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Apple Pre-Event Mega Thread (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by MichelleG@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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It’s almost that time! With the Apple event happening tomorrow, we’ll use this mega thread to talk about expectations, predictions, and anything else related to the big event.

Tomorrow, we’ll have a live event thread to discuss each announcement as it happens.

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 75 points 9 months ago

“This is our biggest camera bump yet. We think you’re gonna love it.”

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

If it has USB C and a 10x optical zoom I'm almost guaranteed to swap from Android to Apple finally. Google's BS around making ads part of DRM or whatever was the last straw.

Posted from my Pixel 6 Pro....

[-] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 9 points 9 months ago

If you don't use tap to pay and can muscle your way through documentation, GrapheneOS is easily installable on all relatively current Pixel devices. But yeah, I'm not a fan either and as long as I'm on Android, that might tip me back again to using Graphene instead of stock Android.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I thought of that and looked through the steps to do it and I'm pretty sure I'm past the age of me wanting to try. There was a day it would have been something I couldn't wait to do but I'm pretty sure I'm ~10 years past that day.

[-] goffredo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Hooray for being too old to give a shit! Retired mobile developer here; I have people regularly show me how to do things like tap-and-hold the space bar to position the cursor. I’d rather be outside going for a hike than fooling around with my phone, of all things.

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

As long as it makes my phone sit even LESS flat than before I’ll accept it.

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

thanks for starting this. first keynote on lemmy lol

is this purely a hardware release? or are we going to get talk of the EU-geolocked sideloading thing

[-] quinten@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

I would not be surprised if Apple does not mention it, in any keynote, ever.

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[-] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago

Curious to see what they cripple with usbc. And if they’re updating every lightning port product to usbc too. Be interesting if all phones will get the pill/dynamic island treatment. Hope it’s useful and not a gimmick when more apps support it

[-] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago

Most other Apple products already use USBC and have for a while. It's only the iPhone they've been dragging their feet on.

[-] Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

Except magic mouse, keyboard, trackpad and airpods. Did I miss something?

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[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago

Went on a vacation and my wife's 13 got run over by a truck and my 12 pro back glass shattered by falling on concrete. Now I'm fully ready for new phones. Hopefully one of my kidneys is enough.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I hear ya. Both my kids have X’s which are losing support, plus they have a lot of physical damage. Time to upgrade our 13 Pro’s, so the kids can have those ….. depending on just how expensive this is going to be

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Me reading on my iPhone X: people seem to have too much money..

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[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago

My craziest prediction: iMessage for Android

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

That'd be great, but I don't think that's going to happen.

[-] redsol2@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

IIRC they openly stated in an interview that iMessage is one of people's greatest incentives to stick to the Apple ecosystem, and they have no plans of shooting themselves in the foot by releasing it on android.

[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Apple said they will not release a stylus and then they did.

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[-] sosodev@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

An interesting effect of unifying Mac and iPhone tech is that games ported to Mac need little work to be ported to iPhone.

Getting actual AAA games on iPhone is kinda cool but still seems very impractical. Mostly because if you can afford an iPhone 15 pro you can afford a game console, Mac/PC, etc.

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I nominate @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca for shitposter of the month. Their comments really made the event more entertaining

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Did I miss it our did they not announce release dates for iOS 17 etc?

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[-] thisisdee@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I'm ready for a new iPhone. My XS needs an upgrade!

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[-] sosodev@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Uhh. Who needs raytraced video games on their iPhone? I really doubt many mobile games are going to support and leverage that capability. If they do you would hard pressed to notice it on a phone screen.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Don't really think there'll be much this time around for me to get personally hype about, but it's always fun seeing what they roll out.

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[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What’s the best place to watch this in VR with other people? Probably a niche question, but it might be fun.

[-] Hyrulian@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Probably Big Screen. It's multiplatform and free!

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[-] WuTang@lemmy.ninja 4 points 9 months ago

Guys, if you want your youtube channel to blow up right now, talk abou the event, be as clickbaity as you can

"The iPhone 15 is a blast, I can't even look at my 14 Pro Max anymore!"
"The iPhone 15 titanium at $2000, is it worth it?"
"Apple keynote: One more-more thing"

[-] cordlesslamp 6 points 9 months ago

"DO NOT buy an iPhone 15 before you watch this", thumbnail is a shocking face with mouth wide open, holding an iPhone and the HUGE texts "SHOCKING REVEALS. IS IT WORTH IT???"

[-] sosodev@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Seems like the base model 15 has everything I want. Not sure how they’re going to sell the pro model this year.

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[-] LazaroFilm@artemis.camp 3 points 9 months ago

I just want to see iOS opening to other app stores

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