Chris Evans, aka Captain America, aka Buzz Lightyear, is making as a lot Apple information recently as the rumored iPhone 14. Like all of us do on occasion, Evans upgraded his previous iPhone to a brand new one. So what’s all the hubbub about? Seems, he is been utilizing an iPhone 6S all this time. Back in June, in a put up on Instagram he shared an RIP for his previous iPhone 6S, a cellphone launched in the Obama administration.

Clearly a star of his stature may afford the newest and best relating to telephones. The truth that Evans held onto his iPhone 6S for thus lengthy speaks volumes about his character and perspective. I daresay this makes him appear extra down-to-Earth and cooler, too. 

And if the story stopped there, nice. However whereas selling his new movie The Grey Man on Netflix, Collider’s Steve Weintraub requested him about his previous cellphone and Evans replied, “I miss it.” The Knives Out star admitted that he misses the residence button and that his new iPhone 12 Professional feels too heavy. His co-star Ana de Armas, sitting subsequent to Evans, chimed in sympathetically, and confirmed how her iPhone leaves a line on her pinky finger.

Evans opened up about his iPhone scenario extra passionately saying, “I need one thing to work till it does not work anymore.” That is concurrently profound and a spot-on criticism of our disposable world tradition.

OK, so how did we get right here? Final month, Chris Evans posted a photograph to Instagram that confirmed him transferring information from his iPhone 6S to a brand new iPhone. He wrote, “RIP iPhone 6S. We had a very good run. I am going to miss your private home button. I will not miss the nightly battle of making an attempt to get you to cost. Or your grainy photos. Or your sudden drops from 100% battery, to fifteen%, to utterly useless all inside minutes. It was a wild trip. Relaxation straightforward, pal. #tilthewheelsfalloff”

A becoming tribute to an previous iPhone. However why did he maintain onto his previous iPhone for thus lengthy? The brief reply, it appears, is for the residence button. It is an precise button. In his Collider interview, Evans dismissed individuals saying he ought to get an iPhone SE, which is the solely iPhone Apple at the moment sells with a house button. It is implied that Evans is aware of that the iPhone 6S had the final precise residence button on an iPhone. When Apple launched the iPhone 7 it changed the bodily button with a round spot that used haptics to imitate a bodily button’s motion and suggestions. This identical faux-home button is on the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, SE (2020) and SE (2022).

Although his iPhone 6S barely labored, it appears he held onto it for an additional motive: the precept of the complete factor. Why get a brand new cellphone when an previous one labored completely advantageous? Granted, it appears Evans used the 6S so long as he may — over six years, assuming he purchased it the 12 months it got here out. And whereas Evans did not point out it, the iPhone 6S will not be getting the replace to iOS 16, possible that means it is time for different iPhone 6S homeowners to maneuver on to a more recent mannequin if solely to take care of safety from safety vulnerabilities.

Yearly phone-makers launch new fashions. On one hand this yearly cycle lets firms improve their telephones’ {hardware} to be extra aggressive. However on the different hand, it is fairly wasteful. Different tech merchandise like headphones and cameras aren’t on a yearly improve cycle and years can cross between fashions. Add in complicating elements like the elimination of a house button fully and issues like a headphone jack and it is easy to know Evans’ frustration. He had a cellphone with a house button that is light-weight, then “upgraded” to a brand new iPhone that is heavier, and lacks a house button and headphone jack fully. I might be lower than thrilled, too.