twolf2919

I doubt there will be a 10% increase in iPhone sales for the iPhone 16 introduction.  For one,  none of the AI features Apple is hyping will be available this year - judging by their complete absence in the 3rd developer beta of iOS 18, we're talking about 2025 here.  And then people have to be convinced that these features are actually worth buying a new phone for.  So I doubt Apple will see any benefits from the introduction of AI until iPhone 17 - September 2025.

And I think unless there's a truly remarkable improvement in Siri's capabilities, there won't be much of a  bump at all.   Don't know how many folks would splurge for a new iPhone for the privilege of being able to search ones email or photo library in more ways - or to rephrase one's email composition.

Give me a much better Siri and a higher-res optical zoom and I'll stand in line.

For me, after authenticating, the iPhone window on the mac just sits there with "Connect to xxx" where xxx is the name of my iPhone.  Rather bizarre.  I have both bluetooth and wifi enabled.  As a bonus, the "Feedback Assistant" doesn't yet have an area of concern for this yet :-(

Sorry, but I don’t buy the author’s claim that AR glasses would be harder to build than the current Vision Pro.  Quite the contrary: it would need none of the VR-specific, super high resolution screens nor the heavy computing needed to create a virtual reality that includes actual reality as the Vision Pro needs to.

Imagine a pair of glasses that included sensors/cameras and a small projector to superimpose generated content onto the actual reality seen in the glasses.  Add small batteries in the temple areas, a networking chip, and you’re done.  For a crude example, see the 11 year old attempt by Google.  Unlike Google, Apple should offload all computing to the iPhone, thus allowing for much longer battery life than Google Glass (which was already on par with what Vision Pro with a tether 10 years later!)

Apple has a decade of technical improvements to draw on as well as its vaunted hardware/software integration to outdo what Google did over a decade ago!  The only real technical challenge is the networking needed to send sensor data to the iPhone and to get the display in the glasses updated in a timely manner.

There’s no reason Apple AR glasses couldn’t exist today.  Tim Cook just didn’t have a clue as to what his customers actually want and, instead, let his techno geeks run wild.

If true, congratulations Apple, you’re on your way to doing what you should have done in the first place: rely on the computer already in people’s pockets.  Next up, drop the “VR” bit, letting the headset into glasses.   Voilá, you’ve turned your dud of a product into a guaranteed mass market success.

By singling out iPhone 15 Pro Max in you title, you  imply that the improvements are specific to that model - but then don't actually show lesser improvements for other models.  That's pretty sloppy reporting.