Because the 7 in Jet Black must be heralded as a great looking phone to this day.Why's the 6s, 8 Red & X vintage, but not the 7, spare parts? https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772
You better check that calculation again. ChatGPT did a sloppy calculation. Exaggerated by 65%!I had ChatGPT do some quick math. The "camera mesa" on modern Pro iPhones (containing 3 lenses, LiDAR + flash) is about 65X larger than the single camera lens on the 6S.![]()
The 2018 Mac mini came out before Apple transitioned to Apple silicon, and it was actually the last Mac mini that had Intel chips inside. It was equipped with Intel's "Coffee Lake" chipset with 4-core and 6-core options, plus it had Intel UHD Graphics 630.
A device is considered "vintage" five years after it was last distributed for sale. For vintage products, Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) are still able to offer repairs, but only if the required parts are available.
Yes! Love the 6. Brilliant phones, thin, lighy. Great looking.Bring back 3D touch
Products become vintage/obsolete based on the date they were last sold new by Apple. The 2013 Mac Pro wasn’t discontinued until December 2019.Interesting the Mac Pro (Late-2013) is not Vintage but the Mac Mini 2018 (not to mention the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)) is? I would think parts for the latter would be easier to come by. If the issue is CPU/ISA, the former pre-dates Haswell (no AVX2) while the latter is a Skylake derivitative (plus has T2). Performance-wise, the former is beat by i5 variant of the Mac Mini and barely beats the i3 variant in multi-core (but not single-core). Then of course the obvious difference in original release dates and available purchase dates. Nothing against that Mac Pro -- I thought it was an elegant design despite all the complaints -- but surprised the Mac Mini 2018 was moved to the Vintage pile first. Mine still works like a champ.
6s is the current device in my hands. The best pack of technology I ever bought. Charging via lightning, while I listen to the radio with the headphones. Still very decent outdoor photos in 2025.
Apple today updated its vintage products list to add the 2018 Mac mini and the iPhone 6s, devices that will get more limited service and repairs now that they are considered vintage.
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The iPhone 6s initially launched in 2015, but Apple kept it around as a low-cost device until 2018, which is why it is only now being added to the vintage list. The iPhone 6s had Apple's A9 chip, and it was equipped with a strengthened aluminum chassis to fix the iPhone 6 "bendgate" design flaw. It was also the first iPhone with 3D Touch, and the last flagship iPhone with a headphone jack.
The 2018 Mac mini came out before Apple transitioned to Apple silicon, and it was actually the last Mac mini that had Intel chips inside. It was equipped with Intel's "Coffee Lake" chipset with 4-core and 6-core options, plus it had Intel UHD Graphics 630.
A device is considered "vintage" five years after it was last distributed for sale. For vintage products, Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) are still able to offer repairs, but only if the required parts are available.
At the seven year mark after a device's last date of sale, it is considered "obsolete." Apple Stores and AASPs generally do not repair products that are obsolete, and parts are no longer provided by Apple.
Article Link: Apple Says These Products Are Now Vintage
Yeah, the iPhone 6 was gimped with only 1GB of RAM. The 6s also introduced 4K30 video recording. I still have my 6s.The 6s was such a great phone. The A9 chip was so much better than the A8 with much more speed, 2x RAM after 3 sequential years of just 1GB, and NVME flash. You could FEEL the difference between the 6 and 6s.
The 6s was snappy enough and performed great until I replaced it with my X. The iPhone 7 was more of a placeholder between the 6s and X as Apple recycled the 6 design a third time. When the 6s lost iOS support so did the 7 so it wasn’t powerful enough to get another year or two of iOS support over the 6s. Thinking back, I probably should’ve kept using my 6s another year and buy a XS instead of an X. I guess the ‘s’ model was often better for longevity than the redesigned model (4, 5, 6, X).Agreed.
The 6S was a great phone, but it was dwarfed a year later by the iPhone 7, which felt so much snappier. The 6S fixed the disaster of the iPhone 6 though.
Removing that feature from the iPhone and watch is one of the most stupid decisions they've made. I really hope they bring this back someday because it made interacting with the watch slower and more annoying.Bring back 3D touch
Are you holding out for the iPhone 17? I can imagine that is going to be a huge jump for you and would love to get your thoughts!I still use the 6s as my main phone. Most apps I do not wish to update. But how long my banking app will still be updated, is unknown. It was my first iPhone, and my first step into the Apple ecosystem 🥰
I never understood why Apple retail employees sometimes are so “full of themselves” … saying that is kind of like an insult in my opinion.I remember calling up my nearest Apple Store in 2015 to inquire if they might do a battery replacement on my 2010 17 inch MBP (figured I would ask and possibly get it done properly before I resorted to ordering a Chinese battery of dubious quality online and did it myself) and the guy on the phone to me laughed and said "We don't stock parts for retro hardware". 😭
Yup, even the latest versions of ChatGPT, including 4o, can't consistently do math properly, and it's unsure if OpenAI will ever really fix that, having "moved on" to other things, rather than simply go back to the normal strategy they briefly used a while back of embedding a calculator into it.You better check that calculation again. ChatGPT did a sloppy calculation. Exaggerated by 65%!
The camera lens is 7mm wide, thus area 34.48mm2.
The Pro camera "mesa" is 39*40mm, area 1560mm2 - so almost 40X larger (I did not calculate the rounded corners).
According to ChatGPT's 65X larger would be an area of about 47*47mm (if it was square)