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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by scoofy »

iteratethis wrote: post #258

I'm conflicted. It's absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models "boring". The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I'll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user. She can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion. You can add a million…

>The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I'll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user.

Children and teens drive this, not existing adults. If existing adults is how we evaluated usefulness, we’d all still be using the command line on dot matrix screens.

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Post by sswezey »

jacobn wrote: post #485
thom wrote: post #452

Does the new camera button thingy happen to be a fingerprint scanner as well? I live in a constant state of rage with Face ID, longing for my iPhone 8 Plus with its Home button and the ability to pay for things in one fluid motion.

The fact that they have touch id on some of the ipad side power buttons, but not on the iphone, is so annoying. Face id is both great and terrible, and complementing it with touch id to cover the >5% of cases where face id fails would be such an improvement.

I really want the touch id from iPad. It's so much faster and reliable that face id. I think together would be a winning combo, but given the option, I'd take the ipad touch id over face id.

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Post by enraged_camel »

STELLANOVA wrote: post #676

It's really bad even for Apple. I really expected something more than a button and riding the wave of AI introduced months ago. We can see that technologically (mostly in hardware part) Apple is slowing down and can't innovate at the speed it was before. They still had a chance to add new stuff but for some reason skipped it - Wifi 7, support for JPEG XL, more base memory/RAM... Profit margins are going down and they…

This comment and its infinite variations get posted literally with every Apple product announcement. So exhaustingly unoriginal at this point.

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Post by data-ottawa »

pants2 wrote: post #265
llm_nerd wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"- camera adds events to calendar!" I'm on iOS 18.0 on my iPhone 15 Pro, rather that the 18.1 with the "AI". Recently had an eye doctor appt for one of my children and they scheduled a follow-up, giving me a little card with the details. I was in a hurry so took a picture of it intending to enter the calendar event later, and it immediately pulled up a fully-filled in, completely accurate new calendar event. Little a…

I have a hilarious list of animals that my cat has been misclassified as by my iPhone. Everything from a beetle to a nematode. It doesn't give me a lot of confidence in these features!

You reminded me that I used to have Wilson (a volleyball) and Queen of Hearts in my faces album for years.

My devices have finally figured out that a volleyball and photo of a hand of cards aren't people. I do miss getting a solid chuckle checking that tab.

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Post by beretguy »

raydev wrote: post #424

For fun, revisit the iPhone 6 announcement thread on HN[1], coincidentally posted 10 years ago today. I love going back to these to see how people responded. The more things change... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292029

A lot of people complaining how big the iPhone 6 generation is.

I’ll continue using my SE 1st Gen with 4 inch screen for as long as I can.

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Post by data-ottawa »

xavdid wrote: post #536
swyx wrote: post #113

i clipped the 5 mins on apple intelligence here for those interested https://x.com/swyx/status/1833231875537850659 notes: - photos/album search now includes video understanding, which imo seems very good from the first 2 examples they showed. includes scroll to exact time of the moment you describe. - Mail and Notifications will show summaries instead of str[:x] - Siri now knows iPhone, becomes the ultimate manual on…

> Mail and Notifications will show summaries instead of str[:x] While it's true that the first x characters of an email don't always have the most important bits, they're never _wrong_. It's always exactly what's in the email. I'm worried about cases like this [0], where a summary is inaccurate or misleading. It may not happen often, but it's possible, so I have to be a little skeptical of every summary. Though I can…

I'm curious how Apple Intelligence will manage Duolingo's progressively worried sounding notifications through the day.

It feels like an endpoint that will get gamed by apps over time.

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Post by wrycoder »

colechristensen wrote: post #277
GenerocUsername wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is a trillion dollar battery company.

The joke I want to make is they make phones that are as fragile as glass and that's why people replace them so often... but they actually make phones out of glass that are stupidly fragile. It's equally stupid that you have to buy this thing and put a protective case on it that increases it's size x%. Why is the back of my phone glass. Why does the front of my phone have 0 protection from the glass hitting whatever i…

I use a slim Spigen case, because I find the naked iPhone is too slippery to handle safely. And I don’t have to worry about laying the phone down on its face.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by mulmen »

iteratethis wrote: post #258

I'm conflicted. It's absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models "boring". The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I'll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user. She can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion. You can add a million…

I am an engineer at a big tech company. I’m not a “normie”.

Even for me the new features aren’t compelling. They don’t really help me do anything I actually want to do. They don’t solve a problem or scratch an itch. And features change so often and so drastically I don’t really care to learn. I used to have an optical zoom but now I have super wide angle. My Fidelity widget used to show my balance but now it doesn’t so I just never bother swiping to that page. I assume the current iteration of widgets will go away or be replaced soon so I don’t bother trying to fix it. Whatever, doesn’t matter.

Smartphones are essentially solved at this point. It’s an appliance. And just like my washing machine and dishwasher the buttons are arbitrary and clunky but work well enough. I tolerate it. Like I tolerate that burner on the cooktop that doesn’t always work.

The only thing that would get me excited is text editing and spellcheck that work correctly.

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