{"id":8379,"date":"2020-10-14T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:46:36","slug":"technology-waiting-on-lucky-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/technology-waiting-on-lucky-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Waiting on Lucky 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s really hard to determine which iPhones I haven\u2019t purchased over the years. I know that I owned an iPhone original, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 6, 6S, 7, 8 (Plus), XS, 11 Pro.<\/p>\n

So therefore it seems I skipped 5S and 10, right? Well, to get semantic, I did not ever own an iPhone 6 Plus, 7 Plus, 8, XS Max, XR, 11, 11 Pro Max or SE (1 or 2). But this is truly semantic. Generationally year over year speaking, I skipped 2 years since June 2007 and I\u2019ll be skipping a 3rd in 2020.This isn\u2019t to brag but instead to convey that me skipping iPhone generations is pretty rare. Looks like I do it 16% of the time. Each time the reasons are usually the same. It comes down to the year over year improvements but this year, there\u2019s something slightly different.<\/p>\n

Cost.<\/p>\n

Last year, I spent $1349 for an iPhone 11 Pro in addition to $39 for Apple\u2019s clear case that I continue to use a year later even though it\u2019s pretty beat up. I then added $199 for two years of AppleCare+. Monthly, that\u2019s \u00a0$133 a month for a phone. Over 2 years, it\u2019s only $67. Not cheap when you also factor in the cost of cell phone service which I don\u2019t even have at my house thanks to Verizon\u2019s terrible coverage and honestly, during a pandemic where I\u2019m home almost 95% of the time, it sucks giving Verizon $70 a month for a service that I\u2019m not using aside from receiving calls via Verizon using my home WiFi (aka Verizon Wi-Fi Calling)\u2026I mean seriously, they\u2019re making serious cash off of me this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I feel as if the delay of upgrade for an additional year allows me to get more value out of the iPhone 11 Pro during a time where selling these things isn\u2019t as easy as it once was. eBay\u2019s fees are insanity, Craigslist is dead and Facebook Marketplace requires I join Facebook and it is the only marketplace the general public are using these days. The largest garage sale venue in the world is owned by Facebook. There are some other person to person sites but due to scamming, they have some big hoops to jump through to sell there and finally, as I\u2019ve talked about a few times this year, the trade-in market is at an all time low. Apple thinks my $1349 iPhone is worth $450 after 12 months. Despite they fact they can spend $75 refurbishing it and sell it for $899 any day of the week. Factoring in the fact I have AppleCare for another year further extends the minimum life of this phone to 2 years.<\/p>\n

As for the iPhone 12 Pro itself, well if the offering was compelling enough, I\u2019d forget everything I just wrote and buy a new phone. Here are the tent pole features and my thoughts on them as a consumer and Apple Fanboy:<\/p>\n

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  1. 5G, I have 1X service aka 2G at my house and I have to drive 3 miles in any direction to get 3G. I would prefer Verizon give me service at my house than invest in 5G but as a rural American, I am well aware of how little we\u2019re regarded in the nation for services, political representation and utilities planning<\/li>\n
  2. Improved cameras\u2026kind of but really only on the Max model and as I refuse to repeat the discomfort I had with the iPhone 8 Plus (my only big iPhone), I would rather show Apple with my money that them forgoing adding pro features to a pro iPhone and instead making you spend $100 more for them (sensor OIS, larger sensor) and have to also deal with a huge screen, I\u2019ll just protest. Besides, the largest camera improvements are in computational photography and this is just a filter in my opinion. I took only a couple of hundred photos with my iPhone in the last 12 months. My Canon 5D remains my primary camera at around 15,000 photos per year. My iPhone is used to take photos of beer and food.<\/li>\n
  3. A14 Bionic, fast but I don\u2019t do anything computationally expensive on my iPhone. I don\u2019t play games for example or edit photos or videos<\/li>\n
  4. Video improvements have been a huge tent pole for me but once they reached 4K 60 HEVC recording with 3 cameras, I really hit the limit of what I need to record. HDR is nice but won\u2019t improve my oil change videos on YouTube<\/li>\n
  5. iPhone 4 Design, yeah I loved that design and I look forward to the iPhone 13 Pro to carry that over and I\u2019ll enjoy it then<\/li>\n
  6. The only tent pole feature of the iPhone 11 Pro I wanted them to improve was the ultra-wide angle lens. I think the UW lens on the 11 Pro looks like garbage. Seriously, it\u2019s really bad because it lacks Focus Pixels like the other two cameras have. I believe if I read correctly, the 12 Pro does gain this feature and therefore should have better ultra wide images but that\u2019s the only compelling feature I\u2019m missing out on and I\u2019m certain this lens and sensor will get even better in 2021.<\/li>\n
  7. LiDAR, great for shooting at night but I don\u2019t shoot at night<\/li>\n
  8. Better Selfies? I\u2019m not really the demographic for that<\/li>\n
  9. So, the iPhone 12 Pro is fantastic but this is an S-year for a great phone. If you\u2019re running an iPhone X or XR or XS, you\u2019ll love the improvements made. As Apple lengthens the upgrade cycle to 3 years for most people, I too will change my buying preferences and likely be on a 2 year cycle forever unless of course a year over year improvement happens that is so compelling, I have to upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This isn\u2019t that year. Don\u2019t worry Apple, I\u2019ll be upgrading to your subscription bundle when it comes out next month :)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s really hard to determine which iPhones I haven\u2019t purchased over the years. 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