This is what I had read about the iPhone 13 one too and I was ready to jump on the hate train, but I’m pretty pleased with mine (got it for free when I bought my phone). I’ve been using it for around six months and it’s looking the exact same as it did at the beginning

Seeing Apple admit a fail is always such a treat. Hope the replacement will be even better than the last leather case!

Why?

You need to verify every week, but it’s automatic as long as your computer is on during the verification

To be fair you can already do it for YouTube with uYou and AltStore, it won’t be as seamless as on Android but it’s possible :)

If it’s not in the US, I fear developers won’t take it seriously and we probably won’t get many good sideloadable apps anyway

Sure but it’s no excuse to making things worse

In addition to the adblockers, you can install Hush to get rid of the cookie notices.

If you’re willing to tinker a little, check out AltStore. It’s a way to install apps Apple doesn’t want on the App Store (so things similar to re-Vance’d, torrent downloaders or emulators).

I got excited about that headline until I thought about how big it’s probably going to be. I’ll keep my XS and will switch to a 13 Mini when needed.

I have tried it with a 2012 Retina MacBook Pro and it’s really cool. I installed a recent version of macOS on it so it wasn’t great performance wise (the OS itself ran pretty well but the computer was very warm all the time), but I think you can make it work still.

I’d try Big Sur or Monterey.

Also if you have performance issues, changing the battery can help a lot.

I highly doubt it considering the whole industry is doing it (although iPhones are way worse than some others), but I’d like to be surprised

And yet photos will still look just as over processed, if not more.

As much as I like my iPhone, I hate where this is going. Monopolies are always bad for the consumers, especially with companies as focused on control as Apple.