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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by fieldcny »

This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades.

Tech is such an shitty abyss right now, ten years ago people got excited because of truly revolutionary features , like cameras that were better than $1000 digital cameras, 4G that made the internet not just usable but fast biometrics that actually worked, on a phone, in your pocket, like holy fuck that was mind blowing.

We’ve gone so far down the hole that you are like fuck it I’m gonna buy it because of the god damn charging cable, and it’s not even something like the charging cable is crazy awesome and charges your phone instantly, it’s that it’s now just the generic port that everything from moms vibrator to your laptop to every other god damn phone on the planet uses.

And this absurdly mundane and completely valueless “update” has moved you to take a perfectly good $1000 plus phone and junk it to buy a brand new $1000+ phone, just so it can share a charging cord with a used vibrator?!?!

And this, this is the best that one of the most innovative companies in a generation, which generated profits that make the rockefellers and gettys look poor, can do.

No wonder everyone’s so in love with chat GPT, we are awed by our absolutely stunning mediocrity.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by fps-hero »

enoch2090 wrote: post #788
bombcar wrote: post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

USB-C is great, but honestly I'm not transmitting data via the port, nor do I care about charging speed. Then it becomes weird that I still have to carry a lightning cable for my Airpods.Would be a huge plus if I can just carry one cable while traveling someday.

I can’t believe they just released the Gen 2 AirPods without updating the charge port to USB-C, especially given the iPhone changeover has been telegraphed for over a year. It’s like they learnt nothing from the MacBook USB-C transition.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by mattwad »

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #222
bombcar wrote: post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

The USB-C is tempting. The only other Apple devices I own are all USB-C - Macbook Pros and an iPad Air. Maybe this will finally get me to switch from my aging Pixel 3A. The idea of dropping $800 on it is still a bit much though.

I went from 3a to a pixel 5 on backmarket, it's a great upgrade and doesn't really sacrifice anything. I am still waiting now for a new pixel, but even the 7/8 don't look interesting enough.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by gruez »

redbell wrote: post #414

> The fast and efficient A16 Bionic chip brings proven performance to iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus.. > The iPhone 15 lineup offers convenient new ways to charge… Both models use a USB‑C connector, a universally accepted standard for charging and transferring data Only Apple can do selling like this. It’s clearly that marketing is at its heart or even in its DNA. Only Apple can sell you a brand-new phone with last yea…

>Only Apple can sell you a brand-new phone with last year’s chip and still convince you that you made a deal. I admit that the A16 is still at the top of the chips but you get the point.

1. You must have not realized that AMD does the same thing. They cover it up better because they rebadge it under a different sku, but it's still "last year's" microarchiecture and lithography process

2. Reusing last year's chip as a lower end model makes a lot of sense. For one, you don't have to design separate chips for mid/high end. As long as it performs well, who cares when it's from? I'd much rather have a 2 year old iphone CPU than next year's midrange snapdragon, for instance.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by rank0 »

alwillis wrote: post #790
bombcar wrote: post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

The sleeper feature could be Thread [1] networking, a mesh network protocol for home automation devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490156 . The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are the first smartphones with this protocol built-in. [1]: https://www.evehome.com/en-us/thread

That's awesome this is the first I am hearing of this. I wish Apple would produce their own home automation products. I trust them vastly more than logitech & co...

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by solardev »

enoch2090 wrote: post #788
bombcar wrote: post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

USB-C is great, but honestly I'm not transmitting data via the port, nor do I care about charging speed. Then it becomes weird that I still have to carry a lightning cable for my Airpods.Would be a huge plus if I can just carry one cable while traveling someday.

I'm thinking of selling my Airpods and getting the USB-C version myself (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MTJV3AM/A/airpods-pro).

Even as an Android user, I looooove those Airpods. They're so much more comfortable than the Android ones

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by amf12 »

anonporridge wrote: post #674
bmitc wrote: post #663

> A huge leap forward for iPhone with a gorgeous new design The reality distortion field Apple projects is always impressive.

I wonder if they realize yet how many people are laughing at them. Apple is rapidly becoming low status as a critical mass of people catch on to their game.

Looking at the threads on HN and outside, no. People are looking forward to upgrade their iPhone 14s for the "new features".

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by _gabe_ »

jader201 wrote: post #740

I am a satisfied owner of an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and every phone I’ve owned since the iPhone 3GS has been an iPhone. I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Having said that: The Dynamic Island has to be one of the biggest cons any large company has pulled off in a while, and I’m surprised that a) Apple is continuing to double down on it (it’s the second listed “feature” at the top of the linked article), and b) peopl…

> I am a satisfied owner of an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and every phone I’ve owned since the iPhone 3GS has been an iPhone.

I think this is the majority of iPhone users, and it really might behoove you to actually try an alternative (and give it an honest go, not a couple days and then returning the device or something). For years I was convinced I was missing out on the bliss of iPhone because I was on my crummy Galaxy phones which were clearly inferior to genius wrought Apple devices. So, a couple months ago I finally caved in and bought my first ever iPhone and… it’s just a phone. In fact, some things really suck.

For instance, when I tried to reply to you I tried to select the text in your comment to quote you and it took me 6 tries to select it (and I didn’t even select it all I gave up because moving the dumb cursor is just impossible so I wrote in the missing words manually). I never had those issues on my Galaxy, text selection just worked.

Add to that the lack of a back button (or any buttons at all), a keyboard that has no period or number row on the main page, no backtick key anywhere(!), crappy auto correct that corrects words I’ve already typed and moved on from, no customizability, no feature discoverability (I’ll often have no clue that a gesture exists or something unless I Google trying to figure something out), terrible volume controls, bad notification display, no option for TouchID, and did I mention I hate this stupid keyboard?

Anyways, I’ll gladly switch back to an Android in a year or two. Maybe I’m just used to Android’s quirks and an Apple user would hate all the Android features I like, idk. What I do know is that the phone brand does not matter. The features differ very very slightly, and the performance differences are negligible from my normal use cases. There is no superior phone brand, it’s all just preference at the end of the day.

Sorry for the long rant by the way, it’s not directed at you but more at the general zeitgeist in the comments I’ve been reading here. It’s crazy. I must be taking crazy pills or something reading how impressed people are with the most mundane features.

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