With iOS 27, Apple Is Quietly Setting the Stage to Paywall Your iPhone

> At the bottom of this new hierarchy are the grandfathered iPhones. Apple boasts that iOS 27 supports legacy devices all the way back to the iPhone 11. But if you own a standard iPhone 15 or older, you get optimizations, not new features. Look past the faster app launches, and you'll realize your phone isn’t getting smarter. You are locked out of the Siri AI workspace.

Article pinpoints exactly which is the latest version of tech many people will now preference, because "the man" can't "stick it" on the phone.

If you don't want smarts, stick to an iPhone 15 for now.

> Unfold the Duo’s massive canvas, and iOS 27 unlocks native, side-by-side app multitasking with unique app-pairing engines. By gating a baseline software feature like split-screen multitasking behind an eye-watering price tag, Apple is sending a clear message: Basic digital efficiency is no longer an inherent part of the smartphone experience. Instead, it’s an upmarket luxury.

I really don’t understand this argument. It’s not being “gated” behind a more expensive device just for the sake of it, it’s being limited to a device with a significantly larger screen. I don’t even know how you would split-screen multitask on a regular iPhone.