The $1000 phones problem is kinda like suddenly everyone is using a Ferrari as a daily driver. This new incredible chip will be 90% used to doom scroll pictures of friends and family
That's something that I can't wrap my mind around. Most people just use phones for scrolling social media, yet they are more than willing to shell out four figures for a device to do that on. I get most people aren't tech savvy, but when a $300 Chomebook can perform that same task, but with a much larger screen and probably better battery life, you'd think people would smarten up to buying flagship phones all the time.
Yeah, $500 is too much for a phone for me, even though it's something I use daily. As someone who doesn't game or hardly takes pictures on my phone, none of this new stuff matters to me.
They put it on their macs before windows OEMs did too, which makes it stranger. I dunno, they must have over over over spent on RND for it, i don't see why they didn't change from lightning to USB C like 5 years ago.
Apple said Lightning will be the port for the next decade. That's why they kept it for exactly one decade. When Apple does stuff, people get extremely annoyed. Every time and no matter what. That's why Apple is playing really really safe here and that's why they kept it so long and not changed it after only 5-6 years.
@@Raja995mh33 They put USBC on their other products years ago, including mobile devices like iPad. There was no reason to keep lightning on phones for this long other than to charge for cables.
Well.. in theory yes. But at least me who have kids. And now new fangle school every kind should have a ipad in school, that they only use for 3 years, then its sent home (for a fee).. we got.. well quite a few ipads at home now. Never bought any (well techically we bought them out from the school)
The thing with phones rising in pricing significantly is, I no longer feel the need to get a new phone every other year. I held on to my Galaxy S9+ for 4 years, and I plan to do the same for my S22+
Same! I write this to you now on my S9! The only reason I'm going to replace it is I cracked the screen back in August. I'm just waiting for the new models to launch
I'm using iPhone 13 Pro Max from 2021 and probably gonna use it for 4 more years or until they stop giving software updates. Gonna get my battery replaced next year though as it's health is deteriorating.
I kept my pixel 3 for 4.5 years before moving to the pixel 7. I plan on using that one for the same length of time, so I am on the 4-year upgrade cycle right now as well.
Can't wait for the aftermath of the "new port" on third party Type-C cables with putting USB 3.0 behind Pro/Max only - Thunderbolt's initial introduction & USB's "SuperSpeed" existential crisis name changes weren't confusing enough for consumers it seems. Maybe this will be a good reason to revisit the cable tester with MFI Type-C cables?
As a cable fabricator, there is a lot of specifications that goes into the cables. They are not the same. By companies not supplying power that's tested with product, they open "the box".
I'm fine with lighting, I was for usb c though but the problems out came the convince. I had S21+ for a year and that connector got flakey enough to the point where even a wind could interrupt the connection. No matter how expensive the cable was. And who does file transfers via USB anyways? 😅
Well, sadly most phone review channels are just shills repeating some quick talking points. Even MKBHD, whom I mostly respect, is absolutely biased when talking about Apple products.
Tbh I’m yet to find a phone review channel that actually, you know, does a proper review. Phone review channels are a very low bar as far as quality goes.
It's funny how lightning began life as being one of the great advantages of being in the apple wall garden and proving competition is good for the space (forcing the adoption of usb c over micro b) You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
@@commonname571more accurately the only advantage USB-C has over lightning is the extra conductors (and it being open to anybody), but my point was lightning was both an improvement over apples own 30 pin and USB micro b and at it’s introduction it was by far the best SFF connector on the market
I am honestly surprised they didn’t pull one of their famous « I shall avoid that new European policy at all cost » by simply removing the charging port. I was so convinced the magnetic feature of their MagSafe wireless charging was built for this very precise reason. Hope USB-C is here to stay now!
@@fynkozari9271 5+ years to implement the same features as most Android phones is the Apple way.. But hey at least the Pro models got decent transfer speeds!
@@infernaldaedra I agreed with you at one point, till I started using a wireless headset to listen to audiobooks at work, which we weren't allowed to do. After years of the convenience, I can no longer stand wired, unless I'm stationary, like at my PC anyway. So I essentially never even desire to plug in headphones to my phone anymore.
I'm stocked that the A17 Pro has ray tracing acceleration, not because I care about ray tracing on a phone, but because it means they'll likely add ray tracing acceleration to the M3 processors.
AC Mirage and RE4 on a mobile phone is insane, and very telling of a future where any game that runs on Metal can run on your phone. Stoked to play No Man’s Sky natively on my phone lmfao.
the double tap finger gesture for the apple watch isn't new. I haven't watched the keynote so idk if they actually advertised it as "new" but I've been using it for 2+ years already. It's an adaptive gesture so its function is contextual. I mostly use mine to pause/play media, it's SO freaking useful. A couple weeks ago I was doing house work (painting mostly) and had dirty hands or was wearing dirty/wet gloves. I had my iPhone playing through a bluetooth speaker and anytime i needed to pause, just double tap my finger to my thumb and boom, music paused without touching a single device with my grubby mitts! It's freaking awesome. And there are way more gestures too with clenching your fist/tapping fingers but I only use the simple double tap otherwise it gets a bit overcomplicated and less useful But yeah sick feature (but not new lol)
if i understand correctly the gesture now works in standby and the user interface looks more nice.. thats the „new“ thing. all the old watches dont get the new interface and it only works turnt on. The functions seems to be the same between both versions
@@varno That would be an impressive feat to have bootloader with Wifi capability that can load OS image without verification, that would be a really nice ground for jailbreak
@@Gastell0 oh, no the os images are probably signed with a dev key, and dev devices probably have an exception to that chain of trust, the ios devices are impressively locked down. But a minimal kernet with a wifi driver is on the order of 10s of MB. I don't work there, but knowing what is public about macos internals, that would be my guess.
