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Originally Posted by Damien
Well this is a model that has to change because iPhone OS and Android do have incremental updates. We are talking about the OS playing an increasingly important role in the phone industry and the ability to continually add features to devices is part of that. If they carry on with the 6.1 phone, 6.5 phone and so on they will just shoot themselves in the foot because 1) developers will be ****ed 2) consumers will be ****ed. The hardware manufacturers will find other reasons to get people to upgrade but by continuing to improve the OS throughout the period of contract means happier customers.
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You can call them "incremental updates" the rest of us call them service packs to fix all the bugs and give the iPhone some of the features it should have had in the first place.
6.5 was an actual change from 6.1, with the latter having the normal shall we say WinCE interface, while 6.5 has one designed for finger tip rather than stylus use.
Why will developers be bothered?
Do you think they're upset that some phones don't have GPS?
Do the execs at TomTom agonise that if only all phones had GPS and could run TomTom they'd get a few more sales?
No of course not.
As for customers, would you say the majority of iPhone 3G users installed the service pack, or threw their phones in the bin and bought new iPhone 3Gs'?
My money's on the former rather than the latter.
Now say if Apple brought out a new iPhone, that wasn't just the old one patched, but considerably better (maybe even being able to blue tooth files to other phones) and no free update to make the iPhone 3Gs just as good, don't you think they'd shift more new phones?