Always the same every year.
New iphone full of software and hardware issues, completely unusable according to the press.
Keeps selling like hot pancakes, no one has any real problem with theirs (and if they do they get a replacement)
New iphone full of software and hardware issues, completely unusable according to the press.
Keeps selling like hot pancakes, no one has any real problem with theirs (and if they do they get a replacement)
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/global-smartphone-market-to-...
And while I absolutely love USB-C, I do have a whole collection of lightning cables. Something in my way of using my iPhone(s) make pin 4 wear out insanely fast. Maybe it's because I carry it with me in the shower / hot tub.
Not sure how the USB-C variant deals with the pitting.
The button on the side and the titanium are a change, but not an upgrade. In fact, I would say the button is a downgrade from the old rocker. You could, in your pocket flip the rocker and know your phone was now on silent mode. Now you have to rely on vibration patterns.
I have a 15 Pro, and while I like the new action button, I still do miss the old switch. There's no reason it couldn't have been added as an addition rather than a replacement.
I feel like they half assed the button implementation though. I like it in that I can at least now turn it off but that really had nothing to do with the physical approach. The great part about it being a switch means it could actually have that option to operate as that "does nothing when locked but is still a useful action button" concept but that's not actually implemented, it still either does something all the time or doesn't do anything. That's probably asking for too much customizability for the way Apple's design mindset works though.
I guess could see it still being just a switch too, where you can configure it to do something on toggle rather than read the raw state all the time, but again - probably asking too much of the way Apple likes to design things for "one size fits all" configuration options.