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I was planning to upgrade this year, and probably still will, but honestly, the differences between the base model and pro model this year are fairly limited.

I was planning to upgrade this year, and probably still will, but honestly, the differences between the base model and pro model this year are fairly limited. ProMotion, Always-on display, a bunch more resistant to fall damage, and a camera that is better, but doesn't look like a lot. I'm a bit worried about the Apple Intelligence features, as they've been very prominent on WWDC, but were fairly toned-down today. Not much of it was shown, and they're delaying their arrival (notification summaries look great though, as a "little thing that matters").

whalesalad 2y ago
I can't live without the pro motion display now. I'm on a 13 right now so this will be a big upgrade for me personally.
- cube2222 2y ago
  Yeah I'm on a 13 Pro. It's enough to upgrade, but it doesn't blow you off your feet. The colors are also arguably worse than the 13 Pro lineup.
  - Aaargh20318 2y ago
    I’m going to miss the blue on my 13 pro. I’m probably going for the ‘desert titanium’ as that at least has some color. Such a shame that they reserve the bolder colors for the non-pro line.
- manmal 2y ago
  I‘m on a 13 Pro right now, and an iOS developer, so should have a reason to upgrade now. But the iffy situation with Apple intelligence in the EU makes me hesitate.
  - lucb1e 2y ago
    > an iOS developer, so should have a reason to upgrade Can't find the toot anymore but a recently popular one said that developers should be legally bound to 5-year-old hardware so that the resulting software works smoothly on all current systems and one is not forced to constantly upgrade just to keep a working system Not a serious proposal but it did give me pause
    - tr3ntg 2y ago
      I like this! As an iOS developer rocking an iPhone 11, I do find some comfort in knowing that a performant experience on my device suggests it will be a performant experience on others’
zitterbewegung 2y ago
I think it is a good thing to delay arrival so they can get it right. I almost think playing it up at WWDC was intentional so that developers would care more about it.
tekacs 2y ago
I've had notification summaries turned on for at least a few weeks as part of the iOS 18 Beta and I can sadly report that they seem to be very very low quality. On occasion they'll squash down something that is better read tersely, but I've overwhelmingly found them to make the content worse than simply reading the original text. I was really hopeful about them going in, but it seems like it might need an iteration or two more.
- mason55 2y ago
  I think that there are just very few notifications where a summary is the thing I want. Most of them I either don't care about at all or I want to see the actual text. Either it's important and the details matter or it's, like, a text from my wife and I want to read it in her voice and not a summary. The fun of my family group chat is reading the messages from everyone.
cmcaleer 2y ago
Presumably the AI features getting widely derided at WWDC influenced the script. I’m totally fine with generative AI, but I cringed when I saw the images they generated for the demo at WWDC. Just awful stuff.

whalesalad 2y ago

I can't live without the pro motion display now. I'm on a 13 right now so this will be a big upgrade for me personally.

cube2222 2y ago
Yeah I'm on a 13 Pro. It's enough to upgrade, but it doesn't blow you off your feet. The colors are also arguably worse than the 13 Pro lineup.
- Aaargh20318 2y ago
  I’m going to miss the blue on my 13 pro. I’m probably going for the ‘desert titanium’ as that at least has some color. Such a shame that they reserve the bolder colors for the non-pro line.
manmal 2y ago
I‘m on a 13 Pro right now, and an iOS developer, so should have a reason to upgrade now. But the iffy situation with Apple intelligence in the EU makes me hesitate.
- lucb1e 2y ago
  > an iOS developer, so should have a reason to upgrade Can't find the toot anymore but a recently popular one said that developers should be legally bound to 5-year-old hardware so that the resulting software works smoothly on all current systems and one is not forced to constantly upgrade just to keep a working system Not a serious proposal but it did give me pause
  - tr3ntg 2y ago
    I like this! As an iOS developer rocking an iPhone 11, I do find some comfort in knowing that a performant experience on my device suggests it will be a performant experience on others’

zitterbewegung 2y ago

I think it is a good thing to delay arrival so they can get it right. I almost think playing it up at WWDC was intentional so that developers would care more about it.

tekacs 2y ago

I've had notification summaries turned on for at least a few weeks as part of the iOS 18 Beta and I can sadly report that they seem to be very very low quality. On occasion they'll squash down something that is better read tersely, but I've overwhelmingly found them to make the content worse than simply reading the original text. I was really hopeful about them going in, but it seems like it might need an iteration or two more.

mason55 2y ago
I think that there are just very few notifications where a summary is the thing I want. Most of them I either don't care about at all or I want to see the actual text. Either it's important and the details matter or it's, like, a text from my wife and I want to read it in her voice and not a summary. The fun of my family group chat is reading the messages from everyone.

cmcaleer 2y ago

Presumably the AI features getting widely derided at WWDC influenced the script. I’m totally fine with generative AI, but I cringed when I saw the images they generated for the demo at WWDC. Just awful stuff.