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Post by Phurist »

dahwolf wrote: post #420

The entire announcement is an exercise in masking that they're running out of ideas. Excessive lectures on environmental footprint. Lots of cultural/humanitarian story telling, a pile of non-relatable tech info where they only briefly showed the embarrassing "up to 10% faster", dull/static presenters with their fake excitement. Even the Pro model, typically the only model where they might add some actual features of…

Not fair I think... in a world where most companies produce profits without a single care for the world we live in, I welcome a company like Apple that has shown a path to a better future in some areas. They still have a long way to go I think... but advancements like that are also advancements.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by jkubicek »

monological wrote: post #501

I feel like this is an epic joke. Except the joke is on all the suckers paying $1k for essentially the same phone, but wow, now with a usb-c port. Please Tim Apple...take my money faster. Even better, please strap it to my head so I can be even more disconnected from other people.

How many people are actually paying $1k for "essentially the same phone"?

I'm upgrading from a 3 year old iPhone, so everything here is pretty exciting for me.

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Post by r00fus »

jgrahamc wrote: post #367

I am sad that the Pro is getting rid of the silent button. It is solid and I know when it's activated and I know it won't accidentally be on. Not sure I really need another push button. That silent button was/is a key feature of iPhone for me.

I kinda feel the same way although I am excited to be able to use the "action" button for other things and just leave the phone muted/silent permanently (as it is currently).

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Post by laacz »

The thing I enjoyed during the presentation was the original iphone on the table in the left side of the screen just before Sribalan Santhanam started to talk about the ray tracing.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by deveac »

dahwolf wrote: post #420

The entire announcement is an exercise in masking that they're running out of ideas. Excessive lectures on environmental footprint. Lots of cultural/humanitarian story telling, a pile of non-relatable tech info where they only briefly showed the embarrassing "up to 10% faster", dull/static presenters with their fake excitement. Even the Pro model, typically the only model where they might add some actual features of…

1. ability to begin capturing 3d video for the devices of tomorrow to render is a sea change. I want as much as my video as possible to be captured this way, starting today. Can't reshoot the past

2. dedicated hardware button for programatic software execution is fantastic

3. wearable turning your fingers into a button allowing execution from simply moving your fingers is insanely cool

These three things alone are more exciting than anything I've seen in a while. All in all, great ideas that are absolutely pushing the envelope of how we interact with these devices. Love to see it.

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Post by QuadrupleA »

Call me a curmudgeon, but nothing in the last decade or so of smartphone development has sparked the least bit of interest or excitement for me, this included. Battery life maybe? Seems like a matured product category. Which is fine - maybe we just leave them alone and last as long as possible. Or keep churning about notch vs no notch, smallish vs. largeish vs. smallish again, etc.

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Post by ajmurmann »

jmkni wrote: post #113

Gutted that the iPhone mini is essentially dead. I don't want a phone any bigger. I'll hang onto my 13 Mini for as long as I can, hopefully they will update the SE to basically be the new Mini.

I liked the size of the Mini, but wanted all the features of the Pro which likely won't fit. So I bought the Pro instead and thus am the problem.

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Post by blackhaz »

dahwolf wrote: post #420

The entire announcement is an exercise in masking that they're running out of ideas. Excessive lectures on environmental footprint. Lots of cultural/humanitarian story telling, a pile of non-relatable tech info where they only briefly showed the embarrassing "up to 10% faster", dull/static presenters with their fake excitement. Even the Pro model, typically the only model where they might add some actual features of…

In addition to replaceable battery, which is great, I'd do the following:

- Remove all excessive animations from the UI. Please stop wasting my battery and my brain cycles on nothing. iPhone 1 to 4 had sufficient level of animation. iOS 16 level of animation is nauseating.

- Make the phone to fit into a human hand. No need for a shovel.

- Non-slippery material. (I'm currently on X and it's like holding a half-used bar of soap in the shower.)

- Remove excessive gestures, corner sliders, pop-ups, etc. The UI is a mess. Simplify everything. Less is better.

- Redo all the UI elements. This mess of excessively saturated flat shapes is dull. Initiate return to skeuomorphism, but at a slightly different angle. Especially get rid of oversaturation everywhere.

- Increase contrast of UI elements.

- More detailed report on processes consuming system resources, something like a Task Monitor.

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