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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by ksec »

IgorPartola wrote: post #284
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 real advancements majority of users would notice: - Get rid of green text when messaging Android phones - More battery life. - Better camera (arguably already achieved) - lesser issue but fix the stupid bugs with storage/duplication with pictures and messages. I am already paying for a TB level plan with iCloud. How can my phone possibly run out of storage? That’s it. All the AI stuff is marginal at best and usel…

>Better camera (arguably already achieved)

For the Pro Model. Yes. Not for the normal iPhone though. 2x Optical Zoom is barely enough. Especially when I default to taking photos with 1.8x which fits my view point a lot better. So when I get 5x optical zoom it is more like 2.5x only.

And if there is one thing I would add to the list is weight. The Pro model is too heavy.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by xvector »

adrr wrote: post #675
baggachipz wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been working in tech for 25 years, and I'm sure I hardly use any of the new features. Camera? Click, maybe crop it or turn it into a loop if it's funny. I play some games on it. I browse some social crap on it. I occasionally tell Siri to set a reminder. That's... about it. I'm really not sure what else I'm supposed to be doing.

I use mine to measure things, replaced my measuring tape. It is also my flashlight. I use it to find my wallet and keys as they have air tags in them. Its my wallet, credit cards, hotel room key, subway/metro pass. I have an app that implements OpenAIs CLIP on my phone and can instantly search my photos thats better any other image search out there and it runs on the device.

What app are you using for measurement and local image search?

For measurement I found Apple's app disappointing, even on the Pro models it isn't accurate to the scales I typically work with (centimeters.)

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by saagarjha »

Loranubi wrote: post #794
mgh2 wrote: post #709

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most people don't buy the pro and they're desperate for selling points in the regular model. "Pro Max currently accounts for nearly 40% of new model shipments" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41386700 You misunderstand the business case: she is not the target demographic/user, filmmakers are (as seen on the presentation). Apple's product marketing is 2nd to none. To break it down: iPhone 16 is for photographer…

That doesn't make sense. 99.9% of iPhone users are not photographers or filmmakers.

Lots of people take photos and videos with their iPhone.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by ksec »

paxys wrote: post #269
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…

> All the spectacular advances in computing power are lost on her as this makes zero difference for the Facebook cat video group and Pinterest. Gonna disagree with this one. Tell me, does using an iPhone today feel significantly faster than the top model 2-3 years ago or even 10 years ago? Does the battery last a lot longer than it did back then? Apple certainly claims this is the case in their marketing every year.…

>Tell me, does using an iPhone today feel significantly faster than the top model 2-3 years ago or even 10 years ago?

You are on a platform where 99% of comments at one point were suggesting VSCode is fast enough or feels as fast as Sublime when it first launched, i.e before a lot of optimisation.

There are a lot of people just dont feel the difference or simply dont care about that tiny difference. And for someone like me who is latency sensitive, it bothers me a lot.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by saagarjha »

werid wrote: post #798
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…

> You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn't notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since. Not because she dislikes them, she doesn't know they even exist. there's no manual to read. apple does not inform you in any way. finding out new features is by word of mouth. so annoying. i should not have to discover features on my very expensive phone by random chance via watc…

Have you tried the Tips app?

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by ksec »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #524
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

What an archive. I wonder if who is still posting from 10 years ago

Plenty.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by v7p1Qbt1im »

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 think people don't actively notice most of these things. But they sure as hell notice when you take them away after. A good example of this is ProMotion. People don't notice high refresh rate when they first get a Pro. but they do notice when you use it for a few weeks and then go back to 60hz. Same for a lot of other things.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by ksec »

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…

They said 16 Pro Max having the best battery life ever without actually comparing to 15 Plus which was the previous battery king.
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