"I basically upgrade for the camera improvements every year"
No wonder the earth is warming... You really need a new phone every year just for the camera ? I really don't get why anyone would do that without an actual professional need.
No wonder the earth is warming... You really need a new phone every year just for the camera ? I really don't get why anyone would do that without an actual professional need.
Makes them intriguing and fun to test out creatively. I can see the temptation.
The 13 has some things built in/enabled the 12 doesn’t have, which I had always wished the 12 had, such as video portrait mode, but I personally decided it wasn’t good enough for upgrade again, since its an ok assumption that the future models will also have that.
Yes, smartphone camera's are awesome now, but it's sad an awesome product like that will be thrown away after a year of use.
Even an iPhone 6s from 2015 with a new battery is faster than most low end Android phones and it is still fully supported.
(for context, my prior upgrades were in a more lenient trade-up program, which by coincidence resulted in me keeping up to date. not trying to pretend like avoiding a one year upgrade is some major sacrifice, its just what happened)
I've had some apps that stored files within them, and the app was no longer available for a higher version of iOS that a new phone shipped with. Would have been royally screwed if I had sold/traded in my prior phone because I wouldn't have immediately noticed except when I needed it.
Night mode in wide angle! Although it's quite a bit less capable than the other lenses. Maybe in the 14 ; )
And @eole666 of course I don't literally throw the old phone away every year, there's a whole downchain of very willing recipients of lightly used iPhones. Hell, my old iPhone 6 is still being used for QA.