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Must be awesome to be able to poop out two year old tech and still have people line up and pay out their asses for one.
Be interesting to remove the logo from the latest Samsung and airbrush an Apple logo on the back, and see what people on the street say about it!
OK, I'll bite, as an owner of both android and apple things.
First, I'll say that the iPhone 6 is solidly middle of the premium pack in general stats. They hit nothing out of the park, but it's a damn site less underwhelming than the 5 was, I will not argue it is magic, or better in some hand waving manner that I can't explain.
That aside, is it losing out heavily on CPU benchmarks? No, it is doing pretty nicely. Does it have horrible battery life? No. Web rendering, 3d benchmarks and battery life, it's landing in the top 3-5, and often the flagship android phones aren't the ones beating it. Is it missing some killer hardware feature in terms of processing? It has 64 bit architecture, which the others don't, but nothing really takes advantage of. The others have a whole mess of cores running at inefficient clock speeds because it sounds better on marketing material, and the OS doesn't really take advantage of all those cores. Less cores less fast would probably work better for longer. I'll call that a push because both sides are pushing forward where there's little point right now and little practical benefit.
Is it lagging in sensors compared to the android crowd? Not really. Not to mention given that going forward you can count on all apple phones having them, you may very well see them all supported. Am I missing something other then the samsung IR blaster and the S5's heart rate sensor?
Does the camera suck? To even be remotely having that argument, you have to head over to nokia's offering with windows phone. In general, I've found android's camera offerings to be pretty substandard compared to my 4s, and that's skipping a couple generations of improvement there.
Android is fielding some nicer screens right now, sure. I find the disparity in the tablet arena when combined with price and removable media to be much more compelling a difference than in the smart phone market.
Pay out the asses? Subsidized the note 4 is $400. The 6+ is $400. The flagship phones on both sides are $199. Granted, android discounts sooner, but still. There's not a huge price difference from the perspective of the majority of the market. They aren't going out and buying unlocked phones at full price. But unlocked the note 4 vs 6+ it is $899 vs $750. One of those is more. It's not Apple. The s5 being a bit older is less htan an unlocked 6. So not seeing the difference there.
It's a rapidly maturing market currently being buried by shovelware and unethical data mining practices in the software offerings. Serious weather proofing and significantly abuse resistant screens are probably the only features not widely supported that would be in pretty wide demand from the hardware side of things. Absent that they are all slightly differentiated commodity hardware.
Arguing that any side has launched something that will rob anyone else of huge market share is pretty silly. Apple had the most to lose after the snooze fest that was the 5 and 5s. I think they have made a credible attempt at keeping their current user base. It still wouldn't make me excited about their stock though. It has been valued high, and apple still has not discernible path to any rapidly growing market. About the only chance I see for them to grow more is for one or more major PC vendors to shit the bed while MS follows it's comedy of errors all the way to shooting it's proverbial dick off.
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