Ah, things were better back in my day! The kids now, they don't know what they've got. GET OFF MY LAWN! ;-)
But seriously. I sometimes find myself slipping in to this sort of mindset; I sometimes even long for my iPhone 5 for exactly the same reasons as you. But this is the inexorable march of progress, right? As if the iPhone 6 we have today is the pinnacle of smartphone design. We'll look back in ten years -- twenty years, fifty years -- when our phones are vanishingly thin, when we lick them and stick them to our arms, or when they just are our arms, and -- no offence -- your comment will look a little ridiculous.
And this is why Apple does what it does; it must be at the forefront, it must be the one at the bleeding edge. If it isn't, it dies.
And if it isn't, well, how boring would everything be if the iPhone 6 was "the end". That future sounds really boring.
A slimmer iPhone requires a substantial breakthrough in physics and technology in general. So far improves have been incremental, but as with Moore's Law - we've reached the limit on thinness - current generation of components doesn't get thinner than that.
Sure in a decade or more a new type of silicon may be invented, but it won't be Apple doing it.
And I miss iPhone 5 for the same reasons Steve Jobs always said its the perfect size - it fits my hands perfectly. This isn't about me getting old. It's basic UX and ergonomics. These larger phones are ergonomically worse. Sure they pack a big screen, but I don't really see the point. I think it's just a craze. I've seen lots of people who haven't bothered to upgrade to 6 cause they think it's too big, and I'm not recommending people do - for the first time in history of Apple's product line. I think there's a reason for that.
But seriously. I sometimes find myself slipping in to this sort of mindset; I sometimes even long for my iPhone 5 for exactly the same reasons as you. But this is the inexorable march of progress, right? As if the iPhone 6 we have today is the pinnacle of smartphone design. We'll look back in ten years -- twenty years, fifty years -- when our phones are vanishingly thin, when we lick them and stick them to our arms, or when they just are our arms, and -- no offence -- your comment will look a little ridiculous.
And this is why Apple does what it does; it must be at the forefront, it must be the one at the bleeding edge. If it isn't, it dies.
And if it isn't, well, how boring would everything be if the iPhone 6 was "the end". That future sounds really boring.