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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by LegitShady »

delaaxe wrote: post #601
mithr wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know that I completely agree. To some degree, sure — most folks probably don't notice the year-to-year updates in e.g. computing power. But my 70yo mother, who is pretty far from being technologically savvy, uses continuity every day to copy one-time-use codes from her phone to her computer, even though she'd have no idea what the term "continuity" means in this context. She notices that it's easier to snap b…

Speaking of continuity, how do you get a Youtube video currently playing on the laptop to pause and continue on the iPhone?

pause video on laptop.

go to youtube history in youtube app on iphone.

click the top video (the last thing you were watching)

youtube should automagically continue where you left off.

you must be logged into youtube on both machines.

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Post by llmthrow102 »

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…

There aren't major innovations in chairs or mugs that make you throw out your whole collection every few years. Smartphones are just becoming a commodity and there's nothing wrong with that.

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Post by relaxing »

KoolKat23 wrote: post #461

They mention battery life in this release 11 times without saying how long the battery will last. Please Apple, even just a typical usage number would be great. It's been many generations since I've had an Apple device, and each year they release a new one I try figure out how long the battery lasts, to no avail. Nobody I know has bought a Max Pro either. With Apple, you never know, it could still be 10 hours battery…

> moveable icons

what’s this?

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Post by charlie90 »

FireBeyond wrote: post #322
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…

> Apple makes an excellent product Contrarian opinion on the AirPods. Apple says that they think the new noise cancellation "auto adjust" is better on the "human" side of things, and the social - they showed an interaction where the barista started talking to the wearer, and the AirPods adjusted so the barista could be heard. To me, that's not social, I think it's actually anti-social. It moves the onus onto anyone w…

This is a massive pet peeve of mine. When the f** did it become socially acceptable to wear earbuds when interacting with someone? At least with wired buds or headphones its obvious that you're being an anti-social prick when talking to me, but now you have these hidden things that seem to be in everyones ears always.

And dont even get me started on the robots that are talking into the void when out in public. I have no idea if they are trying to talk to me or on a phone call because their airpods are hidden.

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Post by ip26 »

benoau wrote: post #629
steelframe wrote: post #603

I used to care about my photos a lot. After accumulating a few decades worth of photos I've gotten to the point where I don't care about my photos at all. I used to obsess over megapixel count, portrait mode, FPS, lighting, and so forth, because I used to think that these amazing images would be priceless in the future. Well, the future came and went, and to me they actually ended up being worthless. At one time I ca…

Really interesting observation, but I would say there are still moments that can delight like we restored an old iPhone of my partner's and came across videos and live photos of our oldest when they were a toddler. Whether this is actually worth the many, many thousands we have spent on our smartphones to preserve rare moments that matter amongst many that really don't is another question. If smartphones never had ca…

It’s not even about terribly special moments. Stitched together, those videos and Live Photos of even small moments help me remember what they were like then.

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Post by kraig911 »

I wonder when the iphone 21+ comes out what are we going to call these things? And will they still use software services like AI to differentiate? I mean let's be real they could totally offload AI stuff to the cloud and keep it somewhat 'private' I fear apple is using AI as a way to sell hardware when really it's the same thing with a little more RAM.

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Post by jjcm »

Havoc wrote: post #515

>6.3 inches on iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches on iPhone 16 Pro Max — the largest iPhone display ever. People want this? My current 6.7 14promax is already in hindsight too big for single hand operation. Realistically I'm probably skipping 16 anyway. Top end 14 is still adequate for everything I need

Are they actually changing the physical dimensions of the phone? My understanding was it was just a reduction in the bezels
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