I read the other reviews that the article did not cherry pick.

Most of Germany's renewable energy comes from biomass and hydro, sources that Australia can't tap. The same is true of most countries with high renewable usage: they're profiting from advantageous geology or ecology. If you're going to peg your renewable hopes on solar or wind, you're going to have a bad time.

Your idea is not without precident; the iPad Mini essentially exists because Apple was losing marketshare to the smaller tablets everyone liked, regardless of Jobs' protestations that 10-inch was the perfect size. If there's new product that obviates yours, it might as well be you selling it. There was an argument going around the tech blogs maybe six months ago that tablets may be positioned as PC killers, but that they don't have much of a future; "kids these days", so to speak, aren't using PCs in the first place, so won't transition onto them. They're all cellular.

Yeah, that's the point I was going for; it's whatever particular set of characteristics the person using the word doesn't like and don't fit into another readily available pejorative. Fetishisation of old technology? Hipster. Fetishisation of new technology? Hipster. Disinterest in technology? Hipster. Shaggy clothes and beard? Hipster. Well-groomed and stylish? Hipster. Completely normal looking? Hipster.

Isn't voice recognition done server-side just now? Having enough power to have Siri running locally, and therefore not dependent upon a good network connection, would be nice.

I wrote this. I think it's hilarious that I got 5: Interesting as a logged-in user expressing these, and Score 0: Troll for elaborating on them further.

I think we can all agree that ten million sales last year is better than ten million sales today.

Unless you read the same journalists' quotes about the Galaxy Note II, which pretty much say the same things that they allegedly would never say about a non-Apple phablet. Because it was about six months later and they were actually used to it.

I'm not sure what sort of case you're trying to make here except "some tech writers don't like large-screened phones and are just about capable of tolerating Apple's one".

UK. My last place was pretty quick ADSL and it topped out at about 12 down, 2 up. My iPhone 4 on regular old HSDPA was hitting nearly 20 down, 2 up very easily. Might depend on where you live; I imagine the bigger cities have better broadband and worse cellular connections. Regardless, that poor mobile infrastructure is something that's not going to be fixed by improving the phone's radio which is my point.

I don't think this was timed optimally; Apple themselves were concerned last year that most of the market growth in premium handsets was in larger sizes, an area they didn't cover. The optimal time to launch a larger model would've been then, not a full year later.

They missed the boat. Pleasantly, for people like me who like small handsets, but they missed it.

Wait, I thought hipsters were the guys who liked the new things? Like if you had an iPad and an iPhone you were a hipster, but if you had an old Android and a Lenovo laptop you were a legitimate human being.

If by "suddenly" you mean "two years and dozens of four-to-six-inch-phones later", yes.

That's less time than it took for the original iPhone to go from ridiculously oversized* to perfectly normal.

*Ars Technica's review compares it unfavourably to the Razr.

Except if you actually go back and read what the press said, there was a little bump of "wow, that's a big phone" for the Galaxy Note and S3 - which were large phones for the time - and then stopped mentioning it. In fact, the general concensus over the past two years is that the iPhones are too small now. If you look up the iPhone 5/S reviews by each of those sites, you'll see the same sorts of remarks. The Nexus 4 really set the benchmark at about 5 inches as far as the press were concerned.

The premise put forward by the article is, to put it bluntly, unsupported by the facts.

These aren't reviews from "before ... the iPhone 6", they're exclusively reviews of the Galaxy Note and S3 - the first "phablets". Writers' tastes haven't changed because they're duplicitous hacks trying to find a way to hate Android; they've changed because of experience.