Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple’s new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

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Angry shareholder noises

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Shareholders can cope and seeth

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phone manufacturers hiss and recoil like vampires

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Yeah I think so, but they’ve stopped providing security updates for it.

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Custom rom

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Imagine a world where we accept that things don’t have to be fantastically better than what came before, and we can find happiness in what we have.

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That’s not how humans work.

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I guess we’re fucked, then.

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Except the battery won’t hold a charge any more and it’s impossible to replace

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Ah, right. They have time until 2025 for replaceable batteries. They want to milk you until the last moment (not only Apple).

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And then there’s the issue of security updates.

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Grab FairPhone.

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I just upgraded to an iPhone 13. I only did that because the battery in my XR was dying and a new phone was $10 a month. Otherwise, I would have been fine keeping it indefinitely.

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If I may ask: why not a FairPhone? Those are repairable so they seem like a good investment if you’re gonna spend iPhone level of money*.

*Tho I guess an older iPhone 13 is cheaper than a new FairPhone nowadays but idk by how much.

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Because I can’t get one for $10 a month and I don’t want to repurchase the hundreds of dollars worth of apps I’ve already paid for.

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My Pixel 2 XL that’s suffering begs to differ…

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Steve Jobs didn’t innovate a thing in his life. Apple has always been stealing tech and pretending that they created it.

Now with this new version, they don’t even have much anything to steal. At best, they pretended that the EU didn’t force them to adopt USB 3 and boast how much faster it is than Lightning port.

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Actually the EU only forced them to adopt USB C. Only their ‘Pro’ model actually has USB 3. Imagine having to pay a premium for the luxury of a 15 year old technology

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And they still don’t have PD on the pro.

My guess is that they’ll be going portless soon, and don’t want users freaking out that they can’t change their phones as quickly, so they’re intentionally nerfing the charge speeds on USB C.

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They have to have USB power delivery by the EU law but only as fast as the device supports at all. So if they only have 20W charging at all that’s legal.

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USB C without PD ain’t compliant with the EU regulation, so I hope for them, and their users, that PD is onboard.

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With how much they’re investing in video and how large their camera/film user base is, they will not go portless.

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A 15 year old technology pretty much every other phone uses now. A technology used in pretty much every modern laptop - especially Apple’s own - and many desktops.

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15 years ago was Micro-USB, which was awful.

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Apple just wants to get rid of low income people having an iphone.

Iphones whole thing has always been to be a luxury brand, that only rich people can afford.

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Did Jobs build teams that invented the GUI, the cellphone, multitouch gestures, or mobile web browsing? No, he didn’t. But he built teams that productized those things better than anyone else before them, and that team forever changed our expectations for computing.

To be an innovative composer you don’t have to invent new instruments, scales, time signatures, etc. You have to know how to arrange existing stuff in new ways.

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Yep, I am not a Jobs fan boy at all but he definitely had a clear goal and required people to get the product right before shipping it, to the extent to which that was possible for the tech at the time.

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Yeah. The man was a piece of shit in several ways, but he was also good at what he did.

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Yeah because the first iPhone wasn’t a Revolution,

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It was not revolutionary in the sense of technology, it was revolutionary in the sense of getting the general public to understand and accept the idea of a smartphone.

EDIT: Not to say it’s still necessary. I mostly stick to the iPhone because I don’t want to repurchase all the apps I already purchased, some for a significant amount, if I have to replace my phone. If that becomes moot one day, like if iPhones get to the point that they’re unusable or somehow Apple goes under, I’ll switch.

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So they had “innovative marketing”, ok.

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People always down vote when I point that out as well lol. Windows mobile was already moving towards icon based UIs pre iPhone, so while the UI was a definite improvement it wasn’t the revolution it’s made out to be. The iPhone 1 had no app store or 3g so was not good for emails and, back in 2007 when flash still mattered, couldn’t access most of the Internet where windows phone could. I’m pretty sure it was successful purely based on the iPods popularity, at least until the iPhone 3gs and app store came out and the iPhone became arguably a better smartphone than those that came before.

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Yeah bruh, you could have had a super fucking revolutionary sidekick, Windows PDA missing capacitive touch, of if you were really special a blackberry!

The mental gymnastics of you people.

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i was working in mobile at the time, and it was my job to keep up with the leading tech. i was using a Palm Treo when the iPhone was released, which was arguably the most advanced PDA phone at the time with blackberry being the primary competitor.

i vividly remember watching the announcement from the iphone and being shaken with how the device worked. the fact that you interact with it without a stylus, the highest resolution screen available on a PDA phone, combining the functionality of an ipod, phone, and rich HTML internet browsing device, and the fucking triple layered capacitive multi-touch touch screen were absolutely revolutionary. to say anything else is revisionist history. no one else had anything remotely like it.

and anyone who knew anything about mobiles at the time knew it was revolutionary and that the world was changing that day.

