Can suport that. I've had a Plus for three weeks now and couldn't be happier with he battery life. Given I don't game or watch a ton of videos on it, the battery life is near phenomenal. Don't fool yourself, it's powered by an A18 chip so it's fast.
Maybe in USA but a Pro Max is 2000$ + in Canada and the Plus 1280$. So my choice was abvious to me. Don't need the bells and whistles of the Pro Max. I'm not the type who basks in having the max in everything. Like a F150 for shopping at Walmart a few blocks away or living in 4 storey home with dual garage when you're a family of three. I'd say time to assess one's real needs unless you have the means to pay for everything that is the biggest and the most expensive just for the fun of it. My "little" 10 cents.
It’s only $2000 plus if you add more storage and like I mentioned a refurbished 15 pro max is around the same price as the 16 plus. You get the more features for the same price. Obviously do whatever works best for you, I just think it makes more sense to get the better phone for the same price.
I lived in Canada for a while and yes, electronics are typically more expensive than the U.S. I think much of it has to do with the exchange rate for U.S. based products. Higher taxes too, but then more and better social services. Though I remember parity many years ago.
Vast majority of US bound iphones are made in India now. India started trade talks with US very early, so didn’t get a letter. Expected tariffs sound like they’ll be the lowest, but since there is no real strategy to the tariffs, who knows what’ll happen if Trump doesn’t like the deal his guys negotiate.
Ya I’m sure Tim Cook is drying his tears with hundred dollar bill toilet paper.
Sir, I think too. But it seems like "Should go for the Pro Max" be the usual answer, the most frequent and unequivocal. As if an iPhone buyer wherever he is located has to buy a Pro Max whatever his needs, his finances and his tastes. Lets's say I'm a bit fed up with what appears to me like a pre-digested answer. I've become to see it as "if you're wise and intelligent and savvy, you will go for the Pro Max. Everything else is "under" and useless and cheap and moron. I watch enough Apple forums to think that is the case.
I just bought a new iPhone 16 Plus upgrading from my iPhone 12. It's been fantastic and I'm really enjoying the additional screen real estate. TBH the reason I pulled the plug now was the announcement of the Air.. that phone is not geared towards me. 1) I don't need the pro features 2) I need a big screen 3) I don't want to sacrifice #2 for a thin design and a smaller battery. I say do it!
That's exactly my thinking too. The Air as the 16 Plus replacement doesn't do it for me either. I just need a larger display but with the same features, functions, and capabilities of the standard 16 (or 17 if Apple had offered that). Glad it worked out well for you.
I can’t fathom why Apple did the 16e or will drop the 17 plus in favor of the single camera air, nor why they gave up the mini. I’m sure they do marketing studies, but it doesn’t seem to match my own gut feel or what I hear on the street!
