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Apple worries me a bit lately and by lately I mean in the last five six years. It seems Covid did a thing and all innovation and development efforts halted sinc

by ulfw 1y ago

Apple worries me a bit lately and by lately I mean in the last five six years. It seems Covid did a thing and all innovation and development efforts halted since 2000 or so. The Apple Car project was a huge boondoggle. Meanwhile Xiami delivered and succeeded with the SU7 and now YU7. Apple will finally introduce a foldable phone in late 2026, with specs rumored to be worse than today's Android flagships such as Oppo Find N5, which I use or the new Samsung Fold 7 and Honor Magic V5 etc. And let's keep in mind we are in the 7th iteration of such devices already. Vision Pro might have been technically nice but there is no market for it, let alone for it's price point and hence barely any developers jumped on it. The iPhone has stagnated so much I got the Oppo after having had every single iPhone since the original one in 2007. I legit cannot list a single notable thing that is new in the 16 Pro vs. the 15 Pro. The only thing that came to mind was the 48mp ultra wide sensor chip married to such a shitty lens that it legit has worse quality than my 15 Pro's old 12mp chip. I tested them back to back. I've been a huge fanboy for decades but lately absolutely nothing from the company excites me anymore as they just can't deliver. The big new Apple Watch update that was rumored never came. Meanwhile we have so much better looking rounded OLED ones from competitors.

EmptyCoffeeCup 1y ago
Only matters for people who care; that is not even the majority of apple users. It is well established that upgrading every year is a waste of funds; A lot of users buy a phone every 5-8 years (or after a destructive event) - IOS is nice to use. That's all that matters to a huge proportion of the market. Me? I'll keep my 13 Mini until it dies, or until a new "Mini" is released - phones don't need to be massive.
- BuckRogers 1y ago
  iPhone 12 mini lover and user checking in here. The haters will berate us for our choice stating that "no one wants a small phone", but that's a lie. Normal sized phones were never going to be instant day-one hits. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to launch them during Covid, offer them 2 years, and say no one wants them. Give them a permanent place in the lineup, treating phones like every other very personal device meant for humans. Small, medium, and large. If you do that, and give people time to see exactly why 5.42 screens are superior to 6.1"+ sizes, then I think the numbers will start to change from what we saw with the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini, which were both launched when people were less on the go than in 100 years.
- ulfw 1y ago
  > Only matters for people who care okay mate Seems you care enough to reply that you don't care

by ulfw 1y ago

EmptyCoffeeCup 1y ago

Only matters for people who care; that is not even the majority of apple users. It is well established that upgrading every year is a waste of funds; A lot of users buy a phone every 5-8 years (or after a destructive event) - IOS is nice to use. That's all that matters to a huge proportion of the market. Me? I'll keep my 13 Mini until it dies, or until a new "Mini" is released - phones don't need to be massive.

BuckRogers 1y ago
iPhone 12 mini lover and user checking in here. The haters will berate us for our choice stating that "no one wants a small phone", but that's a lie. Normal sized phones were never going to be instant day-one hits. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to launch them during Covid, offer them 2 years, and say no one wants them. Give them a permanent place in the lineup, treating phones like every other very personal device meant for humans. Small, medium, and large. If you do that, and give people time to see exactly why 5.42 screens are superior to 6.1"+ sizes, then I think the numbers will start to change from what we saw with the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini, which were both launched when people were less on the go than in 100 years.
ulfw 1y ago
> Only matters for people who care okay mate Seems you care enough to reply that you don't care