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Everything Apple Announced at Today's Event in 13 Minutes
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Ahh... that Sierra Blue iPhone 13 .... among many crappy colour schemes Apple churned out over the years... THAT colour stood out as classy. WTF happened to Apple? Did they go colour blind after 2021?
I actually didn't watch the keynote but I knew what to expect. Seriously, Apple need to get genuine and get back into the theatre and do LIVE events and not hide behind glossed over video presentations. There is no passion to interact in real time anymore.
I just want to recognize the folks who are finally waking up to Apple's BS. Good for you all!!! 
I mean this with all due respect, but stop buying Apple products. That's the only way we will ever see change at this point. The only Apple product I have left is my trusty 2017 iMac Retina 5K. I still love Apple, and I've even met the Woz, but I'm not spending another dime on their products until I see some changes.
I was with you until you said the iPhone 4 was your last lust-worthy device. While Apple has been selling the same, uninspired phones for 5 years now, the 6 was pretty different, and the X was pretty lust-worthy for me.
I thought the event was fine. Nice upgrades -- and they maintained prices. Imagine the whining and wailing if there had been a price bump on the pro iPhones. You get additional features, better battery life, faster A18 chip that uses less power -- this is a win. Apple continues to achieve with its silicon, delivering excellent performance.
iPhone is a mature product. But over the course of a few incremental upgrades, Apple delivers a significant capability boost in their iPhone lineup, while still remaining one of the most secure and reliable smartphones on the market.
Also, Watch Series 10 and the Airpods upgrades were very well done. Decently priced, quality products that work better than anything else on the market. Apple will sell boatloads of Series 10 and Airpods.
I'll be getting a new iPhone and the Series 10. Apple delivers what we need: reliable products that work. I'm glad they didn't stick a whole bunch of "features" into the iPhone that no one wants, with more things that can break or degrade performance.
iPhone is a mature product. But over the course of a few incremental upgrades, Apple delivers a significant capability boost in their iPhone lineup, while still remaining one of the most secure and reliable smartphones on the market.
Also, Watch Series 10 and the Airpods upgrades were very well done. Decently priced, quality products that work better than anything else on the market. Apple will sell boatloads of Series 10 and Airpods.
I'll be getting a new iPhone and the Series 10. Apple delivers what we need: reliable products that work. I'm glad they didn't stick a whole bunch of "features" into the iPhone that no one wants, with more things that can break or degrade performance.
Battery life is what’s keeping me away. Also, the size is getting silly. I noticed everyone onscreen was wearing one and they were obviously too large for their wrists.
Totally agree. They are now a company being built on tiny increments and starting to feel like my "grandfather's electronics company". Switched to a Garmin Fenix 8 and love it. Leaps ahead in many ways of the Apple Ultra. iPad is still best in class, but the iphone is not something I'm willing to sell out $1000 for anymore.
I think the 4s event was pretty lame, the only feature being Siri and a spec bump.
This stuff is basic; no one really cares about AI, and that camera crap gets old. We are in the time where most phones have great cameras. All editing photos on the iPhone, make sure you stay in the app because it might refresh and start you over. All this power still pretty basic functionality compared to the many Android phones I have 15 pro max I have to say the Samsung Galaxy S23 is way better with more functionality than the 15 pro max I am kind of mad I gave it to my little brother because my productivity is limited with the iPhone unless I carry my laptop.😑
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I gave up on the spring loaded clamps having had a number of them explode into shards of plastic and rapidly escaping springs over the years and now have a tripod mountable magsafe mount which works brilliantly and doesn’t block access to any of the buttonsI hope this camera control button doesn’t prove to self to be a problem when I’m mounting it on my phone tripod which pinches the sides. Always had to make sure it doesn’t press the side button but now there’s another button I have to watch out for.
In the early days of iPhone we got massive improvements year after year. The camera upgrades alone were worth it every single year. 8mp instead of 5. 1080p video recording. Later on things like image stabilization were a huge deal. It also had a new antenna band design that made it a world phone. Siri was huge back in the day. If you were alive and around back then, all the updates felt huge whereas now it’s meh. We’ve had good cameras for years
Does anyone have any thoughts on which color Pro will be the least susceptible to scratching? I am thinking of upgrading from a black 14 Pro Max and it got scratches on the bezel from dust getting between the phone and the case I was using.
“…no need to update them all the time.”
It’s been 4 years.
I noticed I left my earplugs at home when I was at a metal concert. Popped my AirPods Pro as an improvised plug and I was amazed at how well everything sounded in transparency mode. Glad to see this is now an official feature, it’s better than any earplugs I’ve tried.
I think natural titanium is the obvious choice as its doesn't have any coating, and so scratches would be less visible. That said, I haven't seen any reports from iPhone 15 Pro that other colours were particularly prone to scratching
Even 4 years of upgrade is not a lot of excitement these days. The A13 processors in the iPhone 11/SE 2 functions just fine. It is more RAM constrained (apps would reload more often because they take up more space) than the CPU. And it is not like we couldn't have 8GB or 16GB of RAM in phones 4 years ago. So increasing RAM is not really innovation. You'll also notice a massive upgrade by just getting a new battery in your phone.
On the Mac it is more obvious. If you had the M1 or M1 Pro with 16GB or 32GB of RAM (depending on your needs) you're not missing out much other than maybe things load 10% slower. Barely noticeable for most things.
4.5 years for the phone or 7 years for the Mac are decent upgrades, but not really massive. You can probably keep your things for 7-10 years and still be fine.
Agree to disagree, I’m excited for an iPhone 16 over my SE2, and a recent 13” iPad Air replacing a 5th gen base iPad felt luxurious.
A very good article is available on The Atlantic (and Apple News).
"Yet Another iPhone, Dear God", by Ian Bogost.
"Future smartphones will continue to consume forgotten innovations of the past and then regurgitate them to us as if they’re new. And we will continue to devour them—in part because they will be new, and in part because we’ll have no alternative."
"Yet Another iPhone, Dear God", by Ian Bogost.
"Future smartphones will continue to consume forgotten innovations of the past and then regurgitate them to us as if they’re new. And we will continue to devour them—in part because they will be new, and in part because we’ll have no alternative."
Off the top of my head, I’d say the 2014 iPhone event but I’m sure there are others. There are many where only a few products were released so this was not the only Apple iPhone event where they didn’t release a whole bunch of hardware.
I don't use spring loaded clamps. I have an aluminum jig with a thumbscrew that clamps my phone on the side and it's been very reliable, plus it has a slot for a flash shoe. A magsafe could still spin.