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foggyhill said:

Anniversary Edition is the one that makes the most sense;
soon to shortened by people to just Edition

Yes. iPhone Edition also gets my vote. 

srice said:

There are huge limitations with Facial Recognition. Let me give you an example.

I ride motocycles. The law means that I have to wear a crash helmet. In winter I wear a silk balaclava underneath that. Coupled with active tint glasses there is often no bit of my face visible.
How would facial recog work then eh?

Now, with touch Id, I can simply stop the bike, take off one glove and touch the phone and I can use the phone. My crash helmet has BT connectivity to my phone.

You should wear an Apple Watch, your phone will stay unlocked won't it?  Saves you taking your gloves off. 

I have an AW and no my iPhone doesn't stay unlocked.

jdgaz said:

One of two iPads in this home replaced this year. Second one could be before or at the holidays.

Same with me. 
With us the price / performance of the $329 iPad is too good to pass up. 

lkrupp said:

Even professional techies were blindsided by the iPhone. Some of the opinion pieces and reviews are hilarious when read in today’s context. I remember the biggest boogeyman was the keyboard (much like the headphone jack is today). They laughed at the touch keyboard like they laugh today about the headphone jack. I keep this in mind today when I read some of the techie wannabe’s pronouncements about what Apple must do to stay relevant and survive.

The hostility by many techies towards Apple and its products like the iPhone, is often based on two main things. 
1. The techie can use DOS, an old Blackberry / Windows Mobile so everyone else should do that too. Therefore Apple should not exist.
The fallacy here is that a tech expert is = in skills to average folks. 
2. But paradoxically, there is an elitism among many techies where they get to ridicule average users who struggle with command line computing or learning codes. 
Part of my computer suppport career was teaching people to use computers at work and at a university. 
I never accepted the cult of difficulty which many techies promoted. 
In the late 80s I could take someone who had never used a computer before and in an hour they had finished typing/saving/printing a paper for class. That was possible on a Mac but not a DOS PC. 

I saw an iPhone the week it was launched. I used the multi-touch screen to browse the web. I knew at that moment that this was the future of mobile computing. Yes a techie could get their Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile device to do many different things. 
But for the casual user? The iPhone method was the future. 

waltg said:

While I like my Apple products, Siri is THE WORST thing about them! 90% of the time I call her a dumb b***** because never a correct answer not even close unless it is a SIMPLE thing like a reminder or a measurement conversion, I can ask the same questions that Siri can't get to the google app and EVERYTIME I get a correct answer!! Plenty of fan kiddos on here badmouthing the google assistant but I've always found it much better than Siri, and that goes for the map application too.

Siri is very helpful to me especially when I am driving using Bluetooth hands free. 
1. Calling people on my contacts and major businesses. 
2. Getting directions to major businesses and addresses. 
3. Siri reading new text messages and allowing me to dictate and send a new text message (again hands free with my eyes on the road using Bluetooth). 

* Best of all with Siri, I am not using a Google product which is collecting my data (email, texts, location) under my name/unique identifier to have advertisers send more junk ads in my direction.