"Siri what is my blood glucose level?" during the Apple Watch (offline on-device Siri) section was a fake tease.
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
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#82I miss Jobs. These prerecorded presentations are soulless and almost embarrassing at times. Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.
Almost creepily robotic and zuck-like
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#83But is Apple going to sell a Lightning to USB-C adapter? What the hell am I going to do with all of my lightning cables????
UPDATE: Okay, that was a tongue-in-cheek comment but Apple is doing the most Apple possible thing: they really are going to sell a $29 (?!) adapter that will allow you to use your Lightning charging cables to charge the new USB-C iPhones:
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/12/apple-usb-c-to-lightning-adap...
Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
#84I know a lot of people are apprehensive about the Apple Vision Pro, but seeing that I'll be able to take Spatial Videos with the iPhone 15 Pro Max was a huge feature for me. I can't see myself ever taking those videos with the headset itself, but if I can do it from my phone and re-watch the videos later, that's a massive QoL improvement imo. That alone makes the upgrade worth it for me since I'm planning on picking…
That was one of the more realistic complaints about the vision pro, "why would you take photos with it instead of experiencing the moment directly". A few people suggested that the iPhone will probably come into the equation, and it seems they were correct in that thinking (the timings suggest Apple had it planned this way.)
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#85These guys are insane. Every year the bloody product looks great (EDIT: not visually/aesthetically, looks like its got great features) and then the next year it somehow is even better. Satellite connectivity is fantastic. I believe T-mobile is bringing some of that too. If we get satellite backup calling or satellite data in the coming years it will be incredible. I think I'll wait another year before I upgrade my iP…
>Every year the bloody product looks great and then the next year it somehow is even better
It's literally the same design since the iphone 11.
You need to see them side by side to notice the difference but any other user won't be able to tell at a glace that you own the 15 and not an older model.
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#86The article reads like an ad.
The 'article' is a press release on a vendor's site. Are you expecting objectivity?
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#87I 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 think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT.
They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.
Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
#88IMO, this was a pretty weak announcement. They spent so long talking about environmental stuff, like getting rid of leather, that it felt like they were trying to pad the presentation to reach a reasonable length. There were a few new things (more optical zoom, slightly smaller bezels), but these were all leaked in advance. I was also disappointed to hear that the satellite stuff is limited to 2 years. Is it going to…
I wonder how much worse accidental UI interactions will be due to smaller bezels. I alredy despise phones that I have to pick up _really_ carefully not to engage some completely unwanted gesture.
The best part about smaller bezels is that you can always buy a protective case that adds more bezel. Inversely, large bezels never get smaller.
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#89I haven't bought a new iPhone since the 5. I typically would wait a year and buy a used year-old model for half price (with AppleCare). But I didn't do this after the XS, and now with Pro and non-Pro models it's incredibly complex to find the best value since used prices are so dynamic and there are so many models to choose from. Might be time to just buy a new one with USB-C and use it for 5+ years.
You don't need the best value, you just need sufficient value.
Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
#90I know a lot of people are apprehensive about the Apple Vision Pro, but seeing that I'll be able to take Spatial Videos with the iPhone 15 Pro Max was a huge feature for me. I can't see myself ever taking those videos with the headset itself, but if I can do it from my phone and re-watch the videos later, that's a massive QoL improvement imo. That alone makes the upgrade worth it for me since I'm planning on picking…
It's a software thing, so maybe they can just add it to iOS 17 and that's it.
It's software plus cameras, they're stitching together video from various focal lengths. I don't think the non-Pro Max models will ever be able to do it.