I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much
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I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much::When I recently wrote about the iPhone 15 Pro rumors I care about, I mentioned that upgrading to an iPhone...
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My partner and I are still on the 12 Pro Max and have no plans on upgrading. Of course like clockwork, Verizon has texted us both the same upgrade message every few days. I finally had to tell them to stop.
I’m very happy with my 12 pro max.
I was using a 6S Plus until about a year ago.
I was on a Nexus 6P before I finally got sick of disposable Android phones. The last straw that sent me back to iOS and the iPhone was when I was in another country and my phone kept shutting down at 50% battery. No matter what I did, it kept shutting down. This was not good when I was trying to traverse a city I wasn’t familiar with and needed to rely on Google Maps. I had to keep the phone connected to a portable charger for the rest of the trip.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Android. I still have a Nexus 5 that has had a ton of different ROMs on it, but the amount of just plain terrible devices I had was staggering. The kind of tech that gets shoved out the door and thrown in the trash a year later.
We got like $400 from a class action about that phone. Had two of them, but the second one didn't double it for some reason.
I had the same problem with my 6p back in the day, but a battery swap fixed that problem.
I was just done at that point. I had a slew of problems with the phone and having it be unreliable in a time where I needed it was enough to push me into the walled garden. Everything else? I love to tinker. Linux, the Steam Deck, etc. For a phone, I’m past the age of tinkering. I needed something more consistent.
Yeah I tinkered with everything when I was younger. Nowadays I hand it to my daughter and she figures it out.I stopped jailbreaking my iPhones around iOS 7.
I love playing around on my Steam Deck though.
We were in a store today and walked by the iPhone 15 display and stopped. Yeah, not missing much is definitely true. It doesn’t really feel faster and the camera was not impressive. It was ok for a 5x. I’m staying with my 12 Pro Max as well. It’s still quite good and it’s paid off.
The only plus I see is USB-C and that is definitely not enough to justify starting the new phone pay cycle all over again.
USB-C would be … nice I suppose. However, I’m already totally wireless with the 12PM using MagSafe and wireless CarPlay so I don’t really care about the port on the bottom of my device.