Madtiger

The beauty of Apple A12 and iOS 12.1 (beta) is that it does REAL-TIME smart HDR even before you press shutter button. As soon as you open the Camera app in iOS 12.1 (beta), the display shows you HDR image in real time! The display is showing you in real time what your picture will look like...with highlight control and shadow details perfectly shown! Thus, when you press shutter button, the photo is taken INSTANTANEOUSLY. No more spinning shutter button while the camera processes the HDR image. Since the image on your phone screen is already in HDR, there is no further processing needed when you press shutter button. So, unlike other phones, smart HDR images (on iOS 12.1) don’t suffer from ghosting, lag, or prolong processing time that can slow you!

The same applies to video (1080 or 4k 30). Smart HDR is doing REAL-TIME processing of the each pixel on your phone screen! Instant highlight control and shadow details as you pan around!!

I think that Apple really outdid everyone in camera this year.  Amazing stuff.

rogifan_new said:

blurpbleepbloop said:

Soli said:No it's not.

1) The 512 GB XS Max is the most expensive iPhone Apple offers, not last year’s iPhone X. The real
question why do you care? Nokia sold cheap-ass phones and owned Vertu for ridiculously priced dumb phones. This notion that you feel slighted by Apple because the most expensive model (that you don’t need) is out of your price range despite you being such a loyal customer all these years is a ridiculous exclamation of entitlement.

2) The XS doesn’t have 128 GB for the same reason the XR doesn’t offer 32 GB or 512 GB… APPLE FUCKING CHOOSE NOT TO OFFER THAT CAPACITY! But, hey, if you feel there is a class action lawsuit you can win because you think Apple is being anti-competitive then go ahead and file in the Eastern district of Texas.

The OP’s questions about how and why Apple decided to offer what they have this year with the XSs and XR are really rhetorical questions since they (Apple) are very deliberate in their strategy for selling product, but these retorts to those questions are among the dumbest I’ve read.  

Apple IS undeniably working to increase ASP of the iPhone (they believe it will yield the best ROI). For many years Apple has offered its flagship phones at high prices but they were obtainable and apparently, by measure of their success, seemed appropriate for the value received. You use this straw man attack and say OP feels slighted as a loyal customer...dude, Apple’s new phone are freaking expensive, full stop. (for vast majority of people). No indication that OP felt Apple owed him something...just that Apple would improve the value proposition.

And genius insight on how Apple chose storage capacity for the new phones - it added a lot to the discussion.

Some people, maybe OP, believe Apple is somehow benevolent; in my youth I used to. Could be because this is how Apple portrays itself - they are the good guys.  But, they are not the good guys, they are a corporation. And corporations exist to generate profit.  So, no surprise that they keep pushing prices higher...as long as people are willing to pay, this will continue.

So, to those that lament Apple’s current offerings, simply don’t buy...if enough people feel this way, then maybe something better will come along.

I’ll admit they are mostly rhetorical questions. It seems pretty clear with slowing sales growth Apple’s business model is to raise prices to what they feel the market will bear. If they can’t increase sales growth at least they’re growing revenues and ASPs. We’ll see how long they can keep doing it. I had an X and loved it. I have an XS right now and love it. I still think Apple’s storage offerings are a rip off but I have no interest in Android so iPhone it is,

blurpbleepbloop said:

Soli said:No it's not.

1) The 512 GB XS Max is the most expensive iPhone Apple offers, not last year’s iPhone X. The real
question why do you care? Nokia sold cheap-ass phones and owned Vertu for ridiculously priced dumb phones. This notion that you feel slighted by Apple because the most expensive model (that you don’t need) is out of your price range despite you being such a loyal customer all these years is a ridiculous exclamation of entitlement.

2) The XS doesn’t have 128 GB for the same reason the XR doesn’t offer 32 GB or 512 GB… APPLE FUCKING CHOOSE NOT TO OFFER THAT CAPACITY! But, hey, if you feel there is a class action lawsuit you can win because you think Apple is being anti-competitive then go ahead and file in the Eastern district of Texas.

The OP’s questions about how and why Apple decided to offer what they have this year with the XSs and XR are really rhetorical questions since they (Apple) are very deliberate in their strategy for selling product, but these retorts to those questions are among the dumbest I’ve read.  

Apple IS undeniably working to increase ASP of the iPhone (they believe it will yield the best ROI). For many years Apple has offered its flagship phones at high prices but they were obtainable and apparently, by measure of their success, seemed appropriate for the value received. You use this straw man attack and say OP feels slighted as a loyal customer...dude, Apple’s new phone are freaking expensive, full stop. (for vast majority of people). No indication that OP felt Apple owed him something...just that Apple would improve the value proposition.

And genius insight on how Apple chose storage capacity for the new phones - it added a lot to the discussion.

Some people, maybe OP, believe Apple is somehow benevolent; in my youth I used to. Could be because this is how Apple portrays itself - they are the good guys.  But, they are not the good guys, they are a corporation. And corporations exist to generate profit.  So, no surprise that they keep pushing prices higher...as long as people are willing to pay, this will continue.

So, to those that lament Apple’s current offerings, simply don’t buy...if enough people feel this way, then maybe something better will come along.