So now, a $1k iPhone comes standard with LiDAR sensors - but Musk still claims they're too expensive and cumbersome to use in self driving vehicles that cost over $40k.
Maybe someone will be eating crow tonight.
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#432OMG, can you imagine all the magnetic stripes on credit cards that will be corrupted by the MagSafe?!?!?
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I really hope that we come back to this comment in 10 years and it's weird that this was ever a concern (like what happened with texting/voice)
Well, I hope so too! But it's in the intermediate stage when things are scarce that the price matters, or rate-limiting/throttling/etc matters. You go to South Korea, and they would laugh to think that the US has monthly bandwidth limits, or is talking about net neutrality. Speed and pipe size take care of all issues some distant day in the future. Yet here we are, living in the past.
For tthe number one economy, the US is weirdly backwards when it comes to technology and infrastructure.
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#434Not using USB-C. Again!
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You realize the lidar distance for a car would be entirely different. It's a way different beast.
The price of a car is 35x the price of a phone. Does the cost of the LIDAR scale up 35x when going from phone distances to car distances? That is an honest question that I don't know the answer to.
You need to look into margins.
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#437What's amazing to me is how little of a difference they have between the regular and pro models: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ It basically boils down to a few relatively minor camera features perhaps except for the addition of a 2x camera (The other differences are Lidar sensor, 60fps HDR recording at vs 30fps, and saving in RAW). It looks like they think that just creating the impression that the pro model…
It's a 4x optical zoom (or 5x in the Max), opposed to NO optical zoom at all in the non-pro version.
It’s 4x zoom range (ultra wide to zoom lens). The regular has 2x zoom range (ultra wide to regular)
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#438Do people still watch these live? I find them really hard to watch. It's about 95% fluff and bullshit and 5% about the technology. I usually just read the bullet summary afterwards.
It's exciting just because video quality is excellent than real live event.
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#439Very impressive technology: With those 4GB per second download speeds I can use up my entire month of data in 250 milliseconds. On a more serious note: what technology advancements will there be in the next 10-20 years that actually make 5G technology useful?
Think AR glasses constantly updating with new 3D data as you walk around town.
E.g. Apple are rumoured to be working on their own AR glasses for release within the next couple of years.
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Yes, my touchscreen is behaving strangely now, and I had a battery replacement along the way, but I also got 4 years out of my SE
Now that you mention it, I got 3 years with my SE today with one battery replacement. It is not holding much charge though.
I’ve had one battery replacement and really need another if I were to keep using this. It’s back in the “degraded performance” mode where the processor throttles peak performance down because if it tried to draw as much power as it wants, the battery can’t keep up and it spontaneously turns off.
Going from this to a 12 may be a bit of a shock, but it’s a modern camera that I’m more excited about than anything else. And having enough RAM to switch between more than two apps without them having to relaunch all the time.