- I purchased the brand new iPhone 14 Professional Max the day after it went on sale in Apple shops.
- I bought $640 again by buying and selling in my iPhone 13 Professional Max, however I nonetheless needed to pay one other $780.
- I used to be excited concerning the “Dynamic Island” function, however I ought to have listened to Steve Jobs’ daughter.
For the previous decade or so, I have been one in every of Apple’s greatest prospects. I’ve purchased each new iPhone since I made the change from a BlackBerry to the iPhone 4S.
This yr has been no exception. I purchased an iPhone 14 Professional Max, 256 GB, in Silver, the day after it was launched on September 17. I bought $640 again by buying and selling in my iPhone 13 Professional Max, however I nonetheless needed to pay $780.
After a few weeks of enjoying with my new toy, I can confidently say there are not any massive surprises to be discovered, aside from the “Dynamic Island”. That is Apple’s fancy identify for the useless house between the selfie digital camera and Face ID sensor now used for “consolidating your notifications, alerts, and actions into one interactive place”.
My colleague Antonio Villas-Boas can inform you all concerning the technical features of Apple’s newest merchandise, so I’ll focus on what it has been like to make use of.
Steve Jobs’ daughter was proper
In the end, Eve Jobs, the daughter of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, was proper when she posted a meme on Instagram that joked the iPhone 14 is eerily much like the earlier mannequin.
It reads: “Me upgrading from iPhone 13 to iPhone 14 after Apple’s announcement in the present day,” whereas displaying a person holding up a shirt equivalent to the one he is carrying.
Whereas the most recent sequence of smartphones has a number of new software program options, I am dissatisfied that there is not extra to it.
I admit I used to be very excited concerning the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max going fullscreen – particularly now the notch has gone.
I will additionally concede that the Dynamic Island function may be very cool certainly. I like that you would be able to merely press it when listening to music and it takes you again to the applying. It might have been used extra successfully, nonetheless.
Having had the iPhone 13 Professional Max, I can not see a distinction that makes it really price upgrading for, aside from Dynamic Island. Possibly the smartphone has merely bought nearly as good because it’s essentially going to get?
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Nonsense
I at all times discover excuses to justify splashing lots of on a brand new smartphone: utilizing my iPhone for work, documenting reporting journeys, making certain the battery lasts all day, and that it could actually help all of the issues I’ve bought to do on it. Let’s name that precisely what’s is: nonsense.
Even a now-ancient iPhone 8 (from manner again in, erm, 2017) might do the job. Nonetheless, there’s an enchantment to having the newest cell phone, and it is nothing greater than a strategy to brag to your folks.
Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner informed somebody who requested him whether or not Apple would undertake RCS – a messaging app developed by Google for Android mobiles – so his mother might extra simply see the movies he sends her that he can buy his mother an iPhone.
It isn’t simply an iPhone that Prepare dinner thinks everybody ought to personal when there are additionally AirPods, iPads, MacBooks and the Apple Watch to purchase as effectively. And sure, I do personal all of these units as effectively, after all.
Whereas I’ve at all times mentioned I do not assume I might change from an iPhone to an Android, loads of individuals have finished so and by some means survived. Possibly it is time I took an iOS vacation too?
