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Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by ksec »

eclipticplane wrote: post #63

> and the thinnest borders on iPhone. I must be the only consumer who despises the thin edges on my current iPhone 14 pro. I'd like to be able to hold my phone and not randomly trigger edge-sensitive gestures like "scroll to top" (that you can't disable!).

Same here. I dont mind the larger trackpad with smaller edge on the new MacBook, or the thin edge on iPhone, providing they can make the false sensitive trigger at 100% accuracy. Not 99%, or 99.9999%, but infinitely close to 100%. I am not sure even sure if that is possible. But right now it isn't. And the random trigger is annoying enough to side with you on the subject matter.

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by ochoseis »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #122
Night_Thastus wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The regular 15. And 3.0 also supports much faster charging. Maybe most won't care, but I still think it's disgusting and pathetic for a company this size with products this expensive to cheap out by using USB 2.0.

> cheap out by using USB 2.0 Could there have been other tradeoffs? Power consumption, silicon footprint, et cetera . Most people never use USB to transfer data to and from their phones. It would be slightly ridiculous to support 3.0 if it meant tradeoffs in anything practical just so they can say they support a new protocol.

It’s obviously market segmentation.

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by chx »

gruturo wrote: post #2

It looks like the one feature I was more eagerly awaiting is there: It can drive a display through the USB-C cable ( https://www.apple.com/iphone-15-pro , scroll down to "Gigablast your gigabits" and then click on "Explore Connectivity". Looking forward (assuming it will work like the iPad Pro) to not carrying a laptop with me when I know there is a USB-C or HDMI (with an adapter) screen available at my destination.…

edit: nevermind

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by jonplackett »

edandersen wrote: post #116

USB-C supporting writing ProRes video and photo files directly to external storage is something I did not see coming. That's Apple actually undercutting their own storage upgrades... what is going on?

Only for the 0.01% of users who want to do that.

Also, they kinda had to announce _something_ new this phone could do.

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by willseth »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #115
inickt wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Pros do use USB3? Or are you talking about the regular 15? I still agree with you, but unfortunately the vast majority of regular iPhone users aren’t transferring large files over a cable and won’t care.

The regular 15. And 3.0 also supports much faster charging. Maybe most won't care, but I still think it's disgusting and pathetic for a company this size with products this expensive to cheap out by using USB 2.0.

They indicated in the pitch for the Pro that they added logic to the new CPU to drive USB 3 at 10gbps. The non-Pro is using last year's CPU, so while yes I guess that means they did "cheap out", I imagine the cost to include 3.0 on the non-Pro is pretty high and most people don't care.

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by brokencode »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #99

Sticking the 23-year-old USB 2.0 port on a device that is made in 2023 and costs $1k is inexcusable. [non-pro] There is absolutely no excuse when we're talking about a device at this price point and this age. It doesn't matter that it wouldn't be fully exercised by most users. These are premium products at a premium price point. It's insulting that they would cheap out like that.

It makes sense though. The non-pro models are using last year’s A16 SOC without any updates. I assume they’ll get USB 3 next year when the SOC is updated. I’d be much more disappointed if that’s not the case though.

Re: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Post by amluto »

edandersen wrote: post #116

USB-C supporting writing ProRes video and photo files directly to external storage is something I did not see coming. That's Apple actually undercutting their own storage upgrades... what is going on?

If you are recording videos of any length with ProRes, you will rapidly run out or space on even the largest capacity iPhone. So I think Apple is enabling a new use case more than cannibalizing sales of lower storage models.
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