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lowededwookie said:

Remember when Apple was sent to court by the makers of this system because of the 30% fee asked by Apple to help pay for the infrastructure?

Apple should tell everyone complaining about this hypocrisy and let developers know they are actually getting a good deal.

Unity didn't send Apple to court - I think you're referring to Epic.

Impressive event?  I can’t recall a more boring iPhone introduction in recent memory.  The only interesting thing I saw was the possibility of a good trade-in value for my old iPhone.   In general, I believe Wedbush is trying to manipulate the market into following its outlandishly bullish AAPL recommendations to its clients.   Why else pronounce a coming “super cycle” of upgrades for a phone with no “super” new features?  Why would there be more pent up demand for it vs any previous year?

Anyone else think the 15 Pro is a bit underwhelming?  In terms of new hardware based features, it's an action button and 5x zoom (which rumors forecast to at least by 6x).  Sure, there's the usual SoC performance improvements - mostly geared towards gamers an professional photographers - that are expected every year and the expected change to the USB-C connector (with the rumors of the base iPhone 15 models only getting the slower USB speeds and only the Pro models getting 10gb/sec).  That's pretty much it.  Well, there's the use of titanium, making iPhones lose a small bit of weight (10%?).

The only bright spot is the trade-in.  If you have an iPhone 14 Pro Max, you might be able to trade it in for the 15 Pro Max for, maybe $200-300.  With such good trade-in an upgrade might be worth it, even if the improvements are so limited.

I think the article is a red herring.  The author points out that the people reading this article are likely tech savvy and won't be confused by what he's about to write: the confusion the general population will suffer over the differences in USB cables.  But, as another comment already pointed out, all USB cables will be able to charge an iPhone and transfer data at the speeds of the previous standards, Lightning.  So why would the general consumer - not the professional who might need the speed of charging and data transfer - get confused?  They'll just use whatever cable Apple includes or buy the cheapest one they can find.  No confusion - and they'll be oblivious that they could be charging and transferring data faster.

Ok, color me skeptical.  on the one hand Wedbush talks of a 'mini super cycle' (which is a downgrade from early plain 'super cycle' comments), but on the other hand, it also believes that a flat number of iPhones are being produced for launch compared to last year.  Somehow 'flat' and 'mini super cycle' don't sound synonymous.

Irrespective of the seeming logical insistency, I've yet to see an explanation from Dan Ives of Wedbush for *why* we there should be such a pent-up demand that would result in a super cycle (mini or otherwise).  Previously, those occurred when there were some landmark new features or technologies - e.g. the iPhone 6's larger screen or the availability of 3g after the initial iPhones.  Even the introduction of 5g recently didn't really lead to any big super cycle, so why on earth would Dan Ives predict one for the iPhone 15?  I mean, other than the obvious - to help himself and his clients whom he advised AAPL will be at $205 (and higher earlier) in the next 12 months?

Some have suggested the move to USB-C will cause a lot of people to buy new iPhones.  Not sure why - simply because they were so frustrated carrying around that lightning cable all those years?  It's not like the chargers that those lightning cables connect to aren't already USB.  The improved data speed USB-C will bring is only interesting to a very small part of the iPhone market.  Most of us do everything wirelessly nowadays.

The move to titanium is said to save weight - maybe 10% - but that's not so much on a 240g iPhone 14 Pro Max.  Still a lot more than some Android phones with 6.7" screens.  And we don't even know whether that weight savings will actually happen - after all, the Max will also have that new periscope antenna which is probably heavier.  Or it might suck more juice, requiring Apple to increase battery size/weight for the Max.  Lots of unknowns there.