• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s nice that Apple for once introduced a nice feature for others to copy, the camera button. I loved those on my Lumia and Xperia phones.

    Everything else is just meh… the normal 16 comes in some cool colours at least

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      2 months ago

      I only have marques brown’s comment to back this up, but he said the two stage camera button doesn’t do anything yet but it’s coming in a future update. I’m baffled how Apple feels okay releasing this new hardware without the software to support it.

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    I actually kind of like that Apple has become a boring and iterative company for the most part. I just use the same glass and metal rectangle until a few months after my upgrade eligibility on my work plan (because I always forget when it is), then I get whichever glass and metal rectangle is cheap now. I routinely forget which iPhone I use, and my life is no worse because of it.

    Okay, I just looked it up. It’s a 13, and I did remember, but I was not at all confident.

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      Understated. I’m so happy my upgrade from a 10 to a 15 (I think it’s a 15?) was boring. I don’t need to learn a lot of nee ways to use my smartphone, I just need to replace it and get back to my life.

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      well yeah but i have to admit, the pink color is awesome. if it didn’t have to get that damn chatgpt integration, i would ditch android. been on the edge for a while.

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        Not that I personally would ever switch to iPhone because there is still a lack of sideloading open source software; but could you just not use the chat gpt integration?

        It seems they are actually trying to not data harvest with all the AI stuff, there is quite a focus on privacy respecting server architecture and clearly defined conformations for the user for when something runs off device, or even off of Apple’s cloud (e.g. Chat GPT). I believe they even made their backend third party verifyable (although I’ve only seen their claims about this, I haven’t actually followed up).

        Anyway, plenty of reasons to dislike apple, I’m sure they still collect data, but why not just ignore the Chat GPT functionality?

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          my fear is that openai is analyzing everything you do on the phone, not so much the chatbot. but then again i bet apple and google are already doing exactly that. all the forced AI stuff just irritates me like hell. and i live in EU area so sideloading is possible. i haven’t looked much into how much open source apps are available though.

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        I personally prefer the Pixel 9’s pink; it’s a bit more vibrant, at least on the pictures.

        Still no cool colours for the Pro models, though (apart from the Pixel 9 Pro’s light pink)

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    The sleep apnea feature on the watch is cool and the hearing aid feature on the airpods are cool. Not enough for me to buy them but i like that they keep adding health features