Bu then if those people are primarily concerned about price, wouldn't they just get the non-pro iPhones?
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Apple Says 128GB iPhone 15 Pro Limited to 1080p ProRes Video Recording Unless External Storage Connected
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It is the write speeds, not the capacity, because 256gb is not enough either if you regularly record in Pro Res and slower write & read speeds don't only affect the Pro Res feature.
That's why 128gb should no longer exist on the Pro Models
An iPhone Pro with 128 GB is an insult to our intelligence.. the line up should have started at 256GB instead.
No biggie for me... 128 is fine. 256 is $150 more in Canada. A 1TB ext drive is under $100.
I've seen no evidence that the speeds are affected by what storage option you use. They do not use the same architecture that the Mac logic boards do. I see your iP13 post but that was 2 generations ago.
EDIT: And if read/write speeds are the issue, which they said it was storage size and not speed, then you'd be limited to the type of external storage you could utilize as well. You can get USBC thumb drives that would "work" for external storage but not be as fast as the internal storage of the phone.
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Everybody is hating on the 128gb size, but this actually could make the 128 the ideal version for real filmmakers. It’s the cheapest and they can still record to external which they probably want to do anyway. They can just swap external drives and keep rolling rather than having to transfer off the device.
so? maybe they still want to have access to the best features in pro phones like 3 cameras, titanium bodies, action buttons...etc. I'm going to bet ProRes will be on the list of things normal iPhone users care about (or even know what that is). Why pay extra $100 (10% cost of the phone) for something they will never use?
I didn’t say anything about write speeds nor was that the point of my post. Like I said earlier, not everyone needs every feature of the Pro model much less a very niche option that very, very few will even use.
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Haven’t taken one ProRes video with my 14 Pro 256gb so I went with 15 Pro 128gb this time. Could care less and literally no one I know has used ProRes at all.
Completely agree.
I will check my before and after install to see how much more the OS uses.
Apparently the are people who are shocked and gobsmacked that with respect to almost every consumer tech product available for purchase, extra features, higher performance, etc cost... wait for it... EXTRA MONEY.
I guess I should let out a good Earth-shaking whine that I had to pay more money for a 75" TV over a 48" TV. All TVs should really cost the same.
128GB is fine for the standard 15 Pro storage size. I move all of my photos to a MacBook Pro and clear space on my phone whenever I need to. I’ve always had the smallest configuration, except on the X. I rarely used the extra space. I trade my phone in usually every super cycle and Apple and T-Mobile don’t care if you’ve upgraded your storage capacity when trading in. The investment up front doesn’t pay off for me. I’m a filmmaker and a tv and film professional and it just doesn’t make sense to upgrade for me that much without a solid use case. 128GB will be fine for me until iPhone 18 Pro (more likely 16 Pro Max).
You might have stumbled onto a new feature... Plug the mag safe into the mac and use the mac as a battery bank for your iPhone over the the USB-C end of the magsafe cable.
Well, technically it’s ONLY on the AW9 and SWU2, so it’ll be hard to make an apples to apples comparison. A legacy watch probably won’t see that.
Be careful what you wish for. Apple already showed with the 15 Pro Max they’d happily take out the lower storage option and still charge the same price for the higher storage. My 14 Pro Max currently has 80 GB used, so that size is still good enough for me. I guess I cloud turn off optimize storage for photos to keep my whole photo library local, but I really don’t need more. Plus, using much cheaper external storage is a more than acceptable workaround.
With regard to system wide gestures yes but all the rest applies. All the other OS improvements will be on the AWU and that very well may take more space.
My understanding is that the ON DEVICE SIRI processing is NOT coming to legacy devices.. can anyone confirm that.
/ probably wrong thread overall though.
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