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lewchenko said:

3. A diet. Yep , the pro phones are true porkers these days. Just go pick up an iPhone 6/7 series phone and feel that difference. Ah wait, next years 17 air / slim might give you that. 

Amusing, just not true.

The iPhone 7 Plus, the closest possible comparison to the 15 Pro, only had a 5.5 inch display, dual lens camera and weighed 188 grams. The 15 Pro has a 6.1 inch display, a tri-lens camera system, a bigger battery and weighs... wait for it... 187 grams. 

If we look at the standard iPhone 7, it only had 4.7 inch screen size plus dual cameras and weighed 138 grams. The closest comparison to that would be the iPhone 13 Mini, which had a 5.4" display (15% larger than the 7) and a bigger battery and weighed... wait for it... 140 grams. 

Turns out that the old iPhones of yore were the real porkers, weighing as much as their modern iPhone counterparts, but with smaller displays and batteries, plus inferior cameras. 

Chock_Mossley said:

In regards to Apple Intellegence, my concerns is being able to opt out. I’m tired of getting all this AI crap getting shoved down my throat from all the tech companies 

Just curious: what exactly is "all this AI crap" that's getting shoved down your throat? I can't think of any interaction I've had with AI that wasn't the result of my choice. There's no need to "opt out" when I can simply not use its assistance. 

Could a survey be any more preposterous than one which concludes that the #2 priority for iPhone upgraders is "thermal management?!" New features? AI? Faster speeds? New colors? Better battery life? Nah, what the people REALLY want is better thermal management. Absolutely ridiculous on the face of it, yet this stupidity gets published. 

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

xyzzy01 said:

What I really want are new Airpods Max.

Good news and bad news from the rumor mill. The good is that your wish will come true before year's end. The bad is that the new model will only swap out Lightning for USB-C and that will be it for improvements. I find that hard to believe, but who knows? I will say this: here in NYC, I'm seeing A LOT more Airpods Max out in the wild than I've ever seen before, so maybe they're finally selling better. I've resisted wearing mine because I don't think it's a great idea to be wearing a $549 price tag on the top of my head because why tempt the less honorably inclined among us? Airpods Max make for a pretty easy grab and run.