I'm embarrassed to admit, I'm still on the 6S - I know I should update, but I wish there was something that made me go "I just must have that!". I mean I know that new phones are "faster" have "more megapixels" in the camera and whatnot, but in that old analogy, it's just a faster horse buggy - I'm hoping for a *car*, something new, a game-changer, not just a refinement, an elaboration, mere gloss. Of course when a techology matures, you can't have the same pace of invention as you did when things were just starting out, but I guess that's why we're not interested in the newest refrigerator coming out, whereas when they just were starting out, there was a solid 30 years of improvements to get excited by. But it's over for refrigerators. With digital technology you'd think there's a longer ramp where we can still accellerate innovation. I'm hoping the present "meh" feeling is due just to a slight pause and does not mean the phone is going the way of the fridge.
Computers are on the same path - the nerds still get excited by the chips being slightly faster, but the public at large not so much, insofar as that doesn't make most tasks easier on the computer (obviously, that point was long reached when it comes to basic stuff like text entry). There are still things like high resolution video editing, and games of course, but it's becoming more niche. For the masses out there, it's now down to refinements. People don't store as much, films, music is streamed, so storage is becoming deprecated, monitor screens are becoming just about "good enough". There are still things like battery life, cooling, and so on, but where's the killer feature, killer app? Connectivity is here - that's 90% right there, sure we can use more throughput and definitely reliability and ease of use, but, eh, we're almost there.
I have a friend with whom I've been following tech developments for 20 years now. Recently we've agreed that we're no longer as excited by technology. We're not exchanging excited texts during Apple presentations. Worse, we're stripping down our tech - laptop, phone, desktop, iPad, all a generation or two behind and the fewer the better. I just want to get my work done. There are promises of AR and this and that, but really... so far nothing to write home about. Last couple of Apple presentations, it took a week after it was done, for us to even talk about - I expect the time might come where it will come and go and we won't even mention it. Maybe it's because we're getting older and no longer excited youngsters? Or maybe the tech evolution has slowed down? I can't tell. All I know is it's just not as exciting as it once was.
That said, I'm hoping the AS Apple HW will inject a burst of excitement and push everything into overdrive again, and the excitement will return! That's why I'm waiting with great hope for the AS iMacs (not so much the Intel ones). I guess we'll see. YMMV.
