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Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Perhaps one day they will add enough cameras to make the phone flat again.

I'd rather they make the back uniform thickness so the camera bump is eliminated. Take the extra space for a larger battery. No one is asking for thinner phones but quite a lot of people would love phones with better battery life.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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post #17

Since it's quite obscure from the product page. Starting prices: - iPhone 11: $699 (64GB) - iPhone 11 Pro: $999 (64GB) - iPhone 11 Pro Max: $1099 (64GB)

11 Pro 256GB - $1149 11 Pro 512GB - $1349 11 Pro Max 256GB - $1249 11 Pro Max 512GB - $1449

>11 Pro Max 512GB - $1449 For my fellow Canadians, this is $1,905 CAD before taxes, and about $2,152 after taxes. I think this is the first time I've seen a phone go over $2K, at least in my neck of the woods.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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Sadly still missing USB-C

Yeah, the entire world is using superior USB-C and charge smartphones directly from laptop cable. Apple users still carry adapters...

Adapters to plugin in iPhones in to Mac Books... Its hilariously incompetent.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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post #32

I had just convinced myself that I could probably deal with the size of the X and then they went and got rid of even that one in favor of something even larger as their smallest offering. Bleh

It's plus 0.3 to 0.5 millimeters to each dimension. The diameter of human hair is about 0.05 to 0.1 mm.

The problem is that you're setting up a bit of a reverse Zeno's paradox. Every iteration gets the "oh, it's hardly noticeable", but at some point it will be. I already find the iPhone 8 to be larger than I'd like, but I've come to terms with the size. The X was noticeably larger than that to me, but I realized that I was going to deal with it. And now it's even larger.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as you have a decent iCloud data subscription, all that 4k video quickly gets whisked away to the cloud. The 64GB on the device effectively houses installed apps and an effective cache of thumbnails and downloaded content. I have the 256 GB config and the needle basically never moves up from about 45 GB.

The problem with keeping it in iCloud is how do you get it all out of iCloud? Say onto Linux, or into another cloud like Dropbox or Google Drive?

Sync to local storage, drag and drop, sync happens to other cloud.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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post #97
post #32

I had just convinced myself that I could probably deal with the size of the X and then they went and got rid of even that one in favor of something even larger as their smallest offering. Bleh

The iPhone X, XS, and 11 Pro are all the same size. They rebranded the awkward middle size from XR to just 11.

Or at least almost the same size. It looks like the 11 Pro is slightly larger than the X, although thanks for pointing this out as I would not have otherwise guessed that.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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post #86

This thread needs to lighten up. The 11 is an incremental improvement - is that so wrong? Who still upgrades their phone every year anyway? I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.

> I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment. That's exactly what's wrong, that users don't feel compelled to upgrade. It's bad for business.

Apple has stated that it is part of their plan to have the longest possible useful life of their devices.

This is good for their business.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I'm quite sad they have removed 3D Touch from the phones. A minor feature I really enjoy with quick peeking — and bummed to lose that touch information for apps like Procreate Pocket and other drawing tools.

I thought it was a pretty good feature although it worked better when it was new and apple were more invested in it.

In particular the three best common uses were moving the cursor for the keyboard, selecting things, and previewing web pages.

1. Felt like they made it slightly worse at some point but still good (though it fails on some websites which try to do weird hacks things)

2. This was great. Selecting things outside the keyboard was broken by a software update a few years ago but the keyboard was still good. (A hidden feature is that if you select a word then press shift, the keyboard recommends capitalising/uppercasing the word. I wish this worked for larger selections, downcasing, quotes and brackets (and I guess ¿? too))

3. Was handy to see what a link had without wasting time (going there then back wasn’t perfect for buggy websites like twitter which break navigation). It also helped unbreak webpages that did weird things with navigation (the pop up was a “new” page which the JS didn’t see as a link click and if you pressed harder then navigation would be successful). It was I think always broken for urls with an anchor (I.e. ending in #foo) and would either not scroll on pop up or lose its place if you opened/new tabbed the page. In a recent version it breaks with high probability by laying out pages with a width of 0 so one cannot see the contents of the page in the pop up.

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