motorola’s Moto X, and that’s just the beginning. And what do they all have in common? They’re all operating on the Android OS. These smartphones are bigger, they have bigger and clearer displays, – and some of them can even snap photos underwater! Smartphones operating under the Android OS update apps automatically. Some smartphones, such as the Moto X, can even be controlled with one’s voice alone, resulting in users never having to touch the smartphone to begin with. In a sense, smartphones that are running the Android operating system are varied: no matter what type of smartphone you need, whether you want a simple iPhone alternative or a heavy-duty powerhouse of a smartphone, to borrow a phrase from Apple, “there is an Android smartphone for you.” A lot of this is Apples fault: after all, we have come to expect huge leaps forward with each iteration of the iPhone. Yet the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, and now the iPhone 5S have been small leaps forward – and depending on whom you ask, maybe a leap or two backward. Yet many of the innovations that Apple seems to be missing out on is happening on the Android side of things Full, HD displays encompass many Android devices, the ability to transmit media from smartphone device to displays such as televisions and monitors, and on some smartphones, the ability to make Wi-Fi calls are all stock with many Android smartphones today. Apple’s iPhone 5S doesn’t feature this type of functionality – in fact (and possibly for the first time ever), the reality is this – Apple is undeniably playing a game of “catch up” with the Android platform.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:30:51 +0000