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I still rock an iPhone 12 Pro Max and love it.

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Saying that you "still rock" something barely 3 years old sounds.... strange.

I still rock my 1983 Toyota, sure. I still rock my 20yo HiFi system.

But I don't "still rock" my iPhone 11, it was only recently out of production for God's sake!

This made me chuckle. I'm "still rocking" an iPhone 12 because I'm still paying it off. If it were dated and obsolete I'd be angry I threw away my money buying Apple.

Paid off the moment I bought it.

AT&T in the US offers "trade in rebates" on phones. You trade in a phone and they rebate your phone bill by $800 or $1000 over a 24 month period when you buy a new phone on an installment loan. It's a 0% loan so I'm not going to throw money away just to avoid paying less money over time.

As an iOS developer, 3 years is a long time to upgrade.

My mother's iPhone 6 is running iOS 15, which will be supported by all the apps she uses for at least 2-3 more years, bringing the total lifetime of her smartphone close to 10 years.

Sure, Apple is pretty draconian when it comes to how much the developers have to keep their tooling up to date, but that's not the same on the consumer side anymore

Many apps support two versions behind as a general rule of thumb, but the bigger the app the further back they tend to support.

One wonders how your end users feel about that.

I’m not sure if I follow.

Same. No case either, dropped 100s of times. It has some aesthetic cracking on the back :)

If you read carefully, Apple's "Ceramic Shield" glass actually only is on the front of the iPhone. The back is just the glass they used before. Which, I find inexplicable after multiple years of Ceramic Shield being available.

Because it's more expensive to replace a display?

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