they really don't look different at all, the decision to max/ultra or pro. I usually have the max but for the last few months have had a pro - so I feel i am very use to the Pro now lol.. never thought that would be possible!
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The only things I never liked about my 14PM were the lack of useful camera zoom and the weight/bulk. I'm tempted, but I have never been a yearly upgrader. More like once every three years. So I'm dreaming about what the iPhone 17 PM (or whatever it will be called) will be like.
Yes. 6/Plus was optical image stabilization. 6S/Plus was the same. 7/Plus was the second lens! (7 had one camera/lens, 7 Plus added the telephoto lens.) 12 Pro vs. Max was big - iPhone 12 Pro Max adds a 47% larger sensor and sensor-shift image stabilization to the main camera lens, and replaces the f/2.0 aperture 52 mm telephoto camera lens with a f/2.2 aperture 65 mm lens over the non-Max model.
The bigger model regularly gets better cameras than the "normal size" model. Other vendors have squashed periscope cameras into tiny spaces. Heck, with a periscope, they could do away with needing three lenses - save that space and put in a periscope.
Oh Screw you “_______” (BMW, Ford, Mercedes, Samsung, Tesla, Sony . . . ), for only putting best features on the higher priced premium model. this was my year to upgrade, but I really want the “_________” provided on the “________” model. Maybe next year it will trickle down . . .
I think that USB-C will certainly be welcome. Trying to get 4k video off a phone with Lightning speed (pun intended) is just long outdated. As is doing a backup to local physical media, at least if you have a lot of photos, videos, etc.
I’m looking forward to seeing what camera improvements are coming.
I’m looking forward to seeing what camera improvements are coming.
No, I don’t think there’s much difference in plug-ability and long term reliability. Of course they could use really bad connectors, but that’s not a USB-C inherent problem. I used a Huawei P9 with USB-C for many years and it’s as solid as it was the first day.
One thing I will say - I go through Lightning cables quite a bit. Those non-Apple break down, for me, after a couple of uses, thus I no longer purchase them. The Apple ones also break, after a while. They either break mechanically (as in the connector pops out), or they exfoliate, or they simply stop working.
I have a much better experience with USB-C cables which I use to charge my iPad and my Macbooks, be they Apple branded or generic.
The ports getting loose might be bad luck or maybe a little “too much” connecting and disconnecting and maybe in not a “delicate” way.
I have never had experience with ports (usb, usbc, VGA, HDMI, rs32, joystick, etc.) getting loose in any computer, so, maybe you got a bad lemon.
About fiddling with to connect I think we will have to re-train our muscle memory, but I expect not a huge change. We survived the change from the original huge connector to lighting and now to USBC.
For me the biggest impact is that my car only has USB A and I will have to get a new cable and the planes also have USB A and will need adapter or cables to charge.
In general I think is a good and relevant change IF really the charging and transfer speed increase significantly.
Why? They’ve been at 6GB of RAM for 3 years now. 8GB given the camera upgrades seems reasonable. I’m waffling on colors but most certainly ordering a 15 Pro Max/Ultra on launch day.
They’ve gone back and forth. The 11 XS/11 Pro/13 Pro/14 Pro all had the same exact features across the board between the standard and Max variants.
Apple sells hundreds of millions of iPhones a year, so I think your assertion would be incorrect.
If the “lesser” brand is selling product at a price overlap (which is happening) then the premium brand needs to increase prices to hold on to the “premium” moniker. Otherwise, the lesser brand becomes The premium brand, if customers are willing to pay.
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You are right, and it sold over a billion Lightning iPhones since the switch from the 30-pin connector, which is the point I'm making. Lightning is not going away anytime soon. But I agree my comment could create confusion, so I fixed it. Thanks!
Except they're the same model. One in theory is just a bigger screen. This isn't like comparing a BMW 5-series to a 7-series. It's like comparing the 7-series standard wheelbase to the 7-series long wheelbase, and finding out that only the long wheelbase has heated and ventilated seats. (Although in reality the 7-series is high enough end that of course those are standard.) Or the Ford F-250 short bed to the F-250 long bed. Ford doesn't offer the good infotainment system only on the long bed.
No such expectation on my side, for sure. Right now Apple would offer me, ahem, CHF25 for my 11 Pro (fully functional, not cracked). This is basically nothing in Switzerland. Once they release the 15 range they will update the trade-in values downward, so I guess my 11 Pro will have a less-than-nothing trade-in value.
In any case, I’m planning to keep it as a backup phone.
This is just not true. Which phones as small as the regular Pro (or at least smaller than the Pro Max) have a periscope camera?
USB-C and periscope now, 8GB and improved periscope later.
One loses the ability to have two active eSIMs, and one loses the extra IP protection. Depending on where one purchases it, one may lose bands in use in one's home country.
No.
Having done that many times before I switched to two active eSIMs and two inactive ones that I enable occasionally, I am pretty confident that whatever failed with your SIM, was something that failed with your SIM, not (as you seem to be implying) some conspiracy of AT&T's. I have never had a SIM locked iPhone since my original iPhone (iPhone 3G was purchased unlocked in Australia, iPhone 3GS was purchased unlocked in the UK, iPhone 4 was purchased unlocked in Canada, etc.), and I was never forced to replace my in the way that you described.
You go into an AT&T store and ask for a SIM, they will give you a SIM. I have never seen any evidence that they care one way or another.
If you have two carrier accounts you can use two simultaneously. An iPhone 14 can have up to eight eSIMs stored and 2 active at the same time. If one has one physical SIM, I think the answer is still the same, but it means that one can only switch among the active eSIMs for that slot.
They are trying to remove it from every market. The best way to do that is to remove it from every iPhone sold in markets with mature eSIM support. This encourages those carriers that do not yet support eSIMs to do so, in order to support those iPhones sold with no SIM slot. The more iPhones sold without support for a physical the more pressure on carriers that want to be able to serve those customers to support eSIM.
Like all of these decisions made by Apple, their goal is to push the market in a particular direction. When Apple dropped support for ADB in favor of USB, people said it was too early. Very little USB gear was available, and Windows support for it was totally broken (Bill Gates did a demo of it at CES that crashed on stage). Apple's actions pushed the market and helped establish USB.
Apple's decision with eSIM will have the same impact.
And yet every major phone manufacturer followed Apple's lead and did the same thing despite having at least a year where they had them and Apple did not, creating a head to head test. (This was especially true in the Android world where not every manufacturer dropped the port at the same time.) The market spoke and most people disagree with you.
Most of the third party DACs had a charging port, and people who really cared about audio quality, use/used an external DAC, rather than the mediocre one Apple shipped.
Sorry, not sure how this decision is "pro-environment". I expect at most one or two more generations with any cable port and that means that many people will have to throw out many perfectly good Lightning cables they already have, in order to buy a whole new set of new USB-C cables that are a compatibility nightmare.
Fortunately, no one is forcing you to buy one. You can save your money and wait for some future iPhone update that excites you, or even move to some other manufacturer's phone that you like better.