After years of revolutionary design and function, the iPhone 7 seems to be taking a step backwards.

How can you, this day in age, decide the next big thing in phone design is getting rid of things like headphones, battery life, and storage options... Steve Jobs would be combing hair with his goon hand right about now.

The iPhone 7 no longer supports your right to use headphones... without an additional charge on top of paying serious money for an already outdated phone.

Technically, the new ear buds are wireless. Which is sort of neat, but they run on a battery that needs charging constantly. Plus, they're $160 a pair... Let that sink in. $160 for something that you'll most likely lose.

Sure, you can use a dongle, but that's just another piece of hardware designed to fail and cost you more money... Not that an iPhone lasts more than a year or so anyway, it's the principal.

Yes, they've apparently made the iPhone 7 waterproof, but it's nothing to consider revolutionary... Samsung has been doing this for three years, though waterproofing has been a standard feature in China/Japan since 2005.

How about that bigger battery everyone has asked for? Nope. In fact, it's smaller than the iPhone 6s... Apple will tell you iOS 10 takes less to run, but that does nothing to combat Samsung's world dominance in this industry. Honestly, Samsung's have roughly double the battery, better cameras, and memory expansion all at a cheaper price.

How is Apple competing then? Old people. iPhones are uniquely easy to use, so their core demographic is quite a bit older than Samsung's techy youthful following.

Sure, Apple with always have their die-hard fanboys out there... but they're becoming few and far between.

The iPhone 7 is set to hit store shelves with an underwhelming whim of disappointment. If I were you, I would let it.

 

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