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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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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…

Kind of what DeX does for Samsung.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#912

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…

>display full fat MacOS

That will never happen. iPadOS though... You never know.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#913

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…

I doubt MacOS, but... the USB-C port on the new ones does support DisplayPort over USB-C, so you should be able to plug it into a dock with all of those. I'm sure there will be experimentation with what that means exactly, but an iPhone as a thin client might actually be doable very well next month.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#914

> 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.

Technically, there was no iPhone 2. There's iPhone, then iPhone 3G, then 3GS. The latter 2 had a plastic back. And aluminum does break. It just doesn't shatter like glass can.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#915

This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades. Tech is such an shitty abyss right now, ten years ago people got excited because of truly revolutionary features , like cameras that were better than $1000 digital cameras, 4G that made the internet not just usable but fast biometrics that actually worked, on a phone, in your pocket, like holy fuck that was mind blowing. We’ve gone so far down…

> This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades.

You must live in quite an interesting world then.

The fact that people are running to a megacorp's aid because a bad EU forced them to quit being anti-consumer is staggering.

So staggering in fact, that these commentators might not even comment in good faith and in fact be PR pawns.

I'd really want to believe the latter because someone that gets so intimate with their phone brings out a sadness in me.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#916

I can't understand why they invest so much in gaming. Gaming on such small devices is too uncomfortable, both for your eyes and your posture. In addition, with cloud gaming you can basically run any PC/Console game on any device provided a good-enough connection (eg. Nvidia NOW, Xbox cloud gaming etc)

You have no idea how much the Chinese spend on gaming. They're basically doing a Blizzard. Don't you guys have iPhones?

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#917
post #910

This is honestly the saddest thing I’ve read in years, maybe even decades. Tech is such an shitty abyss right now, ten years ago people got excited because of truly revolutionary features , like cameras that were better than $1000 digital cameras, 4G that made the internet not just usable but fast biometrics that actually worked, on a phone, in your pocket, like holy fuck that was mind blowing. We’ve gone so far down…

They had to comply with EU regulations, thus forced to make USB-C: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/07/all-smart...

It's a little ironic they tout how they're moving to the USB-C standard when they had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to it.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#918

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…

I'm still waiting for this too... I suspect I will be waiting a very long time.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#919

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.

Sounds like the A16 just doesn't have the I/O block for USB 3. They are using the chip from the last generation for the base model. Though to put this in a realistic context, I am curious what percentage of iPhones have ever, over their usage lifespan, made a data connection over USB. I suspect that percentage is low single-digit percentages, and -- again speculating -- I would wager they are almost always by users w…

Most likely, they weren't looking at the A16 needing to support USB3, since it was a phone chip (iPads now running on Mx chips instead), and Lightning didn't support USB3. The USB-C mandate was only a year ago, and I expect they probably were planning on exactly what goes into the A16 a year further back, so unless they respun a new A16x chip that had the USB3 controller, there's no point where they could have forecast the A16 actually needing to support USB3 until it was too late.
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