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I think I am going to continue with my 17 pro max for another year. I usually upgrade every year, but not this time.

• josephg 19d ago
  I haven’t upgraded since 2020 and I still don’t have a good reason to. My iPhone 12 still runs great. I use a real camera for photography. Other than the cameras, what has meaningfully improved over the last 6 years?
  • muppetman 19d ago
    Yea I just swapped my jogging/beach iPhone from an Xr to an iPhone 12 and wow, it's so much better than the Xr and pretty much as good as my "proper" phone, an 17Pro. It's got 4G RAM instead of 12G but it performs almost as well. Xr->12 is a huge leap in performance and I noticed it straight away. But the 12 against the 17 is much harder to see the difference. Less redraw of icons on the main screen is the primary thing I've noticed.
  • mrheosuper 18d ago
    The only noticeable thing is faster screen, the 17 has 120hz screen.
    • blitzar 18d ago
      my eyes are an older model
      • ksncksndsh 18d ago
        The difference is noticeable even if you pretend to not notice it for cool internet points. ;)
        • josephg 18d ago
          I can definitely spot the difference. But I don’t think I really care. If my MacBook mysteriously swapped from 120hz to 60hz, it would probably take me several weeks to notice.
  • arrowsmith 18d ago
    I'm still on an iPhone 11 that I bought second-hand a few years ago when the iPhone 15 was the newest. The battery life isn't great which is the only thing tempting me to upgrade, but I'll still put that off as long as possible. Other than the battery I have no complaints. It's a phone. I can make calls, send texts, browse the web, check maps, take photos. What more do I need? Why waste money? I can't even tell the difference between newer iPhone models. Why do people upgrade every year? What's the point?
• whackernews 19d ago
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