I bought my 7+ in early 2020 with iOS 13 out of the box, and bam, iOS 15 is the last supported version… 😂
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Apple Adds iPhone 6 to 'Vintage Product' List
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iPhone 6 and 6s were great iPhones.
It seems like only yesterday I was complaining about how ugly it was. Never owned a 5,6,7,8, or X. Held on to the 4S forever then went to the SE. Still don't like large phones or small phones where the camera is 1/4 of its size. The 4 was the best design to date.
The 6+ was the worst iPhone Apple made after the 5c.
It had structural issues (Bendgate), was incredibly slow just a couple years after release, and even at launch it suffered from having only 1 GB of RAM. That made it so Safari tabs constantly reloaded and was just a poor experience.
The 6 to 6S was a massive upgrade. Up until this year, it was still supported by the latest iOS.
It had structural issues (Bendgate), was incredibly slow just a couple years after release, and even at launch it suffered from having only 1 GB of RAM. That made it so Safari tabs constantly reloaded and was just a poor experience.
The 6 to 6S was a massive upgrade. Up until this year, it was still supported by the latest iOS.
Apple is also shamelessly using the same design of 2020's iPhone 12 Pro in 2022's iPhone 14 Pro. Yes, the same design for three years in a row.
A design that was inspired by the iPhone 5 a decade ago.
How shameless. Tim Apple should be fired!
Agreed.
6 Plus was singularly the worst iPhone I’ve owned, 1gb RAM & 64 bit should never have happened. Went back to using my 5S until the 6S Plus came out, a testament to how bad it was given I was desperate for a larger phone - I had the Galaxy Note 1 and everyone laughed. Small by modern standards.
True, should have qualified it saying larger phones should never have retained same ram as previous iteration. Performance was drastically worse on 6 Plus, presumably the extra demand for ram from screen rendering and OS requirements etc.
Here’s a real example of how bad it was, that I didn’t experience on 5S;
-Safari, browse 1 tab
-go to podcast app, press play
-back to Safari, tab has to reload
-pause podcast with CC equivalent (forgot name of it)
-use Safari
-press resume, podcast app flushed, plays random song from Music app
Equally, Id have to c&p anything I was working on before leaving Safari, as there was a more than 50% chance the app was flushed and my priceless(!) musings had vanished.
This just didn’t happen with the 5S.
Oh, and not to mention random freezing and crashing. I was on these forums, a million topics saying same experience, I didn’t have a lemon 6 Plus.
I accept some people claim the 6 series was fine, I just vehemently disagree.
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Oh the good ole first foldable iPhone
As long as the innards are different.
Why let a good thing go to waste?
Be honest here- let’s have some intellectual honesty. What is the probability of firing Tim Apple?
Both the 5s and 6s were remarkably innovative phones that introduced leaps in technology and performance that blew the competition out of the water. The 6s especially stood the test of time and is a fast, usable phone to this day. The 6 on the other hand was a disastrous release - trying to take the body of the 5s and force it to power a phone twice as large was never going to work.
It's the far larger screen that requires a LOT of additional RAM; hence the 5s' superiority in this matter. This is why the 6+ had such poor user experience WRT reloading.
The game industry has been doing it for awhile - for example:
NES Classic Edition - Wikipedia
I don't see a mention of it on Wikipedia, but my understanding is that Nintendo had millions of parts stocked up for the Wii U, but the Wii U was such a commercial flop it didn't make sense to actually assemble those- they wouldn't have sold if Nintendo had built them.
So instead Nintendo built them into the simpler NES Classic.
IDK... does Nintendo have a bunch of those awful Wii U touchscreens laying around in storage somewhere? That had to have been one of the worst parts of the console. Apple had shown the world how to do touchscreens right with the iPhone in 2007, and for nobody knows why, Nintendo released a console with a touchscreen that felt like it belonged on a Palm from the 90s in 2012.
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Yep.
And this is why the whole “buy when you need it advice” is flawed. There absolutely are times when it makes sense to wait for the next generation because you get a device that will provide a significantly better experience for a significantly longer period of time.
the iPhone 6 was one of the worst iPhones ever made, with it having bendgate, touch disease, only 1 GB of ram, and so on.
How many different shapes can one possibly want for a phone? Triangular or octagonal edges? Maybe a trapezoid shaped phone to give it the funky vibe? For the size of the SE, I think the rounded edge look has held up well.
And I’m sure when they finally axe the button completely, and make (if they make) the Mini style the new SE, they’ll make the edges square like the models now.
So many keep playing their “innovation” card, like it’s the only card in a deck of 52.
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Camera bump was still quite small back then so I wasn't too bothered. I was more horrified by those ugly antenna lines.
