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I thought phrases like "the biggest foo since sliced bread" means that sliced bread was a greater foo, but other intervening foos may be lesser. That doesn't seem terribly hyperbolic to me. The retina display on the 4 is the only one that I would say rivals the changes in the 5. The numbers are arbitrary anyway. People are silly. Apple tries to be as silent as possible and people get lathered up anyway.

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The app store is a much bigger thing to happen to the iPhone than this.

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That's never how I understood that idiom. I've always assumed that "since sliced bread" was a different way to say "ever".

So, "the best foo since sliced bread" reads as "the best foo ever".