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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 828471" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>iPhones of yesterday and today (2025)</strong></p><p></p><p>In the background is my very first iPhone of 2007. The other one is my most recent acquisition, a secondhand iPhone 13 Mini in like-new condition. I bought this only a few days ago (January 2025) to replace my iPhone SE of 2016, which still worked just fine. I would have been very happy to keep it for a few more years at least, but programmed obsolescence (darn! they’ve even come up with a fancy name for “scr**wing you in the butt”) had hit it, it couldn’t be updated to the latest versions of the operating system, and therefore many applications that also couldn’t be updated were beginning to have problems, freeze or quit, etc.</p><p></p><p>Well, you do know the type of things electronics manufacturers do to force you, the consumer, to discard their products and buy newer ones. Apple are no better than the others (who said “they’re worse!” over there in the back?).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I was looking for the smallest, more recent iPhone in existence, and that’s how I found the 13 Mini. It is not “mini” by any stretch of the imagination (or maybe it is if you look at how enormous and ugly “Mini” cars are today), it is in fact significantly larger than my SE, yet it remains more manageable than the brick-sized slabs they try to sell you today and pretend they are telephones... And I liked the dark blue back, so I bought it.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S <em>Plena</em> lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Single exposure.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414766[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 828471, member: 53455"] [B]iPhones of yesterday and today (2025)[/B] In the background is my very first iPhone of 2007. The other one is my most recent acquisition, a secondhand iPhone 13 Mini in like-new condition. I bought this only a few days ago (January 2025) to replace my iPhone SE of 2016, which still worked just fine. I would have been very happy to keep it for a few more years at least, but programmed obsolescence (darn! they’ve even come up with a fancy name for “scr**wing you in the butt”) had hit it, it couldn’t be updated to the latest versions of the operating system, and therefore many applications that also couldn’t be updated were beginning to have problems, freeze or quit, etc. Well, you do know the type of things electronics manufacturers do to force you, the consumer, to discard their products and buy newer ones. Apple are no better than the others (who said “they’re worse!” over there in the back?). Anyway, I was looking for the smallest, more recent iPhone in existence, and that’s how I found the 13 Mini. It is not “mini” by any stretch of the imagination (or maybe it is if you look at how enormous and ugly “Mini” cars are today), it is in fact significantly larger than my SE, yet it remains more manageable than the brick-sized slabs they try to sell you today and pretend they are telephones... And I liked the dark blue back, so I bought it. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S [I]Plena[/I] lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Single exposure. [ATTACH type="full"]414766[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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