Don't pin your inaccurate and ignorant assumptions into me. If YOU incorrectly call a "beefed up GS3" the same as an Apple 'S' refresh, that's YOUR problem for not knowing how to comprehend, not me contradicting myself. I never ONCE made a statement that an S cycle phone was a beefed up iPhone and I never would.
You read what you WANTED to read and got all defensive because you have a simple way of thinking. That's not my problem.
A) An 'S' device is not a beefed up iPhone. 'S' cycle devices are, in my view, refreshes to maintain viability of a changing market for an iPhone design. Like a MacBook Pro with the same screen, shell and operating system that has an upgrade in ram and an SSD. It's essentially the SAME experience but with upgraded components to make it a viable option a year later.
B) A 'beefed up S3' is a phone that, at first glance, looks almost exactly like its previous version, but every component has been "beefed up". Are you going to sit there and DENY that the S4 borrowed a lot of its design from the S3? The similarities between the S3 and S4 are WAY more apparent than the S to S2 or the S2 to the S3. And this is NOT a bad thing either. Even the display was beefed up, both in size and resolution, but the housing remains within the same size/dimensions.
C) We're in an age of smart phones where ALL new phones are going to be like this. They've matured. There's no more new land to conquer. 5 inches with HD resolution, a quad core processor, lots of ram, lots of storage and a nice camera. That's the bar, you either meet it or join RIM. If you don't like people saying your fancy new phone is a beefed up version of last year's phone, go buy a time machine and go back to 2007 where all your innovation and new experiences are waiting for you. Me and the rest of 2013 and beyond are entering the era of yearly models.
