I recently got myself an iPhone 15 Pro, coming from the 14 Pro Max. I love how light and portable the phone is, with addition to USB-C, Action Button, 8GBs of Ram, and Good Camera.
Besides the good stuff, I feel that we have hit a slow incline of improvements and excitement starting from the iPhone 6, IMHO.
I upgrade every year based on my undying love with tech, so that might be why I feel underwhelmed, but I just don’t feel that we can ever hit that WOW factor anymore.
My first excitement was upgrading from the iPhone 3GS to 5. That was huge. And then as time goes, I lost that excitement factor as I upgrade from the 6 to 7, 8 Plus to 13 Pro, 14 PM to 15 Pro.
I may be going crazy, but I was thinking of returning my iPhone 15 Pro and get the iPhone 13 or 14 regular and wait for whenever the iPhone gets a major overhaul with its hardware. That way I can get that feeling of excitement again.
Am I the only one who is thinking this? Besides that, I am very happy with my iPhone 15 Pro, just not as excited as I was anymore.
Unless you’re an absolute camera nerd like me with smartphones the differences year to year for the past few years are more minute than ever. This year coming from the 14 Pro Max I can appreciate the more consistent HDR and overall camera processing and the 5x is a nice to have on the Max. It’s also the little things I like as you mention the lighter phone and some other niceties.
Yes, the little things add up if you really care about them, but the “normal” people who just use their phone for basic tasks and don’t really think about it are hardly going to notice any changes. Although camera processing does improve each year still, as you say, and I have already got some amazing shots on my iPhone 15 Pro Max - but, even then, you arguably have to care about photography at least to some degree otherwise you won’t appreciate the improvements. Most people these days just take photos and videos to post on Instagram, Snapchat & TikTok, which upload compressed anyway.