Correct. Older Android phones sometimes have "fragmentation" problems, much like current iPhones suffer problems when upgraded. The best iPhone from just over one year ago requires a shortcut to be created to work around the loss of YouTube and the installation of decent third party maps to override the broken Apple ones. That's why most Apple users are avoiding the iOS6 upgrade. In contrast, all high-end Android phones from the past six months and going forward and almost all Android phones released in 2013 will have v4.x and so such issues... simple, smooth, free upgrades that "just work".

I stand corrected: one year and three weeks ago, not just one year flat. The advantage of early iPhones were that they were simple and "just worked". To have to download alternative working maps and place shortcuts on your home screen to replace something that used to be available by default sort of goes against this, don't you think? Siri is also missing, and some report problems that make them regret they performed the upgrade. As a result, most people are passing on doing it.

If anyone questions whether the iPhone has really lost is luster with this latest release, they need only look at the rapid divergence that has taken place in market share over the past quarter. Past iPhone releases saw Apple gain share temporarily, taking Android a few weeks each time to resume its climb. With this release, customers are seeing the iPhone and jumping ship to faster and better Android phones that cost less and offer choice. In other words, the iPhone 5 has hastened Apple's decline for the first time.

PS> This isn't OMNI. You should note that my negative opinion of Apple is not an attack on you, so I ask that you give the same respect and set the ad hominem aside. Thanks.