Sounds like you need to re-read the article again.

Also to the author, although you’re trying to argue the reality of the situation, if you take one more step back from that, you’d realize – it’s just human nature to take sides – even if they completely ignore facts (like seabasstin above)

Besides, think how BORING tech sites would be if every thread wasn’t filled with fans from all sides duking it out.

Thank you for arguing with an article about the pointlessness of arguing… your response made me chuckle.

Movies are mostly a question of taste, but also of mood/cultural timing/etc etc; futuristic garbage is really effective at making us forget a dreary present! a much smaller part of their reception (these days) is about writing/creativity/storyline/etc.

Products like phones/computers/cars, are the opposite, although a part of their success, is based on just taste, most of their success is about utility, usability, performance, solidity, consumer service, apps, available tools/parts, etc etc.  They are products we use to do help us in other aspects of out life, and for most of us that is all they are. (the majority don’t give a rats 4ss how much ram their phone has, besides what the hell is RAM?)
Playstation vs xbox, not the same again, although due to their costs people ask a lot of them, they are technically incidental to most peoples lives, therefore not the same thing as phones/computers/cars… I just wont die/lose my job/spend thousands on repairs, because my GAME console is a lemon… while I seriously depend on my car/phone/computer for my life/connections/livelihood.Fried and other ‘pundits’ are usually pretty backward in this department. They poll techies, and gadget fetishists; or they are gadget fetishists themselves, and they focus aspects of devices that have NOTHING to do with normal humans…  Do you really think most buyers parse wether their phone has a Cortex A8 verses a triple core Nvidia tegra? You can find a number of parallels in the car world, car freaks, oil heads, etc, completely panned the Prius upon its arrival… It was called ugly, slow, not necessary, small, and besides who needs a 60mpg car?yet it was and still is a total and utter success… each generation has not even deviated in design/technology much, yet it is still being bought extensively, and people immediately are rewarded in this purchase.Honda (Samsung) tried to copy it with the “new” Insight, and the result looks like a Prius, but is definitely NOT one.
The Insight* has mechanical issues, its design is completely derivative, and its battery life is just not quite there, its gas usage is much higher, etc… And people have reacted to this by not buying the thing in the same amounts as the Prius.
(it does have bigger everything though, but you know that is just not enough.)

No matter what pundits want to believe, prognosticate, etc; there vision is usually limited by their own fetishistic desire for whatever they think is important; not for what your typical user needs.

It was always clear Apple would not release a completely new iPhone right after it released the 4 on Verizon.   
If pundits paid attention to Apple as opposed to their misguided interpretations of the market, they would have easily caught this.

Unlike its competitors Apple has learned to follow a more human centric upgrade timing**, as opposed to the competitors budget/sales centric product releases…  

Why do we need 7 different versions of the same phones with even more versions of the same os, each with a more ridiculous name then the other, yet almost but not quite the same specs?
It definitely didn’t serve GM/Ford/Chrysler so well in the past did it? 
(I really wonder why do phone makers think it’s so fun to fragment markets into oblivion.)

* oh no way! samsung I hope you realized this before naming your phone.
** remember the furor when it lowered the price of the original iPhone after 3 months, or even that it released a whole new one a year into peoples contracts?