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Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#81

The framing as if a normal smart phone battery isn't supposed to last a day ... while enabling an unprecedented leap in battery life to easily get through the day

Wait what? That's so Apple, take a standard feature, claim they pioneered/invented it, and then do it wrong.

I purposely shop for big batteries (over 3500mAh) and my current phone lasts up to 2 days 15 hours on a single charge, and the previous one was similar when new

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#82
post #70

Come on, Apple. 13mm, 26mm, and 52mm lenses? Have you even watched people use your phones? They always zoom in (like, 10x). A 3x optical would have been much nicer. 4x and I would have preordered.

Optical zoom and thin form factor doesn't work together too well.

Huawei P30 Pro uses a 'periscope' style design (using a mirror to put the lens alongside the phone's back instead of back-to-front) to get 5x optical zoom, so it can be done

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#83

Disappointing that the base configuration of the iPhone 11 Pro has 64 GB of storage. If you're going to call it Pro and talk about how you can shoot professional video, you can't ship it with 64 GB of storage. EDIT: Also, they don't let you jump to 128 GB. You have to go to 256 GB, for $150 more. I can see why they didn't talk about this at the event. People would have booed.

According to Apple's specs, there is still a 256 GB option.

Sorry, I updated my edit.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#85
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all the reasons not to buy this this one seems a bit silly to me. How is this such a big problem? I have an older iPhone where the camera sticks out as well and I don't even realize it. It has zero effect on day to day use. And if it does cause problems just get a case?

Apple users are finicky and love aesthetics. That's one of Apple's/Ive (before he left) major selling points was simple beauty. A lump on the back is not beautiful, simple, clean or elegant.

This is a huge generalization. Close to half of Americans have iPhones, and most because you know, it has iMessage and their friends have iMessage, or you know, because iPhones are vastly more secure and have vastly better support than their competitors, or because they're meant to be simple/easy to use, etc.

To say half of Americans are finicky and love aesthetics because there's no other reason anyone would buy one is a bit of a stretch.

(I'm probably buying an iPhone this year for the first time ever, and I don't really care how it looks, or how good it's photos are, and I'm definitely putting a case on it.)

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#86
This thread needs to lighten up. The 11 is an incremental improvement - is that so wrong? Who still upgrades their phone every year anyway?

I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#87
post #66
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This is probably the least interesting new iPhone ever released.

They improved every aspect of the phone. Each is a feat of engineering unto itself. What were you hoping for?

You don't need a 2 hour long presentation to give small spec bumps. The problem is that everyone now expects this whole yearly circus, and Apple puts on a show even though they only have very incremental improvements to show. It also doesn't help that most of the the cool software features were already announced at WWDC.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#88

Disappointing that the base configuration of the iPhone 11 Pro has 64 GB of storage. If you're going to call it Pro and talk about how you can shoot professional video, you can't ship it with 64 GB of storage. EDIT: Also, they don't let you jump to 128 GB. You have to go to 256 GB, for $150 more. I can see why they didn't talk about this at the event. People would have booed.

I’m pretty sure they don’t force everyone to shoot lots of multi camera 4K videos just because the model serves their needs in other ways.

About half of the people I help choose phones would be fine with 64 GB, me included. There’s no point making them buy a bunch of flash memory they will never use just to get the better still camera that they want.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#89
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the most underwhelming event

The apple equivalent of 'meeting that should have been an email'.

They could have just merged all the videos together into one long show. The canned scripts were just getting boring.

And, really, you lead off with a Frogger game?

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

#90
Do they list the RAM capacity anywhere? It feels odd not to. (but then it's also a spec where Apple's been decisively beaten in the past, so it makes some sense not to show) I haven't been able to find it on either of the specs pages [0] [1].

0: https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/specs/

1: https://www.apple.com/iphone-11/specs/

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