Subceeding expectations
OH. MY. GARRRRD. The bestest-iPhone-evarzies!!!!™ has been introduced to an expectant world. This new iteration of the seminal smartphone includes: a new camera; Dynamic Island, a widget thing that changes shape; and emergency calls via satellite.* It's just as well that I was sitting down when I read that lot!
Eve Jobs—youngest daughter of Apple's co-founder—was unimpressed though, sharing a meme of a man wearing a striped shirt and unwrapping an identical shirt, with the caption Me upgrading from iPhone 13 to iPhone 14
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But it's unclear, to me at least, what it is that she was expecting instead of a reiteration of the same-old, same-old. A folding or transparent iPhone, perhaps? Better luck next time, Eve.
When have incremental iPhone upgrades not been a thing? It's long been Apple's shtick, except when they want to sell additional accessories—obsolete chargers, anyone?—or when they bravely removed the headphone jack—the world got over it—and the home button—some of us still haven't got over that one.
At least this version comes in deep purple though. So that's something for the heavy rock enthusiasts, I guess.
* The small print: North America only. International customers need not apply.