The 14pro to 15pro went down 19 grams and it was a noticeable improvement. The 15pro to 16pro went back up 12 grams so they knocked out most of that improvement. It would definitely be noticeable to me. What I really don’t understand is the new iPad Pro - thinner and lighter, the new Apple Watch 10 - thinner and lighter, the new iPhone pro - bigger and heavier. It just seems to be a step backwards to me.
They did it so next year will be an even bigger improvement and push you to the “Air” / Ultra or whatever they’ll call it.
Same reason no heatsink in the 15 pros, the SoC % improvement is low so they crippled it with poor thermals and got their 20%+ numbers to throw on a slide for the 16 pro “sustained performance” when in reality it’s only marginally faster, it just has an actual cooling solution.
Apple plans out products years in advance and has done this for decades, iBooks were artificially crippled with external displays for years pre-intel as one example that jumps to mind, but their “no compromise” products used to actually be that, and still are in rare cases like the iPhone X at the time and arguably the iPad 2018, but it is a lot more rare now outside of the occasional Mac.
It’s unfortunate the Windows ecosystem is so terrible, Linux is still a mess if you aren’t technical and/or only use basic computing features, and Android has been shepherded poorly. We’re all stuck in this never-ending cycle and we put up with it because there is no good comparable choice. I’m not giving up iCloud Photos / cloud encryption / notes / messages / media and so forth just because their product decisions are so blatantly anti-consumer, but a small part of me is pretty glad they’re getting their ass handed to them by the EU even if I disagree with some of the details.
I hope sales are below expectations (as they were with Vision Pro) and they make some radical changes internally.
I don’t begrudge anyone upgrading, it’s your money to do with what you want, enjoy your new devices. But $900 phones with 60hz screens from the wealthiest company in the world, poor / forced AI implementation that is obviously designed to keep shareholders happy instead of being implemented for technically sound reasons, and this multi-year we’ll give you
almost enough continually… well, we know why they’re wealthy. And that’s not even getting into the services BS they pull now.
I still like their devices and products but I tolerate them more every year instead of enjoy them. I can’t wait until leadership changes, and I’m not a shareholder anymore so I don’t care if making better decisions costs them some margin, they need to put customers first.
