by Larry Seltzer, Information Week BYTE
Even before the iPhone 5 announcement Wednesday there was widespread speculation that nothing really new, innovative, or surprising would be in the new iPhone, and so it turned out. The announcement matched the rumors pretty closely and nothing in the phone made anyone go, “Wow!” Has the iPhone peaked? That’s not necessarily a bad thing, at least not in the short term. “Peaked” is another way of saying that the iPhone is at the top of its game. I admire how Apple handled some of the changes in the new phone, such as making the screen taller, but not wider. It achieved a better aspect ratio without the regrettable side-effect, too common in the industry, of making the phone so wide that you can’t reach the other side with your thumb. And while the need to support two screen geometries will make for modestly fatter binaries, I believe Apple when they say that it’s not hard for developers to adapt apps to run optimally on the new screen.
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