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Their Laptop Chips are in fact leading technology. Intel and AMD are far behind in Performance/Power used

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You’re correct, but it’s important to note that the M chips are very expensive to produce, and abandoning x86 means literally all the software iOS and OSX uses needs to be rewritten (or translated via Rosetta). It’s a huge project with tons of risks and massive costs. Apple can do this because they’re pretty much completely vertically integrated at this point, and control their ecosystem completely. If amd independently released some new non compatible architecture that was dramatically faster, it’d likely be dead in the water.

Intel learned this lesson the hard way during the Itanic days. AMD took the relatively safer approach when they released amd64.

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Correct. I wish there were open source chips in this category. Not that anyone could afford to produce it, but I believe Software for a chip with a new instruction set would be more adapted if you could look everything up

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Except that their implementation of USB-C will be way slower than the lightning port.

Edit: I’ve been schooled.

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The lightning port is USB 2. The 15 is USB 2, powered by the same USB 2 chipset as the 14 pro. The only difference is the connector not the cables or encoding.

The 15 pro has USB 3, which is faster than the lighting port ever was.

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Oh, I’ve been schooled. Thanks.

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lmao what?

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Yeah wtf is apple innovating?

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Coincidentally, USB C. Just not on their mobile devices.

They were some of the first to ship a laptop with USB C, and they went balls out.

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Not coincidentally. Ironically.

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No coincidence, Apple helped design USB-C. They have been slowly transitioning for years but everyone thinks the EU “made” them switch.

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‘Good artists copy; great artists steal’ -Steve Jobs, proudly bragging about stealing ideas.

Such as the mouse which they stole from Xerox. There are many examples of this for people who don’t have apple dick in their mouths

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Remember when they stole MacOS from…

XWindows? Was that what you were going to say?

Yeah remember when they stole the click wheel concept from…

Wow, you are really digging the bottom of the barrel…

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You’re right.
Apple is the first company to ever try rounded corners.

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Apple was literally founded and initially successful off Steve jobs monetizing Woz’s genius. It is not at all a stretch to claim Steve Jobs never innovated a thing.

In modern apple, of course they are far more likely to buy innovative technologies and fund development or copy competitors. Why would they spend money funding R&D when they can more cheaply buy out worthwhile concepts?

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In every way except for starters their UI is absolutely dog shit

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They can’t. It’s clearly stated that the USB connector is still limited to the lightning speed.

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Apparently the Pro version has USB 3.0. Still mediocre compared to new Android phones (not just the flagships) that are pushing Thunderbolt.

Hooking up your android phone to an ultrawide with built-in dock is still funny, but not very useful.

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I did it once with a Windows Phone. Bar the novelty thing, it is not something I found useful

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What android phone supports thunderbolt?

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There is no such thing as ‘lightning speed’. It’s just a connector, not a data communication standard. The non-pro iPhone 15 uses the same SoC as last year’s pro models, which happens to have an USB 2.0 controller. The new SoC used in the 15 Pro models have a 10 gbit USB 3.0 controller on board.

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“Still limited to the same speed of the model using the lightning connector” did not have the same ring to it.

Did not know they finally moved to a usb3 chipset on the pro when I commented, good to hear.

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I bet you also think it’s the year of the Linux desktop 🙄

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Y’all are unironically engaging with a NYPost article

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It’s an insult to call this an article, is regurgitating some shit some dudes on twitter said.

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Thats 50% of modern journalism. The other 50% is copying police press releases verbatim without investigation.

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It’s always been a large chunk of journalism. Great Journalism always has and continues to exist, but the kicker is those people deserve to get paid for their work, and few people want to participate in paying for content, so low effort spam is more lucrative.

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Eh. I mean, are there any great innovations left when it comes to smartphones? They kinda all just look and do the same nowadays.

They sure made USB3 look like a breakthrough innovation, though…

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Functioning AI voice assist, foldable, better peripherals, better input systems, better data transfer between systems, more durable, better battery life, repairable, more sustainable, better UI, decentralised communication options, meshnet options, etc.

There’s plenty to do about smartphones that needs innovating…

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They are always making Siri better (check out the news for it), I super do not want a foldable phone, the Apple peripherals are quite good, the data transfer between Apple systems is one of the main appeals of Apple, never broke an Apple product unless I chuck it at a wall, battery life is quite good I have a 4 year old phone that still has 24 hour battery life, Apple is committed to making not just their products but the entire company carbon neutral by 2030, Apple UI is also one of the main appeals since it’s so nice.

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Apple is committed to making not just their products but the entire company carbon neutral by 2030

Literally every major company on the planet is, doesn’t mean they actually are working towards it.

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better battery life

Really debatable, since apps battery consumption increases balances it out. It really feels like we have to upgrade just to keep up.

better UI

REALLY debatable. There’s some UI updates that I abhor. Several have reduced functionality.

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Apple is always doing all of that other than the fokdable, which has been turned for a long time.

AirDrop and AirPlay are always getting better between Apple products. They literally just made the iPhone titanium for better durability. It has better battery life pretty much every year.

This one is more repairable than ever with the easily removable glass.

Those are all things Apple announces every year and everyone shits on them because it’s not innovative enough, like every year needs to be 2011 again when phones were making massive leaps year over year.

