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12-inch MacBook
“No fan, one port, all nerve — it flew off on butterfly wings.”
“First 64-bit phone, last with Jobs in its bones, and the button that knew your finger.”
The iPhone 5s arrived in September 2013 alongside the 5c, keeping its predecessor's familiar 4-inch frame but packing the industry's first 64-bit smartphone processor, the A7, plus the M7 motion co-processor. It gave us Touch ID, a home button that read fingerprints, a gold finish, and a camera with a dual-LED flash that actually understood color. It also had the distinction of being the last iPhone Steve Jobs was in
Apple retired the 5s on September 9, 2015, after shipping it with iOS 7's revamped visual style and two solid years in people's pockets. It left behind the fingerprint-unlocking world we now take for granted and the quiet proof that evolution beats reinvention. A dignified exit for a phone that never needed a wild redesign to be loved.
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“No fan, one port, all nerve — it flew off on butterfly wings.”
“Traded coins for tote bags and playing cards; the happiest checkout receipt of gaming.”
“It brought back the Start menu, and for that we forgave everything else.”