I’m sorry but who watches video on a 6 inch phone today?
Given smartphone is a primary and mostly only computer for most people, I'd say - majority of population.
Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
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Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
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Talking about how expensive the phones have become lately, the max out specs on new iPhone 13 Pro Max costs $1,600 and if you add taxes it would be $1,760!
Your 10% sales tax is robbery. Where is that ?
According to https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/sales-tax-rate?con..., out of G20 countries, 16 have sales tax rates greater than or equal to 10%. This seems to only counts national sales tax, since it lists 5% for Canada, but about 85% of Canadians live in areas with more than 10% total sales tax.
Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
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I don't want to question wether Apple's work on battery management is better than Google's, but want to outline the meta of such statements. In general, I don't think it's good to compare a new bought device with the device you are replacing, since the old device is probably a couple of years old. So the specs of the old one must be worse than the specs of the new one. Another example would be Tesla buyers who are re…
I had a similar experience and what it seems like is that Apple devices have pretty amazing standby time as compared to most android devices I have used. This has probably gotten better over the years but when I got my first iPhone it seemed like the battery didn't budge at all if it was in standby, such as leaving it unplugged overnight. I never had the experience with an android device.
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Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
#105Those numbers are meaningless if we don't have the benchmark specification. And Apple really love to throw numbers like this with no context (but hey, it work, so why stop).
Year after year, real world tests show that Apple’s battery estimates err on the conservative side. Enough that we should stop seeing comments like this and yet here we are. What is meaningless is raw specs on their own. Your massive phone battery is useless if you’re using it to power a 1000W space heater.
While the real world tests after release essentially always bear out Apple’s battery life and performance estimates as reasonable and fairly typical, I don’t fault anyone for generally holding product claims with skepticism. Apple is somewhat unique in reporting these values honestly.
Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
#106Surprised they went with 13. It still has a negative connotation around the world. Especially among people willing to buy an iPhone.
Folks are calling the 13 an "S" tier phone(ala iPhone 5 -> iPhone 5S) disguised as a new device. Apple decided to take the 12S design and call it the 13 for a two key reasons. 1.) they can get the unlucky number out of the way and save their big new design paradigm for 14. 2.) due to supply chain issues, it is more feasible to source the iPhone 12-esque parts for the next year. Normally they would release an S versio…
Is it such a big deal with numbers? I mean, yeah, maybe some teenage girl with an astrological sign in her bio will be mad, but anyway, do people really care?
Well, while I was replying, I just remembered that Chinese companies usually skip 4 in their models because it's an "unlucky number."
Maybe you're right. Still, it's a funny thing if it's true.
Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
#107In general, I moved from Android to iPhone a couple of years ago and must say the battery on iPhone lasts so long compared to my old Android phone that there's no comparison really. Apple's work on iPhone battery management is impressive!
It really depends on what phone you had and how old it was when you switched.
Most of my friends are very surprised when I mention that my Android phone lasts more than 2 days on a single charge; their iPhone barely lasts a day. If they switched they'd come to the same realisation as you did but with phones reversed. If they upgraded to the latest iPhone I am sure they'd also be pleasantly surprised.
I think something that has happened in the last 2-3 years is that the average phone has gone from 'full day battery' on purchase to '2-3 day battery' and there has not really been much marketing around that fact (or at least as far as I can see), so people on older models don't quite realise what they're missing (and are of course also suffering from battery degradation).
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I'll be carrying my charger with me. These numbers are great on paper, and sure they can reflect the overall trend of higher battery life, but are not examples of real world results. I wouldn't be surprised if these results are on airplane mode with the brightness locked to the lowest setting and the volume off with no Bluetooth accessories. The title says "video streaming battery life" however the website actually s…
Yeah I think in terms of battery health you don't want to be doing that either, starting the day full and having it discharge all day until its mostly tapped by the end. I had a 2020 intel macbook and while it wasnt the 24 hours the m1s get, apple claimed it was good for 12 hours so I decided it would be fine to use for my 8 hour workday without a charger. After a year and like 230 battery cycles of doing that, the b…
The other way around is problematic as well. A friend of mine had a 2018 15” MacBook and had to get it repaired under warranty because the battery swelled up and made the trackpad stop working correctly. The “Genius” at the Apple store said it was because he always left it plugged in, and that the problem is fairly common. Apple has recently started allowing MacBooks that are plugged in long term to hover at around 90% battery instead of always keeping it topped up presumably for this reason.
Re: Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)
#109Surprised they went with 13. It still has a negative connotation around the world. Especially among people willing to buy an iPhone.
should've called it the iphone (lambda f: f(f))(lambda y: lambda f: f(lambda n: y(y)(f)(n)))(lambda f: lambda n: f(n-1) + f(n-2) if n > 2 else 1)(7)
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They did say during the conference that the new chip had a new video encoder/decider, so that sounds plausible.
Maybe just more efficient since the A14 already had AV1 and HEVC support. https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/igpu-apple_a14-180
The cinematic mode is done by recording a depth map (calculated using the ISP and Neural Engine?) alongside the regular video. On older phones you could do this using the SDK, but iirc it was a much lower resolution depth map (like 480p or less?).
Given that they've also added ProRes encode/decode, it's likely fair to assume that they've redone the entire codec hardware.
So yeah, this is my long-winded way of agreeing with you that it is indeed more efficient.