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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by baggachipz »

jodrellblank wrote: post #805
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.

You don’t use maps for looking around? For navigation while driving? You’re allowed to have in-car satnav or not drive. You don’t use the camera for QR codes? Fine you don’t want to scan things for information. You don’t use the image recognition in the camera app to select people and copy them out of the background? That’s fine you don’t participate selfies and party photos. To do OCR on text in photos? It’s fine th…

Wow, you're really offended. How dare I speak of my smartphone use.

Of course I use a few other things, just very rarely. I do my programming on a laptop, I watch my tv on a tv, I read my books on my kindle, and use my car's nav for maps.

I hope you realize the irony of your "main character syndrome" accusation whilst writing a massive diatribe denouncing a random post on the internet. You could have just disagreed and moved on.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by fsflover »

talldayo wrote: post #355
davidy123 wrote: post #336

I'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…

> I'm glad strong competition is continuing, especially around privacy. Until Apple releases an iOS platform equivocal to AOSP, there's really not any competition at all. Apple claims to care about privacy, Google proves they do.

This is a false dichotomy. They both are terrible at privacy (see my other post here with links). Try GNU/Linux phones if you actually care about it.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by throwaway894345 »

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 this was really well written and insightful, but I disagree about the extent to which your girlfriend is representative (and not based on her education or anything). Most normies do notice dramatic improvements in battery life, camera quality, and screen quality. My tech-illiterate family may not know what OLED is or how it works, but they definitely prefer the OLED TV to the LCD. Similarly, they can tell a stark difference between a 5X telephoto and a 5X “digital zoom” photo or a macro photo versus an attempt to take a close-up photo without the macro lens. Similarly they will notice the improvements in low light conditions over models that are 6+ generations older. Further, the AI features (enabled by new hardware), for better or worse, will probably be a dramatic change in how people engage with their phones. I’m writing this from an iPhone 11 and I’m sure I’ll notice some stark differences if I upgraded to the 16, and I even notice big differences when I use others’ newer phones as well.

I sincerely admire your girlfriend’s penchant for simplicity, I just don’t think that represents most people IMHO.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by kaba0 »

paxys wrote: post #82

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. 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?

Did you even watch it? The battery life has definitely been an important point here (likely due to Apple intelligence using a lot of energy).

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by krzyk »

flakeoil wrote: post #818
1123581321 wrote: post #747

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When you get older, the photos aren’t for you, they’re for the descendants of you and your siblings, and their communities during funerals etc. It sounds like you needed a healthy correction from too much sharing and organizing, but just a few shots will be treasured.

I doubt that the descendants will be that interested to be honest. It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents. Having thousands upon thousands of images to look at does not make it better. It's nice to have a couple from each year maybe, but the huge amount of pics we have today is just ruining the experience and value of the pics somehow. As they are stored somewhere digit…

> It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents.

We do, I really would like to have waaaay more photos of my parents, grandparents and of myself when I was younger.

That's why I take pictures of my children frequently so they will have that what I do not.

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Post by meyum33 »

eviks wrote: post #733
mulmen wrote: post #700

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am an engineer at a big tech company. I’m not a “normie”. Even for me the new features aren’t compelling. They don’t really help me do anything I actually want to do. They don’t solve a problem or scratch an itch. And features change so often and so drastically I don’t really care to learn. I used to have an optical zoom but now I have super wide angle. My Fidelity widget used to show my balance but now it doesn’t…

How can you call it "solved" when such basics as text editing are broken? The dishwasher comparison is also way off, the level of dishwasher interaction is primitive and the frequency thereof is very very low, so it's much easier to tolerate bad design

So true. With so much advancement in phone tech I’m still not typing as fast as 15 years ago when phones had physical keyboards. Copy paste undo redo is unnecessarily clumsy. The list goes on.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by [deleted] »

steelframe wrote: post #603

I used to care about my photos a lot. After accumulating a few decades worth of photos I've gotten to the point where I don't care about my photos at all. I used to obsess over megapixel count, portrait mode, FPS, lighting, and so forth, because I used to think that these amazing images would be priceless in the future. Well, the future came and went, and to me they actually ended up being worthless. At one time I ca…

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Post by canucker2016 »

STELLANOVA wrote: post #676

It's really bad even for Apple. I really expected something more than a button and riding the wave of AI introduced months ago. We can see that technologically (mostly in hardware part) Apple is slowing down and can't innovate at the speed it was before. They still had a chance to add new stuff but for some reason skipped it - Wifi 7, support for JPEG XL, more base memory/RAM... Profit margins are going down and they…

Wi-Fi 7 support is confirmed - during the Apple announcement, the summary card of new features showed a "Wi-Fi 7" in the lower right hand corner.

see https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphone-16-and-16-pro-get-wi-fi-7-...

No idea why they didn't announce it.

Maybe they had a rule, "discuss camera and ai features only"?

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Post by KronisLV »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #522

The faster new 6-core GPU in A18 Pro delivers stunning visuals for next-level gaming, benefitting games like Death Stranding. ---- Hm, Death Stranding in the official article? :DDDDDDD

I don't quite know how the developers would fit a game like that in a mobile device. I still recall my PC GPU struggling without upscaling. It's not even available on something like Nintendo Switch either, yet here it is for Apple devices: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/death-stranding-directors-cut/...

Guess it's a testament to how far hardware, modern game engines and competent developers can all go.

Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by [deleted] »

can16358p wrote: post #828
paxys wrote: post #82

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. 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?

I personally don't care about smaller notch (wouldn't say no of course, but not dealbreaker) Battery life is more than enough for me almost every day. Why on Earth should I downgrade to Touch ID when using Face ID? I cared about the camera and improved ultra wide angle, 5x telephoto (my current one, 14 Pro Max has 3x) and 4K 120FPS HDR are enough for me to upgrade. I agree that the general improvements could be bette…

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