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Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans (www.businessinsider.com)
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Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans::Apple unveiled its new iPhone 15 models this week, and some fans say they lack innovation.

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think that we've reached the peak of that form factor. Every real change will have to deviate so much that we wouldn’t call it smartphone any more.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    We were there 10 years ago and that's being generous. Phones have been fucking boring for over a decade.

    And that should be a good thing because by now you should be able to pick up a great smartphone for a hundred bucks... except that all these phone companies have to keep the money flowing in so they keep inventing shitty gimmicks and charging thousands of dollars for them.

    Or they strip out features to make you use their shitty clouds and subscription services.

    Or they keep bloating the OS so much that the hardware can't keep up - but God forbid you want to ignore their shitty update that brings 100 new emojis! They're gonna force that shit on you whether you like it or not.

    Tech industry is a desert of wasted talent nowadays.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    This is an overstatement. My first smartphone was an old Sony in 2014 and it was good.

    My second phone was a crappy Samsung in 2017 and it was bad. Slow data rates. Horribly over saturated photos.

    My third smartphone was a pixel 2 and it was remarkable. Better battery life than I was used to. The photos looked amazing.

    Then the released the night mode feature and I realized I had never seen a good phone Pic taken in a bar, but I was, on last year's hardware taking decent photos in dive bars...

    Then pixel eventually started supporting portrait mode. That was cool.

    But really? Apps and websites have gotten so bloated with shit we don't realize how capable phone processors have become. If the data on websites now had been this way in 2013? Forget about it. People would have hated smartphone.

    Progress on cameras has been pretty obvious. Batteries and screen size slightly less obvious. But I feel the counter acted gains on processor speeds have gone unnoticed. Phones have changed in the past ten years.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But the little assistants could be so much better.

    Like I want to ask Siri to do complicated tasks. Make me a reservation. Find a picture of a cow and send it to Jeff. Change my background to StarCraft. Stuff like that.

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