Given the odd meteor flying through space spectacle given to titanium, I'm wondering if we'll have spools of light aluminum foil spinning in future ads to promote the downgrade?
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12 Reasons to Wait for Next Year's iPhone 17
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You want Apple to drop the number of the iPhone model?…
Remember what happened when Apple called the then most recent iPad, the new iPad? I can’t even tell you which one it was because, duh. How would I.
Try explaining what phone you have to a support employee, or try to find cases and screen protectors without knowing what phone exactly you have.
We’ve been there, it’s stupid to drop the version number. I don’t understand why that’s still such a problem for some.
Who exactly is asking for a sticking-out-control thing on the iPhone? Most people want the phone to be flush on the back, yet here is a proposal to have something come out the side.
The magnetic lense attachments do sound interesting, but I fear those magnets woukd interfere too much with the OIS.
Right on cue every year with this nonsense. Nonsense because every single year MR does this same article about 'why waiting for the next iphone will be amazing'. Next year it will be about the 18. Last year it was about waiting for the 16 and so on and so on and so on...
I'm thinking you're being generous giving it three generations to see something meaningful. I moved from an iPhone 7 to 15Pro, and aside from the camera improvement, loss of the touchid and breathing room with a bit more RAM, there wasn't much different. I think that seven year gap, the CPU performance increases are negligible, with RAM being the main benefactor of helping with load and render times. Maybe the gamechanger being magsafe and USB-C? NFC on both devices, iOS 15 to 17 showed very little difference.
I agree on the 1 to 6s thing, but for reference as people tend to forget, the X was just two years after the 6s…
The 7 was also not to be underestimated, it was the first iPhone with:
1. certified water resistance,
2. a solid state Home Button,
3. stereo speakers,
4. optical image stabilisation (OIS) in the non-Plus iPhone,
5. a dual camera system with a telephoto lense in the Plus model,
6. courage, and probably some other features I can’t think of right now.
I also think the 15 (Pro) was a bigger jump than the 16 (Pro), because it had USB C, a „Pro“ chip with Apple Intelligence in mind, the action button and the periscope lens in the Max model before the 16 series.
Don't want/need a Pro, do want an always-on-display.
Skipped the 16 for this reason. Currently, the 15 Pro and 16 base are the same price here (Switzerland) from 3rd party shops.
If the 17 base has AOD then I'll buy it. If not, and the prices level out as they did this year then I'll buy a 16 Pro (as I have an 11 and I don't want to wait for the 18!).
Skipped the 16 for this reason. Currently, the 15 Pro and 16 base are the same price here (Switzerland) from 3rd party shops.
If the 17 base has AOD then I'll buy it. If not, and the prices level out as they did this year then I'll buy a 16 Pro (as I have an 11 and I don't want to wait for the 18!).
Seriously, the more they crank up the screen sizes, the more I want a new mini…
After a week with a 16, coming from an 8, I can tell you this: I'll wait for an iPhone without any silly "island".
There's literally nothing here of interest for me worthy of an upgrade when my iPhone 14 Pro works just fine. I refuse to keep adding to the e-waste pile of electronics just to be on the latest trends.
I'd be happy if every 3-4 years a new mini came out. I'd upgrade to every mini then. I know not everyone likes small phones. Not everyone likes the giant ones either. Having small, medium, large, seems like a no-brainer to me. If one of the sizes doesn't sell so well, then just make it come out every few years rather than every year.
I have a 13 mini and honestly forgot that iPhones these days come with a hole now ...aka "island"... the notch still bugs me - I think the hole would be an even more glaring design gaffe I would have to cope with. Unsure how or why the masses are okay with these "features" when they are mostly design bugs that Apple has spun to be a feature.
The camera layout sounds atrocious ngl. I feel like the 3 lenses positioned how they currently are have become such a visual cue for the iPhone, ditching it would be silly. Plus, changing it seems meaningless, at least the regular iPhone 16's camera layout changes were to add spatial video (which is great news for the 2 people who actually use that).
When I saw how little the iPhone 16PM offered over my 14PM, I decided to wait another year to consider upgrading. The only temptation for me was the better zoom on the camera because the 3x zoom on the 14PM is a joke. But that’s definitely not enough for me to upgrade and I couldn’t care less about Apple Intelligence. So, we’ll see what Sept 2025 has to offer.
To be fair, it's MacRumors, not Apple, that's listing this as a "reason to wait".
They did make a big deal out of titanium, but it was only ever used in the Pros. Presumably that will continue.
And if you have seen the technical videos on the 15 and 16 cameras/lenses, especially the zoom, you will know that both are inferior to the 14. Apple actually downgraded their photo hardware in those 2 cameras and it is noticeable enough even if you aren't doing these technical tests. These 2 videos explain it well, once you get past the fluff - the tests themselves are interesting. Apple has messed up the mid-range in the 15 Pro Max and 16 cameras by quite a bit. 1/2 a megapixel of resolution upscaled to to 12 is a bit of a mess. Anyway:
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This isn't Apple-bashing btw. I'll never touch an Android for multiple reasons. I just don't like to see Apple skimping on camera updates and adding a default 50% sharpening to RAW files - and even still having so much software sharpening in the RAW when you turn it to 0 - they should not touch the RAW files and leave that up to the photographer to play with. By auto-sharpening them so much, they cause a lot of photo degradation and for a $1000+ Pro phone, that is unacceptable, IMO.
New battery vs new battery... not really. Its a component that degrades over time. I took five years to replace the iPhone 7 battery, and that replaced battery was giving me all day battery life between charges.
Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man…
🤣 Ok. I stand corrected. Still, I can’t get too excited about going back from Ti to Al.
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Why don’t they make the iPhone 17 in all plastic calling it the lightest iPhone ever 🤦♂️🤣