Apple users love it already and Android fans are pinpointing a laundry list of issues. With lines drawn in the sand, it’s pretty difficult to find an unbiased look at the iPhone 5 but the folks over at Yahoo! Finance have done a great job of writing an interesting article without attacking the cell phone or making it sound like they’re praising it like a deity.

If you were taking a college course called iPhone 101, your professor might identify three factors that have made Apple’s smartphone a mega-success.

First, design. A single company, known for its obsession over details, produces both the hardware and the software. The result is a single, coherently designed whole.

Second, superior components. As the world’s largest tech company, Apple can call the shots with its part suppliers. Continue Reading

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