Yeah that was a complete fail
All the reviews say different. Including the one you provided. The above photo is hard to judge since we don’t know which one is which. And the fact that they are two different photos when Lighting is concerned. But judging the two photos the bottom one has more detail. Look at the black grates in the background. You can see the lines in the grates, not so much on the pixel.My 14 Pro Max arrives in approximately 12 hours and even I think Pixel 6 beats iPhone 14 Pro in many core areas for still photography. Nobody has taken DxOMark seriously for years now, not even the Apple news sites bother posting DxOMark score releases anymore. Like nemo said why do you need an ""authority"" like DxOMark to tell you what to think? Objective scoring for cameras? That's ridiculous, it all comes down to the way images actually look. The 48MP is seemingly doing nothing for regular 12MP HEIC capture. Photonic Engine is the biggest marketing bluff in iPhone history because it seemingly does next to nothing to improve white balance, colors, dynamic range, or low light performance. 14 Pro images look practically identical to 13 Pro images based on what we've seen so far. Again I emphasize how little Apple have bothered to improve color depth and reproduction vs. Pixel.
Last year's Pixel 6 Pro keeps thrashing the 14 Pro in many examples. Look at these photos and tell me which one you honestly prefer:
iPhone 14 ProPixel 6 Pro
Pixel 6 ProiPhone 14 Pro
The 5C performed far below expectations. The problem was, it was too recognizable as a "cheap" phone. With most of the recent iPhones looking the same, the average person can't tell the difference unless they're a MacRumors reader or the like. The 5C was recognizably plastic, and therefore cheap-looking, so people opted for older phones or the latest gen iPhone at the time. I only knew one person with a 5C, but significantly more with standard iPhones. If it had done well, Apple would have kept making plastic phones, but it was a one-off.
have you tried the pixel 6 to say it sucks? android 13 on pixel 6 seems to be very good. I know many want to compare cameras with all phones but people don't base what phone they buy off the camera only.
It’s more a “I want an iOS phone with a great camera” thing. Where “great” means natural colors and not an ML oil painting/over-sharpening.
I mean, it depends. I just sold my 13pm for $830. My 14pm cost me $1157. I used cash back rewards from our credit cards to cover the rest. So I’m out almost nothing out of pocket, apart from the $70 I spent on cases and screen protectors. I can do this again next year, and so on. I never finance or subsidize my phones, I always buy outright from Apple. I’ve done it before and I’ll lilely do it again. The times where I’m actually spending a few hundred for a new iPhone are those years where I pass my current device on to my mother or my husband.
I wonder how long it’s going to take before people start complaining about burn in.
The 5C was essentially Apple’s first stab at an iPhone SE, and also allowed Apple to add full 4G support, making it a better option than simply keeping the old iPhone 5 around after the 5S launched. As far as I know it sold well in that same bracket that, previously, “last year’s iphone” would always have occupied.
