The much anticipated Apple iPhone 5 has finally launched on September 21, and over the weekend, it has already sold 5 million phones.

In my opinion, that’s an astonishing number. However, despite selling 5 million phones (already), it was a disappointing number. Many analysts had expected the new phone to sell over 6 million phones over the weekend. This could be attributed to the fact that the latest edition of the iPhone is not considered revolutionary, but rather, just an improvement of the previous one.

For the past few days, I’ve heard people talking about the latest iPhone everywhere I went. For the most part, people were satisfied with the improvements of the new phone, such as the weight of it. However, I had also heard many complaints and disappointments, like how the screen still has the same width. The people with disappointments were probably upset because there wasn’t an extraordinary change compared to its previous version. I agree that the changes to iPhone 5 are not huge, but there is only so much creativity to make a new and unique phone. Apple has already created a significant mark in the phone industry. Everywhere I go, I see people holding a generation of the iPhone (while I’m still carrying a flip phone). That is their brand, and I don’t see them changing anything to it drastically anytime soon.

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