Technology

It's almost like buying something as soon as it comes out brings the risk that it won't be in full working order and will still have significant flaws. I'm not sure that that's exactly news. But the fact that people who are so in love with the iPhone that they are willing to get rid of a perfectly good working iPhone and unnecessarily upgrade for vanity are willing to back out is moderately interesting/telling. I feel like the pre-order group in any market is always surprised when the thing they pre-ordered is not 100% as good as they were promised. But then they will continue to pre-order...

Good point, I need to check when the new washing machine from LG is being released.

Back when smartphones actually had big leaps in tech in made sense pre 2015 or so. Now, it's very small interative changes. It makes no sense.

Maybe they have a six year old phone and are interested in upgrading? I don't think that many people are doing yearly upgrades nowadays, it's expensive and pointless.

When it comes to Android, updates. Especially for some of the cheaper phones where they don't support updates past the next version of Android.

Which really only matters to people that actually give a shit about updates. A lot of people in Android spaces online seem absolutely flummoxed by this but many people simply do not care or actively dislike "the latest and greatest" updates. They tend to change things people liked, they increasingly break functionality in the name of "security", and they often come with UI changes people find frustrating.

If the user is comfortable with their device, many would like it to stay that way. And that's not an invalid feeling.

I used to anticipate Android updates, but ever since 10, I've had zero desire to upgrade further. I'm not buying a new phone for the benefit of having my file explorer broken.

Some people will call you stupid for this, because it leaves you vulnerable to exploits that don't get patched, but whatever.

For Apple products there is the petty "status symbol" thing. If I share my experience, my father has a mania of buying such stuff only for the sake of imagining that he is on some position where he is like, "Oh I own this and that, you peasants won't understand." The macbook he bought many months ago now lies dusted on a shelf because it is practically useless to everyone in the household at the moment. It's a total waste of money for something no one cares about but him. I do not argue about it as it is a waste of time for me. It's his dogma and his money. I have a more rational mindset of looking at things with a materialistic approach i.e. analytically measuring an object's use value rather than its prestige.

You know what? I'll accept that. That's a decent indicator that the article was written by a human who missed the 1 key and hit the Q key just below it, and not a chatbot.

Last I checked, these phones are full of glass. And glass is incredibly rigid - far more rigid than steel (and lighter than steel too). Also, glass doesn't block light or radio waves or magnetic fields... which is the why basically all of modern phones are full of glass.

Anyway, since there's so much glass, the titanium doesn't need to be rigid. It just needs to be able to handle an impact reasonably well and look nice. Titanium does both better than steel.

The primary metal in these phones is Aluminium by the way. That metal is very soft and doesn't look great especially once you've dropped the phone. There's a thin Titanium outer coating somehow bonded to the Aluminium - they have a single piece of metal made of with two completely different metals. Clearly Apple isn't afraid of making a phone that's difficult to manufacture.

There's probably 20x more aluminium than titanium in the phone. Aluminium is very light... and it's drawback (scratches/dents easily) is eliminated by the 1mm of titanium bonded to it.

You have to if you want the device in the next month or so. The model I was looking at slipped to November less than 24 hours after pre-orders started.