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I'd hate it if they included a charger. I already pretty much have charger in every room.
I have 6 of them now, none have failed so far, been buying them since introduced. No products are 100% reliable but I can guess it would happen. Can always grab an old 20 watter from the “cable” drawer.
Right?
I don’t get the attempts at gate keeping on comment tone and tenor
Apparently some would prefer a new forum called “YayAppleGoTim.com”
I’ve heard that the iPhone 17 will use Samsung displays and Samsung cameras. The next Samsung will be using the next generation snapdragon which is faster than the A18 Pro. Rumors say that the next iPhone will be a rebadged Samsung with Apple logo and A19 processor and will be positioned below the S26 ultra.
I really don't understand what people expect. Outside of various folding phones that some of us are 0% interested in, nearly everyone is doing variations of their own design style. The smartphone is an established genre, similar to how flat panel televisions, Computer monitors, tablets, ETC are.
Another example of a "Tired" design.
S21 Ultra
S22 Ultra
S23 Ultra
S24 Ultra
They are the size and shape they are because people buy them. Too small, they don't sell, too big, they don't sell. Folding does sell as it is New but I wouldn't be surprised to see it level off after adoption of gadget seekers reaches full saturation, especially if devs don't come out with compelling apps that take advantage of the size / space.
People clowning on this company.
They are selling phones to a AT MINIMUM billion people a year.
That's fine that you feel ripped off. I certainly wouldn't voluntarily let a tech company rip me off.
How dare you to point out any weaknesses of Apple. All Apple does is in the best interest of you. It’s the most innovative, environmental friendly company in the world and has human rights written in it’s dna.
That’s why they’re producing all of their products in China. Which is famous for the well being of their citizens. All the iPhones are also transported by cargo planes all over the world. They do that for the environment.
Keep all that in mind next time you start criticizing Apple 😜
Or more expressing frustration than “clowning”
I’d love to give them more money if I could get a new iPad mini and iPhone mini
I’m tired of them homogenizing everything down to the same basic product across all the lineups
Just because they are “killing it financially” doesn’t mean everyone is super happy about what they’re doing and how they are doing it. Opinions have more nuance than that.
Except they offer much better technical specifications. Please compare them to the latest iPhones 😎
People just want to go back to the days when smartphones were exciting, when every new release was a major event that people lined up around the block for. Those days are not coming back. I think even Apple wanted to recreate that era with the VisionPro, but that didn't do it either.
There's a ton of Apple competition out there. If people weren't happy with Apple products, they'd purchase superior products from Apple competitors.
Apparently you believe Apple customers are sheep and have no agency over their tech purchases.
I REALLY want an iPhone 16 Pro that would have the same cameras, be the size of the iPhone Mini and have a Thunderbolt capable port!
- Full support for 4K monitors with ability to scale similar to MacOS
- MacOS like Desktop operating system when connected to a monitor / TV / Projector
- Full regular cursor (not the silly iOS dot when you use a pointing device)
- True multi-tasking.
Let me take my Pro-Res video, edit it in Final Cut (desktop class) on my phone. Why do I need to transfer to an iPad or Mac when the phone has plenty of power?
These dang phones have "desktop" class processors, yet even when connected to a monitor, I can't even do Side-by-Side like I can on an iPad mini 6 with a far lesser processor. Nor will the phone properly fill in a 4K monitor, be aware that I want full landscape operation when docked. Those would be pro features for me.
See my post #66 above.
Apparently you believe Apple's 1 billion active and repeat customers are sheep and have no agency over their tech purchases.
We will see what the decline is in a few days. My conjecture is >30% in the USA and >50% in Europe and China.
Please feel free to enlighten me on how they are better for how I use them.
Cool idea but it’s way too big when folded up in terms of the height and width. It needs to do the double-folding but be the same physical size as the 16 Pro and Pro Max, although obviously thinner than them.
I like the double-folding because it actually makes it useful. Single-folding is a bad idea because it does not get you a larger screen for media consumption and that’s the only reason for a larger screen. Because the aspect ration is essentially a square with a single-fold and if you weee watching a movie it would have massive letter-boxing.
With the double-folding it results in a much more useful aspect ratio which would result in a big screen for media consumption.
Clamshell designs that fold downward are 100% useless and shouldn’t be made.
I like the double-folding because it actually makes it useful. Single-folding is a bad idea because it does not get you a larger screen for media consumption and that’s the only reason for a larger screen. Because the aspect ration is essentially a square with a single-fold and if you weee watching a movie it would have massive letter-boxing.
With the double-folding it results in a much more useful aspect ratio which would result in a big screen for media consumption.
Clamshell designs that fold downward are 100% useless and shouldn’t be made.
A lot of the recent decline is in China, being highly encouraged/mandated by the Chinese govt.
I wonder why??? (kidding)
It's a bit like how f
Huawei has dethroned Apple out of the top 5 this year. Since the new iPhone 16/16pro’s can’t compete on technical specifications and Apple Intelligence won’t arrive till somewhere in 2025, I see a further decline for Apple.
If Huawei wasn’t banned over here it would have a bigger market share as Apple. We Dutch like the best for cheap and are famous for that 😎
The stickers are removed from this years iPhone packaging.