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iPhone 15 Pro Was titanium a misfire?

Was going with titanium going to backfire for Apple?

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I know I’m the outlier, but I like aluminum. I personally don‘t think it looks cheap, and if it’s in a case nobody would know. Maybe it’s because aluminum was everywhere when I was a kid. Pots and pans, house siding, Christmas trees, and these bad boys for your Kool-Aid

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Asiatic Black Hebrew said:
That is because there is really no pleasing this community. Apple enthusiasts are some of the most entitled people on Earth. I've been saying that for years now. They will quite literally search for things to complain about. Many don't really seem to know what they actually want, beyond owning the latest phone on release day every year.

There will always be excessive nitpicking & complaints over the most trivial of things, even though those same posters will continue to lineup for every release. We've already had a few threads of people essentially breaking out magnifying glasses & searching for the slightest imperfections on the phone out of the box.

The weight issue was discussed ad nauseam for the past year. Now that Apple has finally addressed it, people are now complaining about the durability, the feel, & the finish. I'm looking forward to all the iPhone 16 rumors to start so the cycle can begin anew.
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But…..my 15PM is hot, scratched, smashed and bent. Oh, and Tim Cook didn’t send me a birthday card. Surely I’m allowed to moan!?

On a serious note. Agree with everything you’ve said. Titanium scratching slightly is a trade off I’m happy with for a lighter phone. Aluminium scratches even easier than titanium but I’ve not seen or heard one person mention it.
 
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MICHAELSD said:
Apparently it’s welded with aluminum on the inside. According to JerryRigEverything it is roughly $30 worth of level 5 titanium. A win for consumers.
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That offensive Youtube persona is hardly an expert on such matters. I absolutely guarantee that isn't what Apple is paying for that material in this application- and I have 33 years of experience working with titanium in consumer products.
 
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FunkyTang said:
It would be really cool to have a thick flat phone with super battery life because it would be thicker.
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Thicker means heavier too, though, and probably more than weight lost from the titanium frame. I’d love flat cameras too, but unless the bumps get shorter first it’d need to be pretty thick.
 
SusieS said:
I know I’m the outlier, but I like aluminum. I personally don‘t think it looks cheap, and if it’s in a case nobody would know. Maybe it’s because aluminum was everywhere when I was a kid. Pots and pans, house siding, Christmas trees, and these bad boys for your Kool-Aid

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That blue in the middle is what I was hoping the blue phone would look like this year.

Now I have to add, I was just at the Apple Store and looked over all the pro’s and couldn’t find one scratch anywhere, to my surprise. Now, they may have just furiously replaced all the demo models with new ones before I arrived, but I doubt that. Holding it normally over a table, and using it like one does at an Apple Store does appear to scratch it at all.

I don’t share the hatred some have for YouTubers that review these phones, but the guy that instantly takes a box cutter to it does bother me. At least drop tests mimic real world accidental drops, who goes ham on a phone with a box cutter on a normal basis?
 
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I understand just the edges of the phone are titanium, NOT the back "glass" piece with the logo on it. Is that the case? I dont get how just repacing the edge of the phone with a titanium/SS combo made the phones this much lighter.
 
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redbeard331 said:
That blue in the middle is what I was hoping the blue phone would look like this year.

Now I have to add, I was just at the Apple Store and looked over all the pro’s and couldn’t find one scratch anywhere, to my surprise. Now, they may have just furiously replaced all the demo models with new ones before I arrived, but I doubt that. Holding it normally over a table, and using it like one does at an Apple Store does appear to scratch it at all.

I don’t share the hatred some have for YouTubers that review these phones, but the guy that instantly takes a box cutter to it does bother me. At least drop tests mimic real world accidental drops, who takes goes ham on a phone with a box cutter on a normal basis?
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In his personal life he did marry a handicapped woman in a wheel chair and started a school for kids in Africa - yup, a horrible human being…



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redbeard331 said:
That blue in the middle is what I was hoping the blue phone would look like this year.

Now I have to add, I was just at the Apple Store and looked over all the pro’s and couldn’t find one scratch anywhere, to my surprise. Now, they may have just furiously replaced all the demo models with new ones before I arrived, but I doubt that. Holding it normally over a table, and using it like one does at an Apple Store does appear to scratch it at all.

I don’t share the hatred some have for YouTubers that review these phones, but the guy that instantly takes a box cutter to it does bother me. At least drop tests mimic real world accidental drops, who takes goes ham on a phone with a box cutter on a normal basis?
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I don't get the hate either except for click bait crap. I really like my 15PM and I was rocking the purple 14PM since launch. Sent that one to my Dad as he needed an update from his iPhone 11. I am not trying to promote my YT channel (only 215 subs LOL) but here are the 5 reasons I upgraded and very happy. If my video is not allowed I will take it down.

I do have a section with reasons not to as well.


I did however take back Natural and get the blue as Natural for me wasn't all that after a day. Blue is more for me.
 
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Got the Natural Titanium 15 Pro Max (first time ever getting a Max model). I LOVE it.
I have been missing out. Fast, responsive, easy to handle. Battery life if AMAZING..

Not seeing any issues with finger prints like others have mentioned.
Had the 14 pro before and I swear this 15 PM feels lighter somehow.
(I live the no case life (most of the time))
 
Fat_Guy said:
In his personal life he did marry a handicapped woman in a wheel chair and started a school for kids in Africa - yup, a horrible human being…



www.calledtoshare.com

Latter-day Saint YouTuber's Incredible Wedding Gift Leads to Couple Building School in Africa

Hundreds of YouTube followers donated to the Koins for Kenya organization, which offers educational opportunities to rural Africans, and Zack and Cambry were able to pass on over $30,000 to help build an entire school.
www.calledtoshare.com www.calledtoshare.com
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Did you quote the wrong person??
 
I think people assume most lightweight electronic devices feel cheap because of all the electronic rubbish being sold on the likes of eBay, AliExpress, Temu, Alibaba etc. That’s the main reason a lot of that cheap Chinese rubbish now has weights placed inside them at the factory. To give it a 'premium' feel.

There are times my iPhone 14 Pro hurts my hands and so I look forward to a lighter iPhone. It won’t be an iPhone 15 though.
 
nawoo said:
Nope, its way lighter than before and easy for me to handhold during driving, just like my iphone 12 mini.
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If you ever visit the UK please don't drive. It will keep me and my family safe from you and may prevent you from a 10 or 12 year stretch in prison if you kill someone while driving with a phone in your hand.
 
SusieS said:
I know I’m the outlier, but I like aluminum. I personally don‘t think it looks cheap, and if it’s in a case nobody would know. Maybe it’s because aluminum was everywhere when I was a kid. Pots and pans, house siding, Christmas trees, and these bad boys for your Kool-Aid

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the funny thing is aluminum used to be thought of as the premium material back when every device manufacturer was making everything out of plastic
 
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drew0020 said:
Yeah definitely weird. I love Stainless and also Titanium so I don’t really care what material these use. Wonder if the poster with the scratch from a case had a blue or black iPhone?
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it's likely one of those colors.(the scratched ones I saw in Apple store were all black/blue ones specially blacks)

this reminds me of iPhone 5 launch..not sure how many people remember but the iPhone 5 "slate black" color was also prone to scratches..really bad..(scuffgate)

and what happened? when Apple released the next model (5S which looked exactly the same) the scratch problem was suddenly resolved.

and we all remember the iPhone 6 Plus bending issue.it was real.many denied.but then the Apple resolved the issue with iPhone 6s.

I'm sure the iPhone 16 Pro will eliminate this problem.
 
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