They should just put the island smack in the middle of the screen and increase its size by 8%. Then all have a laugh because it will still sell by the millions.
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iPhone 16 Pro 16 Pro - WTF Were They Thinking?
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Somewhere along the line, smartphones achieved appliance status. My 13mini and my wife’s 12 keep on keeping on. All of my other devices are perfectly acceptable as well, although for $399+tax, I might get a new Watch “just because I can”.
honestly can someone explain how the 16 pro is different frmo the 15 pro in a meaningful way?
I dont even understand how the camera capture button is better than the software button? And trust me I'm as big of an apple fan as the next guy, I was a sucker who bought the 15 pro for action button. At least there I DO like going to the camera quickly. But how is this year's upgrade an improvement of usability?
I dont even understand how the camera capture button is better than the software button? And trust me I'm as big of an apple fan as the next guy, I was a sucker who bought the 15 pro for action button. At least there I DO like going to the camera quickly. But how is this year's upgrade an improvement of usability?
I don't think it'll be end to end encrypted though? I'll still use BlueBubbles on my phone to message iOS folks.
It won’t be e2ee. So iMessage for your iOS friends, Signal for everyone else.
I didn't understand why they kept saying that it had better battery life but never stated what the improvement was (like 4 hours longer, etc.). I'm pretty sure in all of the past keynotes, they'd explicitly state that hours improvement vs past phone but oddly enough they really shied away from that this year. Very weird
They had to cut something out to say "carbon neutral by 2030" a thousand times.
Funny you mention that. I did regret going from a 13 PM to 14 PM at the time.
There’s not supposed to be. New iPhone models are meant for people who haven’t upgraded in three or more years.
Childish colors vs adult and classy colors. 🍷
That’s their goal and we gotta keep getting these older devices in landfills and upgrading every year if we’re all gonna save this planet
In fact that’s why the pro designs look almost identical to 15 pro. It’s to get to that goal and save on design resources that are certainly carbon emitters.
here comes apple record breaking sales quarter same old same old no wonder they will never change
All the b*tching and eventual capitulation on MacRumors will never change either! 😅
The Canadian and American gov banned them, because of spying concerns. With no proof, that's why apple advertises privacy so hard.
That’s definitely an issue with repairs, however, I’m one of the unlucky ones that got a defective 15 pro max from Apple last year that they flat out refused to replace. So I lost over 1500 dollars on that phone, pure thievery on Apple’s part, so it can’t be any worse?
Not interested in folding phones atm, I do like the pixel 9 pro’s, nice how they future proofed them with ram. The camera system looks really good too, Apple still doesn’t have an Astro mode. AI stuff isn’t something that I’m interested in either, I like hardware, and Apple is clearly not interested in competing, the Pro phones should always have more ram for instance than the base models.
My issue now is my battery is already degraded, and nothing short of a new phone is going to fix the overheating issues (although cooler fall weather should help and will be here soon). I wanted a new phone but the 16 pro max is exactly the same as a 15 pro max except for the slightly larger screen, may wait to see what Samsung offers with the S25’s. Apple is getting its ass handed to it and it seems they either do not care or do not realize it for whatever reason. Like some have mentioned, there are cheap Android phones with better specs, like real cheap, I know people say it doesn’t matter but it does. Would you buy a car from a company that hasn’t changed it in years, when other companies offered cheaper cars that were far more advanced and had more power, better interiors, just better tech all around that they constantly improve? Eventually you move on and get the better deal since company A doesn’t care about your money.
Yes I would. I would LOVE a Porsche 911! I've been told (for most of my life) that Porsche is lazy and don't want to hire designers, so they don't re-design the 911, and just re-release it every few years. The 911 never changes, see? Never mind the fact that they are bigger, handle a LOT better, and have WAY more power. They switched to water cooling, and now are adding mild hybrids for more performance. But no, they haven't changed since 1969.
And that's what it sounds like to me when everyone whinges that iPhones haven't changed.
If iPhones make people this mad, I think they should be looking elsewhere. Stop trying to make iPhones be 'flavour of the month' designs. They're not supposed to be radically redesigned every year! If you need random gimmicks, or yearly redesigns for a phone to hold your interest, there's a pretty big world of Android phones.
I think cars was a bad example. Nothing beats a classic design. In comparison, when someone tries something avant garde, they give us the monstrosity of a Cybertruck, for example.
Phones will evolve. I’m glad the pixel 9 pro has 12GB of RAM. Android requires that overhead. If AI doesn’t matter, have you felt the RAM to be limiting on your 15 Pro?
Re: thermals, they did call that out as a new change, so let’s see.
I don’t disagree with you, sadly this is nothing new. Incremental tiny upgrades is Apple’s gig, and those people looking for something to delight them even though Apple sticks to the same game plan every year is a little strange to me. Yet people still get upset that Apple didn’t do something they wanted and they rant about it.
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Alternatively, if Apple made major changes, people would complain forced obsolescence and Apple discarding well established, perfectly good features in order to force users to update for no good reason.
People just like to complain
The two sides of the coin:
"I want a brand new phone design and a cartload of mindblowing new features every year, WHY ARE YOU SO STALE AND DON'T INNOVATE TIM APPLE?!?"
"I want my 8 year old phone to support all the mindblowing new features forever, WHY ARE YOU FORCING ME TO BUY A NEW PHONE TIM APPLE?!?"
🤣🤣🤣
Believe me I know, I’ve got a Mac mini, a MacBook Pro, an Apple TV, multiple Apple Watches, and like 7 iPhones.
The issue is, Apple today isn’t the Apple of ten years ago. I stopped being a fanboy of certain car companies years ago due to the same feeling I get from Apple now. What’s that feeling? It’s the feeling that Apple doesn’t want my money, like they don’t give a **** whether or not they lose me as a customer. Ok, well eventually I’ll get fed up waiting and move on, gonna check out the Pixels as soon as I have time.
What I did years ago was bought a Samsung and used both, iPhone for some things, Android for others, I may do that again.
Yes because spending 1000$ instead of 900$ suddenly makes you a classy adult