iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max • Hacker News Board

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by slaymaker1907 » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #65

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…

The 5x (vs 2x) optical zoom will also convince a few to go for the Pro. Isn’t the price difference smaller than previous models too?

I'm by no means a professional photographer, but better zoom is definitely a big selling point.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by iteratethis » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

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.

We've manufactured this from a blend of grade 11 graphite collected from an asteroid and dried oyster tears which you will hide using a $5 cover from Alie Express.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by swyx » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

nabaraz wrote: post #48

I remember people lining up outside apple stores on the pre-order day. What has happened now? Have we seen the peak of smartphones until something new comes along and spur a new super-cycle?

i mean have you tried shipping familiar daily use hardware for 20 years? why the cynicism. this thing needs to be dependable, reliable. not introduce new fashion trend every year.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by tiffanyh » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

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…

Here’s the link you intended:

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-16-pr...

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

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?

> Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced?

I'm frankly happy Cupertino didn't add bullshit features to make it exciting. This is an incremental update. They opened up minor new capabilities, some of which will matter to some people to varying degrees of compellingness.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by flowerlad » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

All I want is for Apple to fix speech recognition in iMessage. Not sure if that’s in this release. They demo’d AI text review and rewrite but not LLM speech recognition.

I currently use ChatGPT for it’s accurate speech recognition then copy/paste into iMessage.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by schmidtleonard » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

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…

This is good but... all I wanted for Christmas was anti-spam that didn't suck donkey balls. Sigh.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by coliveira » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

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 only upgrade every 4 or 5 years, and only because I need more storage after a few years of usage. This time I'll probably "upgrade" to last year's version.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by ericwood » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

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.

I've always wondered about the "most advanced ____ we've ever made" phrase, it seems like almost like a silly tongue in cheek inside joke at this point. Does it date back to Jobs? They've used that exact turn of phrase for every product iteration as long as I can remember but I can't find any info on its origin. Maybe I'm hallucinating this?

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by dagmx » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:16 PM UTC

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?

Video and photography are by far the biggest feature that people buy phones for. Pretty much every phone manufacturer focuses on cameras for that reason.