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by eole666 1555 days ago
"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.
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vmception 1555 days ago
It’s partially because the cameras aren’t good enough one year, but do fulfill an edge case. The following year they fulfill another edge case. These reduces the need for using a dedicated camera, especially a bulky interchangeable lens ones, other times they fulfill an edge case that the bulky dedicated camera can’t do well either.

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.

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sho 1553 days ago
> The 13 has some things built in/enabled the 12 doesn’t have

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.

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eole666 1555 days ago
Sometimes I forget some people don't buy things to use them for years, but prefers buying every year the last novelties. It's kind of a weird consumerist way of life.

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.

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scarface74 1555 days ago
With Apple supporting iPhones with IOS upgrades for years and security updates even longer, you don’t throw away an old iPhone, you either hand it down to someone else or you sell it.

Even an iPhone 6s from 2015 with a new battery is faster than most low end Android phones and it is still fully supported.

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vmception 1555 days ago
That's actually why I didn't upgrade from the 12 to the 13, because I wouldn't be doing the trade-ins. They were tempting offers but I hate being locked in to the same device for 24 - 30 months, which is a condition of most of the trade in offers. I would rather pay for the device outright and figure out what to do with my prior device, and so this newest iphone wasn't compelling enough for that.

(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)

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scarface74 1555 days ago
If you own the phone outright, you can either sell it directly or trade it in to Apple.
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vmception 1555 days ago
Yes thats what I meant by figure out what to do with my prior device, but thats alongside making sure I have backups of everything.

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.

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