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MacRumors Exclusive: iPhone 15 Design Shown Off in Leaked Images Shared by Unknownz21
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It's a bit cruel to dismiss this as a "thinner bezel" redesign.
We'll have USB-C and periscope lens on the Ultra at least, plus industry-first 3nm.
You could see these as iterative upgrades, but even Apple doesn't expect to buy you every single yearly model.
It's safe to say that you could buy every 3 years without missing out on any serious content.
Just periscope on the Ultra will make this worth it for a lot of people.
Overall this isn't an iPhone 4 or iPhone X kind of leap, but I'd still rank it over most others.
Better than XS, 14. Also better than 7, 11, 12, 13 if you are an USB-C fan, most people will decide based on this, no doubt.
In my personal ranking this is on par with 5S, 6S, 11Pro which were truly groundbreaking for their internals.
lol what? How in the hell is a Qi charger faster than USB-C that can deliver 100W.
Unless you're using the old 5W charger as the source.
You are obviously not in any sort of field that does procurement.
Do you think Apple just calls up the various companies after the iPhone announcement event and orders a billion chips for next day delivery? iPhone 15 design was completed last year, and this is the time when they are checking if it can be produced in mass and what changes might be needed. iPhone 16 features are nearing completion as well, so that its cycle can start.
Again, every leak purposefully looks like it comes from an iPhone 3GS camera. If just a bit more pixels would risk to reveal the leaker, I don’t understand how. Anyway, as others pointed out, why does Dynamic Island seem to be strangely misaligned?
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Maybe they doubled down on the meaning of "dynamic"🙃? It now travels exactly where you look at.
Technically, these old cables and adapters only go to the landfill when the device / devices they were made for go to the landfill (or better yet, are recycled).
Just because a new generation device has a different port in no way means that old equipment becomes obsolete at this point.
I for one will use my lightning cables to charge Airpods, keyboard and mouse, as well as my iPhone 13 and iPad even after Apple puts USB-C on new phones and other devices. I will perhaps not buy a new lightning cable if one breaks.
Apple is a for-profit business which means that, like every other major tech brand, all their decisions are concerned with increasing profits.
Not calling them out. That’s just what big corporations do, make money for shareholders.
And if anyone has the audacity to suggest that Apple has been keeping Lightning around for so long for other reasons than profits then I appreciate they explain to me how we’re not living under capitalism, and how investors are okay with less growth if it means consumers can buy less cables, or saving the environment, or USB-C being inferior, or any other obscure argument.
The decision to finally do USB-C is one that EU regulators made for Apple, not something that Apple wants to do. End of story.
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Is this what we have to look forward to.. a new cable, which is just an old cable?
No thinks they should dabble in something a little more invigorating?
No thinks they should dabble in something a little more invigorating?
I have just spotted another camera hole to the right of the DI spot, covered by the “e” of the leaker’s watermark, so alignment-wise it is actually alright.
Because there are small changes or markings that will identify the company. Or the person.
Elon Musk caught a leaker in Tesla by sending emails with different space characters.
What use is a 48MP photo going to be in anycase? They just want to show the port.
Exactly - a change away from the ”standard” everyone else is following by that point.
I’m OK with my Apple Watch being wirelessly charged and having limited options / locations for charging, but I’m having a hard time warming up to a portless phone. Same for iPad or computer. Until data transmission rates are as good with wired, I don’t see the point in losing that 2nd charging option.
I still remember those days.
The infamous Gizmodo leak.
The mac rumors user who thought it was fake because of seams.
>USB-C cables can last just as long as a Lightning
It's not about the cable, it's about the connector.
USB-C ports seem to become unstable easily on Mac Books. I've experienced and know of two other owners who have.
The Lightening is cleary a snugger firm design.
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Or give them away to the many people who still use a lightning iPhone or other lightning devices. Just because the newest iPhones will be usbc doesn’t mean everyone is going to switch all at once. Relatively few will switch per year. If everyone who does switch gives away their cables (to friends/relatives, on Craigslist, etc.), people will probably stop buying new lightning cables and we can probably ease off them without wasting much. Hopefully there will even be drop off and pick up programs.
from what I can tell, you are correct, the border radius on the screen itself looks to be bigger. but—and my eyes could be totally deceiving me, in all fairness—from the second picture, showing off the USB-C port, it seems to have a frame that's at least a little curved.
I will say, upon second glance, it seems like they might've hit the mark between overly curved (i.e. the 6, the ugliest iPhone ever in my opinion [many people might jump to say "the 5C!" but I thought that was a fun design, even if it was plasticky, the array of colors was reminiscent of golden-age iPod nano days {but the nano did it better with aluminum}]) and completely flat. just ergonomic enough with the curves, but just aesthetically flat enough.
either way, I love my 14PM. I don't see myself upgrading for a good few years. especially because I have a certain payment plan to pay off…gotta love AT&T!
(read: even if I had bought it full-price, I still don't see myself upgrading. the two most important things to me on iPhone are screen quality and camera quality, and the 14PM hits it out of the park with those. camera bump be damned. Deep Purple is also one of my favorite Pro colors ever [if not my single favorite].)
Lightning is beyond repair since it has not enough pins. End of story, it simply cannot compete with current and established technology.
If any evolution of the Lightning standard would have been possible, Apple would have done it. But it switched to USB-C itself. I'm charging my USB-C iPad Pro with the same cable since 2018 nearly every day and everything is still perfect.
For every other case that may occur: The repairability of the iP14 improved dramatically (the iP14 Pro still has the old crippled design). So lets hope, all the iP15 models will adopt the mechanics of the iP14 and a new connector won't be a big issue in the future.
Another big problem is to do any troubleshooting, iDevices still need to be connected to a PC/Mac. Without any port, Apple has to rethink the basic foundations of iOS itself. Even Android can troubleshoot itself through recovery mode, but iOS, the so called post-PC devices, cannot.
When iPhone finally gets USB-C, we will begin to hear rumblings about how it is the greatest thing since sliced bread from people who previously said "I love lighting, nobody wants USB-C, lighting is great!" 🤣