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I am actually quite excited on this iPhone 18 Pro. Seems to pack a a lot of exciting stuff. 2nm A20 Pro, C2. I wish they have N2 but I guess not. 2nd Generation
by ksec 28d ago
I am actually quite excited on this iPhone 18 Pro. Seems to pack a a lot of exciting stuff. 2nm A20 Pro, C2. I wish they have N2 but I guess not. 2nd Generation Vapour Chamber. I thought I would have to wait another generation because Apple like to use new product features for two generation before moving on. And it seems this Vapour Chamber along with other heat desperation features are much better built. Much better Camera. And larger battery. With 60W charging that finally matches or closes to a lot of Android phone has been doing.
Never thought they would do it all within one update. In terms of hardware that is pretty much everything I wanted other than Silicon Battery.
The only thing that need radical change is iOS.
- LeBit 28d agoHeat desperation? I don’t think Siri is sentient yet.
- ivm 28d ago> The only thing that need radical change is iOS. Please, not again. – Sincerely yours mobile developer
- RetpolineDrama 28d agoIntroducing SwiftUI2: Every UI is a simple prompt, and all the underlying code is generated.
- brokencode 28d agoI mean, isn’t that how like 90% of new SwiftUI apps are created these days? Just telling an AI what you want? Apple already can’t keep up with the review.
- JAlexoid 28d agoIf they can't keep up, that means that they're not using AI to do reviews
- brokencode 28d agoKnowing how stingy Apple is, they’re probably still trying to get the expense approved. That’s partially why they’re in the mess they’re in with AI. The CFO wouldn’t let them buy enough GPUs to train their models. They needed all that money for more important expenses, like share buybacks, instead.
- CountSessine 27d agoPeople will buy Macs and iPhones even if they don’t have AI. In fact at this point, based on revealed market preferences, it’s almost a value add. And if the AI capitalization bubble bursts, most people would be ok with OpenAI or Anthropic going bust. Both of them going bust would be really disappointing, but even that wouldn’t be the end of the world. And Meta going bust would almost be a side benefit of a market crash. But Apple going bust would be a genuine loss for the world. So I’m glad they’re being conservative. (Not that I would be happy with either anthropic or OpenAI going bust - I hope they can weather whatever is ahead).
- brokencode 27d agoYeah, it ultimately hasn’t hurt Apple much so far. Though eventually expectations may shift as AI gets better integrated into other phones. Of course, there are a lot of AI features that we take for granted that aren’t LLMs, like speech to text, image foreground extraction, etc. Apple does tend to do this type of AI well.
- ShinyLeftPad 28d ago> The only thing that need radical change is iOS. Personally iSO 26 is so unbelievably glitchy, it's only not embarrasing because you know others spent $$$ on the same thing so everyone pretends it's fine.
- solarkraft 28d ago27 is really a lot better, even on an iPhone 13. Yet that’s still just repairing what they previously broke. I still can’t listen to music AND listen to a voice memo or a video clip.
- josephg 28d agoThey seem to have ironed most of the problems now. You can disable liquid glass if you hate it, and as a result iOS 26 is nearly as good as the previous version. I’m running it on my iphone12. I hated it when it first came out. But it seems fine now.
- netheril96 28d agoReally? iOS Guided Access is bugged on the whole 26, and I have been encountering system freeze many times on 26, never before on any other versions.
- ShinyLeftPad 28d agoI don't know how you're using it. The most broken (so it needs to be restarted sometimes) is Podcasts, but Music, Safari, Settings etc have glaring visual glitches too.
- josephg 28d agoWell, it might help that on day 1, I turned off the liquid glass effects in accessibility settings. At first there were several small layout / UI bugs that came from turning liquid glass off. But it seems fine now. I don't use the apple podcasts or music apps. (Overcast and Spotify for me). I haven't run into any serious problems.
- jq-r 28d agoI don’t understand why the Max version doesn’t have C2. Maybe supply constraints but I doubt it.
- ralph84 28d agoIt could be as simple as Apple committed to a certain volume with Qualcomm before they were certain they could get mmWave working so they have to keep using Qualcomm modems somewhere while they burn down the commitment.
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- theplumber 28d agoBesides a better camera what all this along with the past generations have so exciting ? I just fail to see a reason to upgrade. Maybe I am getting old?
- ubermonkey 27d agoBecause of a very, very last minute AppleCare replacement (like, 35 months after purchase), I have a year-old iPhone 14 Pro. I figured there was nothing Apple could introduce yesterday that would turn my head, but the 40+ hour battery life AND the adjustable aperture on the camera are, by themselves, making me consider it. It'll all come down to what discounts or carrier subsidies are available to me, and what the trade-in value is for my phone. But as a shutterbug who travels, those two things are VERY interesting.