{"id":2033,"date":"2025-06-18T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2025-06-24T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:16:44","slug":"the-real-reason-people-buy-new-iphones-hint-its-not-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/the-real-reason-people-buy-new-iphones-hint-its-not-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason people buy new iPhones (hint: it\u2019s not AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/iphone-16-vs-15-comparison-design-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apple doesn\u2019t report sales numbers anymore, but analysts estimate the company sells hundreds of millions of new iPhones every year. While many <em>9to5Mac<\/em> readers may buy new models for features like camera upgrades or <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/every-device-that-supports-apple-intelligence\/\">Apple Intelligence<\/a>, new data reveals very different motivations for the vast majority of buyers.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1006678\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/18\/the-real-reason-people-buy-new-iphones-hint-its-not-ai\/#more-1006678\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple doesn\u2019t report sales numbers anymore, but analysts estimate the company sells hundreds of millions of new iPhones every year. While many 9to5Mac readers may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}