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Post by giancarlostoro »

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.

I agree. I've been an Android user since 2009 iirc and never owned and iPhone, I am going to buy an iPhone as my next phone due to all the shenanigans Google is doing. Every damn Android phone I've bought lately has Facebook preinstalled, theres other things, but I'm done with it all.

The one thing that kills me about iPhones is the miniscule amount of storage I get. I dont want all my things in the cloud, the cloud is useless to me without access to internet. The cloud is only useful for long-term backup storage if anything.

My phone comes with 64GB and I'm using 58 of that data, I popped in a 64GB SIM card and I'm only using 12 probably cause I filled it up before and wanted to have room for more photos and stuff. I may well buy an iPhone but I want more storage space out of the box, not some cloud solution. It also annoys me that the Macbook Air starts out at 128GB, that gets eaten up so quickly as a developer.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by bredren »

clairity wrote: post #382
jl6 wrote: post #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.

but this really was the least exciting iphone keynote ever, which was totally expected, but still disappointing. none of the more interesting rumors came about, like ultra-wideband positioning * and apple tags. apple product cycles have lengthened, so this was inevitably going to be a lower-the-base-price and harvest-the-late-adopters year for the notch model era. i think apple may even keep the same style next year…

Those tags are going to be a really big deal. I think they may have even upstaged the iPhone if announced today.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by aledalgrande »

ihuman wrote: post #341
PopePompus wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a bad sign when your big event starts with an update to Frogger.

I disagree, I was surprised Konami was making games again. I thought they abandoned video games, in order to focus on pachinco.

I thought they axed Kojima it was exactly because they were focusing on cheaper, more profitable mobile games.

https://www.polygon.com/2015/12/16/10220356/hideo-kojima-kon...

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Post by localhost »

BubRoss wrote: post #348
Swizec wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pro photographers that make bank by being instagram influencers will be all over the iPhone Pro. This will completely upend the vlogging industry too. I vlog with a DSLR and even with an iPhone X most people can’t tell when I use footage from that (running with a dslr is hard, for example). iPhone Pro likely makes better video than my T6i Rebel in many situations. Depth of field is usually where DSLRs shine

Why? Why wouldn't anyone with more than a passing interest in photography buy a dedicated camera for much less money that will work much better?

Compared to most new mirrorless or DSLR cameras, an iPhone is cheaper. A mirrorless or DSLR camera may have better sensor and optics (if you buy the right glass) BUT the computational capabilities of the phone far outstrip the computational capabilities of the camera.

I find that modern phones are better than traditional cameras a) by nailing exposure more consistently in tricky lighting conditions, b) having a far better display for proofing your shots, and c) can use computational photography tricks to create great HDR photos.

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Post by RandallBrown »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #404
RubberShoes wrote: post #375

Apple knew it back in 2017 and as each year progresses it’s becoming increasingly clear we have exited the innovation phase and are well into the saturated/sustained phone market. We will never see an iPhone announcement quite like the first 5 and the X. Short of a form factor change, our phones will last longer and the new phone feature list will decrease year over year. Also - the Pros are thicker, heavier, and sli…

People have complained for years about battery life. So Apple finally increases the battery slightly, and now I see people complaining about the weight. I understand now why Apple has resisted this for so long. All Apple phones are too thin, too slippery, and too light. I want my Treo back! At least give me the curved 3GS again.

Apple has increased battery life every year since the original was released haven't they?

This year is a 4 hour increase, which is actually pretty huge.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by dartdartdart1 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #461
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.

I agree. I've been an Android user since 2009 iirc and never owned and iPhone, I am going to buy an iPhone as my next phone due to all the shenanigans Google is doing. Every damn Android phone I've bought lately has Facebook preinstalled, theres other things, but I'm done with it all. The one thing that kills me about iPhones is the miniscule amount of storage I get. I dont want all my things in the cloud, the cloud…

Pixel phones don't have facebook preinstalled

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Post by subpixel »

baq wrote: post #298
jl6 wrote: post #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.

inherited 6s reporting in, have exactly 0 reasons to upgrade.

I also have a 6s and am going to start watching for X-series iPhones on Swappa, mainly as a camera upgrade. My wife has an XS and her kid photos are a good bit better.

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Post by tpmx »

vbezhenar wrote: post #355
Someone1234 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a hidden feature that Apple struggled to communicate (and was hard to describe without physically trying it) was always going to be problematic. How do you train users? What is the discoverability? It was a legitimate problem when most of your user-base aren't tech nerds and most people aren't reading the manual/help guides. So you implement an app feature via 3D Touch and users just assume that feature doesn'…

How do you train users about mouse right button?

By implementing it at the beginning of a UX paradigm cycle when the numbers of users are small, curious and in learning mode. Like how right-clicking was introduced when the number of Windows users was like 1/1000 of the number of the peak number of Windows users.

You don't implement it during/after peaking of said cycle. That's some crazy level of delusion/arrogance. Turns out not even Apple can do pull that stunt.

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