tl;dr "It does everything that I want it to do."
I'm almost 50. I've been hearing this one since the Commodore 64 days.
I'm almost 50. I've been hearing this one since the Commodore 64 days.
Nowadays, the leaps are tiny and marketing based. Or artificially inflated "Oh, no Siri for you!" Incremental change really is worth criticizing and people just don't like to upgrade just because marketers tell them to do so.
The 4S is barely 2 years old. Early adopters are only getting off contract now and might be waiting to see if the newer WP or Android phones scratch their itch. No need to make an urgent move to the 5 series iphone. Heck, if it was me I'd wait out for the next iphone in the hope that the incremental leap is larger. Why not keep this phone running 2.5 or even 3 years? "Good enough" is a relative term. Its good enough because the alternative just isn't compelling yet.
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I've had the iPhone 1, 3Gs, and 5. Three years probably is a good amount time to wait between purchases to see a big improvement. The only problem is that since the phones are subsidized and we're paying for them in our data plans, AT&T is making more profit off of you after 2 years.