Did Steve Jobs take Apple to the grave?
I don't' mean to insult Steve in anyway, but it seems everything that Apple has done since that including releasing the 4s and getting over 10,000,000 of the core iPhone customers using the iPhone 4 to go to the 4s surely thinking Apple was committed till the natural time they all are eligible again as has been the case without exception the entire time since 8 years back when it started. Well, then the iPhone 5 is nothing more then oops here is the 4G you iPhone 3 and 3s users can upgrade to when the iPhone 4 and 4s were too expensive, but now you can just from 3 to 4g how about it?
That started the nightmare where millions of us have been eligible since May 15th, but till the end of July or end of August at worse, unless we switch brands there won't be 4g in our pockets.
When I saw that release, without a date, or a solid single feature that really makes you go wow I got nervous. If the rumor of double the resolution holds, then the HTC 1x, the S4, and LG Optimus Pro will all have better resolution 5 months earlier
If they keep it 4 inches, then only the Developers benefit, and we become the official industry Sub Mini being .3 inches smaller than the now 4.3 inch Mini standard.
On top of all that, Millions of users have been waiting for the Air to become Retina display. Reasons why it should be
1) Until Retina Display it was the highest resolution unit over all other laptops
2) The only reason they claimed why was battery drain, and now with Haswell that is a non issue
So they announce no screen change, and then right as you start to calm down, and rationally are considering to stay another year, or get your new Ultra book, the Non Apple entire segment dedicated to competing with the "Air", and their standard for resolution is
Standard 1600 x 900 versus 1400 by 900
Prime version = Full HD 1920 x 1080
So the Air can't beat or tie the standard and is smoked by the Primes and with Haswell watching movies became biggest advantage, so HD screen only makes sense.
Right after that nightmare, this week Apple announced the iPad Mini at 7.9 inches will now go Retina Display at 2550 x 1400 resolution Sub 400 bucks at Walmart gets Retina, but $1300 and the industry defining computer stays 1400 x 900
There is a very strong argument that they buried Apple with Steve Jobs ,and all of these things not only don't make sense, but most of them are flat out insulting to the loyal customer, and it seems like they are literally daring us to leave by missing the mark on one front, and delaying to not impress on the other front, but I pray in the end the iPhone is so good, that I wait, and then at Xmas they release Retina anyway, and I can get one for Xmas
Otherwise, I must admit I have studied the ASUS UX 31a Prime, and other than needing Haswell, and 8GB ram without having to be a commercial account attached to the Mother board, that appears the unit unless some of the Zbooks from Sonys's last year that disappeared come back around at 999 to 1199 when they were 2500 plus new, but Sony stopped doing any this year because Microsofts 8.0 wouldn't work with Docks, and as their top series they stopped waiting for that fix. But I didn't want to study it, but all of this without a single piece of good news made me be prudent.
