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People Are Taking The Piss Out Of The New iPhone 12 Because It Looks Exactly Like The iPhone 5
Apple really just threw a fancy photographic camera on an iPhone 5 and idea we wouldn’t discover.
Early this morning, Apple finally unveiled their long-awaited iPhone 12 model.
While the almanac Apple event is normally held in September, the announcement for the latest iPhone had to be pushed dorsum to Oct due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the virtual consequence, along with the unveiling of the HomePod Mini, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared images of the iv new iPhones that will be bachelor in 2020 — with the the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro being bachelor from October 23, and the 12 Pro Max and the 12 Mini from November 13.
Credit: Apple tree
While all varying in size, each iPhone 12 comes equipped with 5G connectivity, an A14 bionic scrap, and claims that they would be the “toughest” and “brightest” iPhones nonetheless thank you to new ‘Ceramic Shield’ technology.
All the same, Apple likewise shared that these new phones would not exist sold with a wall charger or headphones, and instead simply come up with a USB-C to lightning cable in an endeavour to “reduce carbon emissions” in both the shipping and production of the iPhone.
Only despite this large alter in what actually comes in the box with these pricey new iPhone models, people online were stuck on ane major change in particular: That the iPhone 12 looked oddly similar to the archetype iPhone 5.
extremely here for apple realizing they peaked with the iPhone 5#AppleEvent picture.twitter.com/cAkl12fhdQ
— patrick. (@imPatrickT) October 13, 2020
why does the iphone 12 look like an iphone 5 with the iphone 11 photographic camera picture.twitter.com/4JXlCyULTD
— celia ♡ 🐷 (@greenterracotta) October thirteen, 2020
Armed with a new foursquare shape — a big design shift from the curved styles of the iPhone half dozen to xi –, people noticed that the iPhone 12 looked exactly like 2012’due south iPhone five, merely with a fancier camera.
Considering Apple decided to completely ditch the normally included earphones and a charging block, and and then as well revert back to an almost decade-old design, information technology’s shocking to meet that the iPhone 12 prices can go up to a hefty $2,369 for a Pro Max at the largest storage size.
So to cope with the hurting that is Apple’s pricing, everyone has since decided to plough the iPhone 12 into a meme to mock the company blatantly copying themselves. Seriously, the resemblance was so uncanny that even later on the Apple tree issue, “iPhone 5” trended above the “iPhone 12”.
Iphone 5 and iphone 12😂😂 motion picture.twitter.com/5tugmzqIOg
— Moves Like Jacka (@_thejacka) Oct 13, 2020
#iPhone12 and iPhone five lookin kinda similar… 🧐 flick.twitter.com/cnHFJ3wpT2
— Complex (@Complex) October 13, 2020
Apple well-nigh to sell y’all and iPhone v with an actress camera and y’all mfs gon buy information technology
— Published Author (@Ter0me) October thirteen, 2020
How it started. How information technology’s going. #appleevent  pic.twitter.com/H60KvM0Cec
— TwittaNerd™ 👨🏾💻 (@LindoMyeni) October xiii, 2020
iPhone 5 seeing iPhone 12 unveiled today.#SARSMUSTEND moving-picture show.twitter.com/GYwyTHgq45
— #SARSMUSTEND but Don’t #EndASUUstrike (@Aghahowadaniel_) Oct 13, 2020
iPhone 5 seeing iPhone 12 being unveiled!#iPhone12 pic.twitter.com/TC7DETNwGl
— Yogesh Jadhav (@theyogeshjadhav) October 13, 2020
iPhone 12: can I copy off you?
iPhone 5: sure but just change it upwards a bit so it doesn’t look obviousiPhone 12 film.twitter.com/LpJoFlwnJ5
— aly🎃 (@aly_mov) Oct 13, 2020
Apple calculation a amend camera to the iPhone v and selling it off as the iPhone 12 pro #AppleEvent motion picture.twitter.com/ZrZv2sV7tg
— M (@F4RHAN__) October 13, 2020
We waited a whole year to just get a newer version of the Iphone v… 😔 pic.twitter.com/QCINTf85rg
— Vanish jainormis 🌽 #FaZe5 (@jainormis) Oct thirteen, 2020
A message from the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 12 motion-picture show.twitter.com/yXSDtGmNjN
— Kayla Marie (@_thekaylamarie) October thirteen, 2020
Really though, beyond the massive blueprint bound from the iPhone eight to the buttonless X, new iPhones rarely actually give us anything new anyhow. Plus, we’re probably all going to purchase one eventually because that’s just how we are as people.
Merely #iphone12 things, iphone 5 era begins pic.twitter.com/xITHbIooRs
— Eggshell (@goofyEGG) October thirteen, 2020
The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro volition be available in Australia from October 23, and from November 13 for the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the iPhone 12 Mini.
Source: https://junkee.com/iphone-12-memes-iphone-5/274271