Just a couple days ago, I wrote about how Apple’s new mantra appears to be “Best Over First”, as they continue to improve their hardware and software by focusing on adding features better than everyone else, rather than adding features before everyone else. My neighbor and bestie (a proud Android user) often ribs me for Apple’s announcement of year(s)-old features as though they are brand new. I’d argue, of course, that to the most of the populace, they are new features. Much of the world is a lot less tech-informed than those that focus on spec checklists (as many Android fans and even quite a few iPhone die-hards are wont to do) and therefore just don’t realize that LTE has been around for a few years. In fact, Apple usually benefits greatly from waiting for an emerging technology to mature a bit before including it in their software and hardware, as they’ve been able to analyze where the tech fails to meet expectations in their competitors and (usually) improve on it with their implementation.

It seems I’m not the only person to be supportive of Apple’s decision to focus on making sure their new features are the best, rather than the first. An post over at FJP (a site whose name directly applies to the title of that post and mine) about how Apple avoids implementing “jetpack design” just to be the first to include a new feature rather than making sure they release the best version of a feature (a mark that they occasionally miss, but that they hit often enough that it’s the reason the iPhone 5 preorders sold out in less than an hour).

Bonus points go to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber for pointing me to the post which, in a bizarre, circular fashion, pointed me back to a Macworld article by Gruber from 2010 about the original iPad: an article that is eerily prescient when read today in a world that has seen the release of three more generations of iPhone and two more generations of iPad.