Somebody once came out with a clever phrase about anorexia: "That girl is so skinny that when she turns to the side she disappears", and that is kind of how I feel about the I-Phone 6. I mean, don't get me wrong, I probably will upgrade, being the capitalist consumer that I am, but I literally feel like I'm playing Where's Wally with I-Phone 5s on an hourly basis, not to mention that fact that I've lost two of them in the last 6 months. If Apple continues the way they are going, then they will have to supply a bloody microscope with the upgrades!
And another thing; I don't really understand how Apple can justify retaining the price of an I-Phone at a 'modest' £550 or so, when they are using less material to actually create the phone itself. I guess Apple could argue that this flat rate fee will be used to fund future research into the improvement of Apple services, but frankly, I don't want to be prompted to take a urine sample on my lock screen thank you.
Apple pride themselves on broadening horizons with cutting edge technology but that I-Phone 6 is so thin that it gives "cutting edge" literal implications! Imagine the headline, probably in some crude publication such as The Sun: "BABY GETS FACE CUT OFF AS LIGHT BREEZE SENDS I-PHONE 6 FLYING THROUGH AIR", yup pretty grim indeed. However, on the bright side, the I-Phone 6 might give hipsters the incentive to start trimming off their beards, unfortunately not EVERYONE can pull off a beard like Steve Jobs could. Come to think of it, I think this whole beard trend is an Apple PR stunt and I bet any money that the new top-secret feature on the I-Phone 6 is a trimmer!
So maybe Apple with its new upgrade will change the world. That is not to say that this change will be positive though. It simply means that more people will be using 4G and losing their phones every weekend, generating more money for Apple: making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
If Apple was an apple it would probably be a Granny Smith, bitter-sweet.
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