iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max • Hacker News Board

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by qwertox » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #62

gnicholas wrote: post #33

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.

That's just marketing to make sure you buy the more expensive models while base model appears to be somewhat reasonably priced. Usual marketing mindhack.

Yea. It's for the "starting at"-price which can then be set even lower as the more expensive non-pro variants or products from the competition.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by bdcravens » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

sorum wrote: post #159

eddieh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just happy they dropped the stupid 'X' nomenclature. Now they need to rename Xcode to Apple Code or something...

The X was roman numeral 10

Except a ton of people said the letter (since iPhones 3-8 used Arabic numerals), and the "XS" was written together, to make it even more confusing.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by samgranieri » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #72

Stop trying to make "slofie" happen.

hahaha

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by sbuk » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:58 PM UTC

suh_dude wrote: post #9

Seems to be a camera with a phone app

These devices stopped being smart"phones" a while ago. Complaining about the phone not being a major part of these devices (I'm including Android devices too) is missing the wood for the trees.

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Post by laumars » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

kiloatl wrote: post #91

DangerousPie wrote: post #13

I watched the announcement really trying to find an excuse to upgrade. But to be honest there was not a single new feature that I really wanted and that my current iPhone 6S couldn't do. Pity.

I hear you, I upgraded from the 6S to the XS last year. I love both phones, but the 6S was simpler since I didn't need a dongle for headphones. The jump was great for the screen size, but I hate sacrificing the headphones.

Last year I bought some bluetooth earphones (Bose rather than Apple) and honestly I don't miss wired earphones one bit. In fact it surprised me just how much I don't miss wired earphones.

The biggest annoyance for me is that Nintendo's Switch requires a bluetooth dongle to work with bluetooth earphones despite having it's own bluetooth radio built in.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by baddox » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #236

jmull wrote: post #145

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It’s not like 64 GB is useless. A lot of people don’t fill that... why make them buy more than they’ll use?

That explains the lack of a 128GB option… not at all.

If they had a 128GB option you could say the same thing about the lack of a 96GB option. There are hundreds of billions of potential storage sizes in this range. Apple has to be practical and choose some very small selection of storage options.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by masklinn » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #201

dan-robertson wrote: post #74

Perhaps one day they will add enough cameras to make the phone flat again.

I'm impressed at the sheer number of bumps. Pretty much guaranteed to be resting your phone on a camera lens. I wonder if it'll actually sit flat on its back.

They haven't been resting flat on their back since the iphone 6 introduced a camera bump.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:01 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #128

bitL wrote: post #29

Still notch... How long would I need to wait for another top-end notchless iPhone?

I like to see it as the notch just being a big nice screen with additional screen rectangles added on each side. I don't think you find a lot of people who absolutely love the notch, but I like it now.

Yeah I don't really see it as a notch that's intruding on the screen space but rather bonus screen real estate around the sensor cluster. There was never an iPhone that gave you the screen space the notch currently occupies, so it's not like anything was taken away when the notch was introduced.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by paulcarroty » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #33

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.

> If you're going to call it Pro and talk about how you can shoot professional video

If I'll decide to shot professional video, it will be more suitable device like Go Pro or Sony, depends from type.

"Pro" label completely lost his sense today, just ignore it.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by colejohnson66 » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

adossi wrote: post #172

coolspot wrote: post #96

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11 Pro 256GB - $1149 11 Pro 512GB - $1349 11 Pro Max 256GB - $1249 11 Pro Max 512GB - $1449

>11 Pro Max 512GB - $1449 For my fellow Canadians, this is $1,905 CAD before taxes, and about $2,152 after taxes. I think this is the first time I've seen a phone go over $2K, at least in my neck of the woods.

Samsung Galaxy Fold?