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As @JohnC1959 notes, tech matures. In the 90s and well into the 2000s, I had a general rule that a desktop required replacing in 3-5 years max and when laptops really made it as “useful” devices, it was 2-3 years before their plodding nature and atrocious battery life kiboshed things. Even within that time window, they weren’t great. For myself, Ivy Bridge changed that a fair bit and when I got the 2014 5K iMac fully loaded it lasted 7 wonderful years and a few where it was showing its age. My wife’s still rocking her “Early 2015” MBPro. She will finally upgrade when the M4 models launch.

What’s that got to do with the iPhone? Well, I expect to replace my 15Pro in about four years… either when it becomes noticeably too slow or it can no longer run the present iOS, whichever comes first. It’s coincidence that my model supports Apple Intelligence and I’ll admit to doubting its use to me on a phone. That said, I expect it to be a major upgrade reason when I get around to replacing my M1Max MBPro… 

Stabitha_Christie said:

Those FineWoven articles always crack me up. With it being officially September my case is within a few weeks of being a year old and behold! Yeah, it’s underwhelming. It just looks like a case. Appleinsider has been quick to jump on every negative social media post to declare these as some sort of failure but there doesn’t seem to be any first hand experience. Mine is just fine and it isn’t like I treat it gingerly. It’s the first Apple made case that I have gotten that has survived a year. Mind you, I never got a leather one. 

Anyway, I really wonder what the difference in usage is that causes other people’s cases to look so terrible and mine to be perfectly fine. 

Yeah, personally I really like mine. Those who couldn’t feel and see the quality of the weave and materials are correct in ignoring the product but those who intentionally destroyed it or damaged it make me a bit sad for causing the failure of this product.

If the PSU is an external unit, as it is on the M series iMacs, I will not be thrilled. Further, if it’s a proprietary connector I’ll be even less thrilled.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Got the idea immediately and the pathos was nice. Well done Apple!

2 cents: It was an atrocious replacement for the Function keys, however I think it would have been a wonderful addition to the keyboard. Had they just added it above the F keys and left those alone, I use enough specialist apps that it would have been a net benefit. Especially if they’d opened it up to user manipulation (making my own shortcuts for photo editing, essay writing, and coding for example)