kiwimachead

16e is a waste of money and step backwards IMO. I just bought an ‘as new’ condition iPhone 14 pro max 256gb with 100% battery life for the same price as a 16e. My wife has a standard size iPhone 14 pro 256gb and our daughter has her old red edition SE2 which she loves. Figure we might as well just use these phones for the foreseeable future, as the tech has plateaued, AI is still just a novelty and can’t envisage any useful advances in mobile phones for another couple of years. 

Far out. I’ll always struggle to understand how north Americans voted this psychopath into the White House, twice.

Tech has plateaued and I don’t have much interest in AI  yet unless it can be meaningful to the planet. I still read books, work in the physical world, cook, garden, exercise outdoors, engage with humans and animals…

For a budget smartphone anyone in their right mind would be far far better off just buying a $100-200 android via your mobile network store/shop. Don’t see the point at all of paying good money for a hobbled and throttled iPhone with clueless AI and a rubbish camera, plus the SSD upgrade price to 256gb is pure daylight robbery. 

iCloud+ has been a good reliable service for me, and the cost is pretty decent. Most consumers would have forgotten/forgiven Apple for how clunky the original switchover was from iTunes and I don’t miss that lame sync to save data followed by another to back up the Mac. These days I just have a full subscription to Apple One premier - every time I look at trimming subscriptions they keep me sucked into the ecosystem as I realise we actually use all the services on offer.