Apple

Welcome to Diddling with Technology, today we are going to talk about the innovative giant that is Apple and if they are really as innovative and superior as they make themselves out to be. Now Steve Jobs the founder of Apple, died about 2 years, on October 5, 2011. He was the head of the company and was an iconic figure as well. He was the man behind their first product the “Apple I” which was designed to be a easy to use cheap home computer costing only $666 dollars. He was the thought to be the driving force behind Apple and with his death they have they have lost a lot of money and they stocks dropped considerably.

Apple has earned themselves a reputation of high end electronics that are new and bold. But they have began a cycle where there is a new iPhone every year for a while.  Now with the unveiling of the new iPhone the 5S people are wondering how much of a upgrade it is and if Steve Jobs not being there to help  make this one if it is going to be any good. My personal beliefs is that Apple is just riding on the fact that they had a successful product that was new and bold which was the iPhone. Now that was a new and innovative piece of tech and one of a kind. But now every company has their own smartphone to compete with the iPhone, but people still think iPhone is the way to go. This is why i think that Apple is riding on just name and not the actual product in their smartphone branch. Lets look at the newest IPhone compared to its biggest competitor. The Samsung Galaxy S4, which came out March 14 2013, now the stats, Screen size the Galaxy has a 4 -inch screen while the iPhone has a 3-inch, ok the Galaxy is bigger and that could be a turnoff for some people but for most its better. Now for the CPU which is like the Phones brain, the Galaxy has a octa-core processor while the iPhone has a dual-core processor the winner here once again goes to the Galaxy again. I will run over the rest of the stats quickly, RAM the Galaxy has a extra GB, which is a lot more and GPU as well as battery size goes to the Galaxy. All in all the Iphone 5S is just an inferior device right out of the gate, so why would anyone buy it over the new Galaxy or the new Windows smartphone? I don’t even know, the name i guess? its just a bad device that is a small upgrade compared to the iPhone 5. This is what Apple makes a lot of money on, customers following them ignorantly. I believe that Apple will begin to fall off as a smartphone producer and should go back to computers because that's where they started off at and what they are good at doing. 

All in all I hope Apple does not fail as a company because they do have a past of original products and great ideas, but now is seems they are just pumping out new smartphones and tablets every year with small improvements that can’t really compete with their competitors, they just make it look like they can. So at the moment I think Apple is better at selling inferior products then making superior technological advances.