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.

  • johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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

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      1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      I think it will be hilarious to watch them continue forcing their phones to communicate with USB2.0 speeds even after the move to USB-C just so they can push more people to buy overpriced iCloud storage. It will be 2060 and we will still have USB 2.0 on our apple phones.

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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

      Controls are definitely the limiting factor at this point. I’ve tried a few console and PC game ports via Apple Arcade recently, and they all run great but the touch controls are really clunky - especially when they try to emulate analogue sticks.

      It’s about time Apple took a stab at a games controller, leaving it to 3rd parties hasn’t created enough momentum. An Apple take on a gaming pad would be interesting, especially with some sort of MagSafe iPhone mount. A controller also seems a natural expansion for the Vision Pro.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year 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.

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    1 year 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”
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    1 year 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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    1 year ago

    I’ll be upgrading whatever it is. Work is gonna pay for it and it’s easily my most used device.