Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
I'm not gonna quote #53, as that's a pretty big post, but that's what I am addressing.

Most of the items you metioned come under the heading: Advertising. Frankly, you are talking about things that you 'might' do. That's the problem. All these things we COULD do, but what things will you ACTUALLY do? Of all the things you mentioned, there are two that you feel certain you will do: Play games, and take pictures (or video). Everything else you mentioned are advertising points with no actual value. It's faster? Who gives a rat's patoot??? If an app opens in a tenth of a second versus a half a second, it doesn't amount to a dimes worth of value. The speed is already so fast that the gains are not significant to our lives. Only new tools are of value, and those are only valuable if you need them.

You are talking about shelling out a lot of money for something where you can't identify any particular benefit to anybody other than Apple. Everything else you have mentioned is just an attempt to rationalize a decision you have already made. You haven't been able to mention a single thing that you can't already do which you actually WANT to do. You only mention things that you might consider doing. The only telling point is this line:

"and I'll enjoy it much more"

You aren't buying out of need, you are buying out of desire. You might very well enjoy it much more. In my case, the novelty would wear off in a day or two, or maybe a week at the most. Then you will be right where you are now. Why not find something that will change your life for the same amount of money?

When I buy camping equipment, it always fills a specific need. Either it replaces an item that has broken, or it reduces the weight that I carry, which material impacts my health. I try to follow the same principles for any other purchase, as well. What bothers me about your posts is that you can't seem to identify how this phone will materially benefit your life other than getting a shoppers high.
I never said I was buying this out of need rather than want. I want the 4S because it offers a heap of features over my current smartphone, and those are indeed valuable to me. Even the iPhone 4 is a significant upgrade from the 3GS, but the 4S is just way beyond that. (I need not mention that most people buy a lot of things (in a wide range of categories) they don't need but nonetheless benefit from them in one way or another.)

You've perhaps not used the 3GS, and more so the 3GS running iOS 5. It's a nice phone, but it's noticeably slower than the 4 which is near twice as slow as the 4S in general. Overall, the entire OS regardless of what I'm doing is going to be snappy. I'll be able to play better games, use more intensive apps, and do everything faster. We're not talking about half a second and a tenth of a second but more like eight seconds and two or three seconds. Look at Infinity Blade for example, it takes up to a minute to load on my 3GS.

In other words, I benefit in every area of the phone. Video, camera, battery life, call quality, screen quality, zippiness. I will most definitely use it on my HDTV, and do pretty much everything else I said I "might do". I wasn't meaning to say that in a way that literally means I may or may not, rather showboating it over my 3GS. As I said, I am a developer and I will end up testing apps on it at some point when the need comes about (which it will, but not straight away).