The Untold Truth of Buying an iPhone

three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and an innovative Internet communications device, get it? It's May 2024 and oddly enough we're just 4 months away from the launch of the iPhone 16 shin and since

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my first iPhone in 2007 I've probably spent tens of thousands of pounds on Apple products, although there are arguably better products available with better features, better hardware and even better prices, and although right now, if you ask me what phone I choose to use, Daily I would say the s24 ultra, but my question for you today is: Apple already? To answer that question, I need to go back to 2007, where for me the announcement of the first generation iPhone went a little over my head, it was at a time when smartphones were already becoming something more since my first smartphone, the SPV E100 orange, a whole intelligent world was evolving.

Expandable storage where you could store music and videos, you could play games, respond to emails and messages, and if you really wanted to, you could install custom software to unlock even more new features, so the ad for a phone that was a phone, a camera, a web browser, a music player, I already had these things on my existing phones from years ago, off the screen, no touch buttons I could use to feel my way around while typing up messages without even looking at the screen seemed totally fine to me. strange until someone bought one and showed me what a crazy concept it looked so good in real life it worked well it was fast and to unlock the phone I just take my finger and swipe it to the right I want to see it again go to sleep we wanted something that you couldn't accidentally put it in your pocket and just slide it through your arm and the typing experience was really good, they are absolutely nailed using a virtual keyboard so I bought one and wow wow it was super smooth.

I simply plugged it into my PC and using iTunes I was able to sync all my music and all my videos. They figured out how to integrate Microsoft Exchange email and just made it work. Well this product was so good that it opened my eyes to Apple as a brand that makes great products with care and attention to detail and not just the things that most users cared about, they cared about the smallest things, because of how their product looked incredibly amazing. technology in a small form factor and the world was watching because, soon after, we all saw who copied the Who images that circulate from time to time with what phones looked like before Apple and what phones look like after Apple, redefined the entire device category, the smart mobile phone, and then it happened again, clearly there is something in the air today, as someone who works in technology and works primarily on HP laptops which at the time were big, ugly and voluminous.

The MacBook Air arrived in 2008, which again I quickly dismissed, although it was amazing what they could fit into a laptop so small it fit in a paper envelope, the specs were basically unusable at least for me, but then the new one was released Macbook Pro with an elegant carved unibody design. made of a single piece of aluminum with power and performance to match. I bought that thing so quickly that I don't even think my credit card realized what had happened and then my eyes were opened to the world of having an Apple MacBook Pro as my laptop.

I was a professional now I was a musician, I was creative, it was the perfect laptop for me and once again Apple redefined a product category, but then along came the iPads and again I ruled it out for a long time, I actually asked myself why buy a tablet with touch screen. slab when I already had a touchscreen iPhone and for anything the iPhone couldn't do I had a MacBook Pro, but that of course didn't stop everyone else from copying the same Apple design as it redefined finding another category of devices and like clockwork when the iPad 2 came out, I was ready to buy one and when in 2012 I started my first business, Dem Master was a small and still constant collection of Apple products.

In fact, I remember saying to myself Pete. You're about to spend £1,500 on a new iMac and we're going to work as hard as we can to get that £1,500 back from the iMac, iPad, Mac Mini, Thunderbolt, displays, keyboards, mice, trackpads, Airport Express speakers, time capsules, everyone. of it working together effortlessly without wasting time with settings and configurations and honestly, I did enough of that in my day job with you, it's compatible. I just wanted to come home and wear something that didn't require as much brain power. I want to copy a phone number from my Mac to my iPhone, yeah cool, it just works.

I want to copy an image from my iPad to my Mac. Copy and paste again. It just works when I was browsing something on my iPhone and wanted to continue reading on my Mac or my iPad with a single click or tap, it just works, answer calls on my Mac without taking my phone out of my pocket. You can do it too, and to top it all off, Apple's customer service is unlike anything I've experienced before my dad picked up his. iPhone in an Apple store that was totally out of their manufacturer warranty to be told, well, it looks like you've taken good care of your iPhone, so I'm going to tell you that we're just going to replace it with a brand new one and mine. experienced a unibody MacBook Pro that I bought in 2012 and 2015, so 3 years after I bought it and outside of the three years of Apple Care I bought, Apple replaced my entire MacBook Pro with a new model 3 years newer than the defective one .

Basically giving me a free upgrade now, that kind of customer service only does one thing to someone, it makes them loyal, then 2018 comes along and Apple is like, hey, here's a whole new product category once again, here There's Apple Watch and the world was once again. transformed with a watch that not only tells you the time, but you can now take phone calls, view and respond to messages and app notifications, and I remember justifying

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one by saying to myself, "If I buy a watch, I'll never buy one." I'll miss". I called a customer again because I can't access my fake time so it's worth buying so I bought one like I usually do along with the rest of the world and I like every generation of watches and basically every product I can. make a justification for how it will improve my life in some way.

