Whatever do such add-ons protect against? My iPhone Pros tolerate all kinds of abuse without a case, including dozens of drops to concrete from 4'-5' elevations. A >12' drop to concrete did crack the back glass but I doubt if any back glass protector would have helped.
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My kids are my cars. And I can tell you having two teenagers around the house can be expensive 🤭I do see that. My main object is nature and wildlife and then my children (I consider my pets as my children as my real children are going into their 30).
Options is a good thing.
I was just stating that there are glass back protectors out there for the current iPhone, so I’m sure there will be one for the next series of iPhones.
I agree with this list for the most part, but having vapor chamber cooling under as “Who cares?” is insane.
iOS doesn’t just continue to be a resource hog, but an ever-heating stove. It’s high time Apple implemented an actual cooling system. This is an excellent new feature.
Yes it is quite irrelevant what internet dweebs thinks in this matter but those same group can create lots of noise to “muddy the water” so to speak, and cast doubt on some other people. Regardless, I always believe action speaks louder than words.
However resource hog iOS is, they still have nearly infinite head room to work with compared to windows, or even macOS for that matter. Yes, iOS runs on battery powered environment and needs to conserve power but Apple has done a strong enough foundation that they don’t need to worry about “heating stove” for quite some time.
Really curious…what determines it for you that they are the most successful tech company?
For me... Apple's 1+ Billion active and repeat customers who purchase Apple products, are the final arbiters of the company's success. Which has made Apple becoming one of the most successful consumer tech companies in the world.
Without a huge number of active/repeat customers who enjoy and purchase Apple products, yearly sales would fall, resulting in Apple not being successful.
Haha, well, that's Apple's defining characteristic: folks willing to pay more. Including me, LOL.
I'm also a Pro guy but am very interested in the Air, as I miss having a thin and light phone (like my beloved iPhone 6).
However, I also dig the battery capacity (truly a killer feature) of the Pro Max and as a filmmaker, all the camera and video options.
I would wager that the killer feature of the Air only needs to be its dimensions and weight relative to battery life; nothing else. There will be a good section of Apple customers (since I'm based in NYC, I'm thinking all of those upscale Tribeca finance folks) who will appreciate the thinness and lightness of the Air.
The Air pricing could be similar to the Pro and that would make sense for the aforementioned reasons, but I still think it makes very little sense for it to be made of Titanium while the Pro is aluminum or have additional features the Pro doesn't. If they can make the latest iPad Pros that thin with aluminum, surely they can do it with the iPhone Air.
TLDR: Believe we're more or less saying the same thing but IMHO makes sense the Air would have less features (except for thin, light) than the Pro
All nice improvements on the list, but nothing on it that would make me jump at the chance to replace my 16 Pro Max. I suppose thats not the expectation though these days as phones change so little. I'm still discovering the features on my current phone and barely use it to its full capability.
I'd be surprised if they don't improve that awful camera control button. At least move it so you can use it without reaching over the screen. The ergonomics of where they put it were poor to say the least.
I'd be surprised if they don't improve that awful camera control button. At least move it so you can use it without reaching over the screen. The ergonomics of where they put it were poor to say the least.
I think from a marketing perspective Apple has this covered, sort of. Even if they go backwards from 5X to 3.5X, the crop zoom from the 48 MP sensor also provides the 7X option. 3.5X is advantageous over 5X for portraits, whereas 7X is a further reach than 5X. I realize that cropped 7X isn’t the same thing as true 7X but I suspect it’s a compromise Apple thinks will go over well with most consumers, including myself, which is why I think this rumor may actually be true. With just three sensors, the 16 Pro offers 4 “optical” zoom options, but the 17 Pro would offer 5:
The current 16 Pro is 0.5 / 1 / 2 / 5X.
The 17 Pro would be 0.5 / 1 / 2 / 3.5 / 7X.
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And if this turns out to be the case, the 3.5/7, I will look into getting a 16PM at a good discount or just keep my 13PM.
Your suggested zooms just don’t do it for me.
But as I always do, I will wait for the actual announcement and then make decisions on specs, not rumors.
I would suggest waiting for actual reviews then. Rumoured specs could very well match the actual release specs, or they may be a bit different, but neither are real world results. Since you’re talking about making decisions on actual products, I think it would be a mistake to choose the 16 series 5X just because of paper specs, considering that 5X camera is 2 years old now, as it made its debut in 2023 with the 15 Pro Max. The rumoured 3.5X for the 17 Pro series is supposed to get not only 48 MP, but also a larger sensor size.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the results from a 7X zoom option could actually be quite reasonable in comparison to the older 5X, at least in daytime lighting. Remember, the 5X quality in the 16 Pro isn’t actually rated that well compared to the prior 3X in the 15 Pro, and the 5X is also criticized for making portrait shots more awkward.
Dark grey is the bonded titanium coating which is 1mm thick, the rest of the frame is aluminum.
What? I never claimed that was innovation. Rather, I'll trust Apple's 1+ Billion active and repeat customers to decide if Apple sufficiently innovates. It appears Apple does. If Apple didn't, there are many other mobile phone companies those 1+ Billion customers could go to instead.
After doing some of my own research I stand corrected. It does appear to be a machined titanium band/shell, diffusion bonded to the aluminum.
I wonder how different the thermal conductivity of that aluminum+titanium shell is compared to an all-aluminum shell.
Well it is just past experience with Samsung devices. Of course Android is the biggest source of Samsung products being garbage. It was funny though when Samsung produced the exploding phones that destroyed planes as well as exploding washers.