You may not have asked what CPU is in your Mazda 3 when you were looking to buy it, but you most likely asked what MPG it gets, what its safety rating is, and how powerful its engine is.
If you're using you're phone as a platform to run applications, it makes sense to inquire into its specifications in order to understand whether it makes economic sense to buy one (whether its increased speed and DPI justifies the cost).
It doesn't make sense to inquire if you know it works with everything in the app store. That's the difference.
Re:What is Apple hiding on the iPhone4?
by silvestrov on Sunday June 20, 2010 @12:52AM
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Battery life is to the iPhone as MPG is to cars. And Apple did provide that information, it even touted it as a improvement.
Re:What is Apple hiding on the iPhone4?
by lushootseed on Sunday June 20, 2010 @12:49AM
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raganwald completely got the anologies wrong. Unless he buys his next car online which would be soon to be released without looking at what features it has (e.g. mpg, v6 or v8,HP, leather trim or not). He sees Luxus brand and just buys it. Since I hope he doesn't, he needs to choose better anology
What CPU is in my Mazda 3? What about my Microwave? How about the CPU in my Garmin GPS watch? or my washing machine? How many Gigahertz? Megabytes? Level whatchamacallit of RAM?
Why would a phone or tablet or even a laptop be any different? The critical factor is that yes, it will have enough of whatever it needs to multi-task in iOS 4.0.
The times they are a changing. Phones and tablets and netbooks and laptops are becoming consumer appliances.