Well after a launch which was pretty dull and uninspiring, it seems that Apple has lost not only the sparkle but just about everything else. It seems to me that they are now playing catchup and I really do not see them doing that well outside the USA.

I've decided not to get it when her indoors goes to USA next week and I will be looking much closely at the Nokia which I did like in its previous incarnation but looks even better with full Windows 8. Nokia build has always been good and it is still the best mobile to actually hold in your hand.

Apple may not even be able to sell it's new iPhone in the USA if HTC have their way enter link description here now that is poetic justice if it happens.

Apple sue Samsung, HTC sue Apple, Samsung sue Apple, Apple sue HTC and we are the ones who pay in the end to make some lawyer rich.

Any way I for one would love to see Apple have it's new iPhone banned if only for a few days.

... but not all people bother to do that...I was providing a service (free to anyone who does not have a dictionary to hand).

I had to look up the meaning of the word hegemony which was in Joseph Kerr's very interesting link ...it means ascendancy or domination of one power or state within a league, confederation etc...

A bit like the Glasgow Celtic football team, now that Rangers have been kicked into the 'long grass'.

I can't understand how they get away with making their products only use their software, if you wish to use music it has to be i-tunes as nothing else will work whereas Microsoft bundle a browser in their operating system and get hammered for it!

It need'nt bother you anymore, FE, for Android can't handle flash now either.

Thanks for the lesson but, believe me, if Microsoft were still trying to prevent the use of other browsers, I'd be kicking them too.

I made clear in me first post that I shall not buy any Apple product whilst they continue to be quite so stupid as they are being (they'll sue peas next, for using pods. They have already gone after use of the lower case i, rectangualr phones...). My opinion i ssubject to change if they stop being so stupid, but then I have no Apple products already because, so far, they have not been for me, and that may continue to be the case.

Thay will have to realize the error of their ways:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/28/apple-rot-starts-with-samsung-lawsuit-win?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

My daughter has a iPhone4 and was thinking about the new iPhone5 when it comes out but after seeing my new Galaxy S3 she is having second thoughts.

She has spent more time playing with it than I have and for once all the apps she has just go on without any fuss and the new iPhone5 had better be good or she is having the same as mine.

But on a personal note I wouldn't touch an Apple product, any body that can say an oblong with rounded corners is one of their patents have got serious problems.

Joseph Kerr

Patent infringement litigation is a fact of life in the computer technology industry, and has been for many years. If you shunned products because their manufacturers went to court over infringements you would not be using a computer at all. If you owned a business that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on innovation, only to find that another company was using your technology to compete for business you might see patent infringements in a rather different light.

Apple now occupies the number one prejudiced hate slot that used to be Microsoft's sole preserve - people are prejudiced simply because the company is big, and extremely successful. Apple makes objects of desire, and markets them in a very clever way. The success of the iPhone and iPad have been nothing short of phenomenal, and in the case of the iPad I know why - none of its competing devices have so far come close in terms of sheer quality and useability. I don't have any personal experience of the iPhone but its astonishing sales volume speaks for itself.

Apple isn't perfect, it irritates me intensely that my IPad can't handle Flash files, but I live with it. I'm sure the iPhone has its shortcomings too, but there isn't a product on the planet that doesn't. I'll buy Apple products if I think they are the best at what they do, rather than let a pointless (to me) prejudice deny me access to superb technology.

Same as all the other iPhones NO. The network providers premium and all the hype puts me off stick with my HTC.

What a wonderful comment, FE. So much experessed with so much brevity.

Incidentally, it's nothing to do with having my hands tied. It's more to do with their patent happy behaviour. They will care, when the world begins to see that they are losing their way.

john bunyan My mobile was £12 from ASDA (samsung) don't need anything else as it has company SIM in it and they have had the data switched off.

I'm with Joseph Kerr on this one I don't fancy having my hands tied!

I don't have a mobile so I can't upgrade

Probably yes but I want to see what it offers.

I'm tempted by the Samsung Galaxy 3 for the sake of screen real estate but at the same time find myself a little tied in to the Apple apps that I have, as well as iCloud synchronization and my iPad. I realise that I could change over to Android and do all of this on that system too; however, it would take time.

If I like the response to the new iPhone I'll give it a month or two for issues to arise (like the iPhone 4 dropping calls!) and then probably upgrade.

Much as I'd like the new one, I'll not be queuing outside an Apple Store for half the night ;)

My youngest daughter is waiting for the new iPhone to appear. She is giving me her HTC running Win7.5.

Something else to learn!

I don't know. I will be replacing my phone later this year but until I know what upgrades are available and at what contract price I cannot make a final decision. I may well like an iPhone compared to a Galaxy S3 but the pricing will decide. It may have been better to wait with this poll until the prices and contracts were announced.

...if it was released (in Scotland ) as an AYE-phone...I might get interested....

I've never seen or touched an iphone...am I just lucky. . . or what?

Joseph Kerr

I'm sure they're distraught.

I have not even upgraded to an iphone period.

NO