I've had my iPhone 13 Pro for over a year now and it has worked well for me. Battery life has been excellent, the camera has worked well enough for my needs, and the phone has reliably provided essential functions for what I need everyday. I see it as a tool, not as a toy. That phone was actually a Christmas gift from my brother, who was annoyed that I couldn't join in his family's (and my adorable nieces') group chats because I refused to get a smartphone for the longest time. Even though I'm an electrical engineer who designs and creates advanced software (including GUI-based apps for other engineers) and electronic circuits for a major corporation, I'm one of those who are not seduced by new-fangled electronics, as long as what I already have are good enough for me. So, for example, I still use 15-year-old PCs at home (but I'm discovering that I need to upgrade to latest PCs for my advanced 3D modeling design projects because of newer versions of 3D CAD programs that can't run on older PCs).
So it was with cell phones, with me not getting a smartphone until my brother bought me one as a gift. Yes, the newer iPhones like iPhone 15 sound nice, but as long as my 13 Pro works well for me and does not die, I don't think I will upgrade to a newer iPhone. Even after more than a year of regular daily use, my iPhone 13 Pro shows that the battery still has 100% of the original capacity and the phone still looks like new because of the protective case and screen cover that my brother also included with the phone.
(When I was hospitalized for a while last year after an emergency surgery, I saw nurses using hospital-issued, ruggedized iPhone 10s to enter and access patient data and they all treated them like tools, just like I did with my 13 Pro. In fact, because I was able to install a patient medical app that the hospital provided and that was able to connect to the hospital system, I was able to use my 13 Pro, while I was still lying on my hospital bed, to see the same data in my medical records that the nurses were entering and accessing, which was very informative for me as a patient, especially since I knew a bit about medicine because I once seriously studied to become a doctor myself before I decided that engineering was more interesting. I was able to follow the lab test results, vital sign data, and progress notes that the medical staff were entering as I recovered very rapidly. It was interesting that the medical staff was also regularly observing me for any mental health issues. They used medical lingo to not alarm the patients, but I knew what they were talking about. (I even interrogated the surgeon about the surgical techniques he used, and we ended up using medical terms to discuss what he did during the surgery. with him explaining why he decided to go with various options, since it was an emergency surgery and not a pre-planned one, so they couldn't fool me.) I guess they've had too many cases where patients committed suicide after being discharged from the hospital, probably due to discovering during the hospital stay that they had serious life-altering health issues and not being able to cope with them.)
Edit: regarding the titanium case in the iPhone 15 lineup, titanium scratches much more easily than other types of metal. However, if titanium gets a proper finish during manufacturing, it can still look awesome even with scratches, because that can enhance the rugged look of the titanium finish. So, again, with the right finish, the titanium case can give an iPhone a unique, cool rugged look that is different from that of all other iPhones. It remains to be seen what kind of finish Apple will give to the titanium case.
