Apple’s sold four millions iPhone 4S units to date (i.e. in one weekend)—more than Windows Phone has managed in a year. That clearly smarts for Paul Thurrott, he of Supersite for Windows fame:

There’s a long-running joke that Apple’s fans would buy anything the company sold, no matter the quality

— he began, setting up the article in totally unbiased fashion.

But this past weekend, the joke became reality when the Cupertino consumer electronics giant sold 4 million units of a smart phone, the iPhone 4S, which even its most charitable supporters have described as an evolutionary update over its predecessor.

Evolutionary is bad, folks! Everything should be revolutionary, just like all those Android and Windows Phone devices!

“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Apple senior vice president Philip Schiller in a prepared statement. “iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever.”

Schiller’s comments are apt, as the iPhone 4S’s hardware appears to be nothing special:

Which, by extension, means the iPhone 4 was nothing special either. And so a much faster version of it with superior features is only selling because deluded idiots are being deluded by Apple-flavour delusions.

It features exactly the same form factor

Apple in “not changing the form factor every time it releases a new device” shocker!

as its buggy predecessor,

The one that wasn’t, in fact, buggy, but had the same antennae issues as every other smartphone. Issues that, incidentally, are reportedly dealt with in the new update.

the iPhone 4S, with the same small screen

That everyone seems to like, apart from hacks who favour other operating systems.

and an updated version of its Apple-designed CPU.

To which I’m surprised Thurrott didn’t say “smells of wee”.

Of course, Apple’s fans are more interested in spending money than they are with facts.

This chestnut is now so old that it’s fossilised. Well done, Thurrott! APPLE USERS ARE IDIOTS, SEE? THEY DON’T LIKE FACTS! THEY JUST SPEND MONEY FOR SHINY SHINY! Right.