Not an overly inspiring phone but am incremental continuation that had made them a market leader.
With that said the barbarians are at the gate and I certainly would divest from Apple and realize my gains.
Why?
They can't match google's integrated innovation over the next 10 years.
We're already starting to see significant differentiation between Google suite products on Android and iPhone. Googles software options are far far better than Apple at this point and more developer firmly on the content side. As Android increasingly consumes market share Google will feel less pressure to offer those services on iPhone.
And that's the rub, navigation, goggles, project glass, automated vehicles, continued maps development, and whatever else Google is working on will integrate much better on the Android platform.
I don't think that Apple realizes that the next wave of mobile computing is in software not hardware. Having a foot in both pools is a disadvantage to Apple where Google can focus exclusively on software and bringing the content that mobile users want to their devices.
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