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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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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Steve Jobs didn’t innovate a thing in his life.

That is absolute bullshit. Sure he was an asshole to his co-workers and even his family, but I'm so tired of this false narrative that acts like Jobs is completely overrated.

Apple has always been stealing tech and pretending that they created it.

Yeah remember when they stole the click wheel concept from...oh wait they didn't steal that. Remember when they stole MacOS from....oh wait...they didn't do that either.

Stop being an armchair expert on something you have zero clue about. JFC.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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...

'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

[–] Johanno@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

RISC-V is open source. Lots of boards are moving to RISC-V.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I only hear: „mimimi, apple does not give me any reason to buy a new phone every year.“ just use your phone 5 years and try a new one then you will feel the difference. Source: I own a iPhone X and my girlfriend owns a iPhone 12 pro

[–] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I find it amusing that it's taken Apple fans this long to realize this.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It died long before Steve Jobs did. Steve straight up fought tooth and nail to keep superior emerging technologies like OLED off new iPhone's.

[–] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Steve's big computer innovation was fanless design. Apple had to design custom power supplies with custom voltages and custom motherboards. Then the power supplies started overheating and failing after a couple years the replacement power supply was 500 when a normal power supply was 100.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to give apple credit for not rebranding USB Type-C and claiming they invented it.

[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Well, they actually participated in it's invention, so it would be nice if the average lemmy user would educate themselves instead of just blindly repeating what Android fanboys are pulling out of their asses.

[–] fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

No matter what the subject, the NY Post is not even good for toilet paper.