"It performed very well"...
BUT NOT "GREAT" OR "EXCEPTIONALLY WELL", just very well
Very well=ok
The product testers at Consumer Reports have given the iPhone 4S a clean bill of health. "Apple's newest smart phone performed very well in our tests," CR's Mike Gikas said in a statement issued on Tuesday, "and while it closely resembles the iPhone 4 in appearance, it doesn't suffer the reception problem we found in its …
You do realize that the obsessive haters are about an order of magnitude more annoying than fanbois, don't you?
I don't own one of these train wrecks (sorry, my wife does and I can't stand the antenna problems), but a quick check on "them their 'internets" shows that the iPhone 4 was released June 24, 2010. Seeing as this isn't quit the end of 2011, that makes for a less than 1.5 year turn around, not 3. I also don't recall any major recall beyond a (somewhat ugly) case thingy. As far as just being an updated 4... well, the clue is sort of in the name, isn't it? It's the iPhone /4s/, not the 5, or anything like that.
Really, if you're going to hate on a product, at least get your facts straight.
-d