The tech has peaked. There aren't gonna be any new bangers. No one has needed to upgrade for like 6+ years now

Yup. See them parroting USB C as if some kind of new shit. Lmao, Type C has been on Android for years and Android Manufacturers have long stopped it as some Marketing feature.

I was hooked on the midnight green from the 11pro. The blue on the 15pro looks nice. Probably better in person.

Not that I’ll ever see it, since I’m just gonna slap a case on the phone anyways.

It’s anodized titanium. You have to pick from a number of physically possible colors.

It gets closer for a bit and then gets further away again. It'd need to be a huge leapfrog for me to want to give up the ability to replace a discrete GPU with an integrated one. Probably good for the laptop crowd though.

$1,000 was too much already. Over $2,000 nope. Back to android unfortunately.

Smartphones have just been so boring for the past few years. Ever since they all started getting full screen displays and multiple cameras, every year has felt like small incremental upgrades. You probably wouldn't gain very much by upgrading even from a 3 year old phone.

iPhones won't be interesting to me again until they get a completely new form factor like folding or something.

USB-C is nice (although I don't relish having to replace all my Lightning accessories), and the camera improvements are always good, but I think I'm still happy with my 13 Pro for now.

I'm not sure what you mean by solve cameras.

Losing SMS on my iPad, personal MBA and work MBP would suck

Google Messages has a good web app. It works really well with my ancient Pixel.

(putting my scum bag business exec hat on with obj to pump the numbers)

Because they want you to splurge on the highest tier phone.

Technically, I don’t see a reason what would prevent them from doing so. If Apple didn’t pair the components with the phone, there’s no reason why you couldn’t buy a broken pro max, swap out the camera on the pro, and have 5X Zoom

There could be space limitation, I couldn’t tell from the keynote images if the 5x module was larger.

Whatever the reason I don’t particularly like that the Pro and Pro Max are diverging in features other than display size. I would prefer to have the best cameras but I don’t necessarily want the biggest screen, this now means making more trade offs when picking an iPhone.

Imagine being excited about a button

Why does it matter? They don't have a java base that needs 4 gigs

On a PC, more RAM is always better.

In a phone, more RAM taxes the battery more.

There is a right amount of RAM, and more importantly a right way to tune the process management for power savings.

But the only measurement of that is the end user experience. MB of RAM just isn’t a useful number.

Give it 6 years. They will find a way to make you upgrade.