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Because no iPads probably. Still, these are fine incremental updates. And that Ultra Watch looks pretty nice.
Yep, it wouldn't be worth it to upgrade from a 13 to a 14, but for me using an SE 2, the 13 or 14 would be a vast improvement for battery life.
I’ll level with you with guys: I own an iPhone 8 Plus from 2017 and I’m having a hard time finding a justification for an upgrade that I’ll lose my beloved and much-used 3D Touch for.
Nah I still like to use my phone for music making and nothing on android can touch it. Also the syncing with my iPad is great and useful, and the layout/user experience is much better for me. I don’t personally know anyone that upgrades every year. I know some people do but I only upgrade about every 4 years.
No usb-c for iPhones then
Not much to get excited over, which is good, saves us all money 😀
@richardyot said:
Hooray
They never mentioned It but it was in a few shots that showed the bottom of the phone.
I was also just comparing models on the apple sight and where iPhone 13 had usb-c to lightning, the iPhone 14 area was left blank.
So I don’t know.
The new iPhones use MagSafe Lightning connectors, which is better in my opinion anyway.
Source: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
But this is the baby I really have my eyes on:
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch-ultra?preSelect=false&product=MQEU3LL/A&step=detail#
That happens to all of us with age…
The connector is just ordinary lightning. Slow usb-2 speed ordinary old lightning.
MagSafe Lightning.
No shit. The only thing that excites me is longer battery life for my iPhone, and that's really it. 🤣 You know you're an adult when the amount of battery life is more exciting than new gizmos and features.
Right, I used to be a hybrid Android/iOS user (iPad, but Android phone), but once I realised a lot of my music apps can be used on iPhone as well as syncing via iCloud (such as with IAWriter), I ditched Android completely since there are only a handful of decent apps on that platform to begin with.
What is Magsafe Lightning? I couldn't find any reference to it in this link or elsewhere
I should’ve taken a screenshot earlier! That used to say MagSafe Lightning at the bottom of the page! Someone must have missed the error when they proofread it.
Anyway, it looks like I got taken in by a typo. Grrrrr.
Aah, well in any case I would've been surprised to see them innovating when the next gen is supposed to carry USB-C
To put the cost of the pro phone (and it’s seemingly excellent main cam that has a 48mm equiv centre crop, which is perfect for me) into perspective, over the past year or so I’ve been investigating getting a new camera. I felt my old Sony RX10 was getting old (it is, but it still works and I’ve just about got used to those old Sony menus now) and when one of the batteries got jammed in the compartment because it got too fat (it was during lockdown, so, valid) I thought that was an opportunity to get a camera made in this decade.
I periodically go through this ‘move to a better camera’ / ‘move to a more limited simpler camera’ exercise, and the last time I did that about 3 or 4 years ago I concluded that no new camera would be an advisable direction, instead, a good iPhone with computational photography would be the direction for me to move in. At that time I had an iPhone 7 Plus, or an iPhone XR, and saw that the future would beat any ‘normal’ digital camera. I ended up with an iPhone 12 mini the year before last, and that’s been superb (but I miss the tele (it’s not tele, it’s more like normal, or short portrait) on the 7 Plus). That’s the only real downside - narrow fields of view on current iPhones require digital zooming, and the iphone digital zoom is terrible – my Sony cam has far better computed digital zoom (still not super good though).
The recent “must spend lots of money on a new real camera even though I hardly go out of the house now and my street photographer days are over since about 10 years ago” bout ended up drowning in a sea of YouTube videos about the Fujifilm X100V vs the Ricoh GRIIIx, both of which were in the end unsuitable. The X100V has no stabilisation whatsoever (I know, I used to shoot on film in the 70s to the 90s with no stabe either, and the Fuji is wide so hardly needs it anyway), and more importantly the X100V is too wide for me – I’d have it on crop almost all the time. The Ricoh GRIIIx is more like my desired field of view at 40mm equivalent (a lot of my cheapo fixed-lens rangefinders were that). The Ricoh tends to accumulate dust on the sensor internally where you can’t get at it, and that’s a problem. Then there’s other alternatives, but they all have some deficiency. I concluded I’d stick with iPhone and wait for one that can give me a narrow field of view. At least computational photography in phones is advancing. There’s virtually no advancement in conventional cameras at all – the entire industry has frozen (and most of them are out of stock anyway).
Almost all of the ‘real camera’ options I looked at would cost not far away from the cost of an iPhone 14 pro.
@u0421793 IMO for wide angle photography the iPhone is already superior to DSLRs, but yes for anything longer than 40mm a real camera is still much better.
I think a small “proper” camera with a 50mm prime, and say something longer like a 100-300mm zoom, coupled with an iPhone for anything wider would make a pretty comprehensive kit to cover more or less everything.
I'm not buying a new iPhone, but that Dynamic Island stuff looks brilliant. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have it on previous models too, of course!
The visual reason they can’t have it on prior models is because the camera and sensor area are a “notch”, not a “pill shape”. They’re not going to bring that feature to older phones, nor will they bring it to older iPads.
But they could
Anyways it flipping creative and brilliant thought through. You know, Samsung could have come up with that stuff years before (OLeD only the little black dot) but they didn’t. And apple shows again how it’s done - chapeau. Dynamic island is brilliant
Yes, they deserve recognition for cleverly turning a ‘visual blemish’ on an otherwise unobscured screen into an interesting functional area.
Well, here’s a positive reason to purchase an iPhone 14 or plus over just saving $100 an getting a 13:
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/08/iphone-14-ram-amounts/
But both are possible right? Wireless charge or lightning to usb-c correct?
Apple will alway sell.
Normal (sane) people will get a Redmi phone for 200€. Amoled display, sdcard slot, fast cpu, plenty of ram. Ability to root.
Yeah, and Lightning is used in the case that both are attached. And technically the Lightning port doesn't care what the other end is connected by, USB-C just provides faster charging rates.
Xiomi’s phones run on top of Android. I’d never recommend an Android phone.
The maxed out 14 Pro max......whooping € 2099. Insane and I just bought a refurbed iPhone 7 to replace my iPhone 6S plus. Enough for me.
I mean everything is going freaking expensive, even the stuff you MUST buy but for a phone...no way.
My other phone (from work) is a cheap Android and it does what I need too.
Oh, I guess Apple still sell it like sliced bread but it really all starts to feel weird.
I guess my income is not that bad (but not good either) but everything starts really to feel more and more just as luxus. From good healthy food, to holiday to the latest and greatest electronic toys.
At least I got healed from G.A.S. syndrome in the last years and just replace things when they are REALLY not working anymore.
Apple makes products for those not overly concerned about price. But that has always been the case. Name brand and quality cost and they know this.
The do continue to sell some older models of phones, however.
Why?
Is closed software architecture of apple products better? They can do whatever they do with the hardware. Lock it, activate microphone, camera. On a rooted android phone you can disable every process running on the machine.