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Whew. Makes you wonder why when they're coming to the states they're opening plants in Arizona.

Makes you think that maybe they'd be better off someplace on high land off the Mississippi, within reach of the TVA grid.

AppleInsider said:

Most importantly, check that every one of the apps you depend on is confirmed as compatible with macOS Monterey. Most will be, but some developers will wait until the official release before completing their own updates.

Even if a small utility you use twice a year isn't working with Monterey, though, it's a pain, and means you should stay on Big Sur.

Wait ... is this article about iPadOS 15 or macOS 12?

There seems to have been a transition here that I hadn't detected.

rinosaur said:

Wait, that many people are buying the 1TB PM or did they just not produce that many? That’s one pricey phone

For that fact alone Apple probably didn't think they were going to sell that many.

Most think the 512 GB capacity an extravagance, but I tend to keep a lot of video media on my phone in case I get stuck in a parking lot waiting for a family member.

Also, with ProRes media coming if you want to use it at all you'll need a ton of capacity.

While brain drain is certainly possible, another possibility is that the CPU has gone as wide as possible, and further increasing the number of decoders would yield little benefit. As it is, the silicon design team probably raised a toast when they got eight instructions to run in parallel.

Once you get past a certain point, you're counting on higher clocks, eliminating bottlenecks, or better manufacturing techniques (like mask shrink) to achieve faster speed, and as your scale gets smaller you have quantum effects disrupting the works.

At that point, it would make sense to look for other areas to improve your workflow like optimizing ASICs (IP blocks) and other more specialized processors.

Apple doesn't design their computers to improve their SPECMARK numbers - they've always been about implementing new features in their products.

tmay said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

tmay said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

chemengin1 said:

Most disappointing and underwhelming iPhone announcement in the history of Apple, yet the delusional Apple fanboys here will say that it was the most advanced and mindblowing announcement ever.

You got the first part correct, but I think you got your last part incorrect. While there are few hard core fans of Apple in this forum, you would also see valid criticism of Apple as well when Apple doesn't get it right.

The majority of this thread, is by definition, criticism of Apple from users of current iPhones.

For those of us not on the latest iPhones, as myself, I can easily ignore those comments as initial reactions, many of which will be walked back over time. 

In AI, the people commenting know the technical specifications and the differences in specs between various iPhones. So I don't think the criticism of iPhone 13 generation would be just from people owning iPhone 12 generation, but others as well who understand the differences between various models.

But I agree with you that initial reactions may not mean much when it comes to actual sales over a period of time. People don't even need to walk back on the criticism. They can act as-if they never made those comments and still buy the latest generation when the need arises.

iPhone 13 generation is also in a difficult position by circumstances, coming right after a super-cycle year with iPhone 12 generation. So sales could go down significantly when compared to iPhone 12 generation with many people preponing their purchase to iPhone 12 generation and skip this generation.

Sales might be less than for the 12, due to the alleged "super cycle", but given that there are still something on the order of 760 million iPhones that haven't been upgraded to the iPhone 12, I'd still expect iPhone 13 sales to easily be "robust".

I'm surprised that so few here are excited by the addition of Pro Motion.

Yeah, the guy up above heard what he wanted to hear, and didn't really consider anything about what it really meant.

To address the Promotion issue: Android phones have had high refresh rates for years, but Promotion adjusts the frame rate to the content and current activities.

If you're watching a 24 fps movie, the refresh rate is 24 fps. If you're staring at a static web page, the refresh rate is 10 fps. If you're actively scrolling or playing a high refresh rate game, it's 120 fps.

So despite the refresh rate, Promotion does not charge ahead and whittle your battery down to a nub unless your activities call for it.

Apple often does that with a lot of features: get it right or don't put it out.

So no, maybe it's not the most exciting thing in the world. Is there any other phone that records 10 bit DolbyVision HDR? Focus racks using AI, or allows focus changes in post?

Heck, is there an Android phone which does portrait mode by stereoscopically computing nine planes of depth and increases background blur according to distance realtime and in the viewfinder (screen) before the shot is taken?

Last I looked, Android did a simple mask around the primary subject and applied a uniform blur to everything outside the mask in post. Maybe that's changed since then.