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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by dylan604 »

Lucasoato wrote: post #221
drop_star wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space. how do you backup your photos when the phone gets full. I dont have a mac and the process is excruciating. Also the formats get messed up so some photos become unusable. I stopped taking 'live' photos because of this.

There’s this MacOS native application called Image Capture, use it to backup 100GB of photos. I then partitioned the photo by year and 7zipped them with encryption.

You missed the salient details: "I dont have a mac"

Everything you stated to is useless to the person you replied.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by Gigachad »

jaggederest wrote: post #249
Gigachad wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The photos are cryptographically signed in the apple image pipeline so it's not as simple as just AI generating something. That said, I can't see how this is any different to all the other times we have embedded crypto keys in consumer hardware where eventually someone finds a way to extract the key and the whole thing is busted open.

Given the whole private cloud bit, I am assuming they keep the private keys server side and never let them out.

That's a good point, You might still be able to trick the cloud to sign your photos, but that's something they could patch in updates without losing control of the key. They could have the server only sign photos taken on the latest ios version.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by asdff »

epistasis wrote: post #34

I really don't care at all about phone models, I just want software to launch quickly. Waiting 15 seconds for a simple app is just infuriating in this day and age. This is mostly on crappy app developers, but a lot of that falls on Apple for not having a rating system that encourages basic good app behavior. Every bad app that I encounter, which sends advertising notifications, takes a long time to launch, etc. is do…

I try and pick apps based on package size the rare time I look for some app. There are still apps out there made like they were 10 years ago (that probably haven't been updated in 10 years) where the package size is sub 10mb, sometimes sub 1mb. You get an app like that it is performant and will fly on any iphone really, and barely impact battery life in all likelihood.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by robocat »

reaperducer wrote: post #228
millipede wrote: post #102

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well. Since 1984, Apple has targeted regular people, not spec nerds. You're not the market.

Regular people optimise for silly numbers too.

Threadcount, Watts, cubic inches: different products use different misleading measures.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by asdff »

throw1234567891 wrote: post #70
epistasis wrote: post #34

I really don't care at all about phone models, I just want software to launch quickly. Waiting 15 seconds for a simple app is just infuriating in this day and age. This is mostly on crappy app developers, but a lot of that falls on Apple for not having a rating system that encourages basic good app behavior. Every bad app that I encounter, which sends advertising notifications, takes a long time to launch, etc. is do…

Maybe you need a new phone. Or a faster internet connection?

The bigger question is what are these apps doing that they aren't doing 10 years ago that they now need all this extra compute for to serve the same basic functionality? It always amazes me how stuff like instagram just tanks my battery life. It is instagram its basically wgetting image urls same as its always done but it is taking over system resources for reasons...

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by rconti »

brewdad wrote: post #167
ModernMech wrote: post #90

Seems like at this point each year the biggest new feature is a new color.

It works with normies. My wife just preordered an 18 pro. She’s the family photographer and is still on a 128gb iPhone 12, so it’s time for an upgrade and she fell in love with the cherry color. She bought the 12 instead of the more appropriate 12 pro years ago because she loved the purple that she couldn’t get with a 12 pro. Edit:typo

Is it cherry? I see burgandy on the site. Also, preorders begin on the 12th.
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