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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by mig39 »

brookst wrote: post #115
paxys wrote: post #82

Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? Or are people simply upgrading because they get the latest iPhone every year or two by default?

Many families hand devices down. It would be odd for a bachelor to buy every new device every year, but if older devices end up with kids or grandpa it makes perfect sense for the family to buy a new device every year.

Yes, my family practices trickle-down iPhoneconomics. I get the new one every year, because it's a tax thing. I give my old one to my wife, and whichever kid has the oldest phone gets hers.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by jjtheblunt »

minimaxir wrote: post #51

The Pro variant is unusually poorly differentiated from the base model this cycle: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ The 13 Pro had ProMotion, 14 Pro had Dynamic Island and Always On display, the 15 Pro had USB-C and the Action Button, the 16 Pro...has maybe slightly faster AI? 4k120fps video? USB-C w/ USB 3? Not things most people would care about. ProMotion/Always On is still limited to the Pro models which is…

Are you assuming the upgrade 'stride' is 1, whereas perhaps the normal user does not upgrade more often than every 3rd model?

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by mrtksn »

lcnmrn wrote: post #111

More buttons? Since I lost my power button on Pixel 5, I'm using it only with gestures: touch the fingerprint sensor to unlock, swipe down on home screen to lock it. I think a slider on the notification area can be used for volume up and down for a true buttonless experience something Steve Jobs would have loved.

Ironic, isn’t it? when the iPhone first came the most different thing about it was that it had a very few buttons. they were telling stories about how Steve Jobs wanted to remove all the buttons. Now we have more and more buttons.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by crooked-v »

stavros wrote: post #120
rty32 wrote: post #105

> “Powered by the faster, more efficient A18 Pro chip and built for Apple Intelligence, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are the most advanced iPhone models we’ve ever made,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Thanks Greg, that's very helpful information.

Isn't "the most advanced iPhone ever made" a meme by now?

Keynote Bingo: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/g4z9cgmgep7.png

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by foreverobama »

swyx wrote: post #113

i clipped the 5 mins on apple intelligence here for those interested https://x.com/swyx/status/1833231875537850659 notes: - photos/album search now includes video understanding, which imo seems very good from the first 2 examples they showed. includes scroll to exact time of the moment you describe. - Mail and Notifications will show summaries instead of str[:x] - Siri now knows iPhone, becomes the ultimate manual on…

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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

paxys wrote: post #82

Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? Or are people simply upgrading because they get the latest iPhone every year or two by default?

I got the 15 pro because of an offer through my wife's work (it made it ridiculously cheap and seemed like the right opportunity to replace my 3 year old SE), and worried I'd have a bit of FOMO with the 16 a month away from release.

I really don't care. The 15 pro is so much phone, I can't imagine it lasting less than my SE. And frankly I only upgraded due to the limited time opportunity and knowing my son could use my SE due to his 7 being a crumpled lump of broken glass and gnarled aluminum. It's like he skate boards to school on it. RIP little SE, I guess.

I'd like the slightly nicer camera, but the ones on the 15 pro are so good it seems absurd to complain. I actually used this thing for product photos on my store's website, and they turned out remarkably well. It's not PRO level (I'll reproduce all of them with my camera later) but my god, cameras in phones have come a long, long way. We're at a point where I'd be very surprised if iPhone 17 introduces anything interesting.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by minkles »

rty32 wrote: post #105

> “Powered by the faster, more efficient A18 Pro chip and built for Apple Intelligence, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are the most advanced iPhone models we’ve ever made,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Thanks Greg, that's very helpful information.

They’ve run out of useful and interesting stuff to say so they just flatter themselves with amazing progress which is incremental at best.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by lsllc »

souvlakee wrote: post #17

The more I watch, the sadder I get. It seems they've gone in the wrong direction. They have nothing to offer regular phone users, so they're targeting "creative professionals" with fancy features.

Isn't that sort of the point though? I'm a regular phone user, but boy when I was on vacation this year, my iPhone took some fabulous pictures with stunning colors. I'm sure way better than I would with a DSLR (given I have no experience with a DSLR and/or whatever post-processing/editing suites I'd need to go with it).

I totally buy into the "best camera you have is the one in your pocket" concept -- especially if that camera takes amazing photos without me needing to know how.

I do agree on the other features (or lack thereof), in general I only upgrade my iPhone for two reasons:

  1. Newer/better camara
  2. Old iPhone is getting long in the tooth (i.e. battery degradation)
I think the longest I went was maybe 3 years before the battery wouldn't really make it through the day.

I'll take a look at this one and if the camera is compelling enough, maybe upgrade (the 5x optical zoom might just do that for me).

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by gessha »

microtonal wrote: post #87
minimaxir wrote: post #51

The Pro variant is unusually poorly differentiated from the base model this cycle: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ The 13 Pro had ProMotion, 14 Pro had Dynamic Island and Always On display, the 15 Pro had USB-C and the Action Button, the 16 Pro...has maybe slightly faster AI? 4k120fps video? USB-C w/ USB 3? Not things most people would care about. ProMotion/Always On is still limited to the Pro models which is…

For me 60Hz on the base model is now a deal breaker. Even our daughter's 300 Euro A54 has a 120Hz screen (though not LTPO). Once you are used to 120Hz on a touch device, it's hard to go back (different on a relatively static computer screen, where I prefer having the high DPI of 5k 27"). So, it's iPhone Pro models until the base model gets >60Hz too.

You and Apple’s marketing team have come to the same conclusion.

Sent from my iPhone 15 Pro

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