Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[Fcret]

This thread's been quiet for a while, so I'd figure I'd try to zap some life into it:
Apparently Apple is planning to finally release a replacement for their only consumer-oriented display. I'm hoping they'll simplify the design a little bit as the Studio Display had an unfortunate habit of bricking itself with firmware updates.

 

[Vanilla Flavor]

The iphone SE 16E was announced today featuring a new modem, one camera, more battery life, no magsafe, no UWB, one less GPU core than the 16, $200 more expensive (and about $100 more than the predictions). Very interesting that apple omitted features used to sell accessories.

I was waiting for this phone to switch from a toasty s21fe but (correctly) figured it was cheaper to buy a 13 refurbished, so far IOS seems to be about as open as android, which might be more an indictment on the enshittification of android.

P.S: I love Orion browser, are there any suggestions for more aggressive adblocking?

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

The iphone SE 16E was announced today featuring a new modem, one camera, more battery life, no magsafe, no UWB, one less GPU core than the 16, $200 more expensive (and about $100 more than the predictions). Very interesting that apple omitted features used to sell accessories.

Give it MagSafe (bizarre that it doesn't have it) and slash it to $500, then it's good; albeit still a bit expensive for a "budget" phone.

Anyway, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT IPHONE MINI TIM APPLE?

 

[Total Annihilation]

Given the recent Apple announcements, I'm glad I lucked out with my 15 PM. It's got the standard ram they're using (even if it's advertised for retarded AI features), USB-C (my previous 12 PM was the last lightning device I had, even tho I use magsafe most often - got a good trade in credit for it when I traded it it), and 120hz. I would've stuck with my 12 PM for as long as I could, had it not been for Apple finally going USB-C (rare EU W), and the higher refresh rate is nice to have. My plan is to keep this phone for as long as I can, unless they somehow make an actual glass surface folding phone (not the shitty plastic screen protectors that are used); my guess is 2030 at the earliest for that tech to be widely available and adopted (or a glass-like material that's as strong or better).

 

[Susanna]

Give it MagSafe (bizarre that it doesn't have it) and slash it to $500, then it's good; albeit still a bit expensive for a "budget" phone.

I guess they're counting on the people who buy a budget phone to put it in a case. Most of those will have magnets integrated, especially if it's a thicker material, like the fake leather used in those wallets boomers use.

Anyway, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT IPHONE MINI TIM APPLE?

I am 100% with you on this. I really miss my 12 Mini. Best form factor, small enough fit comfortably in my hand and use one-handed. People say the battery life was awful, but I never had that experience. People need to waste less time on their phones. Anyway I wouldn't mind if they made it ever so slightly thicker to fit a bigger battery for the zoomers, just so long as it's small enough otherwise.

 

[Fcret]

Anyway, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT IPHONE MINI TIM APPLE?

They didn't sell. AFAIK it was like <5% of sales.

I was waiting for this phone to switch from a toasty s21fe but (correctly) figured it was cheaper to buy a 13 refurbished, so far IOS seems to be about as open as android, which might be more an indictment on the enshittification of android.

Realistically-speaking, if you're using your phone for phone shit, you're not going to miss anything from Android. iOS is more obnoxious on something like the iPad where it's seriously locking down an actually-powerful full-featured device than it is on phones which are already kinda small and shitty.

If you do wanna run other shit, you can sideload via AltStore although you do have to periodically reconnect to your AltStore instance to refresh the certificates and Apple only lets you install 3 sideloaded apps. You probably won't need more than that though tbh.

 

[Susanna]

iOS is more obnoxious on something like the iPad where it's seriously locking down an actually-powerful full-featured device than it is on phones which are already kinda small and shitty.

Sadly, that's the point of the product. They can charge extra on the App Store whereas if it were running a full macOS, most expensive software would be sold on other stores. It’s why they started pushing the iPad so heavily as a laptop replacement, to the point you hardly ever see someone using it without the keyboard folio.

I do genuinely like my iPad Mini, together with the Watch Ultra I hardly ever touch my shitty oversized phone any more (too large to be a decent phone, too small to be a decent tablet), but having to remote into my home computer to do just about anything more complex than taking notes or playing with Procreate is annoying. At least the remote control software it does have is really good, ”Windows” app is a very effective RDP client that works great with XRDP and KRDP for my Linux computers (haven’t tried it with an actual Windows machine but from its name I expect it would handle that well too), and Steam Link plays games well even over cellular. Including with controllers, who needs a Steam Deck when you can just use your tablet and a wireless Xbox controller to stream games from your high-end desktop at home?

