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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by iknowstuff »

Kwpolska wrote: post #418
Quadricycle wrote: post #411

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Is there a recommended resolution for viewing too?

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Post by GeekyBear »

BrandonSmith wrote: post #113
mperham wrote: post #37

Whoa, shipping their own baseband modem for the first time, skipping the Qualcomm tax. That's huge, even for Apple.

I'm sure Apple still pays patent licensing fees to Qualcomm even if Apple is now manufacturing their own modem.

In the past, Qualcomm was infamous for high licensing fees.

However, part of the process of creating an open industry standard like 4G/5G is getting a legally binding commitment from the patent holders to license standards essential patents to all takers on "reasonable" terms.

> If the patent holder refuses upon request to license a patent that has become essential to a standard, then the standard-setting organization must exclude that technology.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discrimina...

So Qualcomm is still entitled to some money, but not nearly as much as they made back when there was no legal restriction on what they could demand.

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Post by bdhcuidbebe »

apparent wrote: post #394
bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #381

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My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. And yes, I disabled most background services and location services and run screen on low brightness - all the popular hacks to reduce battery usage.

How old is your phone/battery? When you say less than a day, do you mean 24 hrs or the period of time you're awake?

iPhone 13 mini, i mean 24 hours

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Post by yazaddaruvala »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #436
asdff wrote: post #417

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I think the iphone does a lot more in the background than you might consider initially. Here is an experiment to try. Use your phone as you currently do, but turn on airplane mode when you aren't otherwise using the phone. Leave it on overnight too. You should only lose a few percentage overnight on airplane mode even with an old phone.

> I think the iphone does a lot more in the background than you might consider initially. I understand that. My point being that 25 year old tech, before the real miniatyrization of circuits and power efficiency mind you, has 7x charge time and yet we are impressed by a few additional hours. > Here is an experiment to try. Use your phone as you currently do, but turn on airplane mode when you aren't otherwise using t…

The difference is passive. Your phone is constantly pooling for both 4g, and 5g signal. Then using that to pool for notifications from apps.

This is stuff your Nokia didn’t do at the same scale. At best some sms at a significantly reduced polling rate.

My apps auto update in the background. Something my Nokia from 2007 didn’t do.

So there are many passively provided features but by definition they are not obvious to you and as such harder to appreciate.

If you have an iPhone: I use low power mode constantly. I have an automation to use it at 75% or less battery.

I get roughly 2 days of battery life without any YouTube usage.

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Post by enragedcacti »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #373
mdasen wrote: post #351

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The thing I'd add is that Apple often achieves what it does by doing less. People assume that because Apple makes great things that they can make a lot of different great things. But that's where a lot of other companies falter: they make too many different things to really make a few great things. Small phones are also difficult. Memory, processors, and batteries don't shrink. For an iPhone mini, they're going to be…

If small phones are difficult, why are phones getting larger as battery and semiconductor tech continues to improve? Advances in tech should allow phones to be smaller than ever for the same capabilities, or more capabilities for the same size than ever before.

> why are phones getting larger as battery and semiconductor tech continues to improve?

I don't doubt that the average phone has grown in size, the base iPhone has stayed roughly the same size for 7 years at this point. The 16 is only 0.15"x0.03"x0.01" larger than the iPhone X from 2017 and the base iPhone peaked in height and width all the way back in 2019 with the iPhone 11.

I think the simple answer is that they've pretty much found the sweet spot and even if there are people out there who want a smaller phone, most of them would still rather have the same size phone with more capability.

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Post by datadrivenangel »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #232
boxed wrote: post #178

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Apple has huge margins, it's not a problem unless you think about margins. Making more money is normally good, even if the margin is slightly lower.

If the margin is lower then you make less money not more.

If the additional revenue is positive, and the margin on that additional revenue is positive, you've made more money.

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Post by throwaway48476 »

apparent wrote: post #407
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #148

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Deciding between the vanilla iPhone 16 and the 16e here. I don't see much in favor of the vanilla iPhone 16. Is the extra camera lens useful for anything beyond portrait mode?

You can record videos for later playback on the AVP, in case you care. There's also UWB and magsafe on the vanilla 16. And the dynamic island and the camera control button. But it's mostly little things, which many people probably don't care about.

No, no one cares about AVP.

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Post by bscphil »

deergomoo wrote: post #176

At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?

It's especially disappointing to see that they killed off the SE with this release, as it was the previous inexpensive and smaller option. The screen alone on this new 16e is larger across the diagonal than the entire device on the SE 3rd edition, and the SE famously had the traditional huge bezel.

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

rsync wrote: post #427
Kwpolska wrote: post #419

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The 12" MacBook Abomination was a short-lived, badly-designed, performance-limited computer. Apple doesn’t sell them anymore, and modern Airs are very respectable computers.

... except for the fact that they refuse to re-issue the second greatest laptop form facter of all time : the 11" MBA. First place, obviously, goes to the Toshiba Libretto.

Because the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11
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