What was Apple supposed to learn? Is it an object to be used or a museum piece?
Honestly, people.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max The Titanium is a fingerprint magnet
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What was Apple supposed to learn? Is it an object to be used or a museum piece?
Honestly, people.
If it were a museum piece then it wouldn’t be an issue, but it’s an object which is commonly handled with fingers and hands which naturally have oils and dirt. What Apple was supposed to learn is that if they can make the same color not show fingerprints, that’s what they should do.
Are we talking about the same Apple? The Apple that has, for the last 40 years, choose materials, surfaces, and manufacturing methods that are all about appearance and rarely about practicality? Apple chooses surfaces, polishes and methods designed to look amazing for the instant you take it out of the packaging (and let's not get into the over-fussy packaging). It's part of the marketing arc, from announcement, to sales, to purchase, to unpacking. And Apple executes these steps nearly to perfection.
Anything that comes after is subject to debate. Including fingerprints.
EDIT: To be clear, what you suggest is not wrong. But you can look at the design shift from the Intel MBPs to the Apple Silicon MBPs to see what happens when Apple leans away from serving appearances into more practical considerations. My god, the noise about not that the laptops were thicker, but that they looked thicker.
Anything that comes after is subject to debate. Including fingerprints.
EDIT: To be clear, what you suggest is not wrong. But you can look at the design shift from the Intel MBPs to the Apple Silicon MBPs to see what happens when Apple leans away from serving appearances into more practical considerations. My god, the noise about not that the laptops were thicker, but that they looked thicker.
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It appears there is additional coating on the titanium bands, so nobody knows yet how it will behave for cleaning off.
…and the iPhone doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor anymore, so it seems kinda pointless for Apple to enable fingerprints on it.
Except none of the silly whiners here even are using the new iPhones yet. And no doubt some of those silly whiners are probably just trolls who did not even buy a 15.
I am a photog and literally could troll any product by taking macro pix like the OP did then posting and whining. Let's wait for a few weeks of usage and then see if millions of folks like me with caseless 15 Pro Max Natural Titanium phones are complaining about fingerprints.
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Wait and see. I have never in a year felt any need to take a microfiber cloth to my AW Ultra, but YMMV.
When I first glimpsed those preview images, I was puzzled by the button halos on the press samples. Turns out, it was just the pristine areas untouched by fingerprint smudges.
Listen iPhones are part of people’s identities! Point something out that can be perceived as negative is like a personal attack to them!
“The iPhone 15 Pro is not painted, rather it’s treated with a PVD coating for it’s color finish. The ‘discoloration’ shown in the post is not permanent and is due to oils from the hand; The color can be easily restored using a cloth” is what someone said about that photo above.
Someone on Twitter said this “The iPhone 15 Pro is not painted, rather it’s treated with a PVD coating for it’s color finish. The ‘discoloration’ shown in the post is not permanent and is due to oils from the hand; The color can be easily restored using a cloth “
I find the titanium alloy of the Apple Watch Ultra to be superb. And 20 years ago I managed a bunch of TiBooks that generally had no issues with the titanium alloy except for one woman who always wore a heavy gold charm bracelet. After a year of use the TiBook had reacted with her bracelet and was badly discolored where the gold rubbed on the titanium alloy 8 hours every day.
Gotta enjoy your phone. I care more about the internals and operating system. Which is I only use apple products.
Nope
The only new thing wrt India this year is they’ll be supplying some of the 15/15Plus from launch, vs 3-6mos late in prior years.
China also supplies 15/15Pro. Probably in higher numbers.
Nope. Not how speculation works. Seeing is the definition of observation. And it’s obvious from the photo. Plus, there are two photos.
Don’t be daft.
Edit: let me add to that. Speculation is coming to a conclusion without evidence. That’s what folks are doing about the wavy screen. The evidence in my favor is:
1. Apple chose these devices to show as their MODELS of their flagship products.
2. Hundreds of people handled these phones and would have IMMEDIATELY called that out.
3. iphone glass doesn’t bend like that and it’s the same glass as last year.
4. There is one photo clearly showing the reflections and the edge of the titanium straight as an arrow.
5. There is a second photo showing the same thing from a different angle.
Stop your nonsense.
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Do you have the iPhone 15 Pro Max currently in your hands? If not, it's speculation. You're just pretending to know.
Only people who have the iPhone 15 Pro Max can say something about it.
In any case, please stop replying. I will take a look next week in the Apple Store to get a definite answer about this.
Lol whining? I literally posted a photo and said “not a big deal but was hoping they wouldn’t show.”
And for your information I did buy one, not that it even matters or that it’s any business of yours.
Actually we have not all seen the how smudgy they get when handled by several hundred people. All we have seen is macro photos intended to exacerbate fingerprints posted by the OP to troll.
Yes, constantly. You do not?
I use the workout app for an hour every day plus other apps, and I frequently squeeze the watch to press the crown and see the time or go back to the main screen so I can access other complications while in workout mode. Also I use the stopwatch complication a lot and access it by squeezing the watch to press the start button.
That’s interesting. So you’re saying titanium doesn’t smudge like this? Then what are all the photos of? More than one person at the event has commented on this.
It’s amazing what a phone can look like when 9 million people are handling it during an Apple event. This is truly a stupid Twitter post. Also, all phones would look like this if you never wiped them off, which people do.
This obsession with fingerprints is weird. Who cares? Seriously. Maybe wash your hands more and wipe down your phone with a microfiber cloth once in a while.