Please Stop Whining About Your Brand-New iPhone 5
My colleagues are complaining about their new iPhone 5 phones.
"It stopped blowing me away after three or four days," said one.
"I'm bored with mine," said another.
So Apple's latest and greatest smartphone is ultimately a disappointment just one month after being released?
This attitude doesn't sit too well with me, and not just because it comes off as the grumbling of jaded urbanites who write about this stuff for a living.
The iPhone 5 offers a different screen aspect ratio and improved internal components. Outside of that, it's the same experience as a 4S. You have the same apps, the same interface, and the same operating system. It's hard for me to feel bad for people who aren't "blown away" by the iPhone 5 when we have several years of evidence telling us what to expect.
Phones are only getting better and cooler with time, but it feels like they're doing so less quickly. That's because it takes major technical feats to shave off a millimeter here and a gram there.
True jaw-dropping innovation on the iPhone is going to come less frequently since we already seem to have some sort of subconscious consensus on what it "should" do. There's only so much functionality you can cram into a 2.3" x 4.8" hunk of aluminum. Let's be patient and let the engineers do their thing.
I don't think a smartphone should have to blow you away over and over again. I'm perfectly happy to have a phone that works as advertised and gets better from generation to generation, but m aybe I'm just more pragmatic about my electronics than my coworkers.
I consider my smartphone a utility device, a useful everyday tool, like a hammer or a washing machine.
When was the last time you were blown away by your Maytag?
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