re: Report: iPhone 6 will come with NFC, wireless charging, and even better 4G

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my frustration with apple is the time it takes for them to put out a decent upgrade, the 5s doesn't count as a decent upgrade.

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The plans appear to be changing, but up until this point most people have been on a 2 year upgrade cycle because that's how the wireless companies had set things up. Doing a "half" version every year makes sense in that environment.

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the competition seems to be capable of putting out yearly upgrades

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What exactly do you get out of these yearly upgrades? I hear people say Apple has fallen behind technologically but I don't see it. Where I see they've fallen behind is screen size. It sounds like it took Jobs dying to make getting a bigger screen happen. Other than that I'd say they've kept pace with Android. They did choose Low Energy Blue Tooth over NFC, but I wouldn't call that falling behind. Air Drop is easily equivalent to the phone bump from the Samsung commercials. What useful hardware based technology other than the aforementioned areas have they fallen behind in?