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Originally Posted by photon
All the non-nerds I know that have iPhones do not upgrade to every single model they put out, I know people with 3Gs, 3GS's, and 4's. Even the nerds I know don't upgrade to every model (I have a 4, not a 4S, wasn't worth upgrading). And most nerds I know have more than 1 phone, usually an iPhone and an Android phone, plus a half dozen older phones.
You seem to be assuming that just because Apple introduces a new phone that EVERYONE that has one upgrades, then you are basing your arguments on your assumption. That's fallacious.
And before you said that ALL Apple users buy Apple products ONLY because they want to own an Apple product, no other reason. So either your reasoning is a bit circular, or your just pointing out the obvious that irrational people do irrational things.
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I wasn't reffering to the casual person who buys an Iphone simply because the 3 year old phone needs a replacement. I was talking about your iFanatics that upgrade with blind faith regardless of reason. Like most of the people in here who have a 4S but will be purchasing the IPhone 5. That is blind fanaticism. What "breakthrough" does the 5 bring to the table that makes them want to replace their basically brand new 4S?
You're exactly right that I am pointing out that irrational people do irrational things. Thats EXACTLY what I was trying to convey with my post. Apple is the king of getting people to irrationally give them money and there are more people who fall for this than any other brand on the planet. Not only that, but on top of this they are also the ones who will argue with you to the death about why they do it when they're to afraid to say "I just really love apple and I like having all of their products" which, like I said earlier, is completely fine if you can accept that and realize that you are going to get a lot of negative feedback for having that stance.
That is also what I was talking about with my Ipad comment. I was specifically talking about the countless amount of fanatics that will end up owning an Ipad, and Ipad mini and an Iphone.
Also as an aside, I never understood the point of jailbreaking an Iphone... To me that seems like you're taking your Iphone and basically turning it into an Android.
As for the business case, Google and all the other android companies seem to be really betting on intergration with future tech. The more share android gets, the less they will care about Apple consumers and they will stop porting their main apps to iOS. However, Apple seems to be trying to pre-empt this themselves by starting to develop their own apps to replace Googles.