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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ (nypost.com)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple's new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Eh. I mean, are there any great innovations left when it comes to smartphones? They kinda all just look and do the same nowadays.

They sure made USB3 look like a breakthrough innovation, though...

[+] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apple is always doing all of that other than the fokdable, which has been turned for a long time.

AirDrop and AirPlay are always getting better between Apple products. They literally just made the iPhone titanium for better durability. It has better battery life pretty much every year.

This one is more repairable than ever with the easily removable glass.

Those are all things Apple announces every year and everyone shits on them because it’s not innovative enough, like every year needs to be 2011 again when phones were making massive leaps year over year.

Like oh, this chip is only 20% faster than the last one with only 10% better battery life. Yawn.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last I checked they're not very keen on repairability (Being able to remove glass and being able to fix everything are two different things) and sustaniability (and no making a phone more efficient/produce less ghg/etc does not mean caring about sustainability when your whole model is mass producing and selling new phones every year while encouraging customers to ditch their current functioning phones for the new one, sometimes by purposefully removing support for them or bricking them with updates)

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

iPhones are more repairable than their comparable flagships from other companies. https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability

iFixit gave the 14 and 14 plus a 7 for repairability and a 6 for the pros, compared to a 3 for the Galaxy S22 and S22 ultra. The Pixel 6 pro only got a 5 and the base pixel 6 got a 6.

The 15 pro introduced more repairability with changing the back glass mechanism to be easily swappable, which was the biggest issue with earlier pro models and why they only got a 6.

They support phones longer than anyone else, and have a massively more robust recycling program to recapture virtually everything from older models and use them in new ones.

Also, plot twist, every company has the same model of encouraging you to buy a new one every year. That’s not specific to Apple in the least. Other companies essentially force you to upgrade sooner by dropping support entirely after a couple of versions while Apple supports for 5-7+ years.