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Re: iPhone 17e

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

array_key_first wrote: post #309
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #234

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Yes and even though you haven’t watched TV in 20 years ((c) Slashdot) people still watch TV. The feigned ignorance on HN that most normal people don’t pull their laptops out to do everything in 2026 is amazing

It's not feigned ignorance, it's disbelief that people are comfortable working in such an inefficient and frankly unpleasant way. Can I file my taxes on my phone? Probably. But I could also set myself on fire, and I think that might be more fun. Why would I not want to use a tool that is 100x faster and 1000x easier to use for any task more complex than writing a sentence? I'm a developer. I've heard of developers SS…

Really? I did file my taxes by phone. It took me all of five minutes.

90% of taxpayers claim the deduction - meaning their taxes are really simple.

I launched TurboTax, it offered to download my and my wife’s W2s, I clicked through a few buttons on a wizard and I was done. It had all of my information from the prior year so it already knew my employer.

As far as speed, have you compared the speed of the fastest iPhone to a low to midrange x86 PC? The latest A series chips in the iPhone are faster in single core performance than an M1 MacBook Air which is no slouch. But all that is besides the point. How fast of a computer do you think you need to file taxes? There was tax filing software for the 1Mhz Apple //e in 1986. You just had to print it out.

I entered maybe one number?

I live in a state without state taxes so I didn’t even have to file states.

FWIW, I also shopped for, did all of the paperwork before closing, for the house we had built in 2016 from my phone.

Re: iPhone 17e

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Post by array_key_first »

DVassallo wrote: post #193
Dylan16807 wrote: post #167

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A technology doodad getting 25% cheaper in real terms over 15-20 years is about as far opposite as you can get from a hefty price drop.

It's also 10000% more capable too.

Sure, but new computers are 100,000x more capable and 1/10th the cost. If we look back far enough, it's 1/100th the cost. We could do better.

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Post by Matheus28 »

alwillis wrote: post #109
paxys wrote: post #74

I'm happy for the existence of the e line mainly because it forces them to bump up the specs on the base iPhone. 17 is so good now that there's very little reason to get the 17 Pro.

Yes, the baseline 17 has almost all of the features of previous Pro models.

Except 120 Hz display I believe, which is big reason for me

Re: iPhone 17e

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Post by BeetleB »

beAbU wrote: post #98

> and double the starting storage at 256GB Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important? I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS. Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-de…

Downloading videos to play without using data. For families on road trips.

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Post by bschwindHN »

thoughtpalette wrote: post #8

Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}

I just "upgraded" to a 13 mini last year, after being on the original SE for so long. Wrote a little post about it here:

https://blog.bschwind.com/2025/01/11/the-original-iphone-se-...

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Post by SingAlong »

danielvaughn wrote: post #61
thoughtpalette wrote: post #8

Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}

People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking about downgrading to the last SE model even though it's several years out of date.

Former small phone person here: I went from a small iphone to a large one just to substitute not having to carry around my ipad. I really wish iphone fold is here sooner.

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Post by wlesieutre »

euroderf wrote: post #294
wlesieutre wrote: post #228

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I think that's it exactly. Hopefully we're not looking forward to "phone that's too big, and unfolds to be even more too big." I can see a large unfolded phone being desirable if it had a stylus and I could use it like a small notebook, but just as a "watch Netflix bigger for $2000" device, no. Especially if it has the worst camera of all of the phone models like the Air does.

You'll want a replacement stylus 10-pak.

Somehow not a problem I have - still have my original 2018 iPad stylus, and I don't lose regular pens either.

Suspect this is a mindset thing if you mostly use 10 cent Bic pens you'll never care to make a habit of keeping them, and then when you're using an expensive gadget pen those habits carry over.

Even a pen that costs a few bucks (Signo UM-151 for instance) I know where they're at.

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Post by deaux »

thoughtpalette wrote: post #8

Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}

> Still holding onto my 13 mini.

That's why they stopped making them, because the people who buy minis are willing to stick with them for 5 years, whereas Apple wants you to buy a new phone every year.

Every single person I know who uses a phone of more than 4 years old, uses an iPhone 13 mini. Without exception. Now I'm sure there's plenty of HNers who use other 4+ year old phones, but I'm talking about non-tech people.

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