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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by bilekas »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #208
bilekas wrote: post #109

> A huge leap forward for iPhone with a gorgeous new design I do like iPhone, I actually have a personal one and work provide me with one too, I like their security aspects. But can how can they say with a straigh face this is a new design ?

Many people claim they are a few inches taller and 30lbs lighter than they are with a straight face all the time. Claiming a device has a new design when it actually has a few different design elements does not seem like too much of a stretch, for an advertisement.

> Claiming a device a new design when it actually has a few different design elements does not seem like too much of a stretch, for an advertisement

I don't personally see the new design. This is Apple, king of "design" and the designers/creatives go to company (for good reason) but this is not a new design. This is a, moderate at best, alteration. I'm also not saying it has been a bad design, it's just not new, even for them.

Maybe it's the advertising world that is tilting me more and more in my later years.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by kaba0 »

bambax wrote: post #151

> USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables Bought a Motorola G6 in 2018 for €199. It takes "fantastic" photos, and came in a "stunning new" (!?) color of black(ish). It's pretty much indestructible, runs Firefox with uBlock Origin, and it's "better for the environment" because every year you don't buy a new phone, the environment is happy. It also has USB-C, and a 3.5 jack.

Then buy a used iphone, which will not be made obsolete a year later due to lack of software updates, but continue to get new ones for 8 years and actually has the hardware capabilities to drive it for that long.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by pzo »

Do yourself a favour and just buy a magnetic adapter + cable such as Baseus magnetic zinc [1]

You will:

- save money to buy new phone (cable costs just ~10$)

- it's magnetic so even more convenient to use

- magnetic adapter protects connector from dust getting inside or getting broken

- you use the same cable with adapters for usb-c, lightning and micro-usb to charge different gadgets (even older airpods pro)

- at least baseus cable supports both fast charging (20W) and data transfer (usb 2.0)

If cable brakes (at it did brake for me after ~1 year of use) you just buy new one for 10$ instead of new phone for 1000$. Keeping old phone is the most environmentally friendly option.

non-pro iphone 15 usb-c is still just 2.0 speed and most likely doesn't support usb-otg

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Baseus-Magnetic-Multipurpose-Retractab...

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by clord »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #105
gnicholas wrote: post #26

IMO, this was a pretty weak announcement. They spent so long talking about environmental stuff, like getting rid of leather, that it felt like they were trying to pad the presentation to reach a reasonable length. There were a few new things (more optical zoom, slightly smaller bezels), but these were all leaked in advance. I was also disappointed to hear that the satellite stuff is limited to 2 years. Is it going to…

I didn't see the announcement, but I saw this blurb on Engadget: > The company noted that while leather is popular for things like watch straps, it has a serious impact on the environment, particularly at Apple's scale. Is that actually true? I remember reading a few years ago that there was actually a big glut of leather: people still eat steak and hamburgers, and without a market for the cow hides then that materia…

you're right, this is greenwashing. I sell into the market sometimes and the hides are basically wasted unless you try hard to line up buyers. plus, if your beef is grass fed for its whole life like ours, it's carbon neutral, as all the carbon that goes into the animal came from the atmosphere. It's true that factory-raised beef is bad for the environment though, as they eat grains that are fertilized from oil via Haber–Bosch. It's also true that tanning uses lots of nasty stuff, but there is vegetable tanning which works well and sourced from nuts and stuff.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by Workaccount2 »

newaccount74 wrote: post #87
flippy_flops wrote: post #45

I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I missing?

I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT. They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.

Siri, now powered by Speech Synthesis Engine™.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by saiya-jin »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #190
bambax wrote: post #151

> USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables Bought a Motorola G6 in 2018 for €199. It takes "fantastic" photos, and came in a "stunning new" (!?) color of black(ish). It's pretty much indestructible, runs Firefox with uBlock Origin, and it's "better for the environment" because every year you don't buy a new phone, the environment is happy. It also has USB-C, and a 3.5 jack.

Android is notorious for aging out phones much faster than Apple. You could use 8+ year old phones with the latest security updates up until very recently.

By far the biggest intrusion window these days is your browser. Latest firefox with ublock origin is simply the safest of them all, saving bandwidth, blocking youtube ads, saving battery, your eyes and so on.

Plus, currently plenty of androids have 5-6 years of guaranteed security updates. To be honest I wouldnt ever want to use much older phones even if patched up to date, too clunky, making bad photos (I have kids so this is top priority), not up to most network standards and so on

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by brotherhoodZero »

I may be an odd on out here, but I'm not a fan of the move to USB-C. I don't care about data speeds or charging speeds. I don't even care about durability of the cable as they can be replaced. I care about durability of the charging port on the device and every USB-C device I've ever owned has become "loose" over time. This includes my iPad Mini, so I don't believe Apples has found a solution to this.

Meanwhile, I may have had to replace cables for my older iPhone, but those cables are still solidly in place when I insert them.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by stratom »

esotericsean wrote: post #179

Curious what other devices people have that use USB-C? The only one I have is my Nintendo Switch. So for me, this is mostly an inconvenience having to get new cables for my phone. I'll miss Lightning.

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