The new iPhones, slated to drop on Sept. 22, feature never-before-seen color-infused glass — an “industry first” — and new charging ports.

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.

  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Functioning AI voice assist, foldable, better peripherals, better input systems, better data transfer between systems, more durable, better battery life, repairable, more sustainable, better UI, decentralised communication options, meshnet options, etc.

    There’s plenty to do about smartphones that needs innovating…

    • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      They are always making Siri better (check out the news for it), I super do not want a foldable phone, the Apple peripherals are quite good, the data transfer between Apple systems is one of the main appeals of Apple, never broke an Apple product unless I chuck it at a wall, battery life is quite good I have a 4 year old phone that still has 24 hour battery life, Apple is committed to making not just their products but the entire company carbon neutral by 2030, Apple UI is also one of the main appeals since it’s so nice.

      • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Apple is committed to making not just their products but the entire company carbon neutral by 2030

        Literally every major company on the planet is, doesn’t mean they actually are working towards it.

          • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Wow I’m sure the website from apple full of promises is a good indicator of how good they’re actually doing for the environment. I’m sure they’re also planning to stop their model based on mass producing new hardly-repairable phones every year and pushing consumers to buy them rather than keeping their functioning ones, sometimes by cutting support and bricking their old phones.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      better battery life

      Really debatable, since apps battery consumption increases balances it out. It really feels like we have to upgrade just to keep up.

      better UI

      REALLY debatable. There’s some UI updates that I abhor. Several have reduced functionality.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year 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.