{"id":4665,"date":"2015-05-28T20:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2015-05-26T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:48:28","slug":"linked-an-iphone-6-owner-lives-with-the-iphone-6-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/linked-an-iphone-6-owner-lives-with-the-iphone-6-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;An iPhone 6 owner lives with the iPhone 6 Plus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/04\/06\/life-with-the-iphone-6-plus\">via Marco<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apple chose not to offer such a device. Instead, today\u2019s iPhone lineup requires that you choose:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>iPhone 6 Plus: The only choice for great battery life, and the best camera, but huge pocket size<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>iPhone 6: Neither great battery life nor great one-handed use nor ideal pocket sizei<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Phone 5S: The only choice for great one-handed use and pocket size, but older hardware and mediocre battery life<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I wish we didn\u2019t need to make this choice. But given the options we have, I can see why so many of us are choosing the 6 Plus.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would have agreed with this when it was time to purchase an iPhone last year but now I think that that the iPhone 6 is the perfect smartphone. Some days, I might wish it were smaller but the tradeoff of better readability and viewing while it\u2019s docked in my car (most often with Apple Maps running).<\/p>\n<p>My personal opinion\u2026.Strictly personal is the 6 Plus is for people who don\u2019t have an iPad and the 5S is for people looking for the cheapest \u2018current\u2019 iPhone. iPhone 6 is the best all around phone. Yes, the screen feels huge for us who were iPhone 1 owners but it has the latest CPU, camera, battery and screen. It\u2019s a no-brainer for someone who is ready to upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Marco: Apple chose not to offer such a device. Instead, today\u2019s iPhone lineup requires that you choose:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:30:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"80d867bf-ce6e-4d82-bf3a-2f9d97f2c3f1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:30:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AgNhnv85uTYK_Oi-dl_LD8Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1df","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7114,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/technology-my-first-plus-sized-iphone-model\/","url_meta":{"origin":4665,"position":0},"title":"Technology: My first Plus-Sized iPhone Model","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"3.5 \u2014> 4 \u2014> 4.7 \u2014> 5.5 Apple has added 2\u201d diagonally to my primary mobile computing device in 10 years. 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