Hello, iPhone Day. The 2024 edition here.

The feeling I had, as the day wound over was this - did I care this much about another set of new iPhones being announced? I was feeling tired. iPhones are cars. A newer better one arrives every where. This is not my year to get an iPhone. This is not Prerna’s year either. So why watch it.

I did not care much, nor was there anything that much different that happened during the AirPods/Apple Watch segments. They are better, sure. But that’s about it.

Enter iPhone.

All three iPhones got better and noticeably so.

The base model got ProMotion. If there ever was a finally, here it was.

Finally.

I guess Apple does not consider ProMotion to be a Pro feature. Which should have happened a couple of years ago. But we get what we get.

iPhone Air had me getting up and paying attention for the first time during the event. It looks good. It feels like Apple is innovating. It looks so damn good.

I did not care about the one camera lens till the iPhone Pros rolled on. That orange looks so damn good! If the move to Aluminium unibody means brighter colours in the future I am all for it!

All back cameras are 48 MP now. That would be great when I get my Pro a couple of years from now.

All the phones are getting Ceramic Shield v2 now.

The 16 Pro, scratches very easily. I have more scratches on my screen now than I had after three years of my 13 Pro. There is also a chip below the camera island thing.

They improved break resistance in the 16 Pro, but made it more scratch prone. I don’t know if it was a good choice.

The other interesting thing was the lanyards. I have seen the nurses in hospitals here carry their phones that way. They have beautiful, hand-crafted lanyards. But the Apple ones maybe nice too.

One final thing, perhaps the only relevant piece of news for me - the new versions of the OSes arrive on 15th September.