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Your iPhone 15 Can Show the Time When It's Out of Battery in iOS 18

dumastudetto said:
Apple always wants customers to enjoy the most bestest iPhone experience available. Not for commercial reasons necessarily, but because Apple people are proud of their work and want as many people to share their pride at being in the Apple family of product experiences.
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Hi Tim!
 
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mike2q said:
Apple holding back features is just one way they try and force their customers to keep buying new phones. Their biggest and best strategy though has been to provide just barley enough RAM to work well knowing full well that future iOS releases would need more as would other app updates. That way they can be the hero by still providing software updates while only optimizing for newer devices. That strategy has worked well for years as customers seem blind to the obvious skimping on memory that would have cost hardly anything to increase. Their chickens are coming home to roost though since their Apple AI can't run on anything with less than eight gigs of RAM. Even though the iPhone 12 has a better neural processing engine than the M1 only the later is able to run Apple AI because of memory issues.
Those who are always defending Apples cheaping out on memory need to realize you're getting taken to the cleaners when you pay a premium price for less than optimal specs. That's a stone cold fact.
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Emphasis on: “Even though the iPhone 12 has a better neural processing engine than the M1”

Is that correct? Because I would find that to be interesting.
 
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mike2q said:
Those who are always defending Apples cheaping out on memory need to realize you're getting taken to the cleaners when you pay a premium price for less than optimal specs. That's a stone cold fact.
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So, how often do you upgrade your iPhone?
 
anshuvorty said:
  • Apple Intelligence compatibility is restricted to iPhone 15 Pro and later (however, this also could be due to the increased RAM that are in these devices)
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I'm starting to wonder though, what about that private cloud stuff they sandwiched between on device and ChatGPT?

He said they have their own super power AI servers running Apple Silicon for what can’t be done on-device. So why can't all supported devices use that service?

In that case I don't think it's the RAM, I think they're simply gating access to ramp it up. I doubt it will ever come to older devices even though it could in the same way Siri is now.
 
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The limiting factor is Apple pushing people to upgrade to the newest and most expensive phones they sell. That’s why an iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max doesn’t get the 24mp photo option or in this case, the time.
 
I love it when people pretend to be born yesterday and are hugely surprised that corporations want to make as much money as possible. "This is a scandal, something like this has never happened before, it's a precedent!"
 
anshuvorty said:
Because iPhone sales have been slowing down and people are keeping their iPhones longer and longer, Apple is becoming more and more aggressive in creating artificial restrictions to get users to upgrade - this is a classic example.
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This argument might make sense for significant features that are only available in a newly announced/released phone. It makes less sense for a very minor feature being added to last year's model in a free software update. Do you really think a single person on the planet would choose to upgrade their phone because it'll display the time when the battery dies?
 
murrayp said:
This argument might make sense for significant features that are only available in a newly announced/released phone. It makes less sense for a very minor feature being added to last year's model in a free software update. Do you really think a single person on the planet would choose to upgrade their phone because it'll display the time when the battery dies?
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On the contrary! It’s a good strategy from a business standpoints : limit highlight features to the latest models would make people complain about planned obsolescence, leading to bad PR and maybe even some law suits, but by keeping small features exclusive to the latest hardware, people think like you that it’s not worth complaining and that it would make no sense for such a small limitation to be artificial. But I think Apple bets than when people think about renewal these small features add up, once combined…
 
I misread the title of this article and thought it was about a tool that would tell you when your phone will run out of battery based on past usage.

Now I'm excited at the prospect of such a feature.
 
MacRumors said:
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As demonstrated on Reddit, when the battery on an iPhone running iOS 18 is exhausted, the phone can continue to show the time in the upper left corner of the device, which is a small but useful upgrade. The battery icon still shows up, and you'll see "iPhone is Findable" while reserve battery is left.
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Dear friends, people here are not stupid. a$$le doesn't have "magic batteries" still working when exhausted. A battery that can provide energy for that clock IS NOT exhausted.
 
mansplains said:
While I don't dispute the other points you've mentioned, I find it very hard to believe the clock is a "classic example" of an artificial restriction that would make someone upgrade.
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I also agree with some of the "artificial restriction" but I think that pointing this as an example is just nonsense.
 
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