Apple’s iPhone 5 Doesn’t Quite Stack Up to the Competition…But Does “Borrow” Their Ideas

September 13, 2012 in Commentary, Important Opinions

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I will start this off by saying, yes the iPhone 5 will sell, and sell well. 聽However, it will sell well based on the fact it is an iPhone, not because it is a quality product. 聽After yesterday’s iPhone 5 announcement, I came away with the clear impression Apple is behind the curve and desperately trying to play catch up. 聽The iPhone 5 literally has absolutely nothing groundbreaking or innovative. 聽Instead, it’s biggest feature is merely a screen size that has been available in other phones for a few years now. 聽As for the smaller features, they merely added things to the iPhone that have been available in Android phones for quite some time now.

The iPhone 5 will feature a 4″ display…whoopty do…it still falls quite short of the larger-sized screens one has come to expect out of a high-end smartphone nowadays. 聽4 inches was a large screen size perhaps when the Nexus S was released back in December of 2010, but nowadays is considered just plain small. 聽In addition to the fact it is only 4″, the display is still the same width, so pages will still display virtually the same as with the smaller-screened iPhones of the past (just with slightly more vertical content). 聽To make matters worse, the iPhone 5 has a resolution of only 1136 x 640. 聽Sure, with that resolution you get a 326 ppi, but it still falls short of the 720p high definition standard we’ve come to expect in a high end smartphone. The Galaxy Nexus which was released almost a year ago has a 720p high definition display, yet the upcoming iPhone 5 does not.

It is quite ironic that shortly after Apple scored a win in the courtroom over stolen ideas, they announce an iPhone that “borrows” ideas and features from other devices. 聽Apple included a built-in panorama feature in their camera, that looks like and functions almost exactly like the Galaxy Nexus, but the “idea borrowing” didn’t stop there. 聽Apple also “borrowed” a couple ideas an implemented them into their Safari browser. 聽Safari will now include a full screen view that I could have sworn has already been present in Android’s stock browser for quite some time. 聽In addition to full screen view, Safari will also include tab sharing between your desktop and phone…sounds a lot like Google’s Chrome browser if you ask me.

In the end, the iPhone 5 is nothing more than Apple’s attempt at playing catch up, but sadly it still doesn’t catch them up to the competition (heck, it doesn’t even have NFC). 聽The iPhone 5 doesn’t even match high-end phones that are already on the market. 聽It merely provides a slightly larger screen that still falls quite short of industry standards, and adds features Android users have already been enjoying for quite some time, though it is very funny to see Apple “borrowing” ideas right after suing a company for doing the same thing. 聽Oh the irony! 聽All in all, the iPhone 5 is hardly impressive, and is nothing more than yesterday’s technology for today’s prices.

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