7-year Apple user talks about his experience with the phone, from amazing to ordinary, and then to disappointment

Although I have been using an Apple phone, I do not consider myself an Apple fan, I am just an Apple phone user. In recent years, I have been hanging out on forums and forums, and I have seen too many people who claim to be Apple fans, blindly praising Apple and not allowing anyone to say anything bad about it. I think this is a bit irrational. The following are some of the Apple products I have used in recent years:

1. The first iPhone 5

My first iPhone was an iPhone 5. I won it in a lottery at the annual meeting of the company I joined after graduating in 2012. At that time, many people thought that the annual meeting award must have been predetermined, but they didn't expect that a newcomer like me would win it, so the rumors of predetermined decisions were refuted. Before the iPhone 5, my first smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy 9100, which I bought on Taobao. I can still find the order. Now I think about it, I was really bold to buy a phone from a third party on Taobao.

After using the 9100 for about a year, the software started to freeze frequently. I was thinking of changing my phone after receiving my year-end bonus, but I got this surprise. It was a bit strange to use an iPhone for the first time. At that time, Android phones had a return button at the bottom, but Apple only had a home button or a small white dot. It took me a while to get used to it.

As can be seen from the picture above, the icons of Apple’s system at that time were still the classic rounded icons of the Jobs era. They looked really delicate, and the screen was more delicate than that of Android phones, which really gave people an amazing feeling.

2. Second phone: iPhone 6s

Apple's phones are really durable. When the first generation of large-screen iPhone 6 series came out, my iPhone 5 had been used for almost 2 years and it was still so smooth and fully sufficient for my normal use, so I didn't buy the 5s and 6. Later, in 2015, I met my current wife. She used HTC one M9 at the time. This phone was endorsed by Ruby Lin, and the built-in dynamic weather was really awesome!

However, like my previous 9100, the software often got stuck after about half a year of use. I remember that Android phones at that time downloaded software in the Android Market APP, and there was no official software store. After the 6s was released, I bought two 6s, one for each of us, and used them until 2017 when Apple released the iPhoneX, and the 6s was officially retired.

The following are photos taken in Sanya in 2017 with the iPhone 6s. You can see that the photos taken with the iPhone 6s at that time were still very good, very real and natural, and the clarity was also good. I think it is not inferior to some ordinary Android flagships now, right?

3. The third iPhoneX

I didn’t buy the iPhone 7 after the iPhone 6s, because I felt that there was no major change, and the iPhone 6s I had was running perfectly without any problems. In 2017, the batteries of the iPhone 6s in both of our hands died, so we were ready to wait for the new iPhone of that year to come out and replace it with the iPhone 6s. But my wife later listened to her colleague’s recommendation, and before the new iPhone of that year came out, they both bought the Samsung Galaxy S8. They both thought that this curved screen phone was so beautiful, much more tacky than the home button screen that Apple has never changed. It turns out that most girls buy phones based on appearance alone.

As it turns out, Samsung's previous phones were good-looking but not practical. The system was notorious for negative optimization. In 2017, OV phones costing 2,000 to 3,000 yuan were already very smooth, but what about the S8? It would freeze when I was browsing Weibo, and my wife was tempted to smash the phone. But I had to use a phone costing more than 5,000 yuan, right? I was smart enough to buy the iPhoneX that was released later. As it turned out, although the notch screen was criticized when it was first released, the fact that the Android camp released so many notch screen phones later showed that Apple's design concept in 2017 was still very advanced.

4. iPhone Xs Max

The iPhone X was indeed a top-notch phone in 2017. But in 2018, when the Android camp began to popularize full-screen phones and super-fast charging, the iPhone X with a big notch became more and more awkward. The battery is small, charging is slow, and the frequency is reduced when playing games. Except for the screen and system, which are as powerful as ever, the other user experiences are becoming more and more uncomfortable.

Later in September, after the iPhone Xs series was released, a new Apple store just opened on the street in front of our community. It was the kind of authorized store that can be found on the official website. When my wife and I were shopping on the 7th day of the National Day holiday, we went in to take a look. The clerk said that the iPhone Xs Max price was reduced by 600 yuan during the National Day holiday, so I ordered a black max for my wife to replace her crappy S8. I originally wanted to buy a gold one, but the 256G one in the store was only black. Later, I thought that girls like fancy cases anyway, so the color doesn’t really matter. The invoice below was issued later. They said that only the head office can issue this invoice with tax, and the tax is really not low.

Actually, after I bought this black max, I felt that something was wrong with Apple. The iPhoneXs series was officially released on September 21st, and when we bought it on October 7th, it was only more than half a month away from the official release, and the price had dropped by 600? You have to know that in the past Apple's *** period, the iPhone at this time had to be purchased at a higher price, and many scalpers were hoarding and selling them, such as the picture below:

Later in December, on my birthday, my wife secretly bought me a gold Max. At that time, I was already considering buying the mate 20 pro, but after going to the physical store several times, I felt that its screen was not very comfortable to look at and a bit dazzling, so I was hesitant. The following is a photo of the mate 20 pro I took in the physical store:

The iPhoneXsMax is just like the iPhoneXsMax I mentioned in my previous article. I have experienced it for half a year, and here are 7 advantages and disadvantages to tell you the real feeling. The appearance, screen quality, photography, and fluency are all very good, but the signal and fast charging experience are really bad. What I can't stand the most is using a 5W charger to charge a 3000 mAh battery. It really takes more than 3 hours to fully charge it! At that time, an Apple fan brother even posted a special post to defend Cook, saying that not providing fast charging accessories is to protect the battery, but later when the official website launched a 400 yuan fast charging kit, he deleted the post himself. The picture below is the ancestral 5W charger in the accessory box:

***, it's a signal problem. I didn't know the signal would be so bad before I used it, especially after I put in dual SIM cards. There is basically no signal in the underground garage. Once I enter the basement, it becomes disconnected. I have to run in and out of the basement every day, and leave as soon as the car is sent. Later I learned that Cook broke up with Qualcomm in order to save the cost of $7.5 per phone. I immediately felt betrayed. It turns out that user experience is not worth 7.5 yuan in Cook's eyes!

In general, after using Apple products for so many years, I have been amazed at the beginning, became mediocre in the middle, and now I am deeply disappointed. According to the current leaks, this year's new iPhone 11 will still use Intel's smart baseband, but the battery will be larger and fast charging accessories should be included, which makes me have no desire to buy it.