The New Expensive iPhone Is Better Than the Old Expensive iPhones

For much of my smartphone-owning adulthood, I was an iPhone “S” year upgrader, due almost entirely to my relationship with my cell carrier. My first iPhone was a 3GS, which I got for peanuts with my Cingular contract. (Yes, Cingular.) I was eligible to upgrade to a new phone every other year, at which point I would…