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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by elblanco on Monday July 12, 2010 @02:42PM (#1508925)
This is probably another advantage to the Android "lots of phones" strategy vs. putting all your eggs in one basket strategy. Even if you really like Apple's products, it's not like there's a good alternative phone you can turn to that's still an Apple product. While with Android, if a severe problem with a particular phone comes out, you can always just pick another phone.

In the future, it might make more sense for Apple to release several flavors of phones, diversify what they are selling, rather than lumping their entire strategy with one product that might have unforeseen problems.

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by jordanroher on Monday July 12, 2010 @03:47PM (#1509154)
In the future, it might make more sense for Apple to release several flavors of phones, diversify what they are selling, rather than lumping their entire strategy with one product that might have unforeseen problems.

Technically they are: the iPhone 3GS runs the iOS 4 very well and doesn't have the lovely antenna bridging issue.

That said, I'm having trouble imagining Apple going the iPod/iPod Nano/iPod Shuffle route with the iPhone. Whereas an iPod is used to play music 99% of the time, an iPhone makes calls, sends e-mail, surfs the web, and runs hundreds of thousands of apps, all of which expect a certain screen size and hardware components. An MP3 file doesn't require much.

So, as neat as it would be to see Apple make many flavors of iPhones, I doubt it'll happen. This is the company that doesn't make a sub-$2,500 workstation with a replaceable graphics card, and whose netbook competitor costs $500.

(Still, I would love to see an iPhone Shuffle. No screen. Press the button and it calls someone at random.)

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by danieldon on Monday July 12, 2010 @11:09PM (#1510241)
Don't hold your breath. Apple has forever only released one model of each product at a time, with usually no more than 3 different options of slightly different specs. And it's not like this is the first time that a model has problems; long-time Apple users know to avoid the first revision of any redesign because of issues like this.
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