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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by crossroadsguy »

gcanyon wrote: post #269

If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone": - I almost never hold my phone to my ear - I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones - Standby battery life seems up to the challenge - Apple doesn't offer the iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now. If I'm going bigger, why not actually go BIGger. Things holding me back: - Not actually sure about the battery life - A…

> dual-lens features of the new iPhones

Dual? I guess some of the iPhone 16 models might have 7-8 of them by now. (I have not checked the whole 16 lineup yet, they have not bumped up the lens count, or have they?). My old 14 has 2 though. Yup, just checked - it's two. I guess it must be like two plane engines. If one is broken the other will work (I also guess/hope that's how plane engines work).

> iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now

I tried. The battery was atrocious. To make the battery last till early or kinda late evening I had to actively not use the phone, so I finally gave in and moved to the smallest iPhablet i.e iPhone 14 at that time (actually there was 15 as well but I guess the only difference for me between the two was the price difference). It's been said iPhone Mini 13 was the last of the small phone lineage and there will be no more.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by nsonha »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #391
Tagbert wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bezels are useful for devices that you can’t just hold in the flat of your hand. Provides a place to hold on to. Also, this is an LCD screen. The substrate is rigid. An OLED, like on the iPhone is on a flexible substrate and can be bent at the edges to connect to the circuit board. That lets you put the screen closer to the edge.

I have had phones and tablets with IPS displays with way thinner bezels so that argument is void.

Which argument? Pretty obvious the bezel is that way for usability (so you can hold the device). That other devices exist with thin bezel does not prove anything.

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Post by infecto »

pmcjones wrote: post #280
herpdyderp wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I could do this but I have yet to find a good Apple Watch replacement for owning and syncing music (rather than streaming it)

You can sync your own MP3s using iTunes Match -- it's about $25/year. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935

Incredible. I never heard of this paid feature before.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by crossroadsguy »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #60
throwaway48476 wrote: post #17

It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.

Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.

My next self-purchased laptop is also going to be one that is not a Mac and buying a 2-3 year extended warranty wouldn't cost half or one third of its price. It will also not increase its price by 25-30% if I choose to double the RAM (and by double I mean 8 to 16, not 32 or so). I asked an Apple fan once why Apple still has 8GB RAM even in their pro models and I got the response because it's Apple, you don't need more than 8GB RAM. And I actually realised why Apple gets away with such practises. They are like the 99.978% of Apple's customer base. They stand in queues to get the latest Apple device and then cry out of joy.

I bought a Dell laptop in 2007 and I was able to "deselect" Windows and it actually had reduced the price. I could do that in the third world and online and in 2007 (again!). I also got home repair in not a tier 1 city of that third world country. I think we went degradingly backwards from there.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by throwaway48476 »

geon wrote: post #374
throwaway48476 wrote: post #17

It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.

At least the iphone 16 has electrically released adhesive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623251

That is actually innovative and a feature. It shows what smart engineering can do when the design goal is not user hostile.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by 0x6c6f6c »

brandonmenc wrote: post #286
hankman86 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max. All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for? iPads are mostly used for media consumption, no matter how Apple wants to position them. Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware, but perhaps people really start using iPa…

> Perhaps they are targeting people with a smaller iPhone who want another device to watch YouTube. Hi, it me. I have an iPhone 13 Mini that will have to be pried from my cold dead hands because it's about as big a phone as I'm willing to carry (I'd still rather have the 5s form factor.) I also have an iPad Mini that supplements it perfectly. Really don't want anything larger, because I like to handle it with one han…

I really dislike larger phones. I had tried out iOS with the iPhone X and it'd been a few years. Then Apple killed the Mini the year I was going to give them a go

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by wildekek »

gcanyon wrote: post #269

If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone": - I almost never hold my phone to my ear - I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones - Standby battery life seems up to the challenge - Apple doesn't offer the iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now. If I'm going bigger, why not actually go BIGger. Things holding me back: - Not actually sure about the battery life - A…

> I almost never hold my phone to my ear

Please tell me why people do this.

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