CON: Apple to release tired iPhone yet again

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The iPhone SE draws attention at the company’s product launch event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday, March 21, 2016.

Teresa Aniev, Staff Writer

The new iPhone 7 is rumored to be released in the fall of 2016. Yet again, Apple will release a new iPhone, and yet again people will flock in large lines to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhone and sit in silence as they type away or play the newest game. But isn’t enough enough?

The iPhone has been out since June of 2007, when Apple put out its first ad during the 79th annual Academy Awards, and since then people have been hooked. Gone were the flip phones of the past; they had to make room for some new competition.

Apple’s constant updates to the phone do them some justice: the company is always looking for ways to improve their world-changing device. Whether that is making it slimmer so that it can be more versatile for people in carrying the phone around or updating the phone’s program itself, Apple always finds something to improve upon.

But it has come to the point where the updates are always the same: The slimming of the phone, the elongated screen, or another petty camera update. The iPhone is tired and worn out from all of its innovation and I think it’s time that Apple started recognizing the device for the fad that it is.

The iPhone is also a huge distractor in any conversation: People never seem to look up anymore. Paola Angeline of the Unwritten website agrees in that she’s had enough of non-conversations. She wrote, “Nowadays, we spend most of our time with our eyes glued to the screens of our smartphones, iPads, tablets etc., switching from one application to another, day in and day out.”

Ed Chang, from the website Quora, thinks that the iPhone is tired out and that people who buy it are “‘sheeple’ who are buying into the branding.”

Rich Trenholm of the website Cnet believe that the iPhone is tired out too, writing that he “can barely remember a time before smart phones.”

iPhones were a remarkable piece of technology when they first came out but are steadily losing their fire. Apple, cool down.