Why I Chose... an iPhone

My first iPhone was an iPhone 3GS, which I'd bought at the Dadeland Mall Apple Store in the late summer of 2009 after work.

It was a somewhat impulsive purchase, my having gone through a few phones (the one I'd liked most being the Trēo 800w, RIP) and not liking how the application ecosystem just wasn't being friendly to anything but an iPhone. I was a heavy Yahoo! user, and they were really hyping and promoting their iPhone(-exclusive) app; I wanted it.

So, I went and got it, porting my phone number over to it and a very helpful, nerdish, attractive guy helped me to activate it. This was back when one had to go to a store to do so or it would take forever. Another reason I'd wanted to go that route was Sprint, at the time, as considering Wimax as their 4G upgrade and everyone else was going LTE. AT&T, as well, was the only game in town for the iPhone, so more incentive.

My boss, especially, was envious for weeks at my phone. He'd kept saying he wanted an iPhone, but ended up getting a Samsung Instinct and porting it to Metro PCS like one of my other co-workers.

I still have AT&T and their grandfathered-in unlimited data package.

I'd adored my 3GS, which I'd called Mars. When I moved to Georgia, I remember watching the end-of-days movie 2012 on it, streaming it via an Israeli video aggregation site (and, I think, having a multi-ten gigabyte data usage metric that month, too).

In 2011, I got my 4S, ordering it the same day they were having online sales. I'd gotten it by Fed-Ex several weeks later, and that became my favorite. Even though I love my 6 Plus now, I think I loved most that the 4S had the solidity and heft of my Trēo 800w. I think I'd enjoyed it most with iOS 6, with its inbuilt Twitter and Facebook widgets on the notifications slider.

And now I have an iPhone 6 Plus, which I've enjoyed for almost three years now.

We'll see what comes next.

Apple says it fixed the unexpected iPhone 6/6s shutdown issue for some users - BGR

http://bgr.com/2017/02/24/iphone-6s-battery-shutdown-issue/

Some iPhones out there keep shutting down unexpectedly, even when there’s enough battery left. Apple has made few official comments on the matter since the problems started plaguing various devices including the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6. The company kicked off a limited battery replacement program for the iPhone 6s, without including older devices in it. 

Oh, my gosh! Finally! Well, it hasn't been quite as much the bother lately since, it seems, the OS update had remedied some of the strife, but it had been a bother.

For a while, my phone would get to 30% power and then suddenly shut down. Sometimes I would tap repeatedly at the screen, or rub it back and forth against my clothes for a couple minutes and then it would come back on, but this seemed such a "ghetto" way of trying to get my phone back.

Then I'd seen another BGR report that actually shed light on the situation, and that had inflamed me. "You mean, it wasn't just cold weather?!"

At the very least, if they're ready to replace my battery and it's going to be new, this should be a plus for me until things roll around again for me to get another phone! That could be their ploy, too. It's not like the phones will be of much good two years from now, maybe, aside from browsing some things and using some legacy apps that might be completely outmoded by the next few iOS iterations.