I wonder if the Mini will become an every other year phone.
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Can't Get an iPhone 14 Pro? Here's Why You Should Wait for the iPhone 15 Ultra
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The iPhone XXX will only be available to those 18 and older. It might be shaped like a boob.
Featuring Weiner-ID, which might get you arrested if you try to use Apple Pay in public. 🤣
I bet you 100% if they go solid state, the mute switch will be solid state. That would suck. There’s something’s in life where good old tactile feel can’t be replaced. A light switch is one. Brake pedals. Keyboard keys. Come one apple. Don’t innovate just to say it’s innovation. And I highly doubt they can squeeze even more battery life since the current buttons don’t even take much space. And I don’t get the benefits. Better water protection so you can use the iPhone as a dive computer to swim to the titanic? Who here will even use it for that. Current IP rating is fine already!Maybe it will carry a touch sensor where you don’t have to actually press it. With a touch of a button, it will function.
Personally, I think the Solid State button will look like an Apple Watch Ultra Action button. They are flushed.
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The minor thing will be that the installments will be out of sync, so people who upgrade every one or two years on installment plans will have to catch up before they can trade or pay off and do a regular trade
That's going to be the main point is the speed. Heck even if they someone sped up lightning, that would be cool for some. But hopefully people will research once Apple USB-C comes to make sure it isn't still 2.0 speeds
In store you will have to go in the secret room behind the curtain to purchase
Agreed. I mean there is no chance that demand and/or production problems will affect availability of iPhone 15 models.
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It already is out of hand, and under Tim Cook, it won't change.
They've hitched their wagon to mostly artificial differentiation and segmentation and charging through the nose for meager upgrade tier changes.
As Android manufacturers keep prices lower with some taking the hit, it’s got to be time for some long term iPhone users to get fed up though. These phones have doubled in price over the past 8 years and saw a huge £150 increase in the last 12 months alone. If it’s going up again next year, I think it’s wise for people to assess their options. I certainly don’t need to spend £1300+ on a smartphone anymore to get what I need.
It might have started that way, but SJ's computers quickly had different hardware tiers (different processors [the second colorful iBook came with two processor choices]), different optical drives [some had regular drives some had the super drive], different storage, different sizes, special editions like the DV and Dalmatian iMacG3s, etc.); not to mention up to four different iPod types sold at the same time, all of which had different storage sizes.
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Family of five. All have iPhone 11s with ATT. We were looking to swap to T-Mobile with a new corporate discount that would save us around $30 a month. Not massive, but something. There's a free upgrade with trade for each line of up to $1000 per line available to all new lines, so we were pretty much all looking at a pro.
Realistically we haven't gotten the ball rolling; swapping carriers is always a drag. If pro models are all out of stock anyway, it might make the most sense to just wait. I've been eager to have a usb c phone and transition literally all of our electronic devices to one charging cable. We keep our phones for a few years at least, so that would be a major boon. Camera improvements would be welcome too. All the other features are just icing on the cake, frankly.
Really the only thing holding me back from waiting, aside from the monthly savings of course, is our batteries. Two of them are already under 80% and the remaining 3 are close.
Realistically we haven't gotten the ball rolling; swapping carriers is always a drag. If pro models are all out of stock anyway, it might make the most sense to just wait. I've been eager to have a usb c phone and transition literally all of our electronic devices to one charging cable. We keep our phones for a few years at least, so that would be a major boon. Camera improvements would be welcome too. All the other features are just icing on the cake, frankly.
Really the only thing holding me back from waiting, aside from the monthly savings of course, is our batteries. Two of them are already under 80% and the remaining 3 are close.
You didn't ask me, but I'll respond too. Charging. Everything else we own in the house, from earbuds to laptops, to video game controllers charger with usb c. The only reason we have lightning is for our iPhones. I won't miss a cable dedicated to only our phones, of that I am sure.
If you live in the US, you're stuck with an eSIM-only iPhone 14 while everyone else gets the option of using a normal SIM (in addition to eSIM), so apparently Apple is indeed willing to make iPhones that have unique hardware for a specific region. 😅
And then next year "Waiting for the iPhone 15 Ultra? Here's why you should wait for the iPhone 16 Awesomesauce".
I always follow this advice and right when I'm about to upgrade to something, I see that people suggest waiting for the next model to come along...that's why I'm stuck on this Mac SE/30 now for the past 33 years. I hear that NEXT year will be the one to get....so I'll wait.
I always follow this advice and right when I'm about to upgrade to something, I see that people suggest waiting for the next model to come along...that's why I'm stuck on this Mac SE/30 now for the past 33 years. I hear that NEXT year will be the one to get....so I'll wait.
A lot of data transfers. Big music files, big photos and videos, and more. It's painfully slow to do that on Lightning so USB-C will be so much better. Plus I'll only need one type of cable for everything.
I agree it’s unlikely but I wouldn’t say there’s nothing to suggest it. They already have a US only model with component differences and they seem very obstinate about having to comply with the EU USB-C mandate.
And yes exactly, Apple removed the SIM slot to save money, not for any customer benefit. Telling me I don’t “have to deal with a SIM card” is insulting. I didn’t “have to” on the 13 either. But I do actually have a need for it.
So again I essentially agree with you, except that Apple has demonstrated that they will can and will make different models for different regions for the sole purpose of benefit to Apple, no matter how their marketing tries to spin it.