People are too addicted to advancement and lose sight of how far we’ve come, in my opinion. All of these improvements take time to design, negotiate, build facilities, hire people, implement, figure out yields, test, scale up, distribute. The scale and speed of their logistics to even be on a yearly cycle is pretty amazing to me (Apple, and all the phone makers). My friend’s iPhone SE came out only a few years ago, and the camera is hot garbage compared to the cameras in my iPhone 12 Pro. Even the SE was amazing compared to those before it. Incremental progress should be appreciated more, because creating new things takes time, money, and effort. I think it’s a blast being on the ride.
Personally, I avoid all the trashy youtube shock videos that just spin clickbait narratives to farm views, likes, and subs. I wish Apple would partner with some of them to go deeper into the backstory and designs, like they used to do with Johnny Ives. Johnny being a pretentious blowhard aside, I found it pretty fascinating to hear their design philosophies, engineering achievements, and depth of thought. That is true creation, not like these face palming, vapid youtubers trying to catch eye time with 99% recirculated info and lies.
