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I had the iPhone, iPh3G, iP3Gs, and 4. When I saw the size increase of the 5, I switched to Nokia just to see if a bigger screen (not just longer) was "really" a big deal. I think that the 5 inch screen is a really good size as long as you can keep the bezel size down (Which it isn't on the Lumia 920). Everyone has different preferences but I just which $AAPL had more options. The whole "thumb" argument is baseless.

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I think you have valuable insight here and you've got some helpful anecdotal evidence, but the whole dollar sign before the ticker thing made me immediately think of the "M$" people.

I'm assuming you're giving the ticker syntax, but it almost made me question your post, especially considering you're speaking against the iPhone. Just a knee jerk reaction from a passerby.

Oh sorry, sometimes I speak in "Twitter Speak" using the $<stock-symbol> to identify a company. So I would say $MSFT, not M$. I need to stop doing that and just type the company name out :).

The funny thing about you commenting on me "speaking out against the iPhone" is that I just spent 12 weeks building a game for the iPhone [1]. And right now I'm working on a cross platform authentication method using a phone number and the platform I'm testing it out on first is iOS (then Android, then WinMo). I'm actually a mobile-first iOS-first developer that is realistic about the state of the ecosystem. I can't consciously just jump on a bandwagon and say everything is awesome when things aren't.

[1] - http://xo9.us

Why are you typing $AAPL instead of Apple?

They are probably being snooty, but that is considered the convention for referencing a stock symbol (not really relevant in this context, however).

I answered it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6423140

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