Ah, wireless underwater charging, finally.
My online presence got so neglected when diving.
Now let those crummy fish envy my gold finished phone that they could never afford...
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My online presence got so neglected when diving.
Now let those crummy fish envy my gold finished phone that they could never afford...
The sales are not "in the toilet" its by far the best selling "premium" phone on the market. It easily outsells all its competitors every single year. It sure isn't selling as good as a few years back as more and more people don't feel the rush for upgrading as often and many people are content with going with previous generation of phones when upgrading. But "in the toilet" is just overstating it by a mile.
Why don't Apple just gives us 2x physical sims? Because they want to push eSIM. They have noticed that markets are slow in adopting eSIM which is a problem for devices like the Apple Watch LTE as there is just no room for a physical sim in the device.
The Apple Watch is really popular as far as smart watches go, but its not remotely close as being as popular as the iPhone so Apple is trying to use their market dominance in order to push operators into getting their head out of their rear and start supporting eSIM.
It's a great strategy and it will without any doubt make the amount of operators supporting eSIM expand tremendously over the next year. You just wait and see. In my country the two major operators have already confirmed they will be offering eSIM by the end of the year and all the smaller operators are using their networks for their own operations so eSIM will trickle down so by the end of 2019 pretty much every carrier will support it. So we are basically going from 0 to 100% in a year as soon as they new iPhone's started supporting eSIM. This sure isn't pure coincidence.
Wuh. That mkt. nonsense was refuted in 2 minutes with an app allowing configurable Bokeh post-edits on older devices.
Bokèèhhh...!!
I wonder what wireless charging devices will take advantage of this. I have a Mophie one right now but I think it maxes out at 7.5w
Highest quality video and you still can’t pause recording. I don’t get why they can’t add that.
Pssht - don’t disturb Joni.
He’s busy redesigning the volume HUD
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He probably means “tired of screaming into an iPad Mini”Love the ending of the `108 minute`video with the Tim Cook Memoji being cut off while he's talking. Ha! Ha!
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This, I'll never understand. How could someone be -disappointed- with the X's screen size? Really? "Disappointed"? Is that really the feeling? But I'm glad you have your "phablet" screen size now, so we won't hear this again.
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Schilly BS. This app does it on older devices
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/focos/id1274938524?mt=8
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Oh, yeah. eSIM has been around for years and now it's available in...10 countries.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209096
Spreading like wildfire!
Well, except in China, one of the most most populous nations on the planet. Or Africa, or Asia. No countries from the area with 70% of the world's population are on the list. But whatevs. Apple will change all that. Oh wait no...they're offering dual physical SIM in China...
But at least in Norway (population 5 million) eSIM is BLOWING UP!
I'm sorry, but I think you completely misunderstood my point? The fact that Apple is pushing eSIM on a massively popular device like the iPhone will drive the adoption rate of eSIM.
The devices are not even in consumers hands and you are expecting the effect of the new iPhones supporting eSIM to already show?
Lets see how many countries and how many operators supports it at the end of 2019...
The devices are not even in consumers hands and you are expecting the effect of the new iPhones supporting eSIM to already show?
Lets see how many countries and how many operators supports it at the end of 2019...
...and if that is the case, I might buy the 2019 or 2020 phone (if eSIM is supported by my carrier by then). But this is a business, selling a product, and with many of us, they have lost a sale that they could have had right now and not at the end of 2019 (again, *if*). I'm not going to waste my hard earned money on a product offering something that "might" work in the future, but also might not.
It’s not really more expensive if you were getting the maximum storage on an iPhone in the past.
My 6S Plus with 128 GB storage cost as I recall about $1150 new when that was the maximum storage you could get (might have been $1050, been several years).
I’ve ordered a XS with 256 GB and it’s costing $1150. So twice the storage, larger screen, better fit in my hand, faster processor, etc.
I agree to keeping it as long as you can obviously, always done that. My 6S+ camera has recently developed a bad case of shaky cam and there are other annoying quirks that are forcing me to upgrade earlier than I planned, but if not for that, it’s still a great phone that I love. Will miss the fingerprint button and the earphone connector - going to be an adjustment.
