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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“It lived, it lived again, and its photos lived too.”
Announced by Tim Cook on September 9, 2015 at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus were the ninth generation of the iPhone. Fans loved it for the meaningful upgrades packed into a familiar design: a strengthened 7000 series aluminum chassis, the new A9 chip, and a 12-megapixel rear camera that could finally shoot 4K video. It also introduced Live Photos, a front camera resolution bo
The 6s was succeeded by the iPhone 7 in September 2016, but it wasn't rushed out the door — Apple discontinued it on September 12, 2018 alongside the XS, XS Max, and XR announcements. In parts of Asia, authorized resellers kept selling the 32 GB model into 2019, a quiet second act for a well-loved phone. Not bad for a device whose whole gimmick was squeezing a little more life out of every moment.
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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
“Fifteen thousand subtitled stories, one final subtitle: The End.”