As I said in my previous post there were still hiccups along the way to get to where I am now. The iPhone 15 Pro was one of them. I fell right into the marketing trap with this one. The natural titanium frame, the new action button and the sleek design lured me in.
The phone was a very premium device. The magsafe range of accessories are great and at the time I used this with a car dash mount and a wireless charger. The device was seamlessly fast, had a great camera array and was very efficient on power.
Getting the phone (thankfully used) actually lured me right back in to the Apple ecosystem. Over the course of my ownership I ended up with an M1 Macbook Pro, an iPad, a watch and Airpod Pro 2nd gen earphones.
The strange thing was that this time rather than feeling like I’d spent too much, it was the ecosystem that drove me to get rid of this phone. The iPhone was the centre of the ecosystem, and in being that it basically became unused. At home I’d use the iPad, at work I’d use the Macbook and when I was out I’d generally leave the phone at home and use the Apple watch and Airpods over cellular. With an ecosystem so comprehensive the iPhone in the equation basically just becomes a hub to relay calls and iMessage to the other devices.
This phone was resold, for basically the same money I purchased it for and for a while I used a more basic iPhone (can’t remember exactly which model) as the “hub” for the ecosystem. However cracks were showing, there are programs I rely on that need a Windows operating system and I was having to use a VM on the Macbook more often than I was using MacOS. In the Apple world one a part of the ecosystem goes the rest crumbles around it. In the end I got out, sold all of the Apple products and decided I’d not be going back to it again.
Around this time I’d been struggling with screen time, and wanted to be more present. I decided to go down the route of a “dumbphone”, something I’d tried on and off for a while. Using it more as a tool for a digital detox, or a system reset to break habits seems to be the best option but I hadn’t worked this out at this point. So next I got an AGM M7, was this the answer to my problems? No, but it was certainly an experience!
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