Like oh, this chip is only 20% faster than the last one with only 10% better battery life. Yawn.

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Last I checked they’re not very keen on repairability (Being able to remove glass and being able to fix everything are two different things) and sustaniability (and no making a phone more efficient/produce less ghg/etc does not mean caring about sustainability when your whole model is mass producing and selling new phones every year while encouraging customers to ditch their current functioning phones for the new one, sometimes by purposefully removing support for them or bricking them with updates)

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are there any great innovations left

Honestly, this is such a weird take because, yes. Of course there are innovations left, you just cannot think of them yourself now because then they obviously would not be innovative but rather same old same old. Now the rate of new innovations probably did slow down a lot, I agree with that, so its harder to find something that is innovative in this space.

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Of course, they’re just being done on Android until Apple takes them on later and markets them as their innovations.

Foldables are already a thing and the next iPhone will likely be their version of it.

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They sure made USB3 look like a breakthrough innovation, though…

I’ve commented this elsewhere in this thread:

All accessory vendors are going “woah, revolutionary! Apple is now USB-C”, but Apple itself isn’t being too pushy about it. They’re more focused on the titanium shell, better cams and action button.

I dislike Apple, but I think it’s mostly vendors and reviewers that highlight the connector (both protocol and form), Apple isn’t doing it.

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I think innovations in phones are going to go the other direction honestly. Bringing back shit like eink displays, batteries that last days, fuck it, am/fm… New consumer tech is outpacing the users needs. I see a touch of old standards making a comeback. Hell how old is USB-C?

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Fuck it, but an antenna and TV tuner on there. Give Cathode Ray Dude something to enjoy.

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What you’re describing is not innovation.

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Neither is what Apple is doing and I guess thats my point. How much higher tech to people reasonably need or want in their pocket? Is innovation for its own sake really innovation? They are just remarketing existing tech as features without a demand.

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I am holding out for rollables! There still so many things that can be done. Satellite coms and holographic displays are my dreams.

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Speaking of sat comms, imagine a cell device with a whole suite of radio tools for amateur operators and professional ones. Im waiting for the FTC to open up some fun bands for us to play with as they depopulate while consumers etc switch to the newer ones.

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i just don’t see holographic displays being all that great to interact with. they might look pretty, but what’s the advantage over what we have now?

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Pov: you dont understand what innovation mean.

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Innovation is kind of their job

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I’ll admit the hardware on iPhones is excellent but waaayy overkill for iOS.

Let me install my own third party apps w/o the App store (I know altstore exists, but needing to renew apps every few days is super janky). If I spend my money on a device, I should be allowed to put whatever I want on it, however I want. Let me, the consumer accept the risks of doing so.

Let me use HDMI out over USB-C to an external monitor and have a full desktop with ability to run desktop class apps. Let me use the full potential of the chipsets to get actual work done and effectively replace a computer.

Till then, Android it is for me because I can do both these things easily. I know my use cases are more niche, but “Pro” naming on consumer Apple products is just fluff.

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Let me install my own third party apps w/o the App store (I know altstore exists, but needing to renew apps every few days is super janky). If I spend my money on a device, I should be allowed to put whatever I want on it, however I want. Let me, the consumer accept the risks of doing so.

This is THE reason I switched from Apple to Android in 2017 and never looked back.

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Unless forced this will never happen on Apple devices. The reason has nothing to do what they claim, about protecting users and people not knowing better. It has everything to do with locking people in their ecosystem. If uncurrated store appears it might bring with it applications that help people migrate out of the Apple ecosystem or provide compatibility with “undesired” devices. Better compatibility with Android watches means lower chances of people buying Apple Watch, etc.

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EU has an upcoming law that will force Apple to allow sideloading apps.

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Based EU strikes again

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How would they sell you a mac or a iPad along the iPhone if they open The iPhone that much? We still live in capitalism sir.

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Well they eventually pulled the plug on iPods…

Took them “only” 10 years to add mouse support for iPads, something that’s been used for decades.

So surely, give it 10 more years and then they’ll “revolutionize” using a bigger external display for iPhone (and not just screen mirroring) :D

They’ll do it, they just take their sweet time.

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Seriously, I would buy an iPhone if it was not so locked down. I like a lot of things about them but I need my non app store compliant apps

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Let me install my own third party apps w/o the App store (I know altstore exists, but needing to renew apps every few days is super janky). If I spend my money on a device, I should be allowed to put whatever I want on it, however I want. Let me, the consumer accept the risks of doing so.

I’m honestly a bit divided on this. Like yes, freedom is great, but the Apple app monopoly, for all its faults, does one good thing and it’s the fact that all the software is easily available in one place and I am not forced to install multiple app stores to search trough to find what I’m looking for. It turns out that while I like to tinker with personalized Linux installs on my computers, on my phone I just want it to work as quickly and easily as possible without having to figure things out.

I would like an easier way to compile your own app packages for the phone though.

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You say like this is normal on Android. It’s not. Basically everything is still on google play

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