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

The iphone SE 16E was announced today featuring a new modem, one camera, more battery life, no magsafe, no UWB, one less GPU core than the 16, $200 more expensive (and about $100 more than the predictions). Very interesting that apple omitted features used to sell accessories.

I was waiting for this phone to switch from a toasty s21fe but (correctly) figured it was cheaper to buy a 13 refurbished, so far IOS seems to be about as open as android, which might be more an indictment on the enshittification of android.

P.S: I love Orion browser, are there any suggestions for more aggressive adblocking?

I'm glad they finally updated the SE after all these years but the price is too high for such a device. Hopefully it'll be like the latest entry level iPad where it was initially priced way too high for what it was but eventually got cut down.

They didn't sell. AFAIK it was like <5% of sales.

Tbf the Plus phones didn't seem to do much better and I'm pretty sure Apple's retarded 17 Slim/Air experiment is also going to flop just as badly, they might as well just bring back the Mini

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Give it MagSafe (bizarre that it doesn't have it) and slash it to $500, then it's good; albeit still a bit expensive for a "budget" phone.

Anyway, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT IPHONE MINI TIM APPLE?

The iPhone se gen 3 is your last shot at it. And it just got discontinued last week

 

[Fcret]

Tbf the Plus phones didn't seem to do much better and I'm pretty sure Apple's retarded 17 Slim/Air experiment is also going to flop just as badly, they might as well just bring back the Mini

Yeah the rumor is that they're going to kill the Plus and flatten the product line to just have the SE, the regular, and the Pro Max (obviously with different names)

I think the regular iPhone is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of people tbh

 

[Quence]

Apple, bar none, has the best customer privacy policies of any of the major tech companies.

Here’s some of the deets on their APPLE AI privacy features:

 

[khaine]

Modern macOS is so buggy. I'm not even sure that they do any QA. I miss the cat days.

 

[AnOminous]

Modern macOS is so buggy. I'm not even sure that they do any QA. I miss the cat days.

It's been all downhill since Snow Leopard.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Yeah the rumor is that they're going to kill the Plus and flatten the product line to just have the SE, the regular, and the Pro Max

its crazy how at one point they had 4 different models of iphone out at the same time every year. like how the fuck was that sustainable or smart? like i could slightly understand two models, but when they're like only a $100 difference between 4 models and you know you're going to be using it for 5+ years why would you chose one of the middle options

 

[AnOminous]

its crazy how at one point they had 4 different models of iphone out at the same time every year. like how the fuck was that sustainable or smart? like i could slightly understand two models, but when they're like only a $100 difference between 4 models and you know you're going to be using it for 5+ years why would you chose one of the middle options

They're doing away with the SE entirely. The closest to a replacement is the 16e, and it's really a joke as a replacement. So no more iPhones with a reasonable form factor or at a reasonable price.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

They're doing away with the SE entirely. The closest to a replacement is the 16e, and it's really a joke as a replacement. So no more iPhones with a reasonable form factor or at a reasonable price.

i honestly wasn't even counting that. i was talking about the standard model, then the plus, and the pro and the pro max, in general there are so many different iphones you can buy now. its like 13 different models because you can buy last years and the years before and thats before getting into pre-owned.

they also stopped sharing those "historic" sales numbers a long time ago too.

 

[polaris_VII]

does apple even release the Darwin source anymore? last i checked they stopped providing prebuilt ISOs but i cant find just the raw source for the newest releases now

 

[Fcret]

does apple even release the Darwin source anymore? last i checked they stopped providing prebuilt ISOs but i cant find just the raw source for the newest releases now
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The code is still released but they stopped making ISOs because what's the point

Repo shows last commit was six months ago and included changes to XNU.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

its crazy how at one point they had 4 different models of iphone out at the same time every year. like how the fuck was that sustainable or smart? like i could slightly understand two models, but when they're like only a $100 difference between 4 models and you know you're going to be using it for 5+ years why would you chose one of the middle options

Steve would have rolled in his grave over how many models they have for one product.

 

[Susanna]

They really do need to bring the Mini back, though. And not some disgusting cut down version like the 16e, the real thing.