I don't even own a share. I have a 2012 Mac Mini, I would have got a new one but Apple messed up the 2014 Mac mini. I have a 2012 MBA, my 10 year old son uses my old iPhone 4s, and my daughter uses the iPad mini. I recently upgraded to an Lg G3 from a Nexus 5. Between the ****** Canadian dollar and Apple's greed lately, I'm not sure if I will continue to use Apple products in the near future.By the look of this post, either you're an Apple employee or I'm being severely pranked. I can't see anyone saying any of this with a straight face.
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Alright then Henry, I see you talk a lot.
And I get it that you're much elder to me and I wanted to be as nice and rather respectful but Jesus you're talking about everyone having their own opinion and then showing your own opinion on to them.
*Sigh* too tired for this.
Just leave it would you? Regardless I wasn't talking to you in the discussion either and I left hours ago.
I'm very confused with your post reply because I never asked you if you owned any shares of the company. It's interesting you're now calling Apple greedy followed by you not being sure you will continue to use their products because just moments ago you said if they could get away with selling their products for 50% higher you would support that? Hmm. You're contradicting yourself. Okay I'm done with this one.
You forgot the IF part, So if Apple thought they could, they would, just not with me. I still see value on the Mac side of things on the phone side I will probably not return to iOS for a while. There is also the fact that I really hate windows and will pay a little premium to use a mac, with iOS i'm not will to pay double or triple to use a product that is slightly better.
I'll assume you didn't watch the Keynote. The button to toggle Live Photos function is in the camera application at the top where the HDR and auto flash buttons are.
Then buy a phone with more storage!! If the iPhone doesn't work for you then get something else!!
What the hell is wrong with all the people on the forum. People literally are acting personally offended that apple has a 16GB OPTION!!! No one is forcing you to buy it!!
Personally I have a 128 but use less than 1/3 the space. Bought a 16 for my mother and she's just fine with it because it suits her use-case. There are people with different use-cases *gasp*.
Would love to have come to a forum that actually talked about the feature highlighted in the article but it's almost impossible to sift through all these entitled d-bags whining because apple produced something they aren't required to buy....
What the hell is wrong with all the people on the forum. People literally are acting personally offended that apple has a 16GB OPTION!!! No one is forcing you to buy it!!
Personally I have a 128 but use less than 1/3 the space. Bought a 16 for my mother and she's just fine with it because it suits her use-case. There are people with different use-cases *gasp*.
Would love to have come to a forum that actually talked about the feature highlighted in the article but it's almost impossible to sift through all these entitled d-bags whining because apple produced something they aren't required to buy....
I agree they've lost love from some of the stalwarts who stayed with them through their darker years; people who were in fact customers but who believed themselves to be champions of a feisty underdog. But with the iPhone, that underdog is long gone. Apple might have lost some love, but man: they've gained all the cash.
The reason I'm so addicted to this site is to read the passionate views of the majority - the devotees who haven't gone anywhere and who still believe Apple's success depends on their passion. What other business has that kind of customer? I might like the car I drive, but I certainly don't care what you drive. Yet if I have an iPhone, there's a good chance I care very much that you have one, too. I might question your intellect or morals if you disagree. Even when profit margin is undeniably out of proportion to any competing product, a real fan remains needful and pays up happily.
That's the magic, and more important than love lost.
The reason I'm so addicted to this site is to read the passionate views of the majority - the devotees who haven't gone anywhere and who still believe Apple's success depends on their passion. What other business has that kind of customer? I might like the car I drive, but I certainly don't care what you drive. Yet if I have an iPhone, there's a good chance I care very much that you have one, too. I might question your intellect or morals if you disagree. Even when profit margin is undeniably out of proportion to any competing product, a real fan remains needful and pays up happily.
That's the magic, and more important than love lost.
So turn off the feature...
Jarringly short 1 second of motion that's not smooth and shows clear artifacting when their arms or legs move. Hopefully Apple's 3 seconds will be better done.
Apple premium + 25% extra for a devalued currency is reducing my enthusiasm for upgrades right now as well. But I usually keep my devices for longer than most people anyway. I can't justify the 6s, while already having the 6, but if I had anything else, it would be a solid proposition. The 6 is so good, I'll be happy until the 7 or 7s.
