Exactly the opposite. They now have hardware Ray Tracing in a phone. That bodes well for M3.
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Apple Announces iPhone 15 Pro With Titanium Design, USB-C Port, Action Button, A17 Pro Chip, and More
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They explicitly mentioned 3nm, a completely new micro architecture (that’s big news even in its own), and a completely new GPU architecture, hardware Ray Tracing, etc.
I don’t know how you missed all that, but without that knowledge I can see how it would appear underwhelming. I for one am not in the market for a new phone, but these changes mean BIG things for the Macs…
180mm or higher is a bit too much for portraits, which is what they showed off the most. 85mm-135mm are classic focal lengths for prime lens portraits. 120mm is a good call.
I am seriously considering a 15 Pro because I am still on an 8 Plus and it would be a huge upgrade for me.
The TiBooks were sort of a brown-colored gray IIRC. Personally I am hoping for more of a gray-colored gray for the 15 Pros.
Why are 14 Pro Max owners surprised/upset that this is yet another incremental upgrade? It's been this way for years now. You're actually upset that you don't have to shell out another $1000? Why are people still expecting revolutionary changes in only a years time?
Honestly I didn't expect them to use Thunderbolt and I thought it was really far fetched for anybody to suggest it. USB 3 is pretty good, we could have gotten USB 2 speeds, and knowing Apple, they'd say "most advanced, best, sugar on top ever" for pigeon carrier data rates.
I'd be happy with 10Gbps backups and sync.
Brown colored gray from my perspective is a old fashion color. Reminds me to my grandma. I like her but…
The closer pics look like a grey colored grey. If it’s like that, it’s my color.
Totally underwhelmed, will wait for 14 Pro’s to become available on the refurbished list.
This is literally the lamest iPhone pro model ever released. Hardly any updates. So underwhelming.
Lightning is physically smaller and more robust. It has a positive locking feature, and no little plastic tabs that could collect dust/dirt/lint in your pocket.
I don't think these spacial videos are going to be very good. If you see how close the two cameras are they will be filming almost the same thing except for subjects that are very close to the phone. It would make much more sense for there to be a camera on each end of the phone and there is enough length to have them about as far apart as our eyes are and the result would be more natural and pick up depth of subjects further away. There may also be compromises with how they have to merge the two different focal length cameras.
A lot of very weirdly salty people in here
Was the "natural" color known before as a leak? I dont remember seeing anything like it (cant tell if its more gold or beigh?)
This doesn’t change the fact that it will probably be a barely compressed double stream of video. Probably 4K at 60fps as well. Also the 3DS took videos with a decent amount of depth with a similar camera distance.
Zollotech said one of the colors would be raw titanium last week and he mostly goes off of MR posts, so it must have come up at some point.
The only Pro feature I use is ProMotion. After using it for a year, I almost get dizzy with I try scrolling on my wife's 14 Plus. I guess I'll get another Pro this year, but as soon as the base model gets 120hz I'll never buy a Pro again.
I skipped the 14 and held onto my 13 pro max. Seeing the announcement today, I have zero regrets getting the Pixel Fold instead of the 15 pro max.
Since my first iPhone 3G, this is the first time I've skipped 2 generations (most of the time have upgraded every year). Some of the updates today were nice, but the iPhone is very mature now and upgrades simply are no longer very attractive.
Since my first iPhone 3G, this is the first time I've skipped 2 generations (most of the time have upgraded every year). Some of the updates today were nice, but the iPhone is very mature now and upgrades simply are no longer very attractive.
It’s a good update for people who live on their phone.
Materials used are environmentally friendly not as toxic as PVC where the cheaper cables used. Blame physics and the human body for giving you a weak cable. Either that or blame yourself for continuing to buy Apple cables where the third party manufacturers are using more durable and toxic PVC materials.
Higher price? I always get the 256gb pro max - so in actuality - there was no price bump - Apple was able to increase revenue by dropping the 128gb model and since memory is so darned cheap - maybe $3 bucks for the extra 128gb - they were able to make most of the buyers worried about a price increase - pretty happy there isn't one. Effectively.
These are the ugliest colours yet on the Pros, all so manly! I was due to upgrade from my 13 Pro to the 15 Pro but jumped to the 14 Pro just last month, I really wanted that Deep Purple. None of the new tech features of the 15 Pro appeal to me (couldn’t care less about USB-C), so it looks like I made the right choice for me.