You are correct. Apple is a great company. Their market cap is mare than 50% bigger than Microsoft's. They have a winner with the iPhone, 4" screen and all. The iPhone is by far the single most popular smartphone. And, if the rumors are true, there may be a 5.7" iPhone soon.
Not here in my country. It is damn expensive. We don't have any contract system , so one have to buy the iPhone at its full price. Same apples on any other phone , though there are some mobile operators like Vodafone which tells to buy iPhone and be in some sort of contract for 2-3 years but they way they sell iPhone is actually 20-30% more expensive than actually cost. I own an iPad 3 which is now as slow as iPhone 4S , just because of iOS 7 , how they cheated iPad 3 users , one must be familiar with new iOS 7 glossy transparent , frosted look and fell in entire os. They just disabled all those new effects made it look dull and ugly , it is very sluggish in daily usage , safari keeps on crashing , so one day I decided to jailbreak it (in jan I guess ) , I used a tweak parralax enablur , it turned on all the blue , frosty effects in iOS on my iPad , another apple disabled on my iPad was airdrop feature which they said is exclusive to iPhone 5 and above and iPad mini 1 and above , iPad 4 and above since they all have Bluetooth 4.0 , but wait when my iPad was launched it was advertised and said it has latest Bluetooth 4.0 with LTE. I could enable this airdrop via another tweak from cydia. Another great example how apple cheats or dominate older products take a case of most popular iPad 2 , it has apple designed A5 chip with 512MB ram , a dual core chip , and same is in iPad mini 1st generation , iPad mini got all the features of iOS 7 including blur, Siri , AirDrop , but iPad 2 didn't get Siri , blur effects , iPhone 4S have the same specs of iPad 2 and iPad mini and it too get all those effects , Siri but lack airdrop feature , one can able it via cydia. My iPad is more powerful than iPhone 4S and iPad mini, 2 since it has apple designed A5X (X here is for quad core graphics ) with double the ram 1GB , I got Siri , but not anything new. Is this market tactics by apple , the largest mobile holder ? Now look at Microsoft , they will support all the windows phone 8 devices by at least 36 months and will guarantee next update. Though apple brought iOS 7 to iPhone 4 but ask an iPhone 4 user are they happy with the iOS 7.
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