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Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by sedatk »

whatever1 wrote: post #624

Huge miss to not have touch id in a era of a raging pandemic. I literally have not used the face-id once outside my house since March, because I always use a mask, so I have to type in my password. Which I had to revert to an unsafe 6 digit one from my 12char alphanumeric that I had until March.

FWIW, Face ID started to work for me with a mask on after iOS 14 update. Apparently, it requires a lot of training by failed attempts with a mask before it starts working. It doesn't work if you have your mask all the way up to cover your nose completely, but a little space is enough.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by ihuman »

fomine3 wrote: post #430
tomerico wrote: post #401

What'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 seems that now iPhone 12 uses same housing design as 12 Pro. I think Pro is almost only for camera upgrade (including LIDAR).

The Pro is made from stainless steel, and the regular is made from aluminum.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by shard »

kube-system wrote: post #655
cmckn wrote: post #581

Let’s talk about the return of MagSafe! It seems...kinda dumb. Instead of plugging in a lightning cable, I can now stick a hockey puck to the back of my phone? The “safe” in MagSafe came from its “yankability” without sending your device flying. But if my phone is laying on top of a hockey puck...it’s gonna go flying if I trip on the cable. Why couldn’t we fill in the lightning port and use flush surface contacts, li…

My phone always slides off the center of my wireless charger in my car and it stops charging without me noticing -- I would love to have this feature there.

I have a wireless charger in the car, which has clasps to hold the phone. It has never misaligned. This simpler solution seems preferable to the more complex MagSafe solution.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by manigandham »

q3k wrote: post #714
samatman wrote: post #705

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Sure is. Problem is that Apple just isn't nimble enough to do anything about it. Everything important about these phones was set in place before there was a pandemic.

There's nothing forcing them to release new phones now instead of delaying and releasing a better product.

10s of billions in profit is forcing them.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by plorkyeran »

agumonkey wrote: post #443
forrestthewoods wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple resisted phablets for years. When they finally released their first “plus” sized phone sales were through the roof. In absolute numbers there’s a good market for “mini” (or smaller) phones. But relatively speaking it’s a niche. The market has spoken! But fortunately the market is literally billions of smartphone users so there’s a lot of room for variety.

I think the phablet thing was a fad, people were happy to see more but I've heard a lot of people say they miss tiny too now that they've tried.

Many of the devices originally called phablets are small by today's standards. The iPhone 12 mini would have been called one ten years ago.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by person_of_color »

spacedcowboy wrote: post #608
Shivetya wrote: post #145

Odd note,the amount of wealth on display in their demonstration home was astounding. Then again just the amount displayed across portions of the Apple campus and the cost to create such an event. The Western world talk about distribution of wealth among the wealthiest and poorest people always tend to overlook how the people of the Western world of are of the first category and those in the later see no difference in…

That home looked to be about 2x the size of my own, in SCV. My home is ~$1.5M, so let's say it's a $3M home. You'd expect some level of sophisticated furnishing in a $3M home...

Do you work for FAANG?

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by torgian »

Honestly I’m a little torn between the Mini and the Pro models, simply because of LiDAR. I kind of want to experiment with that and potentially make an app utilizing that. But I honesty can’t think of something that Apple hasn’t already includeD.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by csmiller »

Spivak wrote: post #189
john_minsk wrote: post #166

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True. MagSafe is what got me. Apple is genius in how they keep pushing accessories part of the ecosystem.

They must be really confident with their drop protection because I don't know a single person who doesn't have their phone in a case.

I never use cases, I hate how dirt gets in the gap between the phone and the case.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by xyst »

pier25 wrote: post #666
xyst wrote: post #663

Can we talk about the hypocrisy of the recycling segment given that Apple is a known adversary of the “right to repair” bill? All of this “net-zero” talk yet they have a system in place that makes it prohibitively expensive to repair slightly damaged devices (ie, bad battery) out of warranty. So, consumers are left to live with the problem, pay for the cost of the repair which ends up costing about 1/2 to 3/4 of a ne…

That was my thought as well. Also let's not forget about the 100k functional devices Apple sent to recycling and wanted to remove from the second-hand market. https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/01/apple-catches-electronics-rec... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24663718

I’m torn in this case. On one hand, Apple is in the right because that company was hired to do a job but ended up doing something completely different. But on the flip side, if the phones were functional at the time of receiving the phones and required none to minimal repair, then shame on Apple.

This whole fiasco reminds me of the O&G industry and the manufacture of plastics. It’s much cheaper to create and sell “virgin plastics” rather than trying to recycle the existing plastic.

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