I can't believe how big of a brick the most fashionable, expensive and feature-studded phone has become. I realized when I bought my kids used iPhone 8s how big this is. My kids are using iPhone 8s and Xs. The new form factor is comically larger and more uncomfortable to hold than the old models. When you sit this next to an iPhone 6 it's almost half the cubic volume.
iPhone 14 is an OK phone. An excellent phone. I'm sure it's solid hardware that will last a long time. The dynamic notch is a pointless and useless waste of screen space, certainly. But mostly, it's a fat, heavy phone with an enormous lens cluster. I had iPhone 12 Pro for a long time. If anything, they made it half a millimeter thicker and about two pounds heavier. What the heck?
Seriously. If you're still in possession of an iPhone 6 or 8 or X, hold it next to any iPhone 12, 13 or 14, and be astonished, and shocked, and appalled. With the 14, they actually made it slightly thicker and significantly heavier than 12 or 13. Somehow, Apple used to be able to pack a terrific phone experience into a compact, comfortable, hand-sized package. Now, it's as large and heavy as a gold ingot. They have a heavy lift ahead, trying to make a phone that isn't quite so rotund. Galaxy and Pixel might just win me back, with a phone this fat and heavy.