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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here it's been just about a day since Apple took the wraps off the iphone 4s and I wanted to give you my unadulterated unedited thoughts and impressions about what the iphone 4s means for the cell phone industry means for Apple and means for the three carriers in the US that are going to be carrying it so sit back relax and get ready for a rant iphone 4s came to us yesterday amidst a ton of hype I got a lot of things that I wanted to talk about here I purposely didn't write down any note so we are going one hundred percent off the cuff so please as a warning deal with my stream of consciousness alright so first let's talk about the design let's just go ahead and get it out in the open you looked exactly like the iphone 4 looks just like this guy same design it's gonna come in white it's gonna come in black nothing different apple now has established a pattern of design changes every other generation so the original iphone iphone 3g was different yay iphone 3gs wasn't different boo iphone four different yay iphone 4s oh so that seems to be the general feeling amongst the tech loving world so the iphone 4s for all intensive purposes is a new phone they not only Dumbledore more than doubled the horsepower of the phone improved the camera putting on a new OS with one of the killer features sri which we'll talk about in just a minute but they didn't do was change the design and changing the design was what a lot of folks were looking for whether or not that actually we've been a positive step or a smaller step Apple is a victim of their own innovations in the past we've seen Apple changed a mobile space with the iphone we've seen Apple change the tablet space with the iPad we've come to expect apple to change some other space with the new products we became victims of the rumor mill just like apples become victims with their own success so we kept typing it up hyping up hyping it up Apple is under no obligation to release a redesign phone despite what we might have wanted so while I am personally extremely disappointed that we need at least get a bigger screen where certainly would have kept the phone on par with the ever-growing attack from Android and I think they coming onslaught from windows phone 7 got back there they didn't do that so certainly there going to be competitive they could have called it the iphone poo and put an apple logo on a piece of it and it still probably would have sold millions and millions of units so volume isn't the issue for Apple selling units isn't going to be the issue for Apple but they didn't wow us like they used to so imagine if you walk into an apple store and you say hey I want to get an iphone they say okay we've got a free 3gs we've got a pretty discounted $100 iphone 4 or you can send four hundred dollars on iphone 4s you're going to say what's the difference well they're gonna say speed better camera and an assistant you know what you can talk to you which sounds weird to some people I think a lot of folks that aren't you know need the cutting edge they just want to play Angry Birds want to make phone calls movie browse the web can care less about the differences between the four and the 4s the iphone four still probably give you the right choice for them so apples going to lose out i think on a lot of potential market share from folks that would go in so i'm looking for a phone that can do everything kids are they can be redirected to an android device depending on what store they go into just my thoughts so what an apple do right so this really has gone under the radar apple now has made one phone the iphone 4s for all carriers so that is going to come this is gonna get sort of businesses so let me try to make it quick essentially what Apple is doing now is they are eliminating the to production design costs that they had they had its cdma model that a GSM model they have two separate chains that used to go out to produce that now it's just one for both so their costs and component costs have gone way way we down like tremendously down and that I think went behind the scenes is one of the biggest wins that Apple did do was unifying their product so the consumer we don't really care very much we just want an iphone but what that's going to mean for apple's profits and bottom line is going to be tremendous a lot of folks and I've read all the tweets that come out in the comments on the videos are saying Apple just looking for an excuse to make more money from their customers know they'll put out a phone and people will buy it well apples a company they're not a charity they're not a not-for-profit company their job is to make money and people say that like it's a bad thing like oh this company is trying to make money or oh this company has more cash reserves in the US government well that might be scary it's certainly well within their right to do so and for people to say that they shouldn't try and make profits is asinine and it's certainly showing a personal osq you know one way or another that's sort of another issue to talk about is the personal feelings and the either love random awesome people have for Apple and I think people are developing for Google and Android you know it's one camp or the other and no matter what Apple was going to announce some people are going to hate it some people were going to like it personally I was extremely disappointed I just wanted a big screen I've been in