@@0q2628 That's not what I meant, when you're developing an OS or some component or software, you're pushing the whole OS or some components to the test device, typically over direct connection from developer machine to test device over usb connection, if it's usb 2.0, it will take forever each time
Probably a non pro chip. I think by doing so it creates a bigger feeling of innovation and progress when the base model inherits some of the pro features
i still have a working Galaxy S6 (from 2015) i would not consider it a viable "daily driver". then again i don't buy a new phone every year either, more like every 3-4 years
i'm stuck at galaxy s9 since there is no better phone after that. mostly downgrades, removed headphone jack, sd slot etc. i mainly use old hardware for this reason. because it is just better
There's a very high demand for old gen Iphones in so-called developing countries and trade-in offers can sometimes be so good that it's actually cheaper to upgrade. So yeah, you can get the latest model with a good offer and your perfectly functioning old-gen Iphone will be resold to someone who will be more than happy to use it. It's basically a win-win situation for everyone involved.
Linus has stopped garbage talking about Apple. Nice to see that. Keep publishing unbiased reviews without garbage talks and your name will be mentioned in Apple keynote 🙌🙌🙌 Quoting one of the comments from MKBHD’s iPhone video, “Congratulations on the mention, I was proud to see your name when the slide came up! Also the fact that it happened means: 1. Despite your objective reviews of their products they don't consider you a biased reviewer 2. Because of that they probably actually listen to your videos and take your criticisms, who knows ti what extent but they must be aware 3. Your integrity is such that they consider a positive review from you to be an achievement (which is pretty awesome)“ I hope you will take this comment positively! Keep it up 🙂
I'm a cyclist and the Apple Watch seemed pretty cool but 1. I don't have an iPhone 2. Garmin watches cost less or the same and for the niche that I'd use it for, they have basically all the features... but as a standalone device The gesture thing would be a great feature though to not have to let go of the handlebars
i guess the watch is "feeling" the muscle movement under the skin, and when you are grabbing the handle bars, maybe this could falsely trigger the gesture
Garmin and even Polar watches don't even come close to the look & feel and overall user experience of an Apple watch, and I say this as a ~600$ Grit X owner.
My guess was actually the opposite, that you don't accidentally trigger it while grabbing the handlebars but instead don't even have to let go of the handle bars to trigger it intentionally. Guess someone needs to test it. Also now that you say it, you might actually accidentally trigger the action when switching gears or braking. Btw pretty sure the apple watch, like many other smart watches and heartbeat sensors uses light to shine through the arm and look at movements in veins and muscles, they probably use that for the gestures aswell.@@0q2628
@@RandomUser2401if you want another phone on your wrist, you buy an Apple Watch. For everyone who doesn’t, but still wants a fitness watch, there’s garmin. I owned a few generations of AW just to realize the constant notifications and managing two phones was exhausting.
Even after all these years I still find it more than a little amazing that I have a more powerful computer in my watch and in my phone than I did in the actual computers I used throughout the 80s and at least part of the 90s. We live in interesting times.
@@mavfan1 I would say the difference is two things, 1. Generally the components are all on one Chip. 2. A lots of the components are configured just for that type of device and there are components that aren't in traditional computers. (For example, there being Gyroscope and accelerometer in your watch or phone, 5G Antenna, etc.)
@@mavfan1he meant there's more computing power in his watch, than there would have been in a ZX Spectrum, say. I suspect you knew that. In a technical sense they're all computers, but there's a very big difference between one you can play Elite, Exolon or Saboteur on and a watch. Now... if we could plug our watch into a mouse, keyboard and large screen that could be fun.
Yeah too bad they don't let you do anything with all that performance... You are limited to mobile apps. Imagine if they had included thunderbolt instead of usb2 and you could use a usb-c dock to turn it into a computer (like Samsung dex but on steroids) and actually use all those CPU and GPU cores + metal API and carry all your computing in your pocket all the time
When Linus said "or dimmer for that matter" at 9:29 my phone gave me the 5% warning and dimmed the screen, at first I was like "wow, what immersive editing" until I realized. Nothing to do with the content just thought it was funny.
That double tap feature (plus a few more cool hand gestures) already exists as part of the accessibility settings (go look, it’s there). Apple’s just bringing it to the forefront now.
