{"id":636,"date":"2025-06-18T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:18","slug":"the-real-reason-people-buy-new-iphones-hint-its-not-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/iphone-16-vs-15-comparison-design-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/the-real-reason-people-buy-new-iphones-hint-its-not-ai\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}