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iPhone 15 Pro Likely Feels Even Lighter Than It Really Is Due to Inertia Change
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one could argue there is not price hike, the prices have stayed consistent with the USD equivalent. Not Apple's fault that other currencies can't maintain their value
Apple's pricing is based on the exchange rate, with US prices set as the baseline.
Price increases this year are from currency weakness, not Apple hiking the baseline prices.
That's actually quite ingenious. Fiddling with the weight distribution isn't something I thought about in relation to phones.
I posted something about this a few weeks ago… noting that a colleague’s iPhone 14 Plus felt much lighter than my 13 Pro, despite being larger and about the same weight. The camera and third lens located at the edge of my 13 Pro has a lot to do with that.
Oh please. When you are forced to take the larger storage option if you want the Pro Max, that’s a price increase. When I MUST spend more money to buy the equivalent model this year compared to last year, that’s a price increase. When more money is charged to my credit card when I buy a Pro Max this year compared to last year, that’s a price increase. Shall I continue?
I kind of doubt it was planned. Just a happy and real coincidence. Their goal was to reduce weight, and it just happens that the edge is the easiest place on a phone to reduce weight without getting rid of all that glass.
I had a seiko watch that wound itself that way. Best pure watch I've ever owned.I'm surprised Apple has an implemented some type of inertia charging because of all the jostling we do with our iPhone and watches.
Plus the trade in values are like 80 dollars lower vs last year. A subtle price hike.
Apple probably really wanted to raise prices but decreasing iPhone sales isn’t the time to do it. Apple is only a growth company for services.
I can’t help but think someone reading this article and then going to shop for phones and asking the sales rep who is probably a teenager what the inertia on said phone is like. That sales rep might look at you and think you’re crazy but here we are. Just another variable to think about. 🤣
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Maybe like the ForeverSpin titanium top feels much lighter than the steel one. But it does not spin as long maybe the iPhone 15 pro will not spin heads ?
maybe the iPhone 15 pro will not spin heads ?
I mean, that's great and all but it's such a negligible weight - will that even have the slightest, meaningful difference in the user experience? Not likely.
Hm... that doesn't change the actual weight, but inertia usually help in stabilizing the phone when taking pictures... Moment of inertia in particular increases the force (or rather moment) needed to turn the device. (Rotation (not lateral movement) is the primary cause for blurry images at longer exposures.)
What's more important is the center of gravity... that was really bad on the (iirc) 13 Pro and improved quite a lot on the 14 Pro, but the 13 and 14 Pro are super heavy imho... I hope CG didn't get worse...
What's more important is the center of gravity... that was really bad on the (iirc) 13 Pro and improved quite a lot on the 14 Pro, but the 13 and 14 Pro are super heavy imho... I hope CG didn't get worse...
Interesting analysis.
I wonder if it’s not so much a matter of the moment of inertia being reduced, as much as it is the percentage reduction in moment of inertia being greater than the percentage reduction in mass, such that the reduction in the perceived ‘ratio’ between the moment of inertia and the mass gives a perception of lightness.
I wonder if it’s not so much a matter of the moment of inertia being reduced, as much as it is the percentage reduction in moment of inertia being greater than the percentage reduction in mass, such that the reduction in the perceived ‘ratio’ between the moment of inertia and the mass gives a perception of lightness.