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That app doesn’t work on older devices with a single camera. Says you need dual camera.
All three phones are great phones, but I think this is the weakest upgrade cycle ever.
It's as though Apple thinks we all live the lives of beatnik Bohemians, spending our fashionably upscale, independently wealthy days taking unusually lit slow motion photographs of strangely exotic women and transgressively androgynous men. But now, what changes everything with the advent of the amazing iPhone XS, we do it with beaucoup bokeh!
The multicore benchmarks may be lower than the iPhone 8 plus, but the iPhone 8 plus doesn't have beaucoup bokeh! Bokeh changes everything! You can enter the transformative world of Bokeh today, right now, starting at only $999! Bokeh! And genuine goldtone!
Okay.
Edit: I actually am hoping that the geek bench scores may be misleadingly low. If not, the CPU upgrade is much more minor than it appears, at least until things start exploiting all the "neural" cores. Or maybe the bulk of the CPU enhancement went into extending battery life, which is a legitimate trade off.
It's as though Apple thinks we all live the lives of beatnik Bohemians, spending our fashionably upscale, independently wealthy days taking unusually lit slow motion photographs of strangely exotic women and transgressively androgynous men. But now, what changes everything with the advent of the amazing iPhone XS, we do it with beaucoup bokeh!
The multicore benchmarks may be lower than the iPhone 8 plus, but the iPhone 8 plus doesn't have beaucoup bokeh! Bokeh changes everything! You can enter the transformative world of Bokeh today, right now, starting at only $999! Bokeh! And genuine goldtone!
Okay.
Edit: I actually am hoping that the geek bench scores may be misleadingly low. If not, the CPU upgrade is much more minor than it appears, at least until things start exploiting all the "neural" cores. Or maybe the bulk of the CPU enhancement went into extending battery life, which is a legitimate trade off.
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I hated TouchID 1 - its the single biggest flaw when I had the iPhone 6 - ApplePay was embarrassing with TouchID 1. Its the only reason I caved and upgraded to a 7 2 years later, so when the X came out with FaceID, I just avoided it.
Although given this "upgrade" to FaceID is so soon, I'm wondering if its more like FaceID 1.5 (vs. TouchID 2) speed.
Nope - the iPhone 7/8 series was the weakest upgrade cycles IMO, the 8 basically added wireless charging and the 7 just brought a faster processor. The 6S addressed the major issues of the lineup, so the 7/8 were terrible really.
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I won't quibble too much there. We both remember the days when upgrades were amazing: retina! Siri! 64 bit! Big display! Touch ID! Everything since then has seemed nice but very incremental, requiring advertising more focused on artistry than amazing new functionality. (Though I have a friend with sweaty hands who loves Face ID.
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I used to think that way,but iPhone X chaned everything.
I don’t want to miss on having the latest,new design.
The S series with “Refinements” come together with the design and features that are no longer “new” or “exciting”.and within 12 months,the S series will be totally outdated when the latest greatest all new model arrives.(this doesn’t apply to original new model when S arrives)
I think this phone design is here to stay for a few years. Color options and component tweaks will rule the day. Software is a different story. Allegedly, iOS 13 will redesign the icon grid interface which should freshen things up a bit.
It happens to people who mistreat their equipment and pull the cables out by the cord or bend the cable while it's charging.
I'm sorry, but those are are refinements, not upgrades. I can't think of a year in the history of the iPhone that offered fewer reasons to upgrade from the previous year's model. Even if it's just an "s" year...
The 3Gs doubled speed and introduce video recording. The 4s introduced Siri. The 5s introduced TouchID, the 6s introduced 3D Touch, live photos and doubled RAM. The Xs is just, like I said, a refinement. How many transistors the A12 has or how many operations per second it can perform just isn't that impressive when all it really means is that apps will launch a fraction of a second later. How many people really feel that they push the hardware limits of of the 8/8 Plus/X?