Should’ve lowered rates sooner.
iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
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#23Why would I upgrade though — my $2K 13 Pro is still state of the art, and tech jobs are collapsing. Who knows whether I’ll need $2K in 3 months time?
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#24I wish that this was seen as a good thing, not a bad thing. Everyone who wants an iPhone already has one, Apple makes good products that last, and new phones these days are incremental updates rather than revolutionary new products, so there’s not a large incentive to upgrade.
I agree! People also criticize Apple harshly for not massively redesigning the iPhone every year. That's a positive in my view.
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#25Remake the form factor of the 4S and we’ll talk. That’s the last phone that was comfortable to hold.
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#26Remake the form factor of the 4S and we’ll talk. That’s the last phone that was comfortable to hold.
How was the form factor of 4S different than 4? I think the ridges on the sides were placed differently but that can’t honestly be something you care about?
The way I read it, it's just because the 4S came later, hence being the last phone of that form factor.
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#27Remake the form factor of the 4S and we’ll talk. That’s the last phone that was comfortable to hold.
The 13 Mini was also a nice size. Impossible to find nowadays. Apparently 95% of users want big phones.
I get that some people spend their lives on their phones, but myself, with desktop, laptop and big hands, I don't want to carry half a tablet in my pocket to text people and play music. I adore my 12 Mini. I just wish it felt as thin as the 8
Re: iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount
#28Remake the form factor of the 4S and we’ll talk. That’s the last phone that was comfortable to hold.
The 4 series was also plain beautiful
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#29Have iPhone XS Max, am I missing anything?
If you are happy, then no.
My phone feels like a beater that's about to give up on me, and it's younger than yours. I envy long-lasting tech.
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#30Perhaps Apple should take a hint that no one wants so-called AI features training on a device with intimate access to their lives.
Whatever the final reality of feature availability, the conceptual damage had been done: Apple was bandwagon leaping and we had no choice.
I will never buy another Apple device for other reasons, not least of which are the short support period and ever increasing enshittification of the operating system.
I have not been a fan of anything developed since roughly steve jobs passing. Touch bar?! No thanks.
The truth of the matter is that i see the light and insist upon a world where open source software, standards compliance, and end user choice MATTER, and matter more than corporate profits for an already too large and corrupt behemoth.
Apple is a company, not your friend