{"id":6822,"date":"2011-10-05T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2011-10-05T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:34:52","slug":"apple-iphone-and-the-detroit-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/10\/05\/apple-iphone-and-the-detroit-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, iPhone and the Detroit model."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller introduced iPhone 4S; the successor to to 2010&#8217;s iPhone 4. The reaction was mixed but the negative ones are louder. To paraphrased:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPhone 4S? Where&#8217;s iPhone 5 as rumored?<\/li>\n<li>It looks like an iPhone 4. Apple is running out of ideas.<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 4S is a total dud, because it doesn&#8217;t have LTE.<\/li>\n<li>No teardrop design? iPhone 4S design is so outdated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s good about iPhone 4S:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A5 dual-core processor. Dramatically improved performance.<\/li>\n<li>World phone; isn&#8217;t that what many have been asking for?<\/li>\n<li>Much improved camera. Forget the Megapixel counts, it has better image sensor.<\/li>\n<li>Siri is a welcomed addition to the iPhone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past few years, some pundits were criticizing Apple for adopting the &#8220;Detroit model&#8221;. To paraphrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a new iPod\/iPhone\/iPad. It looks different, so you must buy new one. Just like the Detroit industries adding &#8220;wings&#8221; to the cars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, when Apple sticks to a great iPhone 4 design:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s this iPhone 4S? It looks like an iPhone 4. We want to see new design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is imperative to stop taking the pundits seriously. We should have done so years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller introduced iPhone 4S; the successor to to 2010&#8217;s iPhone 4. The reaction was mixed but the negative ones are louder. To paraphrased: iPhone 4S? Where&#8217;s iPhone 5 as rumored? It looks like an iPhone 4. Apple is running out of ideas. iPhone 4S is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/10\/05\/apple-iphone-and-the-detroit-model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple, iPhone and the Detroit model.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,6],"tags":[1594,1602,2705,936],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-rants","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-4s","tag-siri","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1M2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}