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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by mackrevinack »

mikece wrote: post #83

But 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-a…

im also wondering if theyll including a charger with the phone this time? their excuse for removing it was that most people had a charger already so it was better for the environment not to include one, but most iphone users only have lightning chargers

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by JaredCliff »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #713
mtillman wrote: post #303

Apple, I don’t want a giant phone that I have to carry in my hands. Make another mini version that costs less than $2k and you can have my money. I already have an iPad or several laptops that I can do “big” things on.

See, the thing is, the market for that just isn't that big . You're a vocal minority. Apple needs to make phones in big quantities for their economies of scale to function, but the market for small phones is small enough that it only makes sense to produce one every few years. (source: one of their yearly reports, IIRC)

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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by _thisdot »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #468
nowooski wrote: post #342

It's pretty wild that Apple has held prices down the last few years in the face of elevated inflation. I decided to calculate the inflation-adjusted price of every iPhone ever, and the 15 line are some of the most affordable (in 2023 dollars). Full table and charts are here: https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/iPhone15-price But the take aways are: - iPhone 15 is cheapest base model since the OG iPhone in 2007 - 15 Plus…

For people in the US yes, overseas they are famously overpriced. Here in South Africa the cost of an iPhone is ridiculous.

Same in India, what makes it worse is the taxation. You end up paying $1000+ for the $799 iPhone. And $1000 is a lot of money. You can live a comfortable life in a tier 2 city with $500 a month. PPP adjusted, $1000 in US is around $4000 in India.

In fact, someone proved that it is sometimes cheaper to fly to and back from Dubai and buy a pro model from there than buying it directly in India.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by tass »

whoopdedo wrote: post #128
post_break wrote: post #32

USB 2.0 on the 15 is kind of a joke considering it came out in April of 2000. 60hz, USB 2.0, getting a bit dated. I know a bunch of people will excuse it but at that price I think it's not ideal. Oh and RIP 13 Mini, you'll be my phone until I can't use it anymore I suppose.

> RIP 13 Mini I wish I had been warned so I could have grabbed one before it was gone.

Check the stores. I remember seeing old cycle products still for sale the week between announcement and the release date. Not necessarily true this time but you might get lucky.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by JaredCliff »

Jeslijar wrote: post #735
dylan604 wrote: post #14

That whole presentation could have been 30 minutes shorter. It's a product announcement not an investors meeting. Show me the products. Make a sustainability PR as a separate piece. Get your name in the news twice. Seems strange

I for one don't understand how sustainability and a yearly release schedule can go hand in hand. Why isn't it a 2 or 3+ year release cycle? Remove the need to upgrade, make spare parts and reuse and recycling more common. Maximize lifespan of devices. Yearly upgrades of consumer electronics is a pretty non-sustainable idea. Imagine if every year everybody tossed their television, monitor, computer, phone, tablet, hea…

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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by jiva »

jcrash wrote: post #586
mattlondon wrote: post #357

Finally! At last they adopt USB-C! This has been the only reason I've not been using an iPhone for some time now. I love just having one cable that charges everything (phone, laptop, headphones, tablet, you name it - desk fans, white noise machines, thermometers, cameras etc etc etc)

Me too. Really like USB-C. My only problem is that I wish it was easier to tell what cables can do what things. Only some of my cables are able to connect to displays/power my laptop

Check out this project https://hackaday.io/project/184810-usb-c-cable-tester

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by muspimerol »

lanza wrote: post #786
charles_f wrote: post #341

> A huge leap forward for iPhone Marginal improvement presented as huge leap forward. If only words had to mean something > with a gorgeous new design featuring a durable, color-infused back glass Didn't the iPhone 2 have a back glass? What's durable about a back glass, aluminium doesn't break.

Do people still break their phone screens? I have never used a case even the naughts. My 3gs, 4, few Android phones, 5s were all cracked. But nothing since ~2016 has cracked at all. I haven't stopped dropping my phone or anything. They just don't break anymore.

Just broke my Pixel 6 screen from a hip-height drop on tile. I've never broken a smartphone screen before. Maybe you've just become more careful ;-)

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Post by piyush_soni »

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…

It's funny how they show USB-C as a giant leap forward while they were literally forced to use that port and were never interested in doing it otherwise. All that transfer speed bump they're now advertising with USB-C, would they admit that they were keeping their customers away from it just so that they could use their custom port and create an entire accessory ecosystem around it?

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Post by midasz »

apatheticonion wrote: post #847

If the iPhone or iPhone Pro could be connected to a USB-C dock with a keyboard, mouse and external monitor (or two) and display full fat MacOS; It would be the most impressive mobile device ever created. I could imagine companies issuing iPhones with MDM and corporate credentials preconfigured. As a developer, that would be a pretty cool workflow. I already ssh into a remote box to get faster development performance…

Always thought we'd go the way of our phones being thin clients - doesn't even need to be powerful right? I previously did development work on a VDI which ran on some cloud. Expected it to be laggy but it worked perfectly.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by FPGAhacker »

asciimov wrote: post #487
8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote: post #393

Is anybody else somewhat underwhelmed by the innovation here? Faster CPU, different colors, new case, better camera, better battery, thinner bezels etc. Same thing we see every.. single.. year.. I'm glad they're taking risks with the Vision Pro, but it feels like the phone has become a highly conservative platform. Maybe this is just the reality of having a product that sells as many units as the iPhone does every si…

Apple has ran out of design gas. But to be honest even in the late Jobs/Ive years they were running on fumes with 'thin' being the last hill to climb. I really wish Apple would try a different design aesthetic, such as a move to something warmer and friendlier than the last 20+ years.

No kidding. Like a circular puck style.
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