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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by justin_justin62 »

amilios wrote: post #503
nakamoto_damacy wrote: post #465

I have an iPhone 13 mini, just replaced the battery. If you want my money, give me an iPhone 17 mini with small width and height, I don't care about it being thinner like the Air. Also, no AI ruining the image quality of the expensive camera. I saw examples of a consumer-grade digital camera vs an iPhone 16 and the latter introduced "hotdog skin" effect and other effects that made the photos look over-processed.

Unfortunately both the 12 Mini and the 13 Mini did terrible numbers sales-wise. People say they want small phones but not enough of them actually buy them when they are available. :(

That's because everybody wants to show off.

And Instagram (or any other "fake universe" which pushes video-quality as a minimal requirement) algos, favor content made with a newer/better/bigger (thus more expensive) phone.

How come there's close-to-0 improvements about audio quality (both recording and listening) with respect to visual technologies?

Make the audio counterpart of Instagram/Tiktok and I'll chime in right away.

But pop-people (and markets) are mostly interested in visuals at the moment.

And for audio-sensitive people like me, it's almost a blessing.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by justin_justin62 »

Summing up, a company that has no more ideas about how to innovate and resorting to tactics like "we improved last year's model by x (with x not so big or relevant to you, user), and if x is not good enough, we have also made it thinner".

Truly boring. But you can't pretend more from a boat manned by a boring captain, focused exclusively on money/market/stocks.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by alwillis »

AdventureMouse wrote: post #582
aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

> If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, then the era of viable local LLM inferencing is upon us. I don't think local LLMs will ever be a thing except for very specific use cases. Servers will always have way more compute power than edge nodes. As server power increases, people will expect more and more of the LLMs and edge node compute will stay irrelevant since their relative power w…

> don't see why not, then the era of viable local LLM inferencing is upon us. I don't think local LLMs will ever be a thing except for very specific use cases.

I disagree.

There's a lot of interest in local LLMs in the LLM community. My internet was down for a few days and did I wish I had a local LLM on my laptop!

There's a big push for privacy; people are using LLMs for personal medical issues for example and don't want that going into the cloud.

Is it necessary to talk to a server just to check out a letter I wrote?

Obviously with Apple's release of iOS 26 and macOS 26 and the rest of their operating systems, tens of millions of devices are getting a local LLM with 3rd party apps that can take advantage of them.

Re: iPhone Air

#994

Post by chipsrafferty »

jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.

What if there was a phone that was completely weightless and didn't take up any space at all

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by thund »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #983
czhu12 wrote: post #368

I wish they could just make a phone that has 3 or 4 day battery life. I never understood this obsession with thickness, even the normal iPhone is too thin to properly hold without a case.

That would be how you get a one pound iPhone which no one would buy.

Based on what evidence that adding more battery necessarily makes it a pound? Based on what precedent of mainstream phones ever approaching that weight?

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by thund »

czhu12 wrote: post #368

I wish they could just make a phone that has 3 or 4 day battery life. I never understood this obsession with thickness, even the normal iPhone is too thin to properly hold without a case.

totally agree, chasing ultrathin designs has diminishing returns. There's so many practical ways to extend battery life such as letting users selectively dial down performance, adding a bit of extra thickness/weight, rethinking how power hungry features are scheduled... It's a matter of priorities, and Apple is obsessed with design (with dubious results, ie magic mouse charging port)

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by alun »

The thinness is impressive, but I'd trade some of that for a small screen size. Smart phones are massive these days and it's a pity how Apple discontinued the iPhone Mini series.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by anonymous344 »

I don't want a thinner phone. I want a smaller screen and longer battery life with good enough camera. Like for example samsung (cheaper older phones with small screen)

LOL "All day battery life" duh, my phone's battery lasts 2 to 3 days

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by SirMaster »

aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

The live translation is software. It works on the AirPods Pro 2 and the AirPods 4 with AND.

So is the high blood pressure detection. It's not from the new watch, it works also in the series 10 and series 9 watches.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by SirMaster »

mgerdts wrote: post #618
aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

If you compare the specs of the 10 and 11 series watches you will see they both claim high blood pressure detection. https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/?modelList=watch-series-... In the past few weeks the oxymeter feature was enabled by a firmware update on series 10. Measurements are done on the watch, results are only reported on a phone.

Also works on the Series 9.
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