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It's been almost a week since Apple release the 'new and improved' iPhone 5. As far as I can notice from the specifications only two things have really been changed and one, as far as I am concerned, not for the best. The two things are the CPU (which seems to be a great improvement when it comes to speed and power consumption) and the connector which continues in the long Apple tradition: 'We don't do anything that's standard for the rest of tradition!'. While the rest of the world has adopted (some might think by force of the UE law) microUSB as the standard interference port, Apple seem to have gone again against the tide and unveiled a different port. Of course that can only mean trouble when you have multiple phones or you don't like adaptors (which of course Apple generously sells with a huge margin of profit... asking 29$ for a piece of cable is a crime ) Oh... I forgot about the headphone change. That could also be marked as an improvement although I didn't consider the old ones so rubbish.Anyway as I see it Apple is becoming lazy with it's success. For a few generations now the iPhone hasn't brought anything new to the scene. Above all I think innovation is what brought Apple's success and now while I still see that with every new release people stay 2-3 days camped in front of Apple Stores all over the world the real innovation is no more. I think Apple is now a car that has gone uphill by the power not of oil, but of innovation and once that has run dry going downhill is just a matter of time.Just as a side note (for fairness)... I'm not an Apple fan or user - so keep that in mind when reading the above lines.So what do you think about the new iPhone?

Turkey once again proves its strength in new technologies: Ankara, who wants to equip schools in the country with touch pads, has just launched a tender to deploy 15 million tablets over a period of four years. Originally, the project was subject to a condition: the tablets were to be produced locally, but the Turkish government would have backtracked on this constraint really ... too restrictive. If they win the contract, Appletm could still give the Turks the production of accessories like covers and headphones. Obviously, Apple is not alone on the spot because Microsoft and Intel are already part of the hame.For the record: 15 million iPad, it still represents an investment (or a turnover, it depends on which side one takes) of about 7.5 billion euros! No problem for Turkey, whose public debt is comparable to the Scandinavian countries so often cited as examples. By the way: a sacred snub to his great rival Greek who is completely in the hole!