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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 understand why they did it. But just my perspective on it, I will have to replace all my lightning cables with usb-c, and the usb-c ecosystem seems like a nightmare to me from what I have seen. This would be my first usb-c device.
Worst case scenario, you get a cheap cable and you're stuck at the same charging speed and data speed as what lighting could do. It can only get better for you; lightning is an ancient port.
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…
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 $1k for "essentially the same phone"? I'm upgrading from a 3 year old iPhone, so everything here is pretty exciting for me.
Removing the mute switch for the action button is a step backwards; if I upgrade I'd not be able to feel in my pocket that my phone is on mute.
They claimed a different haptic feedback for on vs off, so if that's true you will be able to tell the mode you've toggled into by feel.
"Action button" feels like a gimmick, and I agree, backwards for usability.
Do yourself a favour and just buy a magnetic adapter + cable such as Baseus magnetic zinc [1] You will: - save money to buy new phone (cable costs just ~10$) - 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 le…
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 le…
The problem was, though, that the magnets were too weak - they would constantly disconnect
Sad at the cynical comments here regarding Apple's environmental commitments. Does Apple have a tendency to exaggerate? Sure. But this is also the most ambitious set of climate-related adaptations I've heard from a corporation at their scale, and it seems to be deeper than just marketing fluff. How can we expect to change things if even meaningful moves to make improvements are automatically cynically dismissed?
And aside from recycling, this whole effort was about "investing in renewable energy projects around the world", so another kind of throwing money at someone who might or might not do something with it. Won't matter to Apple's green message.
Now recycling efforts are nothing to sneeze at and are commandable. Ambitious ? I don't know.
All USB-C cables must support USB 2.0 480 Mbps data transfer, at minimum. There’s no such thing as a USB-C cable that doesn’t support data.
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.