awe of 4.3 4.5 and now larger screens coming out and I really wanted to see something new from apple i'm a former iphone user I've always loved using an iphone I love Andrea as well and there's becoming a really big fan of Windows Phone 7 back there I was hoping for something that could compete yeah we got better specs yeah we got surrey which okay let's talk about Suri for a minute it's got I mentioned this in my recap video first of all it's very cool and I mentioned on twitter that hey Android had this feature I believe three or four versions ago and I was mistaken so the difference here between the Android offering and what Apple is doing it's not just transcribing your words so you're not just replying to an email now push the microphone button hey mom I'll be home late it'll type out hey mom I'll be home late what Suri does that's a new is it actually interprets the word and does something with them so you can say you know send a text message tulips and a text message to you can say check the weather and it can check the weather so that's neat it's novel it's going to create a whole new level of I send this before douchebaggery I feel bad for folks that rely on public transportation because people are going to be screaming into their phones which was bad enough they were talking to somebody but now there's you can be talking to themselves phone why is the guy next being an ass and the phone's gonna say because he has Suri uh I don't know what something I'm never going to use it's kind of cool I probably feel silly using out in public maybe I would do it in private but it might be one of those things at three or four months from now I say wow I don't know how I ever lived without this virtual assistant so you guys care are you excited about Suri are you not excited about Suri um you know I love to hear your thoughts on that so at the end of the day iphone 4s I think was a big disappointment now Apple certainly brought a lot of stuff to the table and brought a lot of improvements dual-core processor better camera that's supposedly we'll see when it comes out shoots amazing pictures iOS 5 which brought a ton of new features but we knew about all those features in iOS 5 it wasn't that exciting perhaps if we had seen iOS 5 get unveiled yesterday then that would have been a bit more exciting but the excitement just wasn't there with his event and they opened the event by talking about application that makes greeting cards that probably could done with the press release and not 25 minutes out of a keynote is extremely boring and as Tim Cook's first sort of for a onto the stage as head of Apple I was definitely disappointing for that aspect as well certainly this isn't his doing he just came on a little while ago you know the iphone 4s obviously has steve jobs and companies prints all over it as well products that are going to be coming out for probably the next 12 to two years so Tim Cook doesn't deserve any sort of blame for this or sort of blame heaped upon just him but it does add a bit of pressure for Apple to do something interesting with the next iPhone the iPhone 5 which we may see in june of next year and sort of reset now this launch period of always being every June I would expect that we'll see a new iphone so the big winner in my opinion there were actually I think there were two kind of winners so the big winner yesterday with sprint sprint not only now can offer the iphone 4s to its customers Sprint's got at least where i am in southern california has an awesomely reliable network it's crystal clear it works great and now they can also offer an iphone 4 that went under their radar too so Sprint's got both that they didn't have before and I think 18 tu is also a winner they got the hspa+ varieties now you can get 14 for megabits per second down which is almost twice the speed of what you could get with the iphone 4 it's been depend on where you are and with that speed is actually going to be but that's a tremendous potential improvement to double potentially at least double what your download speed verizon I think sort of a neutral they get the upgrade but nothing really new in different sprint now can offer the phones AT&T you can say they're faster data and Verizon can just say we've got the phone to pick loser obviously t-mobile not getting to carry the device and the big loser also are the blog's the techno Buffaloes insights of the world I think we were victims to the hype rumor we hyped it up and this is all the press you know we are seeing case manufacturers put devices or put out potential new designs we'd seen some large publications talked about exclusivity on different carriers and it got to be a lot of fun but that's all it was was fun and a speculation led to unfair expectations which inevitably is going to lead to a letdown which is kind of what I feel right now I'm gonna look at the iphone 4s look at the iphone 4 and not go tell a difference until i push the home button and see if it talks to me so what do you guys think about the iphone 4s disappointment are you excited you not excited you're going to upgrade if you're on the fence I can't really see a compelling reason yet to go out and upgrade I don't think you're gonna want to sign your name to a two-year contract for you know two generations of phones you're gonna have to wait till it comes out I think you're gonna miss out on big steps between the iphone 4s and the iphone 5 whatever that might be so guys I 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