Unless you're actually planning to shoot a movie on it there doesn't seem to be a lot of need for the Pro. I guess if you really want more battery life it may be worth it, but I'm thinking almost everybody is going to go with the 11 and its already probably overkill cameras. There's just not much to justify spending the extra hundreds of dollars on the Pro model.
iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
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Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
#312This 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.
Xs was incremental improvement, this year people expected more.
I think anybody paying attention knew that next years model is where they’re adding 5G and a new design.
Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
#313This 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.
Xs was incremental improvement, this year people expected more.
While I don't disagree with you I do wonder what more could they offer at this point? What are the missing features that everyone expected/needed?
The iPhone is now like Photoshop; it has all the features I've needed and more for at least 3-4 generations now.
Maybe a stripped down iPhone with less features, smaller size and (magically) longer/better battery life would be a better angle for Apple to take at this point?
Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
#314This 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.
You shouldn't fill an auditorium full of journos and tech bloggers to announce minor iterations of existing products.
It is quite aggressive of apple to physically force all those people to fill that auditorium against their will, isn't it
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Still on 6s. Battery life is my reason to upgrade. I'm at 3.5hrs browsing, 14hrs standby on a replacement battery <1yr old.
Mine has been great since I got it changed under the replacement program last year. Usually around 60-70% when I get home from work.
That’s what I did too - it’s at 54% right now, 5 hours after waking. Maybe I got a dud battery.
Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
#316This 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.
inherited 6s reporting in, have exactly 0 reasons to upgrade.
Still got that 3.5mm jack too!
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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
Yeah that may have been what they intended, but everyone I know, including people who work retail selling the phones, calls it an "excess Max".
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I'd rather they make the back uniform thickness so the camera bump is eliminated. Take the extra space for a larger battery. No one is asking for thinner phones but quite a lot of people would love phones with better battery life.
While I agree with you and felt the same way as you, I found that it wasn't as big an issue once I bought a case for the phone. Once you put a case on the phone the camera bump completely disappears. I dont know what percentage of iPhone users go case-less with their phones, but I haven't seen one being used without a case.. and I have been actively looking for them. I say this as a person who used to go case-less wi…
I have never used a case and never will (just don’t like the bulk they add). I do use an edge-to-edge screen protector on my XS max and keep the phone face down so the camera lenses don’t get scratched or smudged.
Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
#319I only hope they keep the iPhone 6s/7/8 form factor. I've just bought a 6s the other month and enjoy its compactness and adequateness after my state-of-the-art, super-heavy Samsung S8 turned out not robust and mobile enough for my use :(
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If you don’t want a camera upgrade every 2 years then there is zero reason to upgrade. But the camera upgrades alone are usually worth it.
It's subjective, but cameras are already so good that it hardly makes a difference.
If you have kids, better low light photography is extremely valuable. Many moments with kids are indoors and lighting indoors is usually terrible.