Probably gonna upgrade from my iPhone 11 to a 16 Pro, seems like a good time to make the jump (also I'd need a battery replacement anyway and I rather spend that money on the new phone)
How much would it cost to have the battery replaced?
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
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#892Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? Or are people simply upgrading because they get the latest iPhone every year or two by default?
> Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording.
They probably have done a load of research that shows that people on the whole buy new phones more because they think they will take better photos/video of their travels/friends/kids, rather than because of the notch size.
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#893I love how ridiculous the scene to showcase Apple's Intelligence ability to tell you what bread the dog was. Instead of simply asking a women what breed her dog was - he had to open a camera app on his iPhone, ask a women a permission to take a photo of the dog, wait until the AI gives him an answer...
This is a pretty accurate representation of everyday city life in 2024.
I live in NYC and no it's not.
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#894I've been an Android user since day 1, but am very impressed by some of these features. I'd love to have the half-click to focus feature and other dedicated camera button features, macro, a few other things that put this generation in a next category. I'd like to see them catch up and surpass all of Google's onboard AI features, and it looks like they're working on it. Being able to find a section of a video by a vag…
iOS does support a form a call screening, called live voicemail, which transcribes the message being recorded by the caller and lets you pick up the call if you want. iOS also supports ambient song identification, with history, which I use frequently. Safari supports extensions, and I believe other browsers can as well, but can't speak to that as I really only use Safari in my phone, even though it's not my primary b…
> iOS also supports ambient song identification, with history, which I use frequently.
Does it? I can't find any info about this online and all I can find seems to indicate that you can run Shazam and it scans for some amount of time afterwards but iOS kills it to save battery. It doesn't seem like you can get Google Pixel-like "Now Playing" which I sorely miss on my iPhone 15 Pro.
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#895Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the only reason people buy new iPhones is that the batteries in their old iPhones go bad, why does Apple bother constantly iterating and improving them?
Competition. Once the battery has gone bad and the user has decided that they are going to get a new phone to replace it, they are going to evaluate Apple's offering against all other phones they can buy. If Apple's device doesn't look as compelling as Samsung's (or whatever), the person is apt to buy something else. But if the battery was working as well as it did when it was new, it is unlikely that the person woul…
If there is meaningful competition in the smartphone market, and what you say about consumer preferences is true, then surely at least one competitor would make a user-replaceable battery and capture what is supposedly the vast majority of the market.
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#896Phishing email operators rejoice: Apple still are not showing emails in the Mail app, and will even scan your phishing email and rephrase it while recognising and pushing it as a priority notification. I actually like the idea, but I worry a lot that it will lead to non tech-savvy (and tech-savvy-but-hurried) people to getting rekt. It’s still obscene to me that they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in.…
> they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in Even after clicking, you have to tap twice on the sender's to open his details and see his address. And if he's in your contacts and has more than 1 address, there's no way to know which one sent the email.
You view the contact card. The relevant email has a RECENT label.
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#897Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? Or are people simply upgrading because they get the latest iPhone every year or two by default?
My last iPhone purchase was the original SE... which turned out to be the most highly-regarded iPhone of them all. It got smashed, so now I have to deal with all the regressions. No TouchID, no headphone jack, no SIM slot. Will I enjoy having a much better camera? Yep. But that won't do me any good while I can't listen to shit on the plane or in my cars... unless I carry an octopus of dongles everywhere, and none of…
I missed wired headphones... Until I tried air pods pro. Even though I use them with a pixel phone fwiw.
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#898Earlier 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.
They might be aspirationally.
The implication is 'if it's good enough for a photographer/videographer, it will be excellent for me if I want to take photos and videos of my hobby/kids/travels'.
But professional photographers aren't giving up their DSLR's for an iPhone anytime soon.
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#899I'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'm just thankful for the people that do upgrade to every new model, it keeps the used market alive for those of us that want a 2 year old phone for cheap.
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#900I'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…
My biggest peeve with iOS or iPadOS is that if you sync photos or SMS with your iPad, you will eventually run out of storage. I don't know why Apple doesn't do a "rolling" storage for these apps, it feels so broken. I'm never buying another iPad if they don't fix this, I'll pay their competitors instead who sanely allow you to decide which photos to download for offline viewing, and which ones to keep. I will always have way more storage on my phone than my tablet.
There will also be a time where my iCloud Photos storage will surpass the available physical storage Apple gives you for your phone, so I don't understand this weak design.
Worse is the Messages app, which insists on downloading every gif, photo and video I share to my iPad as well, as if I need them available for offline use all the time, no Apple, if I needed to see any of it, I would download them manually.
iOS and iPad OS need to be smarter about their Photos and Messaging apps, they're really dumb. What's the point of iCloud if it forces everything downstream when I'm not asking for it.