Aloysius

mikethemartian said:

hentaiboy said:

Can’t wait for iOS 12. 11 serously f#$&*d the performance of my Air 2 😡

I still have iOS8 on my Air 1 because of a bad experience I had upgrading a 4s to iOS8. I just don't have high confidence in iOS updates after that experience. Not sure if I will even upgrade my X to iOS 12.

I'm sorry, but that's really dumb reasoning.

One bad experience shouldn't prevent you from taking advantage of OS updates, especially since they keep your device more secure. 

Considering the XS is physically pretty much identical to the X, wouldn’t it stand the reason it’s a lot easier for them to have ramped up production much quicker? 

Its pretty meaningless less to look only at lead time dates without knowing the starting quantity available. 

This is would be more meaningful if there was also a poll or some other data showing buying habits. 

Physical media isn’t perfectly secure either: discs can get scratched, drives can fail, things can be lost or stolen. 

Hypothetically yes, digital copies can go poof and you’re out of luck. Your DVD collection can also go poof too. I have plenty of DVD cases that no longer have the disc in them, for instance. Move a few times or have small children and things are rarely permanent. 

In my use case case with small children who like to move things and not put them back, digital is far more secure than physical. 

bobcubsfan said:

In photography, there are combinations of shutter speed and f/stop that yield the same amount of light. Generally speaking, the smaller the f/stop (larger number) the greater the depth of field. However, if you change one, the other must as well. For example, f/8 at 1/500 second yields the same amount of light as f/11 and 1/250 second. The depth of field of f/11 is greater than the depth of field of f/8. Apple's trick must be using the depth information stored with the image, not actually changing the f/stop.

They clearly say it's a simulated f/stop; you're not actually change it. Assuming you have your camera set to aperture priority, with all the shutter speed and iso auto adjusting, changing the f/stop affects the depth of field, which most people understand as background blur or bokeh.

This is just simulating that by using depth mapping to dynamically change the blur of the background with post processing, at least how I understand it. Portrait mode has done this for a while (simulating bokeh), but these seems both better and more customizable. 

lewchenko said:

I guess if you take depreciation into account the value proposition is less of an issue if you get a significant portion back.

And I accept people's points that value is relative (both time wise and for each person)

I guess I'm struggling to justify why £1249 is genuinely worth it.(to me) 

The wife says I should buy it since I'm always on my phone lol. 
Still, £1249 ! (XS Max 256). My last iPhone was the 7 Plus. I think it was 819. 

That's a hell of a mark up.   

A few things.

It seems like outside the U.S., the prices seem much higher compared with prior years. Part of that is inflation (everything costs more than it did a few years ago), and the other is a strong US Dollar. Adjusted for exchange, it's not as big of a difference.

Second, Apple still sells a model that's more comparable to the 7 Plus: the XR. A better comparison would be comparing it to that, not a phone with a bigger screen and more storage. 

Third, if you look past the purchase price, what is your cost of ownership each month? Here we can do an installment plan split over 24 months, interest free. It's like $45/mo USD. People spend far more on coffee each month. And that's not figuring keeping your phone longer. Many on the forums mention they have phones going on 3-4 years old. What's the cost of ownership then? Plus figure even after 4 years, your phone still has value that you can recoup. 

Over 2-4 years, how much is a few hundred dollars extra, especially when you can sell it when you're done with it?