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To: Road Walker who wrote (4185)	9/12/2012 3:42:47 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Respond to of 4530

Know EXACTLY what you mean, and in your shoes I'd make the exact same decision: too much invested in the ecosystem to throw it all away, for iffy. No, you made the right choice, for you. I did not have much invested in iOS. Maybe $80 max, cause I never got above my free, hand me down iPhone 3g. I miss none of it cause Symbian has it built in or it's a free download: maps in particular, of course. The Best. Bought one Symbian app thus far for $1.99: panorama stitch. Lovely. Anyhow, when you wanna push the DSLR buy button, please do speak up. Things change too fast, so no sense in discussing it until you're ready to buy, that second.

To: Road Walker who wrote (4185)	9/12/2012 11:06:14 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Respond to of 4530

Well, I downloaded these two comparison photos in full resolution, rotated the one they posted upside down, and compared them in Photoshop. I don't see what all the "new improved camera" Apple brouhaha is all about: without a doctorate in imaging tech, the output from the iP4s looks identical to iP5's. iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S: Image comparison: Digital Photography Review Looking at the EXIF data of the images confirms Apple's assertion that this is a new sensor, despite the pixel count remaining the same. Close examination shows the iPhone 5 is using a 4.1mm lens to give a 33mm equivalent field of view, rather than the 4S's 4.3mm lens, which gave a 35mm equivalent view. This means the new sensor is a tiny fraction larger. The iPhone 5 has also selected ISO 50, 1/3EV below the 4S's minimum sensitivity of ISO 64. Yawn. If I were in the market for an iPhone, I'd get a used iP4s dirt cheap, upgrade its iOS to 6 and be done with it. Luckily, I am not. :-)))

To: Road Walker who wrote (4185)	9/14/2012 5:45:55 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4530

You can't get a consumer to buy two packages for one finished goods product; they just won't do it. They hate it, they think they're getting ripped off, they think they'll make a mistake, or they just get totally confused. - Msg: 28409786 Agree 100% and then some! Which is why I think Apple fucked up HUGE, with the new power plug which pissed off you and all the other iOS people, rightfully so. And, the fucking overpriced Apple converter plug is delayed by at least a month, last I read. Shitloads of pissed off, ripped off of $30 per fucking plug iPeople, wanting, waiting! Not good. Not at all fucking good! Doesn't seem like Steve Jobs' Apple, anymore, to me! Hate to say it, but Cook seems like a clueless fucking asshole in comparison to Jobs, to me! I mean, at least when they fucked up under Jobs and you were not supposed to hold the damned iPhone like that, Jobs made Apple provide the rubbers to solve that crap, for free. The fucking plug should also be free, to all previous iPhone users, given some fucking future purchase, or some fucking shit like that, to sweeten the Apple pot... NOT holding my Cook breath!