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Originally Posted by strat61caster
I gave up, every few months I check the market to see if there's anything interesting and then move on with my life. It's not worth it and the market doesn't actually move that fast with only 3-4 real updates per year worth knowing (which you'll hear about without much effort, like this thread) and at this point half of them don't actually have much impact.
Apple adopting a standard wireless charging standard may be cool and pan out in a few years. Imagine tossing your phone on the table at whatever coffee shop or casual restaurant of choice and getting a bit of charge out of it. No wires while you're on the go, no outlet searching, just a ubiquitous spread of surfaces to charge your devices. The tech was around years ago (Nexus 4 in 2012 was the first device I saw with it, Kia has a charging surface as an option in their cars now) but with Apple adoption it could push it more mainstream.
I remember with my 3G I held out until Apps stopped working which was only a 3-4 months after the update came out, I think that's changed over the past ~5+ years as apps strive to be backwards compatible and hardware has gotten better so yeah, I'll hold off on updates if I get an iPhone SE.
One positive to Android, they don't bother supporting devices long enough for the OS/apps to outpace the hardware!
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It is actually easy for me. For the last 15 years work has handed me a cell phone and said "this is what you get we will upgrade when we feel like it".
My wife is always the first person in line for any new Iphone that hits the markets whether she needs it or not.
All decision making, tracking changes, comparing different types is all out of my hands.