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Apple iPhone 15 Event: USB-C Everything!

— September 18, 2023 29 comments




The iPhone FINALLY has USB-C, but that wasn’t the only new thing Apple announced this week. Marques, Andrew, and David …

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  9. @26:00 Ion Infused glass is Marketing Bullshit. Coloured glass is created with oxidized (rusted) Metal particles since more than 3000 years. Different metals create different colours. and if you look into historic european church windows (which may be some the oldest still existing coloured glasses) theres very little red in them. because to get a deep red you have to melt rusted gold (the darker red the more you need) into the glass.

  16. I'd love a deep-dive on Apple (and other tech companies') sustainability claims. Offsetting using carbon credits is usually a red flag, increasing the use of recycled materials is really good, but the easiest and most impactful thing tech companies could do is extend device lifespans🙃

  20. It's too late to use USB-C as a selling point. At this point, users are already in a situation where they either have to start buying different dongles (more waste) or additional dongles. Because there are still a lot of PERFECTLY USABLE iPads, iPhones, Apple Pencil 1's (and the Lightning Charging Adapter), Lightning to 3.5mm dongles, etc. out there. They have already generated a ton of plastic and metal wastes by taking a decade to do what they should have done on day one. This is why I roll my eyes whenever I hear companies talking about "going green." The only "green" they care about are USD.

    And that's ignoring how hilariously "middle finger" it was to limit their own users to USB 2.0 transfer speeds for a decade in an attempt to upsell them to more Apple Devices – because using AirDrop to transfer video from your iPhone to your MacBook is going to run circles around doing it over a Lightining-to-USB cable.

    Imagine if Verizon launched 6G and told you "Ehhh… gonna have to deal with Edge speeds for a couple of years; but at least you can see it's usable in your phone settings!" That is what being an iPhone user feels like, to me.

    I have a lot of Apple devices (iPhone, Watch, MacBook Pro, Apple TV, iPad w/ Pencil, etc.), but I have used my iPhone 11 Pro and 13 Pro Max less than I have any phones that I have ever used in my lifetime, largely because of how impractical it is to shoot video on it and offload it to any other type of device. I actually have kept my Galaxy Note 9 (that the iPhone 11 Pro was supposed to upgrade) and used it for 98.6A% of my mobile photography/videography precisely because I could just plug a USB-C 3.x data cable into it and offload at speeds 10x that of an iPhone.

    So, while I was excited about shooting ProRes on an iPhone, I ended up not shooting a single second of ProRes because … who wants to wait 40 minutes to offload that footage onto a computer? Same with the increased storage capacity. Waste of money, because the feature that I got the increased storage to take advantage of ended up being impractical (as in, practically unusable) for me.

    So, I think I'm going to go back to Samsung and replace my iPhone/Apple Watch (or trade them in, cause I don't see a reason to keep it around the way I have the Note 9… that's for damn sure). At least they build the phone to accommodate the software they are putting in them. Apple always seems innovative with the software, but their hardware lags the software by 2-3 years (and never really sees its full potential, since they basically put them on maintenance mode once the new models come out).

  22. Why did Apple Vision Pro VR partner Unity just torch themselves to the ground? the whole dev industry and gamers would like to know? they are not happy.

  25. Virtue signaling to some liberal agenda about climate change and the sun monster that no scientist has ever been correct on a doomsday prediction isn't "good" or "doing something". Either you truly believe in this nonsense so you're devoting all of your energy and resources towards it or you're just signalling to the cancel culture crowd to not cancel you. Smh

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