I bought it now. I wouldn't upgrade every year, other than maybe my phone depending on my phone contract, but I wouldn't be far behind, no matter how much. costs I would always find a way to sell something and usually sell the older versions. There is always that sweet spot when owning an Apple product between the time the next version is announced and the date you can purchase the next version where you can always sell your previous version of the product and recoup a decent amount of that money, that's how I did it now. Since then, there have been so many amazing products that I have had the pleasure of experiencing.

Homepod Apple TV Apple Pencil Airpods they may forget. airpods and a whole host of apps designed solely and exclusively for Apple because developers know they can spend less time writing a single app that works on all Apple devices, usually one that also runs the latest version of the software and therefore , reaches a huge percentage. of the population with an app and then we have Apple Silicon, after years of Apple making their own chips for their phones, iPads and watches, they finally made their own chip and once again redefined an entire generation of computing. This was the first time they decided to choose.

I created a MacBook Air because, for the first time at Wolf Forever, a MacBook Air was now powerful, efficient, lightweight, and capable of doing everything most people need a laptop to do, and in some cases, more powerful than the previous year's Intel MacBook Pro, now until recently Apple Silicon. It simply had no competition when it came to performance combined with efficiency, so now that we are about to see the fourth generation of Apple silicon, they have once again redefined a whole new category of device, as we are only now getting started. to see others make progress. to match and potentially replace the Apple Silicon and then we have the Apple Vision Pro, which for me is very much an iPhone moment.

I personally don't see a use case for the Apple Vision Pro now, once again I've ruled it out completely, after all why? I need a nearly $4000 headset that currently can't do anything more than my $400 Quest 3 goal; in fact, they can't do even half of what I can do on my Quest. My Quest already allows me to work with multiple huge virtual screens. I can play Xbox games. I can run around my space pretending to hunt robots. I can make video calls. I can meet, present, teach, learn and experience any reality I want to experience, but that doesn't mean it's the dumb device that I myself have tried Apple Vision Pro, it's fantastic at what it does, the problem is that it just doesn't do that much. , the quality is of a level we haven't seen before, I just can't find a place for it. to fit into my life that, once again, other products don't look much like the original iPhone.

I've been around long enough to know that when Apple goes all-in on a whole new category of devices, people listen, people watch, and people talk. and pretty soon I bet you I'll probably proudly tell you why I bought my own Apple Vision Pro, although for the life of me I can't see a reason to buy one right now because I'll go back to the Title of this video, the reason why Apple could already having won is because the iPhone is the gateway drug and by the time these other companies are releasing better products, there is already a huge gap to fill, which Apple has carefully and expertly guided and Since some crazy statistics say that more than 90% of teenagers are buying iPhones right now, they are all about to embark on a very similar journey to the one I did, with the iPhone being the gateway to that experience, the gap will only get bigger over time .

Yes, the entire ecosystem exists, but it is much more than that. Now, when Tim Cook said: Buy your mom an iPhone, it's not just because of instant messaging, but because she knows that it's much more than just buying a device, buying an iPhone. the first step in what essentially becomes a very expensive but possibly very enjoyable experience, one that never ends and gets better and better over time as it becomes more and more integrated with more products, the problem we are seeing Now in the tech industry is that while Apple was the first to redefine multiple device categories, others are then forced to copy and then innovate.

I have no doubt that Meta will somehow figure out how to improve the quality of the VR experience to that of the Apple Vision Pro at a much greater rate. lowest price with the meta 4 or met 5 Samsung has been making amazing devices for the last few years, the s24 ultra Flagship is arguably a much better phone than the iPhone 15 Pro Max. They have innovated with twists and folds. Brands like xiaomi are producing. Amazing flagship devices at much lower prices, each of these brands gives us the biggest option of all, but when people start wanting to leave their iPhone behind, maybe they get a little bored of things because, well, the iPhone It hasn't really changed that.

Much in the last 5 years there are decades of positive experiences, products, integrations, investments of time and money in applications, excellent customer service and overall quality and happy memories to look back on and I'm not making excuses here like many have people. As you told me before, it seems like Apple is losing its way from slow charging to simply switching to USBC on its iPhone and the complete chaos that is the iPad lineup right now. Having three different types of Apple Pencil on five different models of an iPad is ridiculously confusing. I've spent the last 4 years reviewing phones and switching between devices.

I love Apple, but God, I'm bored of the iPhone. I love the s24 ultra, but it's literally been a decade of time put into it. Since Apple is a part of our lives, it's not that easy to switch your phone away from an Apple iPhone, so does it really matter which phone people choose to use? No, but it is extremely difficult to simply change it from just an iPhone to something that is not. an iPhone absolutely because that is the

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