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It seems odd that updating the Spotlight index database is not reserved for times when the battery is being charged.

charlesn said:

That said, the Ti band may prove more significant than just trim. I'm curious to test the claims myself of the phone feeling noticeably lighter and more comfortable in hand. I have always felt that the flat-bodied redesign that began with the 12 Pro felt noticeably heavier and more brick-like than the 11 Pro. The problem with my "feeling" is that the stats didn't bear it out: there was no significant difference in size or weight. And yet, that feeling has persisted through the 13 and 14 Pro models. So the softening of the edges on the 15 Pro, combined with the somewhat lighter weight of the Ti band vs SS may very well add up to a feeling of lightness and comfort that's more significant than the stats would suggest. 

According to Dr Drang, the change has affected the moment of inertia and this is more obvious than the weight change when handling the device: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/iphone-15-pro-facts-and-estimates/

kmarei said:

"demand outselling supply" could also mean they made 1000 units and they sold out in minutes
without numbers, this means absolutely nothing

But as @Marvin so ably demonstrated, we can infer from previous history that they're producing tens of millions of devices per quarter. Apple's been doing this for more than a decade; I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt that they're making these devices as fast as they can and are still unable to meet demand.

entropys said:

Ha ha, no matter how hard Apple tries, it is never enough for activists, who will always go for the most visible target.

time for a spot of Kipling:

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"

Ah, Kipling. Such a great poet, but sincerely willing to spend human lives rather than money. It's hard to square that with his admiration for the soldiers he reported on and spent most of his life with.

12TB of cloud storage, fully backed up, is NOT CHEAP.

I compare it to a 12TB WD desktop drive which Amazon is selling for US$229 - you'd want two of them so that you have a local backup, so that's US$458, plus for an off-site backup I think Backblaze is the best value at US$130 for two years (unlimited data, but you can't connect a huge number of external drives to your computer, so there's a practical limit). Electricity costs for the drives is a maximum US$4 per year each (as estimated here) but more likely to be negligible because they spin down while not in use.

Over the estimated 5 year lifespan of the drives, you'd pay a total of US$783 but you wouldn't have the ease of access that the iCloud storage provides. Backblaze has a web administration interface that's workable, plus iOS and Android apps for direct download to a smartphone or tablet, but it doesn't really have the integration of iCloud.

Five years of 12TB storage on iCloud is 60 months x US$60 pm for a total of US$3600. Interestingly, Backblaze has another product for storing data ("B2") that is priced at US$5 per TB per month, with an extra fee for downloading the data. It's designed for storage where you don't want to reserve any space up front, so you're charged only for what you use, but it's noteworthy that the pricing per TB is the same as iCloud (which doesn't charge for downloads).

For that amount of money it could well be worth building your own SSD-based NAS (Jeff Geerling has a great post here for a 40TB, dual 10Gbps networking NAS with a materials cost of US$4330; you can RAID that for 24TB of storage with 16TB of redundancy plus back up the NAS to Backblaze for the US$130/2yr mentioned above). 8TB SSDs are around US$400 for SATA drives and around US$750 for NVMe drives on Amazon, so you can modify the build cost according to your needs since the drives are the most expensive part.