Source: Tianji.com
I received iPhone 14 during the National Day holiday. I spent a week to tell me about my experience.
first summarizes it in one sentence and sets a tone for this product. Although it does not support high-brushing and is not qualified to go to the island, the entry-level flagship of iPhone 14, which will definitely make efforts in the later stage, will become a new arcade for the next two years.
iPhone 14 is still fully consistent with the previous two generations of models in appearance. The familiar appearance, familiar feel and even familiar chips have made iPhone 14 known as the new product that needs to be searched for upgraded since its release. Most of the online comments are: "What is the need to update this?" "It's so worthless!" "It's really 13-scent!".
So, why do I assert that it will be a new arcade for the next two years?
After taking off the mini series, iPhone 14 took the banner of iOS entry-level flagship phones alone. Since its release, it has been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that only belongs to it.
If we pull the timeline back to 2017, the iPhone 8 Plus, which was unveiled on the same stage as iPhone X, and the iPhone XR, which was launched one year later, were "disliked" by many people at that time, but the market's judgment is based on sales, not on the use of words.
What’s scary is that the shipment of iPhone XR in 2019 was about 46.3 million units, higher than the shipment of the latest iPhone 11 in the same year. This affordable iPhone still becomes a hot product after experiencing the aircraft carrier-grade black border incident. It's like scoring two goals in one minute in the last stoppage time and winning 3:1. There are only two reasons. First, it is to spend the most cost-effective money to play the latest and complete iOS ecosystem, and secondly, its experience is not much different from iPhone X.
If you use XR and 8 Plus as the wingman around iPhone X back then, the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are the personal guards of the two models of the Pro series this year.
Therefore, on the one hand, the A15 chip used is still difficult to match in terms of performance and energy consumption performance of Android flagship SoC. More importantly, you can hardly find any defects in product strength on this entry-level flagship.
Larger main camera sensor, larger aperture, newly added video sports mode, new internal design, and improved battery life are all filling the product shortcomings of the iPhone 11 mold three years ago.
In fact, the new iPhone series has almost the same rules after the release of the sales in recent years. At first, the Pro series must have been the hot-selling and rushing. But as time goes by, with the help of activity windows such as Double 11, Double 12 and even the second year 618, the entry-level models will usher in a big explosion, and sales will increase sharply through price drops. Compared with the Pro series, the most stable basic platform of the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus is - "enough". To give the simplest example, during the National Day period, I changed my mother's phone and upgraded from 13 Pro Max to 14 Plus. Some people will definitely say, "You are not upgrading, obviously downgrading?"
But the 14 Plus has a lighter weight and a slightly longer battery life, which has been used for ten months, heavy, bumpy and dusty lens module, and has to be defeated.
Of course, the 3x optical zoom supported by 13 Pro Max is indeed my mother's favorite, but for the lighter and completely sufficient 14 Plus, this is a product selling point that is enough to be abandoned.
Most users of 14 and 14 Plus don’t have many Pro-level usage scenarios. They don’t need ProRaw format photos and ProRes format videos, are not interested in the latest interaction design, and cannot call the lidar scanner several times in a year.
In summary, iPhone 14 or even 14 Plus is extremely suitable for loyal users of entry-level iPhones in my opinion. They are used to the iOS ecosystem and do not want to leave. They care about the light feel rather than the Pro-level features, and of course they are relatively sensitive to price.
has the foundation for all this, and then it goes back to the starting price of 5,999 yuan (iPhone 14). This price has already reached the entry price of high-end flagships in the domestic mobile phone market, but this is only the starting price of the iPhone 14 (128GB).The price point of
almost limits the pricing of most flagship models in China. To put it bluntly, the lower price limit of iOS determines the upper price limit of Android.
So, iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are still waiting for a time window that belongs only to them. From the perspective of product strength, users who hold the previous products of iPhone 12, if you really rely on iOS's complete ecosystem, are too lazy to mess around, and are inseparable from Apple's subscription service system and even its "enough", then 14 and 14 Plus are really worth the money.
