The iPhone 6S is a decent smartphone, and that’s a bad thing

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Or at the very least, if you’re going to fix it, make it a big fix. Unfortunately, Apple seems not to have learned that particular lesson with the release of its latest iPhone model — the iPhone 6S Plus. Despite Apple’s reported record sales of the latest generation of iPhones, a Localytics study suggests that both “the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are experiencing lower adoption rates in the first week of their availability versus the same time frame for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus last year.” In fact, when it comes to iPhone adoption as of this month, the iPhone 6 crushes the competition with 33.2 percent market share, whereas the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have only 1.5 and 0.4 percent, respectively. For those who have compared the newest version of the phone to its predecessors, this likely comes as little surprise. A Guardian review of the 6S Plus called it “barely better” than earlier models, and with few real upgrades and only the most minute of aesthetic changes, it’s easy to see why. Of course, the iPhone S was considered a soft launch rather than a major product upgrade, but still, the lackluster reception calls to mind the ill-fated 5C (though truth be told, I’m still rockin’ my plastic iPhone today).