The iPhone 15 Is Everything Wrong With Apple

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I love the EU for really hammering down on apple and the other phone companies for there wasteful behaviours it’s a great step in the right direction.

Innovation is dead everywhere. Everything is a remake. Ads are everywhere with nothing to show for it

That “Mother Nature” ad oozed so much corporate poison that I passed out and woke up in a suit and tie in a cubicle.

Back when we started having cell phones, a person may have forgotten to charge the phone at night, and we would swap the battery with someone else in the household, while the uncharged battery gets charged. It was so convenient. Almost as convenient as 0 to 100% charge in 45 minutes.

Thanks for mentioning that there is no need for a new phone release every year

the regular models still being 60hz and some 200 dollar samsung phones having 120hz from 5 years ago is insane

Buying something to impress people is literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m not spending 1 cent to impress anybody. I buy things that I like.

I buy a iPhone every 5 years definitely will notice innovation when you stick with your tech for that long 😂

For someone like me who buys an iPhone every 7 years I can safely say I see innovation when I buy a new phone. I think for those that buy the newest phone every year they’re the ones getting screwed.

If Repairability was more a factor in product design, then we would see people using their devices for YEARS and not months.

I stopped buying any Apple products years ago and will never go back.

Still using an Iphone SE 1st gen. 8 years later still the best phone I've owned.

These upgrades are only underwhelming if you buy one every year. Ideally, you should be using your phone for at least 3 years or more. I have the 12 Mini since 2020 and it’s still rocking great.

The reason Apple and all other smartphone companies don't seem to be innovating anymore is rather simple, phones are a mature market. As you said, there's only so much you can shove into a glass slab before there's not much else that can be improved. Nowadays, it's mostly software that you will see updates in with very marginal upgrades to the hardware. Even cameras don't receive significant hardware upgrades because they're limited by size, they'll instead be improved through improvements in image processing. You shouldn't be worried about how these companies "don't innovate" because they're making drastic improvements in software, and people don't buy phones that much anymore because it's sort of like buying a car. You don't buy a car every year, but once you do buy a car after a few generations and revisions, you will see those improvements. That's what sort of market the iPhone is in now. However, back on topic, you should be concerned with how much they are willing to push software and how much it will integrate and act as a parasite on our lives. These companies will of course seek to occupy and obtain as much information about you through software, and they will absolutely have all the information they could possibly ever want with VR sets.

I upgraded from iPhone 7 to Fold5… back to android and I don’t have any regrets and at least I can tell the difference between a single screen and one that’s substantially wider when opened up… I don’t see myself going back to Apple.

I had a phone with a touchscreen, internet browser, e-mail, gps and navigation software in 2003! Apple was not the first. No way.

Apple is the embodiment of Tyler Durden's quote "We work jobs we hate to buy things we don't need, and the things you own, will end up owning you"

One correction: Apple was not the first company to produce a phone with 2 cameras. LG Optimus 3D and HTC EVO 3D both came out in 2011 with dual cameras. There are lots of innovations that apple was late to adopt and that other phone companies had on their phones years before Apple did. Lots of people hold on to having iPhones because they don't want to get used to a new system and, as you mentioned, because of the FOMO.

That’s because you’re not supposed to be upgrading your phone every year. I’m on a 3 year upgrade cycle, and it works perfectly. Year 1 - Newest phone, Year 2 - Still pretty new, Year 3 - Getting a bit old might be worth an upgrade, Year 4 - New phone. You’re all just sucked into this idea of needing something new as soon as it comes out.