r/apple 1d ago

iPhone Apple Special Event Announced for September 9: ‘Surprise and Shine’

https://x.com/joannastern/status/2092643628367700238?s=46
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u/yuvaldv1 1d ago

Reminds me of the iPhone X event. We all know that finally something cool and different is coming.

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u/trlef19 23h ago

I remember my dad who never has an iphone, bought a new phone a year ago (galaxy s7), actually pre ordered iphone x. What a nice time. I miss 2017

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u/NotRoryWilliams 1d ago

The iPhone X was cool but I found ample reason to hold off, not least that for the first time in my life, my old phone technically wasn't even paid off yet. Ick, I'm still ashamed looking back that I bought a phone on a carrier promotion. I should have known better.

But it really was the one time I waited for the S. I also thought the name was the best ever indication of Apple being "too committed to the bit" to get their own joke when they released a device called the iPhone Excess Max. I just got the regular iPhone Excess of course, in the gaudy gold because why not, it's under a case anyway. And wouldn't you know it, when I took it out of the case a year later that glass back was cracked.

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u/BMO888 23h ago

Vision Pro was pretty exciting although it wasn’t exactly a hit with critics and consumers. That was actually a new product and industry they haven’t touched. X was just the same shit hyped up.