I bought one. It showed up yesterday. I’m switching from a Pixel 7 Pro. There are some things I like about this iPhone. It’s very sleek and the screen is great! The screen is actually amazing. But the keyboard is small, text selection is still janky, the on device closed captioning doesn’t work as well as the Pixel, and a lot of configuration options that I had on my Pixel are pretty obscured or don’t exist on the iPhone. I miss newpipe and sync for Lemmy already. Safari browser is pretty rad. Websites look much better so far than they did on Firefox Nightly for Android. It’s also nice that I’m not using a single google service. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it or not. For some things it feels like a Gucci experience, and for others it feels like a Fisher Price toy phone for kids. Ask me again in a week and I can give a definitive answer.
Still have my iPhone 10 pro I got for free from my old job like 4 years ago. There has been absolutely nothing hardware-wise that has been introduced that makes me want to upgrade. Maybe customers are feeling like I have for the last several years and can’t justify such an ungodly expensive for no comparable return in this shit economy.
I’m finally upgrading my excellent XS Max to a 16 because I want more space and 120h. But damn I love that iPhones are still supported and fast as shit after six years.
Apple be like “shit, we had a solution for that but we can’t use it anymore…”
They still have their backup solution: Security patches end after 5 years and you can’t install an alternative OS like most Android phones.
Full iOS upgrades are longer than that… my XS max is six years old and fully supported still.
Bad news for them, most people couldn’t care less about those
Why buy a phone with maybe 10% improvements from the last model? Or should be illegal for a company to release a new product that is not substantially (greater than 51%) different/better than it’s predecessor. The waste is unreal
Idk about you, but I don’t upgrade my phone year after year. Whenever I decide to get a new phone, my current phone is already several years old. So, it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me how big of an upgrade the current model is from the previous year. If it’s abysmal then I’ll buy the previous year model. If it’s decent enough or the prices are similar, then I’ll get the current year. Either way, both are an upgrade by the time I decide to buy.
It’s the same idea as the car industry. They don’t expect you to buy the latest model every single year. They’re hoping that whenever you do choose to upgrade the new one had enough new features that you’ll choose it instead of going over to a competitor.
That’s comparing apples to oranges. Apple has been caught doing planned obsolescence multiple times. And many other tech companies as well. I’m proposing more regulations to ensure that none essential products have longer service life and replacements are a substantial jump in performance and quality to justify the raw materials being used. Also with the rapid conglomeration of companies the allusion of choice is worrying. Also slowing down the releases would allow more equitable distribution of money and resources. Just look up the numbers behind electronic waste alone. Yes in the perfect world people would only get a new device when needed. But that’s not reality. I’m not talking about a communist utopia or anything but the question is should humanity be trowing so much resources and energy behind millions of new iphones every year? These are serious decisions we need to have because the alternative is literally the destruction of the human race as we know it. Apple makes a new phone every year because imaginary line on graph must go up. But should we measure a company’s success that way? The environment, the poor people that mine the resources, and assemble the phones say no.
No one says you have to buy anything, ever.
I’m not arguing about your point. Of course no one is forcing anyone to buy anything. But they do. On a literal earth destroying scale. Our whole global economy is based on how much useless shit and excess shit we can consume. Rather than using our resources to solve our problems, we are allowing literally metric tons of materials to go into new iPhones every year. (not just iPhones but most tech in general and nearly every none essential product) I’m not taking about individuals changing habits. That’ll get us no where. We need smart resource management and tech not to be allowed to shovel the same shit with small improvements, while lobbying to turn everyone into blind consumers. So what if we have to wait 3/5/7 years for a new phone? No one is going to die. But if we don’t slow things, just look at north Carolina. Look at the coral reefs. Look at the copper mines in the Congo.
Aha aha, sure sure. I might think this is pure speculation and the article may be shit.
I mean, I’m sure it’s absolutely accurate just based off the title.
Guaranteed Apple was hoping every living person and half the dead ones would buy 3 each. So, by that metric, it’s not hitting expectations…because they’re not making literally all the money…Edit:
Apple sold just an estimated 37 million units in the first weekend of iPhone 16 pre-sales, down more than 12% compared to the same period last year
Point in case.
