I'm curious. What exactly do you think you'll be doing with it? I can right now get 50mbps download speed with my 4g phone. You only need a third of that to stream 4k hdr video from netflix. What on earth do you need even MORE bandwith for?
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The ignore list is your friend 🙂 I’ve got hundreds of entries. So much more enjoyable.
I'm just getting the same thing I get every year: the best model below the max ( too big for my hands / pocket / face / life ). I'm not worried about 5G / 6G... I'm just waiting for Starlink phone service.
Yup. So is the era of having your Ford model T painted in any color you want—so long as it was black.
I honestly wonder how these people who are overwhelmed by having to choose between a few models of an Apple product can get through a day. What clothes to put on? What to eat for breakfast. Going to a grocery store to buy a beverage, or cereal. Or even cheese lol. Choosing from a restaurant menu.
It must be completely overwhelming and utterly incapacitating.
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It matters to the carriers, who are tricking their mobile customers into paying for the 5G network they’ll actually use to roll out fixed wireless broadband to residential customers 🙂
That guerrilla marketing strategy of approaching people in the cereal aisle and saying, "I've noticed you've been standing here for a while, may I ask what brand of smartphone you use?"
Last I looked web page loading times were dominated by server response times, not latency. Poor latency is deadly to certain applications though, no doubt, and can render them completely unusable.
I could be behind the times though, I haven’t looked into it lately.
Oh, I wasn't counting server response time, only latency + transmission + queuing + processing, but that makes sense. I have like 50ms ping to most sites I visit, and each HTTPS connection takes 3 round trips to establish, so 150ms is spent on latency. Hard to tell what the average server response time is, but I think it's lower than that. And the rest are tiny.
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You said "“Pro” moniker denotes the most featureful, it doesn’t mean the person buying it is a pro. It means it’s at the top of the line." Except there are 2 pro models (6.1 and 6.7) yet only the 6.7 is getting certain features. My point stands the pro name is not pro at all (I would agree with you if the phones featured the same features minus screen and battery, but that is no longer the case if the smaller pro only gets some 5G). Sorry you fall for the apple marketing hype, but pro isn't the way that apple throws it around.
Exactly.
Premium1 is 100% right!
Pro is not just an ordinary run-of-the-mill marketing word - - it is one of the rare sanctified holy words that must be only spoken with the utmost reverence.
How dare PickUrPoison freely speaketh the "P" word!
Yikes, yes I should have written “P-o”.Exactly.
Premium1 is 100% right!
Pro is not just an ordinary run-of-the-mill marketing word - - it is one of the rare sanctified holy words that must be only spoken with the utmost reverence.
How dare PickUrPoison freely speaketh the "P" word!
There are two different models of 6.1” iPhone, one is mid-tier (iPhone 12), the other is at the top of the line (iPhone 12 Pro).
That’s true regardless of the existence of a 6.7” iPhone 12 Max or a 6.7” iPhone Pro Max.
Maybe this will help:
Apple makes two different 13” notebooks, the MacBook Air and 13” MacBook Pro. The Air is the lesser featured, mid-line, while the MBP is the top of the line.
That doesn’t change just because Apple also makes a 16” MBP. I have no interest in a 16” notebook, because I can’t use it on an airline tray table. But I want the best, most featureful, top of the line 13” that Apple sells. So I know instantly which to buy: the 13” MBP. I don’t even need to compare them, Apple’s naming scheme makes it clear.
In any case, Apple will do what they want with their naming, no matter what you and I think about it.
Again, you are dancing around the real point. You said the "pro" line is top of the line (We know the regular 12 is not pro, not sure why you try to compare that). The pro models (6.1 and 6.7) are the ones being compared because they are "pro" yet only one of the "pro" models (6.7) is getting all of the features. Not sure why this is so hard for you to grasp. Essentially the 6.1" is semi pro compared to the 6.7" full pro.
Assuming this rumor is true at all, these limitations would be for similar physical reasons as in the past: the iPhone 6 Plus had a better camera than the iPhone 6, because it simply had more room for optics. The 16-inch MacBook Pro has a much better CPU and GPU than the 13-inch MacBook Pro, because it has more room for thermals. The iPhone Pro Max may have better cellular reception than the iPhone Pro, because it has more room for radio.
I don't think @PickUrPoison has difficulty "grasping" that. They just don't find it anywhere near as interesting as you do.
Yet those weren't called "pro." I guess you have as much trouble grasping it as others do....
And I wasn’t. For someone who keeps telling others that they’re not “grasping” something; you seem to have a hard time following.
Anyway, if the 12 Pro Max has something the 12 Pro doesn’t, it’s probably the end of the world and/or Apple going bankrupt. This also never would’ve happened under Steve.
If you're future-proofing, you're buying overly mature technology you expect to grow. Future proofing is buying a 1tb iPad because you never plan to buy another iPad in your life (even though you will). Future proofing is not buying the bleeding edge nonsense technology that is half-supported and barely rolled out. That's just foolishness.
I just wish that when you ignored people, it would also block posts where only ignored people are quoted.