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Comment by ryandvm | Hacker News Reader

This is not about the general public being utterly amazed with the iPhone 4S.

This is what happens when there is an 18 month period between product refreshes of a popular phone. It turns out that several million people have been holding out for "the next iPhone" for the last several months. Is this surprising anyone?

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Seems like a statement in need of support. Certainly that's a factor, but it seems like a ton of people [including non-Apple-geeks] are interested in and talking about the phone (especially Siri but also the camera) and saying they're "utterly amazed".

If the previous statement is in need of support, surely you have a cite for that ton of non-Apple-geeks saying they're "utterly amazed" by Siri and the camera, right?

Of course I don't have a formal citation, but I was only countering the earlier poster's firm pronouncement of why they had sold so many with a note that his/her statement was just conjecture. As I said, certainly that conjecture plays some part, but it doesn't seem valid to me to state that it's "the reason" for these sales in opposition to other reasons that customers (on Twitter, Facebook, the nightly news, etc) are (yes, anecdotally) giving.

http://twitter.com/search?q=siri

or for something more visual

http://trendistic.indextank.com/siri

People are talking more about Siri since the release date (on average) and for more dramatic effect, look at the results over a 30 day timeframe - not bad considering that Siri is essentially 2 year old technology.

Yeah, people are impressed by Siri, even if they just want to make fun of it (in Australia we call that Tall Poppy Syndrome)

It’s not? Why not?

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