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[–] li10@feddit.uk 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, marginal camera improvements are kinda meh to me. Has there really been anything that significant since Face ID?

5G is the only thing that springs to mind for me, but I’ve honestly never felt that 4G held me back on a phone considering it works perfectly for playing videos…

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[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Next iPhone gets usb c.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That’s great, but considering everyone’s already got the cables they need, for most people it’s not really a feature to upgrade for.

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[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Most people have 1 cable they need for their phone and a lot of usb c. Upgrading means no more going to find that 1 unique charger.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, it’s nice, I just don’t think that feature is worth upgrading for most people.

Face ID and Apple Pay were jumps forward in the way that people use their phones and were quite exciting, introducing USB C is just backtracking.

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[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You are the minority then. If you do a poll on what would make people buy a new iPhone it will be the usb c connection.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 1 point 3 years ago*

Despite what they’d say on a poll, if you actually forced people to buy a new phone if they answered yes then a majority would stick with what they’ve got.

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[–] waz@feddit.uk 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Absolutely not. I don’t have a laptop, have a family group that have between us, iPhone X, XS, 11 and an old 7max. All chargers I have owned for the last 10 years are USB A at the charger. So the cable will be USB A to lightning for all the phones and to something else, like micro usb for other devices like a rechargeable bike light. USB C is just to cause e-waste and of no practical use.

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[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

You don’t have a laptop? I think you are the minority then

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[–] waz@feddit.uk 4 points 3 years ago

Got three macs and a pc, playstation and my work laptop is the only thing that has usb-c on it. But it’s off no interest when not working, I just can’t think why usb-c is so important to some people. It seems like if you had been upgrading constantly on android phones, there’s the driver. The only person I work with that keeps banging on about usb-c is the Android phone guy.

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Buying a handful of spare chargers is much cheaper than buying a new phone.

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[–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 1 point 3 years ago

Android has gotten high refresh and variable refresh which is great for battery life. Other than that just raw speed, which is usually just throttled down for better battery life and monstrous huge screens.

As far as I can see on the apple side they haven't seen anything but incremental, and sometimes increments in the wrong direction, changes in the last 6 years.

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[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Emergency satellite SOS was a massive selling point for upgrading to the iPhone 14 to a lot of people. To your point though, my 2015 iPad is just now being dropped from future updates.

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Canada it's being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

These are two separate features.

I doubt many people actually have a use case for satellite SOS though.

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[–] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago

There's some pretty remote places in the US. So you don't need it 'till you need it.

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[–] thejoker8814@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Very interesting, do you have any source or references that springs to your mind? I have emergency SOS enabled, but it never happened to me that it has been falsely triggered. And I can’t imagine many scenarios were it would be.

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 3 years ago

I had it enabled for a bit and everything worked fine, but I was worried about accidentally triggering it so disabled it before hearing about the false alarms.

Here's an article from the CBC about it.

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[–] smolyeet@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Recently , 5G in the 12, 144hz in the 13 pro , satellite and crash detection in the 14 , this year usc-c. Upgrading that often is an enthusiast thing really (or marketing).