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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#111

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#112

I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#114

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

Running not-particularly-useful local models.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#116

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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That’s certainly an iPhone, alright. Apple basically need to release a new model every year to fit the phone upgrade cycle so I suppose it’s not that surprising to see one with so few compelling features. Maybe next year.

> the most advanced camera in an iPhone I mean, I can't remember the last time they DIDN'T say that. Variable aperture is kinda cool I guess. 256Gigs of storage basically means everyone's going to have to upgrade their iCloud storage monthly spend just to back this thing up. I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space.

Camera quality actually topped out a decade ago or so, and now it's become all post-processing trends that define "best".

Not unlike the "Best jacket of the season" being the one that is most fashionable as opposed to the most functional.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#118

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An updated 13 Mini with USB-C and modern chipset would be fantastic . That would get me to upgrade. My hope is that Apple decides the world needs an iPhone Mini once in a while, just not a new one every year.

My contention is every 5 years release a mini spec with hardware bumps. Everyone jumps in and everyone upgrade. It only has the larger size space spec. Rinse and repeat. If you have a "known" or "expected" cycle, people can rely on that.

This has been my hope. Relase one, say "oops no market", and then come back several years later

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

I'm waiting for a software release for my iPhone 16 Pro Max that will let me plug in a dock that has an attached SSD, keyboard, mouse, and display, and an option to pop up on my phone to reboot into MacOS.

Also, if they make a neo 2 from the A19 with 12 GB that'd be cool.

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