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That a stupid argument, and one that misses the point completely. If you want or need to take a photo, your massive camera setup sitting at home does you no good. The camera sitting in your pocket anyways, however, does.
Well there is a third way: bring the massive camera setup with you where you’re going. ;)
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I'm upgrading my iPhone 13 mini because having switched from a Pixel 4a, the camera performance is just unacceptably bad. It's a testament to how much I like the rest of the iPhone that I didn't just go back to the pixel. I briefly considered carrying the Pixel around just to take pictures.
Huh wow, I have a 13 mini and love the camera. It’s a bit better than my 11 Pro, especially in low light, and I had no complaints about that camera when it was my main phone. What’s not to like about the camera on the 13?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1Pu9ez8sI
Some of these photos are just completely damning for the iPhone.
https://youtu.be/qi1Pu9ez8sI?t=79
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The usual: My account password, two factor auth, account security PIN. Additionally, an SMS is sent to the number that’s being transferred giving a chance to block (with a timeout to auto-approve if the device is lost). I haven’t explored it but I would assume there is also an optional “high security mode” lock — something like requiring account changes to happen in-store with physical ID.
How is having to type into an app your account password, do two factor auth, type account security PIN a better UX then pulling out a physical SIM and putting it into another phone?
The Verge also mentioned that Apple goes overboard when it comes to noise reduction lately with their phones. It becomes really obvious when you compare an iPhone 13 with say a Pixel phone and there have been many complaints about it. Instead it looks like they continued to double down with it on the iPhone 14. It's a shame since they have such good hardware and ruin the pics with their photo processing pipeline.
They have been doing this since iPhone X. Somewhere along the line "Computational Photography" took over. And the old iPhone where they value true to life photo style turns to HDR high contrast smooth looking Instagram photos. I remember the old Apple guards used to trash the Samsung / Android photo as being unrealistic. How the tide has turned. The new Apple resembles very little of the old Apple.
I find that the camera of iPhone 8/X looks better than that of iPhone 7. But iPhone XS looks worse to me due to overprocessing, and every iteration after processes more. :(
I just really like the night mode that computational photography brings in, but in every other area it’s a poison pill we’re forced to swallow.
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Well there is a third way: bring the massive camera setup with you where you’re going. ;)
Lots of places where that infeasible.
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On the note of will it be “noticeably slow in 2024” I have to say you might not even notice. I’m using an iPhone X here in 2022 and honestly other than the battery life being a bit lower than usual, the phone is super snappy, even on these latest iOS releases. It’s basically 5 years old and it’s still doing amazingly well.
I have an X myself and decided to throw the towel this year. I'm out of memory with the 64GB and have to keep pushing 5 years worth of photos and messages out. I also had to replace the battery once already and had to replace the camera (wobbly lens, all of the sudden) too. I had to replace the screen twice (first time under the extended warranty/recall, second time I had to pay; it just becomes unresponsive and you…
I luckily have only had to replace the battery once for a small cost out of warranty. My storage is 256 GB, so that isn’t an issue yet.
I’m going to go look into unresponsive iPhone X displays now cause I feel like I’m having the starting signs of this issue with mine. It’s not a huge issue, as it rarely happens, but I’m curious now.
Sorry to hear your phone is super slow. I have a slew of apps on mine and it behaves rather well for me. shrug
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Huh wow, I have a 13 mini and love the camera. It’s a bit better than my 11 Pro, especially in low light, and I had no complaints about that camera when it was my main phone. What’s not to like about the camera on the 13?
I said I'd try getting my Pixel 4a running again to do a comparison, but I'm feeling lazy and found this video comparing the 5a and the iPhone 13. So it's not exactly the comparison I had been making in my comment, but I think the video demonstrates a lot of the issues I saw between the 4a and iPhone 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1Pu9ez8sI Some of these photos are just completely damning for the iPhone. https…
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I like to use and have my close friends and family use the newest possible iPhones. The reason is that they collect photos and video of each other and in some cases these will be looked at or treasured for years to come. I have a pal who has a baby coming and I reminded him to make sure he gets his iPhone upgrade program replacement done in time. My mom's partner, I ask him to keep his updated because these are photo…
But if you have an iPhone 12 or 13 you don’t need a 14 to capture all those moments. The cameras don’t differ that much and the os archiving and viewing features are the same.
The device is zippier, and the 13 was no slouch. Using a 12 or as other commenter said XS, there are delays and moments get missed waiting for the device.
I contend it makes horse sense to keep people you care about on the newest iPhone. In all liklihood they spend large amount of time using the device anyway, they might as well have the best display and other features as well.
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AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.
Lightning is limited to 53 MB/s by the sheer virtue of being USB 2.0, and probably is even slower in real life, so AirDrop would be at maximum 0.5 MB/s?
I'm also thinking the "100x" was not a genuine mathematical assertion