This is so dramatic for no reason lol. Cool, don’t get the phone then? Enjoy your $2,000 and I hope that you will spend it on something you like.
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You made my point.
4 gen had some significant revolutionary changes compared to the 3 before.
5 brought size change and touch ID which was a huge innovation.
6 brought more size changes, including 2 size options.
7 was arguably iterative except for the dual camera.
8 / X was 2017 and the X was the big deal, while the 8 was quite iterative and legacy.
XS Max was the larger X that was missing from the prior year, otherwise iterative.
11 was the last year of the X design language.
12 through 17 is effectively the same design language as Apple seems to have settled into their now mature decisions there. Of those 15 and 16 really stand out the least as far as advancements. 17 appears to be mainly highlighted by battery and cooling.
Does each annual release increase performance, battery, camera prowess, and some other feature or two, YES. That
is not in dispute. However, those annual releases are more iterative. The every other year redesign / introduction of major new tech like size changes, Touch ID, removal of the home button and Face ID seems to be gone for now.
The Air is somewhat gimmicky in my opinion. So based on this, Apple's true next innovation, is their Fold. Which I would argue is another case of why did it take them this long to get to the party that their competitors have been at for some time.
Air did it for me unexpectedly.
Wasn't planning on upgrading with my 16Pro as I wait every 2 years to upgrade when my Apple Card payments are done.
$580 trade in and the 512GB Air = $619 cost.
For what I want (thin, lightweight, and just as Pro as I need).
Wasn't planning on upgrading with my 16Pro as I wait every 2 years to upgrade when my Apple Card payments are done.
$580 trade in and the 512GB Air = $619 cost.
For what I want (thin, lightweight, and just as Pro as I need).
Yes, very dramatic.
That phone looks sharp! I’m looking forward to seeing it in person.
People said the Macbook Air was gimmicky when it 1st came out and look at it now.
You seem pretty negative. Are you just anti Tim Cook? How on earth could you assume that Jobs and Ive could get it done faster, given that tech did not exist, and is barely getting to where it needs to be to be up to Apple standards today. They never lead the way, the develop a refined iteration. I'm super excited for Apples foldable phone, as I like the Apple ecosystem and their general polish on hardware.
Not only that, but folding phones are almost universally reviewed as not particularly useful today. The Google Fold is a minute product in terms of volume. And, until this year, there were serious durability concerns with the foldables. This is absolutely a case of Apple waiting for the technology to mature to a point, and to give themselves enough time to engineer the SOFTWARE to actually be useful in a folding phone. It takes time. When Apple releases a foldable, it will be much more fully-baked than any Android foldable that has come out yet. And they're learning valuable things in the meantime. Still, I'm not sure I'll have a particular use for it. Something like the Air makes a lot more sense for me personally. But I won't argue that others shouldn't buy it like so many do on here. You do you.
Android is such a fragmented ecosystem, manufacturers started distributing folding phones before the OS really supported it, and definitely before ANY apps (except that manufacturer's bloatware apps) made use of the larger screen to any useful degree.
I am not a big Tim Cook fan. Unfortunately he is a profit and business approach type exec at the helm of tech company attempting to focus on innovation. I'm not sure consumers are best served having him as CEO.
Trust me, Apple is still innovating. This, for example, is huge. It's not shiny, though. The Air is shiny.
The true downside to Apple and their release strategy, is that everyone will know it is coming, they will optimize the OS and their own software for it, and give special access to a small select group of developers, but the rest of the developer community will have to wait for its release to optimize their apps for the device. I'd be curious if Apple decides to preview the Fold at WWDC 26 along with iOS 27.
Ah yes. The past always was better, wasn’t it. /s
You’re doing it wrong! That doesn’t count because it’s not an external hardware feature, and if it were it wouldn’t count anyway because Apple is bad and isn’t innovative and is boring.
The grass isn’t always greener…
Android manufacturers are no better, in fact they iterate even less!
Android manufacturers are no better, in fact they iterate even less!
Ever since I switched to an iPhone after nine years of Android, I still feel much better off on this side of the fence than in the clutches of the greedy advertising corporation Google. So yes, the grass is greener – and it's here.
It's not hard to understand that we are at a point where smartphones are going to be innovative every year, like they were in the 2010s. If I still had an iPhone 14, the 17 models definitely have enough upgrades that would make it worth it. USB, Apple Intelligence, upgraded camera, better battery life, faster performance, better display.
Additionally, even if Apple releases the long-rumored foldable iPhone next year, people will still post content similar to this topic. Either crying about the high price of the foldable phone, or the supposed lack of innovation, or some other slight they feel Apple has done to consumers, and why it's no better than their iPhone 15,16, or 17. I get that people have their opinions, but it gets old.
Three years are a quite normal time span to upgrade an iPhone, at least that's mine.