{"id":10417,"date":"2011-11-28T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2011-11-28T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:00:16","slug":"newsletter-issue-626-does-an-iphone-4-to-iphone-4s-upgrade-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2011\/11\/newsletter-issue-626-does-an-iphone-4-to-iphone-4s-upgrade-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #626: Does an iPhone 4 to iPhone 4s Upgrade Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the manager at our favorite pharmacy takes out a white iPhone 4s from his pocket and announces, sadly, &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t need this. My iPhone 4 was working just fine, and Siri isn&#8217;t of much use to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked him if he&#8217;d tried it much, and he said, &#8220;yes, but I don&#8217;t need to ask about the weather. I just tap twice and there it is. Besides, how would it look if I started to talk to my phone while working?&#8221; With a smile, I thought about his customers staring at him as he filled their prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Siri isn&#8217;t the only attraction of an iPhone 4s. The interface feels noticeably snappier than its predecessor, and the camera is good enough to have made more and more people set aside their regular point and shoot models. Wasn&#8217;t that sufficient to justify the upgrade?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2011\/11\/newsletter-issue-626\/#upgrade\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the manager at our favorite pharmacy takes out a white iPhone 4s from his pocket and announces, sadly, &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t need this. 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