My mini 12 is holding on for dear life. I've been tempted to replace the battery, but holding out for this update to see... but the size of the mini is unbeatable.
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The form factors have already leaked out, like they usually do when manufacturing starts. It looks like there is no Mini.
If you really want to keep that small form factor, I would replace the battery or upgrade to a 13 mini.
I know, it's too bad. I don't think I can justify replacing the battery or upgrading to something that's also old. I am gonna just try and ride thins thing out until I can't do it any longer.
While there are some really cool things coming (spatial video, action button, etc), the only reason to recommend an upgrade this year is for Apple Intelligence features. If your phone is old and it’s just your time to upgrade, then it’s a great year for it. But if you’ve got a newer phone, don’t rush for the upgrade.
As a User of the 14 Pro, i think I‘ll pass this one as well. The updates, while neat, don’t really qualify spending 1400 for a new phone while mine’s working fine.
Holding on to my X, hoping the app support for iOS 16 continues.
The iPhone is stagnating really badly. This is yet another generation of overpriced, oversized, and overpowered glass slabs that bring nothing new of substance to the table. If anything, the interesting stuff is in iOS18 but that's not saying much because iOS is kneecapped by its own limitations.
I got a 14 pro on sale a while ago and it's simultaneously vastly overpowered for what I use it for and also frustratingly useless. All of that horsepower and tech... just sitting there doing nothing 97% of the time. It has 1tb of storage which is almost completely empty because you can't use iPhones as storage. You can't even drag-n-drop music onto them. I use an LG phone as my music player because it has both a headphone jack and allows me to simply drop my FLAC albums onto it.
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The OG iPod style drag and drop for music still works.
Moreover, there are quite a few apps out there allow you to use an iPhone as an external storage device. Unfortunately, you need to do it over WiFi. USB only works for photos, videos, and music as I recall.
Maybe get an android, seems crazy that you would csrry both in this day and age.
Agree on the stagnation, that has been clear for a bit now, they need to stop the showcases it is embarrasing to list colours as some laudable new feature.
How does this work with Apple - will the new Iphone be available as soon as it's announced? (I'm considering switching from Android)
Generally Keynote is held on a Tuesday, preorders open Friday morning the same week. Phones then ship the following week.