iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max

Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by axg11 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:31PM (#28528823)

What would you improve about the iPhone or iPad? I think these products are just mature and there is very little to improve other than iterative updates. The true test of whether Apple has entered their Ballmer era will be if they fail to launch a new product category in the next 2-3 years.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by gigel82 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:37PM (#28528941)

USB-C charging across the line would've been nice (the iPads are already on board with this generation it seems).

They could also do more innovation on the camera notch (20% smaller is not enough), I'd expect them to solve the under-display camera problem by now given their expertise and funding.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by kilroy123 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:40PM (#28529000)

Not OP but I will gladly tell you what _I_ would Improve.

1) Drop the photo scanning BS.

2) Add Touch ID back.

3) Just call it what it is. It's an iPhone 12S.

4) USB-C

5) Put a charger back in the box.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by lovich on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#28529199)

How are those not just iterative changes though. Nothing in that list is innovative

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by hdjjhhvvhga on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:37PM (#28530729)

Paradoxically, I'd consider bringing the headphone jack back the most revolutionary change. It would give a clear message, "We heard our customers, we had been wrong, so now we are doing the right thing."

Never gonna happen, though.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by jdminhbg on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:59PM (#28531096)

Where is the evidence that customers want it back?

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by jereees on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:12PM (#28543095)

Please don’t put a charger back in the box, at least not by default. While we are at it why not take off the cost of the charger from the price?

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by rsanek on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:48AM (#28539803)

One painfully obvious thing would be to get rid of insane notch / forehead. While they're at it, implement an under-display front-facing camera so we can have 100% screen-to-body ratio. Fair that this is not really revolutionary (Samsung has had better screen-to-body for forever) but to me it was a surprising miss from Apple (yet again; maybe I should stop being surprised).

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by sildur on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:37PM (#28528931)

- USB-c port

- Act as wireless charger

- Dual SIM

- Under-screen fingerprint reader

- Maybe FM radio

- Headphones socket

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by poulsbohemian on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:28PM (#28529804)

> Maybe FM radio

I get why a few years ago there was a push for this, but in this era, why? There are so many music / news / talk streaming options that traditional radio might as well be dead. You turn on the sports radio shows and they are deliberately advertising and directing you to their podcast over their radio show.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by sildur on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:07PM (#28542349)

Because internet is slow, spotty, and 4G eats a lot of battery. FM radio is lightweight and instantaneous.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by danieldk on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:46PM (#28529100)

- Dual SIM

iPhones are Dual SIM. You can use a physical SIM + and eSIM. I have used my iPhone with two different plans/phone numbers for a while.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by akmarinov on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:07PM (#28531238)

iPhone 13 is now triple SIM, you get two eSIM and 1 physical

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by sildur on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:09PM (#28542367)

Not all companies offer eSIM. Also, if your phone breaks, with an eSIM you are left with nothing.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by dan-robertson on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:03PM (#28531157)

In China they sell iPhones that take two physical SIM cards.

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Re:iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max by axg11 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:41PM (#28529014)

These are all great iterative features, but no more than that.

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