Apple Inc hosted its annual iPhone launch event, “It’s Glowtime”, and revealed exciting software and hardware upgrades for the new iPhone 16 and people had different reactions to it. Picture: Apple
Apple unveiled a range of new technology that features some impressive updates the company hopes will convince customers to upgrade their devices. But the launch of the new iPhone 16 range was met with mixed emotions from influenced, and unimpressed consumers.
The iPhone 16 has received some praise for its longer battery life, the “longest lasting battery life on any of its phones,” according to Apple.
The Apple Intelligence feature of the new iPhone 16 has received the most positive reception and is probably the biggest driving force behind people being keen to upgrade to the iPhone 16 as soon as it is available next Friday.
As much as some people may be skeptical and not open to the increased incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into our everyday lives and devices, there are others who are most excited and impressed by the AI powered iPhone 16 and will be using that as the singular motivator to either make the upgrade or switch to Apple from other brands.
The way apple has done a play on word of Artificial Intelligence and calling it Apple Intelligence is genius.
— Janey Park (@janeyparkxyz) September 9, 2024
Genius Bar level Genius.
Plus all these new features.
I need to get some more $ and I'm definitely upgrading from my iPhone 13.
NEED this new camera + video!
Apple Inc chief executive Tim Cook, said the iPhone 16 was purposely designed for generative artificial intelligence, dubbed “Apple Intelligence” by the company, from the ground up.
Apple’s AI will feature writing tools that help edit your emails and text while allowing more natural conversations with Siri.
“Apple intelligence marks the start of a new era for Siri and makes it more natural, more contextually relevant and more personal to you with richer language understanding,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering.
Even though the new Camera Control button on the new iPhone 16 models has been received positively for the most part, there has been some left-handed people who took to the internet to express disappointment about the hardware feature that is positioned to only cater to right-handed people.
Oh great - another right handed feature from Apple
— Kathy Vickers (@sistaman) September 9, 2024
Sucks for the lefties out there
— SlothworkOrange (@SlothworkOrange) September 9, 2024
Left hander everywhere realizing the iPhone 16 is now for right handed people.
— Rio (@rioriley) September 9, 2024
In true internet fashion too, multiple social media users took to X (formerly Twitter) to flood the timeline with jokes and memes as reactions to the iPhone 16 series announcement, mostly expressing that they are not impressed with the upgrades and lack of ground-breaking innovation by Apple.
Several users posted a popular meme to highlight that there’s only a slight difference between last year and this year’s iPhone models, the meme featured an image of an elderly man holding a new shirt that looks exactly the same as the one he's wearing.
iphone 15 owners upgrading to the iphone 16 pic.twitter.com/auDI6G4NxX
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 9, 2024
Another user made fun of the people who also complain about Apple making the same phone over and over each year, yet still upgrade to the newest model, because of brand loyalty.
Apple just keeps making the same products over and over again thinking their customers will keep buying them.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) September 9, 2024
-Sent from my new iPhone 16 Pro Max
IOL