For context, I have owned a lot of Apple devices but wouldn't consider myself a fanboy. My gaming PC/home desktop is Windows-based and I would never switch to a Mac there. Have had a Macbook Air which I held onto for 5 years before replacing it with a Macbook Retina five years later. I've had 3 Ipads (Ipad 3, Ipad Air 2, and the latest Ipad Pro 10.2 inch) which as I upgraded have become hand-me-downs to relatives. I have an Apple Watch series 3 also.
But in terms of Iphones, I look back in amazement at the number of Iphones I've had over the last 8 years of Iphone ownership (4, 5, 6, 6S, 7 and then Iphone X). Certainly had no real desire to upgrade from a 6 to 6S until I smashed my screen by accident before I was about to do an important trip and decided to quickly upgrade and sort out the broken phone later. Then my mother finally decided to have a smartphone in 2016 and I handed my 6S to her and got a 7. And I did jump all over the X willingly the moment it was out because the liberation from the god bloody awful and ugly bezels and huge home button was so, so good.
Yet now I find myself not being able to care less about the upcoming Iphone or Apple Watch. On the former, I expect there to be little in way of substantive improvements -- if you like iOS and hated the previously crap battery life on the Iphone, the bezels and so forth, the X pretty much fixed all the annoyances. I just don't care about minor updates to the camera; CPU upgrades also don't matter that much to me as I rarely game or do anything excessively intensive. My Apple Watch just allows me to more discretely check the time, messages and so forth during meetings, track exercises, and skip music tracks whilst walking. Unless they really improve its appearance, I couldn't care less about the next iteration.
There's also the desire not to contribute to so much environmental degradation. Honestly, some of the Iphone upgrades that I have had, I'd struggle to tell you one thing that was really different between one to the next (the worst was the 6S to 7 "upgrade"). However, I must admit that if Apple were to release an Ipad that gets rid of the home button, I am probably ordering that right away.
Anyone else developing similar thoughts?