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And I agree with you, I'm not buying it either. But that's always been Apple's motivation, just like any other for profit company.
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BREAKING: For profit corporation does things for profit.
And I agree with you, I'm not buying it either. But that's always been Apple's motivation, just like any other for profit company.
Titanium and stainless steel are metals that in my opinion are more suitable for contact with human tissue.
Money and weight I would really say are reason. Environment is welcome PR. I can not imagine how doing business and care about nature (“Planet” according to new trend) and not care about profit. If someone wants to “save the planet”, then maybe that person could stick to own phone untill it breaks down. For me in my case I do this and freely ignore the rest. Excuse my english.
I’ve always gotten the Pro’s but if the 17/17 Air end up getting promotion, they are going to have to do something to make the Pro Max/Ultra worth its price and I don’t think a slightly better camera and a little more RAM will do the trick
Calling $4T Apple "lost" is absurd. And, new improved alloys and construction all the time is not a bad thing. I (an actual buyer of these things, not just a commenter) never perceived your claims of things like "selling it to us as "the cheap version" for decades."
I will also be curious to see how close focus is on the new tele. Currently it is ~5 feet. A bit shorter would be really useful.
Apple probably does not care if we buy an Air or a Pro as long as we buy...
Given the significant office based headcount Apple has, you really have to wonder what a lot of these people have been working on over the last 5+years. The iPhone design team must only work a couple of days a year.
Yeah, Bendgate was a <YAWN>. And social media is even sillier and even less competent now. So it is guaranteed we will have a zillion UTube morons bending iPhones for clicks when the Airs come out and when the primary frame alloy is aluminum, even though various aluminum alloys can be very rigid.
It drives me nuts that so many here think product materials are pure elemental metal when they almost never are. And once we are talking alloys preconceptions of hard/soft become totally irrelevant.
Why a two year cycle? Just because there isn't a lot of change year to year? Cars and darn near everything else get updates all the time that don't amount to much. They don't expect people to buy every time there's an update. Pretty much everyone makes little changes and people buy when either their old phone (or whatever) isn't any good or the accumulated updates makes it worth the cost.
Dude, I have 13 standard model, and if you compare it on the official website, it is essentially the same phone as recently released 17 air. I am not going to pay them a single extra cent, as long as iOS is receiving updates.
Very understandable. But it doesnt' change what I said. Everyone has their own reasons for updating. For some with older phones a newer one is worth it especially since not all care about some of the AI features. I for one have a 16 pro and probably won't update until maybe the 19 pro (time will tell). The 17 Air is a niche phone so certainly not for most.
Wow, I disagree. I buy these things and they are amazing. As a Nikon photog watching 5 pound pro cameras evolve and then seeing what Apple does with tiny smartphone lenses I am constantly amazed. But maybe Nikon is a limited frame of reference for me; please, tell us what cool stuff you built in the last year.
Really ?? Maybe if they were offering something else as well by way of a distraction. Here they appear to be trying to make a virtue out of Al, while only a couple of years ago they pushed Ti so much as it was "infinitely superior". Peoples memories are not that poor.
Cool. If you are happy with your 13 standard model, enjoy.
Exactly. I do not know why the concept you so succinctly describe is hard for many folks to grasp.
You know, I have half a mind to no longer buy a new car every year!
The 4, 6, and X. Those were all considered revolutionary in their day. But I feel like since the X, it’s just been more of f e same.
Which one? I don’t understand why Apple has to make 3 of them… so stupid.
Still mostly incremental to me. Up until the 4 they were still figuring things out and getting enough volume to push vendors for improved parts plus cellular data sucked until IDE. After that I would go three to four years between updates. Skipped the X since it didn't seem worth the higher price they charged. As I said, it's not bad that it's incremental. Almost every product/device you can imagine gets some big improvements early on then levels off.
Sounds like they’re desperate for anything “new” to keep selling phones.
lol a giant camera bump, being thicker and a downgrade of materials used isn't a 'feature.'