As long as cameras get better each year, that's all I need. The closer I can get to my $7k DSLR, in terms of quality, the better.
I don't see why anyone is whining and worrying about a $20 cable to begin with. lol.
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Apple VP Kaiann Drance Interview Addresses Battery Life, MagSafe, and Power Adapter Concerns
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As long as cameras get better each year, that's all I need. The closer I can get to my $7k DSLR, in terms of quality, the better.
I couldn't agree more. The hype around 5G and the iPhone right now, is off the charts. Take away 5G and what do you have? Same phone as last year, just a different form factor. That's it.
But the iPhone 12 will still be a very good and fast phone 2 years from now, when 5g becomes fast. People will buy it now because it's the latest iPhone and it looks cool. 5g is all hype now, of course (in the US, the rest of the world is different, some places are worse, some better) but it will mature and get better during this phone's life cycle.
If the environment and waste are really concerns, might it have made more sense to not include a cable at all?
She seemed to evade the question of needing a screen protector so I'll go ahead and assume it has the same oleophobic coating that will get the same microscratches in it if you don't use one.
She is very obviously in marketing. Too bad we can never get more interviews with lower level engineers. Would be cool to hear about the tradeoffs.
Software can almost never compensate for smaller battery. The people have spoken: battery >>>>>>>> thinness. iPhone 11 PRO lasts all day. Its amazing. That alone made it the best phone I have ever owned. Will wait for testing but feels like a step down To go to smaller batteries and tell us they compensated with softeware.
Why do they pro and 12 have same form factor. Cost savings. Thats it folks. If they put a bigger battery in the 12 then the manufacturing becomes more complex and what they really want is production savings.
Software can almost never compensate for smaller battery. The people have spoken: battery >>>>>>>> thinness. iPhone 11 PRO lasts all day. Its amazing. That alone made it the best phone I have ever owned. Will wait for testing but feels like a step down To go to smaller batteries and tell us they compensated with softeware.
Why do they pro and 12 have same form factor. Cost savings. Thats it folks. If they put a bigger battery in the 12 then the manufacturing becomes more complex and what they really want is production savings.
I have to admit, that in my opinion, I enjoyed listening to everything that was said. I am clearly not sure what you believe "used car type people" should say? Something along the lines of, "if you drive the car into a wall at high speed, you'll damage the car and potentially hurt yourself?" She was being interviewed and highlighted the product.
The great thing is we all can pick and choose what we want to listen to.
Just the fact that they need to have a used car saleswoman spinning the Apple talking points shows how much they’ve gotten this wrong.
You're right, but then again the X, XS and the 11 will also be great phones for the next 2 years until 5G matures. Also, if we go by your theory that people buy the 12 because it's the newest and looks cool - which is a valid enough theory - those people will also buy the 12S, the 13, etc, which proves my point that buying the 12 was a waste of money. I am not just saying that either, as I am one of those who was ready to pop into the shop on day of launch and move from my XS to the 12 Pro, but seeing the hardly practical "improvements", I decided, I'd much rather not spend money on it. I think my next iPhone will happen when 5G is mature.
Some of these comments rub me the wrong way. Yeah, it seems rehearsed, but that doesn't make it appropriate to be calling the woman creepy or making comments on how she looks.
I'm not necessarily a fan of all the marketing talk either, but interviews can be stressful and uncomfortable, and people handle/approach them in different ways like rehearsing a lot.
I'm not necessarily a fan of all the marketing talk either, but interviews can be stressful and uncomfortable, and people handle/approach them in different ways like rehearsing a lot.
But as 5G gets better, battery life will get worse. On top of a 2 year old degraded battery, you should expect battery life to take a drastic fall off of a cliff around the 2 year mark.
I have the 11 Pro. My work lets me upgrade but wow. This is terrible. The 11 Pro has been the best phone ever and battery life is a huge reason I love the phone. Tragic to take a step back.
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just about anyone who owns a rechargeable device or computer has a USB port, but not everyone owns an iOS device.
Maybe take a few minutes to visit Apple.com and check out the Compare tool because what you posted is a flat out lie.
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Look at the iPhone SE2. It has an outdated design, mediocre camera, small screen, huge bezels, a HORRIBLE battery life. What's good about it? Just that is has an a13 processor. Which is great, it's an incredibly performant processor. But not a big deal because all mid range phones are super smooth nowadays, so what's the point?
Yet....in all its mediocrity, it sells like hot cakes.
Compared to that, these new iPhones 12 are very capable devices, with good screens, decent battery life and a great design (from 10 years ago, straight from the Jobs era but everything they did after that was worse).
Of course they will sell a lot of phones. Apple does not need to be on the ball anymore. As long as they make minor changes and don't screw up in a major way they will keep selling a crazy number of phones, even if they keep raising prices either directly or by removing accessories and pushing services aggressively.
They just need to keep releasing fast phones with minor camera improvements, that sometimes (like this year) look very pretty and other times are just a little different from the previous model. Inertia and ecosystem lock do the rest. Just raise the temperature slowly and the frog will boil peacefully.
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And a "BUNCH", what kind of professional says we have a BUNCH of...several and here they are 1.x 2.y 3.z.
Not everyone has USB-C chargers though? They shouldn't have included any cables in my opinion, since folks will either not use this one [since they will use the numerous USB-A cables & chargers] or go out and buy a new USB-Charger, rendering the initiative [claimed environment] redundant
This is clearly a deliberate communication style. Silicon valley juvenilism.
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I double checked, I stand corrected. They decided to ship USB-A Charger when their phone uses USB-C.....
I have a lot more problem with that than with Apple.
I updated the original post.
It isn't a complaint. It is pointing out the ridiculous hypocrisy of Apple saying "you have enough chargers, use those" while shipping the new phone with a cable that doesn't connect to "those".
Not that hard to understand.
Kinda hard to say "it makes no sense to include a USB-A cable" when the entire world is still USB-A, all infrastructure, all vehicles, 90% of the chargers people still have.
It would be nice to snap your fingers and magically change that reality to USB-C, but you can't. Shipping a cable that most people will throw in a drawer and use some older cable is pretty ironic quite frankly. Doesn't really matter that its "the better cable".