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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“Thinner, lighter, and gone before we got tired of looking at it”
The iPhone 5 arrived in September 2012 as the sixth-generation iPhone, the first completely developed under Tim Cook and the last overseen by Steve Jobs. People loved it for being thinner and lighter, with a taller 4-inch screen, an aluminum body, LTE, and the new Lightning connector that replaced the trusty 30-pin dock. Its 8-megapixel Sony-made camera kept the snapshots coming too.
On September 10, 2013, Apple let it go, passing the torch to the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Its design proved durable in every sense, living on in the 5s and again in the first-generation iPhone SE in 2016. It also set the September-release rhythm iPhones still keep, so every autumn keynote owes it a small nod.
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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“It held the door open to the web for millions, then politely showed itself out.”
“It lived up to its name, then quietly rode off into the prepaid sunset.”