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I'm still using an iPhone 6s from 2015, with one battery replacement. Nominally I wanted to upgrade the last few years, at least since the 12 generation, but ea
by ttepasse 2y ago
I'm still using an iPhone 6s from 2015, with one battery replacement. Nominally I wanted to upgrade the last few years, at least since the 12 generation, but each time I couldn’t be bothered and found the prices rather high. Now I’m again in the weird timespan waiting for a September event and deciding afterwards.
Thing is: Did I really miss out on the mobile ecosystem in the last years? There are apps, most of them run fine or fine-ish. The biggest problem are lazy developers using non native toolkits. Games, obviously are another problem, but I’m more of a puzzle gamer. The biggest advance was photography but since I couldn’t integrate photography in my life in the last 15 years I don’t think I will now. Whenever I look at newer iPhones, I don’t really feel huge FOMO. What are the mobile use cases to always upgrade to the newest one?
(Maybe because I’m primary a Mac user and the iPhone is more of an appendix to that.)
- ryandrake 2y agoI'm in the same boat as you, with a 7. Every time I look at maybe replacing it, I see how expensive the newer ones still are, and I just can't justify it. I don't care about gaming performance or the camera, and those seem to be the only things that really get improved year after year.
- fl0ki 2y agoSounds like you still have TouchID instead of FaceID. The pandemic was quite a wakeup call for this, with far more people wearing masks than gloves, people using FaceID were set back much more than people using TouchID. Then Apple just made FaceID work even with masks. Now TouchID is further behind by still not working with gloves, while FaceID works in more situations than ever before. When you don't need to authorize a sensitive operation, just unlock, a paired Apple Watch can also be configured to unlock the iPhone.