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First iPhone 16 Pro Unboxing Video Shared Online
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As much as people want it, we will never get iPadOS/macOS as one. Large majority of people buying iPads don't care or want that. They want to send messages, surf the web, and email. "Techies" want more, average customer, who make up the majority of sales, don't.
Same with 120Hz screens, large majority of people buying the phones don't notice or care about 60Hz.
To me changing the form factor to change the form factor doesn't make much sense. And, just as many people would complain they changed the form factor.
What I have realized, regardless of what Apple does, people aren't going to be happy. Apple can't win.
They also used to include a dock. Once removed, it became a € 55 add-on at this side of the pond.
Back in the days where as a plucky upstart Apple needed to include these things to entice buyers. Now they don’t need to include those things.
Honestly, give it another few years and I could see Apple make the argument of dropping an included USB-C cable in the box for environmental reasons as well, as 'everyone already has one'. Greenpeace etc. would likely applaud it, even.
Don’t forget they removed the stickers too 🌚
They already did it for AirPods 4. It's almost certainly in the cards for iPhone in the near future.
Apple's excuse is, "AirPods are designed to reduce environmental impact." But I guess they never considered there's no way to service the batteries in those things.
That was the most boring unboxing I’ve ever seen in my life. Bordered on fake. If you gonna do it, do it with your chest.
The creases on this thing are very noticeable. This is one reason as to why I don’t like ‘foldables’. You can only open and close a thing so many times before damage gets done, no? Are the creases just as visible on the Samsung Fold 6? Or any of them for that matter?! I’m not saying the creases shouldn’t be there at all, but when the screen is black, it’s very visible. How would this not mess with you after putting out so much money towards a phone?
From your own article about RCS on iPhone:
In the European Union, legislators are developing laws that would require Apple to make changes to iMessage to make it available on other platforms so that iMessage users aren't locked in to Apple devices. With RCS, iMessage has fewer benefits that are unavailable cross-platform, and closer feature parity is available on iPhone and Android devices.
The EU eventually decided that iMessage is not a gatekeeper service, so isn't subject to any regulations.
While I don't have too many extra Apple chargers, I did buy one of the Anker Nano Chargers (with USB-C port on it) a year or so ago, and I will say its been very reliable. And puts out more juice than the traditional small Apple charge adapter cubes -- so charges iPhone or whatever faster.
30 watts in that nice little form factor is why I like it. As well as the USB-C, only a few cables left on the old A.
Agreed,
@HJM.NL you aren't wrong with what you posted, but if you keep reading you see the idea / thought was reversed and not enforced. Other articles on the web cover this a bit more.
Love your definition of "agency". "Woe is me" is a little bit middle English or even 1920s drama.
Curious the specified reason for that? There has been speculation that Huawei hardware/software don't offer any backdoors for the spy agencies, and for that reason, the powers that be, want to limit the markets Huawei can sell into. Perhaps Rob Braxman will eventually chime on Huawei, he seems to be big on security, and rants on Apple, Windows, $MS, but as of yet, I have not seen him talking much about Huawei.