Because if we had all that Apple would start the price at 1600 dollars....would you pay that much for all of that?
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iPhone 11 Pro The iPhone 11 pro/max is 100% a pro device.
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Because if we had all that Apple would start the price at 1600 dollars....would you pay that much for all of that?
It doesn't need to have all of that but it can totally add some of those things without a price increase.
In my country the Note 10+ costs the same as the smaller iPhone Pro and it has the Samsung pen, USB C and much larger base storage.
Only thing it misses is the high refresh rate.
Sorry but Apple needs to catch up.
Of course it’s a Pro device. You can tell because it says so right in the name.
Meaning that you care on some level (given that you could potentially care less)?
Two years ago everyone was up in arms about USB-C. Now it's not a "pro" device unless it has it? I don't get it.
Pencil support, on a phone, really? What would we do with it?
The higher refresh rate I agree with, though.
At the end, it's all just market segmentation, as someone said, same as with the iPads and MacBooks.
I wasn’t one of those people though? I’ve been a big believer in USB C since day one. I actively go out of my way and purchase products with it. Apple themselves said something that the reason the iPads have USB C is cos it’s a pro feature and well now we have a pro iPhone so give us USB C. I mean I don’t even know why you’d be against it?
secondly, why pencil? Have you seen the note? It has gimmicky features with the S Pen but a whole lot of utility too.
The problem with "Pro" is that there isn't anything you can do with the "Pro" that can't be done with the 11. If there was a CPU difference you could maybe justify it, but the 11 is just as fast.
11 has 2/3 of the cameras of the Pro.
So that means in Apple's eyes - pro means a telephoto camera and an OLED screen.
That said, it's just a name, who cares.
11 has 2/3 of the cameras of the Pro.
So that means in Apple's eyes - pro means a telephoto camera and an OLED screen.
That said, it's just a name, who cares.
Agree completely, this type of segmentation has occurred since the 8, but now Apple is spelling it out for the consumer...Last year was the same type of segmentation only the Xs did not receive the Pro moniker...
I agree that Apple has been totally inconsistent about several things, USB-C being one of them. It's like different parts of the organization never talk or even look at the other's ads.
Pencil - yes. I'm a big believer in apps like Notify and I use the Pencil a lot to mark up Word and Acrobat docs. I just don't see it on a screen this small? I could be wrong.
Ah see about that second point, you’d think you wouldn’t use it really but a friend who is switching from a Note to iPhone 11 often used to write on it while the screen was off and someone said something, he could have signed his rental agreements that way too etc. there are uses for it.
Apologies for being hostile initially
“Pretty much” quote/unquote. Untrue! No one has even caught up to the last chip Apple used. Running photoshop doesn’t make a phone a pro tool. It’s a phone. Are you really doing autocad on a phone? Ever? Would you want to? Hell are people REALLY creating detailed complex spreadsheets or word docs on a phone....even? Come on!
All his talk about Pro terminology and everyone is missing the fact that they’re still on a Roman numeral system. They want us to call it iPhone 2. Thats the real story.
You bothering to post to the thread indeed implies that you care so well, there’s that.
64GB for $1099. That's not pro, it's a cash grab. 128GB and I wouldn't be complaining.
They reserve those crazy storage levels as the starting point for their “Pro” laptop.
I'm not knockin the iPhone, but the S10 is capable of over 1200 nits peak brightness and 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
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Thanks, no problem, and I could be wrong. When they first introduced pencil support on the iPads, I figured I'd never have any use for it. Notify and PDFExpert have literally changed how I work, in really good ways. So who knows, maybe a pencil on an iPhone would, too, but I'm just not imagining it now?
