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Post by Guillaume86 »

gwd wrote: post #340
baddox wrote: post #302

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People are almost certainly asking for thinner phones. A very small portion of people probably would prefer a thicker phone with a larger battery, but I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people prefer phones that are as thin as possible with enough battery life for an average day's usage, with the option of carrying an external battery pack for the times when more battery life will be necessary. I am…

> People are almost certainly asking for thinner phones. Are they? Almost everyone I know has a case on their phone; and I didn't have one until I bought the iPhone XS, which is over $1k and has glass on both sides . I mean, don't get me wrong; I like the capabilities of the new iPhones. But the current design means that what most people actually use not the slick shiny slimness you see in Apple promotional materials…

This so much, I had to give up going case-less after my Galaxy S2 because of that ridiculous trend of glass backs and generally fragile designs. Designs that are in fact completely useless except for marketing material because almost everyone will need to put a case around them.

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Post by Mobius01 »

jaydouken wrote: post #368
pkrefta wrote: post #41

Year after year of new iPhone's premieres I wonder for how long I'm going to use my iPhone SE - 3,5years has gone and nothing new for me on the horizon :( I don't care about missing jack, USB-C, cameras and other things - just make it smaller and it will fine by me.

How's the SE treating you in 2019? Trying to switch from Pixel to iPhone, but don't want to drop significant money until USB-C, which is rumored in 2020. Figured an SE might be good for me until then

I have an SE running iOS 13 beta and it’s great. Some functionally will of course be disabled , but it feels modern.

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Post by pzo »

evo_9 wrote: post #313
krzyk wrote: post #161

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Xs was incremental improvement, this year people expected more.

While I don't disagree with you I do wonder what more could they offer at this point? What are the missing features that everyone expected/needed? The iPhone is now like Photoshop; it has all the features I've needed and more for at least 3-4 generations now. Maybe a stripped down iPhone with less features, smaller size and (magically) longer/better battery life would be a better angle for Apple to take at this point…

at least usb 3.0 transfer speed for transferring all those gigabytes of movies because pros won't be editing those on a phone. User would also enjoy faster backups and syncs. Computer vision dev would enjoy streaming video feed realtime with low latency and prototyping algorithm on desktop. One generation of iPad Pro already had usb 3.0 even with lightning connector so I don't see a reason not to get it even if we cannot have usb-c yet in iphones. Even raspberry pi 4 has usb 3.0 - spec that has been realeased in 2010.

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Post by willis936 »

colechristensen wrote: post #20

That camera cluster gives me trypophobia vibes. I feel like some sort of robot insect monster is going to hatch and take over my brain. (and/or this iPhone is an infant robot overlord) Another iteration of "why bother" gadgets which is definitely cool but do we all really need one? I expect the fad to break in the next decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

Judging from other responses here I am in the minority, but I like the camera bump design. The triangular geometry makes sense if you want to have all sensors equidistant to a central point. This also may result in some simplifications (or even optimizations) in sensor fusion algorithms. Putting three cameras in a line makes less sense to me.

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Post by stordoff »

mike_d wrote: post #246
acd10j wrote: post #133

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But good for users. We will not generate too much electronic waste. Will save money and when finally when their is actually a time to upgrade due to actual hardware degradation, You can get nice bump in hardware spec.

Very little e-waste is generated by iPhone upgrades. Apple is using 100% recycled materials now, has a trade-in recycling program, and their is a robust resell market for older devices. I'd say the biggest e-waste offender right now is the server market. Enterprises are replacing entire data centers full of servers every 3-4 years because of depreciation and OPEX efficiency upgrades.

> Apple is using 100% recycled materials now

"So far, we’ve identified recycled alternatives for 24 different grades of plastic, allowing us to use an average of 38 percent recycled plastic across 82 components for products released this year."

https://www.apple.com/euro/environment/pdf/a/generic/Apple_E...

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Post by drinchev »

Jeez. Since the last 3 years I re-watch the iPhone 7's keynote and I can say that my phone ( 7 ) is awesome and I can do such an amazing photos... However I haven't done so and I just use it to take a photo of a document to scan it or some stupid poster that I've seen in the subway.

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Post by acqq »

misterprime wrote: post #350
nanoservices wrote: post #171

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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.

iPhone XS Max is 208 grams. Galaxy Note 10+ is 196 grams. I think these are pushing the limit of weight comfort. Bigger batteries are nice, but certainly contribute a lot to the weight. I really liked the 158 grams of the LG V30 back when I had that.

iPhone SE is just 113g. And the battery life is OK, and it has the 3.5mm jack too.

iPhone 11 Pro is whole 188g.

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Post by willis936 »

ihuman wrote: post #341
PopePompus wrote: post #160

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It’s a bad sign when your big event starts with an update to Frogger.

I disagree, I was surprised Konami was making games again. I thought they abandoned video games, in order to focus on pachinco.

An intern’s Unity project presented by a carnival barker who speaks to the audience like their average age is four years old is not a large step out of line of Konami’s expected behavior.

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Post by OrgNet »

gnicholas wrote: post #33

Disappointing that the base configuration of the iPhone 11 Pro has 64 GB of storage. If you're going to call it Pro and talk about how you can shoot professional video, you can't ship it with 64 GB of storage. EDIT: Also, they don't let you jump to 128 GB. You have to go to 256 GB, for $150 more. I can see why they didn't talk about this at the event. People would have booed.

yeah anything less than 512gb should be considered junk and not pro.... because I don't like the cloud. (I am not being sarcastic, those companies are just too greedy..)

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Post by jayflux »

jkestner wrote: post #163
baddox wrote: post #137

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People wouldn’t have booed. This is the same storage pricing as the previous two generations.

People wouldn't have booed because other than journalists, the theater was filled with Apple employees.

People booed 2 years ago when they announced the price and they booed this year when they announced the Mac Pro pricing, You could hear it when they announced that expensive stand so that’s clearly not true.
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