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5 Features You Can Expect on Both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro
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Also that most people would prefer not to *have* to carry a puck with them everywhere
Ok…let’s hear it, what’s so special about all these supposedly new features listed? You would all be amazed by new iPhones when you first get it, and after 5 minutes, start wondering exactly what’s new in it that’s not already in your 3 year old phones.
iPhone ‘pro’ is a mockery that shouldn’t even exist. Steve jobs would never let it happen were he still alive.
It appears it doesn’t imply that at all but just that apple is selling less phones overall and making less profits. Upgrading phones is not a necessity. If the base iPhone is a non-upgrade and the ‘pro’ phone is stupidly expensive most people just don’t bother buying an iPhone and stick with what they have.
Not upgrading the SoC on the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus probably put a lot of people off who normally upgrade every year.
I’m on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and honestly I don’t see much here. I’ll probably buy the regular plain vanilla iPhone 15.
If the Mini made a comeback I might go to that one but chances are slim and the battery would likely be poor. So regular iPhone it is.
Aside that, I’m getting tired of paying these prices for the same thing over and over. The innovation on this category is essentially dead.
If the Mini made a comeback I might go to that one but chances are slim and the battery would likely be poor. So regular iPhone it is.
Aside that, I’m getting tired of paying these prices for the same thing over and over. The innovation on this category is essentially dead.
Probably not. The problem with 3D touch is that, while cool, it didn't actually offer enough benefit to justify the added complexity, thickness, and cost that it added to the display. There just weren't really that many compelling software use-cases for it, where a "hard" press was significantly differentiated from a "long" press. And if it were only available on certain device models, developers probably wouldn't bother writing software to make use of it.
It's a bit like the Touch Bar was on Macs, I guess. A neat feature, and occasionally quite useful, but not useful enough to justify keeping it around.
It's taken them years, but Apple's top engineers may have finally cracked it. Miniaturizing and cost-engineering the USB-C port to the point where it can finally fit into a phone. Imagine, a USB-C powered device small enough to fit in your pocket!
Yet again, Apple is leading the industry: can't innovate, my ass.
Courage. The courage to do what anyone else has done the past four years. Only Apple.
No, "portless" solves nothing because you still need to carry around a proprietary charging cable. The whole point of going to USB-C is you can use one charger & cable type for all your devices!
MagSafe charging is also significantly slower than USB-C charging, which will be particularly noticeable on big-battery devices like the iPhone Ultra.
Portless solves several problems….for Apple. And introduces new ones for users.
Just like removing the SIM tray, especially from the Pro models.
They shouldn’t do it, but they might do it anyway.
Removing the SIM tray is a good thing. I hope they do it on all future iPhones in every country, as that extra space could be used for something else (a bigger battery, for example).
It could be but it wasn’t. They put in a block of plastic in the US and knew they couldn’t get away with it globally.
When they took away the headphone jack they immediately announced both a wireless replacement and an adapter.
When they told me I “no longer have to deal with a SIM card!” they did not actually do anything to address the fact that yes, actually I do still have to deal with a SIM card but now I can’t.
If they were going to hose us then yes they should have done something with that space besides a block of plastic.
Everything I read just makes no sense: “the 14’s didn’t sell well, we think it’s because the wasn’t enough differentiation between models, let’s separate the features even more and make the regular models even less attractive than the pros”
Now, if the borked 15’s come with a $100 less starting price (ha!) then maybe there’s an argument there.
I would have thought the reason for the plastic was obvious. They haven't moved to eSIM in the rest of the world and having the eSIM-only version having a bigger battery or some other significant difference to iPhones sold in the rest of the world would have caused segmentation problems as they would have to have a dedicated USA iPhone design and then a rest of the world iPhone design. Once they drop the SIM tray in all models of iPhone sold globally, we'll see them use that space for something useful.