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Other Disappointed after looking at the 15/15 Pro in person
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I’m in the metal business. If apple really using grade 5 titanium on these phones then they got hella of a discount from the bilt vendors. A small piece of sheet metal grade 5 titanium is about $1800 in today’s market. I buy and sell aluminum steel and galvanize materials. Lately prices have been dipping. I do love my 15PM natural but I’m wondering if it’s truly grade 5. No way apple gonna make negative profits on each phone. Made sense on a $799 ultra titanium watch versus these phones that are much bigger. BTW ultra watch can take a huge beating and still look new.
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That’s why I am so interested in the jerry rigs follow up video to test the titanium. I am also quite sceptic of the claim as well.
Aesthetic and beauty are the eyes of the beholders. Hence, they are very subjective. For me, Apple did a great job on producing iPhone 15 pro aesthetically. For me, white color is the best due the brightest, shiniest and most stand out color above all pro colors. I am very content what I chose.
I hope you will find other product that is fit with your aesthetic requirements and able to please you. Wish you the best!
There was once a time where you had a choice between plastic white or plastic black.
And they both looked so good you had trouble making up your mind which one to get. And you had a few days of excitement when you first got the phone in your hands.
Interesting video. Watched it earlier.
Jerry said he was going to send out the titanium frame for testing to see how much and what grade titanium is it.
I'm personally hoping for the results to come back as a 4.75 grade titanium and then everyone losing their collective minds. 🤣
A rather massive chunk of grade 5 titanium is under $700. https://onlinemetalsupply.com/2-75-x-3-5-x-33-5-6al-4v-grade-5-titanium-plate-annealed/
I’ve purchased multiple new Apple products every year for the past probably 15 years. Have noticed no decrease in build quality.
Performance wise unless there’s a fix for PWM it doesn’t work for me. And the only reason I’m with iOS is because the alternative is the worst kind of spyware. Otherwise iOS leaves a lot to be desired too.
Yup, Jerry made his name by investigating the “synthetic sapphire” lens covers issue finding they were “technically” synthetic sapphire but a poor grade of it with lots of impurities that made it more scratchable than the quality examples.
I predict Jerry will find that technically it is grade 5 but not the best. Apple knows how to play the legal game and won’t give you a lie - but they never promised you the best grade 5 ever made either, just like they didn’t give us the best PVD ever made…
I wish all the phones were either aluminum or even better, plastic. Why can’t they use recycled plastics?
Regardless, I would like to see the phones as light as possible.
Regardless, I would like to see the phones as light as possible.
I don’t intend to buy one. For as long as the SE is available that is my preferred phone.
If it could morph into an iPhone 8 or 8+ (LCD screen, home button, awesome colors), I would care. Don’t care for the draping in velvet, though.
I really wish one of these YouTubers would instead of destroying the thing, take one apart, sand down the frame to bare titanium, and then put it back together.
Also I’d like to see one of the frames sanded, and then scorched blue like he did to that titanium rod. Now that would look amazing.