I get what you're saying about the Mac mini. The same happened with the recent MacBook update, I ended up going with an older MacBook Air instead. We have the iPad mini too, and I was planning on getting the iPad mini 3 when it pushed out the mini 2 as the bottom one, but then it got dropped and the mini 2 stayed there, and you need a mini 4 for the full multitasking in iOS 9. So now I'm just sticking with the iPad mini until either the Air 2 or mini 4 (that can multitask) drops to the low price point.
Really, my issue is that I want the second tier hardware, due to my budget and the Canadian dollar, but want to feel that it can do all of the important software features. I get that I'll always miss out on something like TouchID, live photos or pencil support. But something important like multitasking, would suck to miss out on. Like, I wonder what Apple will do in place of 3D Touch on older iPhones. If we can long press, than cool, but if we just can't do anything similar and miss out on the software functionality too, then that sucks.
I don't want to keep them on my phone, that's the whole point of iCloud Photos, right? I have them in the cloud (put them in there with my Mac). But now I cannot enable the freaking feature on my iPhone because the Optimize Storage feature cannot deal with that many photos. But instead of giving a warning, it just keeps filling up my phone, and giving errors when I try to view a photo. The result: a library of 5GB on my phone and i cannot see 80% of my pictures because of error messages.
No one really cares how its being achieved. The fact is result is the same.[/QUOTE]
But isn't that the whole point about how you can easily distinguish between the two. I mean Living Pictures looks more like short videos, almost GIF like, as they play automatically whereas Live Photos look and act like photos (you can even use them as your lock screen and make them work from there) until you use force touch.
i suspect they have some kind of smart algorithm so the most stationary part of the photo is frozen, and whats moving is recorded.
Cinemagraph Pro?
What the hell? I don't have any pity for you as that's your problem not mine. Prices here aren't sweet like roses either, but I make sure I have the funds for the tech I really want. I'm always saving here and there and therefore I can afford the phone I want. I actually start saving once I purchase the non-"s" series iphone for the next non-"s" series iPhone. I get two years to save up and always skip the "s" series.
or exactly the same as on the HTC one m7 the year before.. nothing new, until you start being bombarded by ifans slavering over this new innovation..
Quality of experience varies from user to user. If only having 16 GB of storage creates a bad user experience, than that user purchased the wrong model as that model is not intended for those who take tons of photos and videos. The OS is really what determines the quality of a user's experience and it's something you cannot change. At least with the hardware, you have the option of purchasing more storage.
I'm not defending Apple. There is nothing to defend. It is not their job to please everyone. It is not possible to please everyone. I don't care about Apple's profit margins. Don't buy it if it bothers you that much. Buy a different phone with expandable storage. Don't buy another Apple product ever again, see if I care.
It's not like I couldn't afford the iPhone 6S if I wanted to. Being able to afford something does not prevent me from identifying when I'm being gouged for features that should be there in the first place for the price. My 64GB iPhone 6 should serve me quite well until the iPhone 7 arrives. Let's see if Apple has come to their senses by then. But if an interesting and good enough Android comes up in the meantime, there's not much holding me back especially when features like Apple Pay never seem to become available here.
I know I'm late to the comments party with this one so it has probably already been said before, but wow. They said in the keynote that they engineered it so that it doesn't use much storage space. But double the size of a 12mp JPG? That's just crazy. That being said I'll probably leave it on since I have a 128GB device with iCloud Photo storage, but RIP in pieces to all the 16GB owners.
I also want to know how well the playback is when swiping between those photos when they're all in iCloud library? You'd think the animation wouldn't be smooth when quickly flipping if the animation itself is as large as the image file—and only a smaller cached version of the image file is available when iCloud Photo library is turned on.
I also want to know how well the playback is when swiping between those photos when they're all in iCloud library? You'd think the animation wouldn't be smooth when quickly flipping if the animation itself is as large as the image file—and only a smaller cached version of the image file is available when iCloud Photo library is turned on.
HDR is on auto by default, meaning the camera turns it on whenever it considers it to be necessary. The point being that Apple has added features in the past that increased the storage needs. Another example would be the retina screen in the iPhone 4 which increased the size of apps (and the OS) needing higher resolution graphical assets. The iPhone 4 also had a higher resolution camera, which again required more space.
Heck, I wonder why you didn't complain about the move from 8 to 12 MP (in particular since that size increase cannot be switched off, whereas that of the 'live photos' can).
I guess unless Apple turns into a non-profit, your argument that they could sell things cheaper will always stand.
Good luck convincing your company to give you an upgraded work phone instead of the bottom spec even if you are paying for its difference...