The inexorable march toward the grave continues for all of us, although at least we don’t have a capricious deity named Apple decide our fate. For those who still hold on to their iPhone 5Yes, you should know that Apple has officially put the old phone out to pasture by sticking it on its official stand. obsolete list. Additionally, if you have an older 21.5-inch 6th-generation iMac or iPod Touch, know that those older products are also taking another step toward retirement.
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The seventh generation iPhone was launched in 2013 as an improvement about the 2013 iPhone 5. That old 4-inch phone had a fingerprint scanner, while the original 5 didn’t. Apple also tried it to promote the 5S which has twice the power of its predecessor. MacRumors We first note the changes to the list of outdated products, including the iPhone 5c and iPhone 6 Plus. Also added are the likes of the Original iPad Air in device heaven.
The original iPhone 5, iPhone 6, 6S and 6S Plus remain on the vintage list. An obsolete product stopped shipping at least seven years ago and no longer exists, and you won’t receive any service at an Apple store. Older products, on the other hand, are out of production but can still be serviced.
That sixth-generation iPod Touch came out in 2015, so it’s had a pretty good run, considering Apple likes to start sticking products on the vintage list after five to seven years of production. All older iPod Touch models from the third generation and earlier are obsolete. Manzana iPod Touch line officially discontinued in 2022. The 21.5-inch iMac (a display that, come to think of it, seems minuscule by today’s standards) first arrived in late 2015. It now sits alongside the 2015 27.5-inch Retina 5K iMacs in the path to Elysium.
If you still had your iPhone 5S in use, you wouldn’t get many operating system or security updates. Only those iPhone models up to the second-generation iPhone SE, along with the iPhone Xs or later, have access to iOS17.
Instead, we can remember the iPhone 5s as a different time for Apple, when it was eager to release updated iPhones after a year. Instead of creating a completely new model every year, year after year, we have the iPhone 15 Now. That’s a good phone, although it only came with moderate updates to the iPhone 14.
From what we have seen so far, the iPhone 16 It looks like another incremental step with better performance and perhaps better zoom. The real difference with this year’s phone is probably software, with iOS 18 including a pretty big change with more generative AI features. We’ll know more in just a week WWDC 2024.
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