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Which brings me to a final thought. Sam said that Apple has "jumped the shark".
Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
I think that comment was made during the announcement of Farmville for the iPhone.
We've reached the end of big jumps in abilities. Everything to follow is incremental, refinement.
Unless I'm wrong. Which would be fine.
Originally Posted by mattCR That having been said, it's hard for me to "leap" into a 2 year contract when I know ATT is in the middle of a monumental nationwide rollout of LTE to get 4G compliant by next year, and I know when LTE is available I will want to switch, immediately.
I bought on day 1 of 3GS and am eligible for the cheap upgrade.
Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
Well, we are in the same boat but I got a message that I am not eligible
for an upgrade until 2/11
You both agree and disagree with me. Apple has perfected the device within their control. Even with a next-gen network, what will change with the device? Video chat over the cell is a refinement of what we see today. It's better, faster, cheaper than what we have today, but it's a refinement of what we have today.Originally Posted by mattCR
Just as a counter: I believe you couldn't be more wrong. While it may not be within apple's wheelhouse to change, 4G will completely change everything we think about phone devices. That's not a ha-ha, that's just a fact. Things which are from a technical viewpoint completely impossible will be a given. iphone4 offers video chat (at 640x480,FYI.. base VGA) and it can only do it over WiFi. 4G means you could stream double the data rate without wifi.