@@nocivolive huh? I dunno how they can improve on it: it works pretty damn well already. And it isn’t mainstream because no one knows about it. It’s hidden right now in accessibility settings. In fact, I only know about it thanks to another RUclips channel showing it off some time ago.
@@nocivolive That's also my guess. It works OKAY now, but if they're bringing it to the forefront, perhaps they improved the actuator sensors or ML model or something. I get a lot of accidental triggers with it with the Accessibility option
@@Hobo_X He's talking about the next generations desktop class M processors. If the IPhone gets all that than they will surely give the Macs a hell of a lot more oft it.
@@WRo1901 Arc and RTX40 are not "normal gpus", that's high end and cost as much as the phone... and DaVinci is Software, which is obviously less performant then a "on-chip" solution... ffmpeg can encode AV1 for years already, so software has never been an issue.
I haven't used a cable for data since ios got over the air os updates and added backups to iCloud. This is probably true for most users, especially the non-pro/max/ultra (whatever suffix they are calling it) model ones. Lightning was basically a precursor to the USB-C design. It was amazing compared to its contemporary, mirco-usb. Lightling lasted about the same length of time that the 30-pin dock connector did, they were due for a change. I still say the USBC cable ecosystem is a mess. They never adopted clear labeling or color coding of what a given cable's capabilities are. 480/5/10/20/40 Mbps, 4/8k dp, 30/60/100/240W power. And the more capable cables linked thunderbolt have very chunky connectors that are awkward sticking out from a phone by up to an inch. I just wish the USB-C cable people would actually use the standardized logos on their cables, but almost no one does.
What I'm interested in is the spatial video recording. I'm sure most people don't care about 3D but if it works well enough and doesn't degrade the quality of the video I'm all about it.
@@skylovescars69420 There's not a lot to innovate now, smartphones are now at the point where 90+% of users don't care about increases in speed, gaming power, storage, camera capability, etc. I guess the next big 'advancements' will be improvements to folding phones and extending the battery life to over a day. But I don't expect any other major alterations to the design of phones.
@@Jake-rs9nq The speed/power will increase very slowly in a way that users don't care from one year to another(also because not much functional change happens), but once it increased enough after some years that power that accumulated over the years may enable new things that wouldn't have been reasonable to implement a few years ago because because the power wasn't enough. And that function maybe something many people will care. I'm hoping they will make the concept "use your smartphone as a desktop pc "mass compatible. Android maybe by cooperating with microsoft to implement a very windows-like UI for the desktop mode. Many causal users won't bother buying an extra desktop for home use when they can just buy a monitor and hook up their smartphone and use it like a classical desktop for web browsing and writing, with all the UI-comforts of a classical Desktop (Samsung dex still has many flaws)
As someone with an Apple Watch 8, Double Pinch is already buried in the accessibility settings. But it doesn’t work quite as fluently as I want it to, so I’m excited to see what the next update brings.
Not even comparable. MicroUSB was never a good invention, and probably should never have existed in the first place. It was utterly embarrassing how prone to failure the ports were.
It's always weird to me when people complain about micro USB being fragile. My current phone was a cheap model from 2017 and I've been using its micro USB port daily (several times a day, even) for 5 years now and it's still perfectly fine. I've worn out a few cables, though. But I'm also like, unreasonably careful with it. I'm unhealthily attached to my phone.
I despise micro B. Still use a couple devices that have it. An old xbox one controller and Bose BT headphones from 2021 (Bose put a 2.5mm audio jack on the damn thing too REEE! 🙄 ) When it’s time to charge I gotta go look for that highly inferior cable
Feels like the segues were supposed to be switched. "No matter which segue I do" followed by motion gray that can do multiple work positions "green, like this segue" followed by Ugreen
I may have phrased it wrong. I don't think it was an actual mistake, just that it would've been funnier if they were reversed. Linus's segues are usually pretty out there.
The gaming side of things was interesting. It does look like Apple is gearing up to becoming a heck of a lot more accepting of game devs coming to iOS/macOS/visionOS.
@@paulotremba4688yea gaming phones are just silly. Like it'd understand if there were actual games to play and not pos mobile games like genshin and all that trash.
Plus people need to stop complaining about charging speed and learn to keep their phones at a good state of charge. Besides, fast charging harms the battery in the long run. Even the measly 20w or so charging apple allows now drains peoples battery health to 90% or so after a year of use (see a lot of 14 pro max’s around 90% health while mine is at 100%). I go out of my way to only use 5W charging for my 14 pro max, and have never found myself running out of battery. I typically use a USB port on my PC which can only output 5W max, or the USB port in my car which is also 5W. A old 5W wall wort would work too tho if you have one. Charges plenty fast imo and I also always keep my battery between 20 and 85%
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 im so glad someone says this about batteries. I have a program that keeps my m2 air battery at 80% charge when plugged in. Also my 14 pro max is at 97% health and i use wireless charging 95% of the time. I charge every other day or when my battery is 50-65% charge
The thing you missed is they names their chip A17 Pro. thay means next year the non-pro models not only will be getting 1 year old chip hut also a cut down version of it (A17 bionic, basically non-pro).
I think they'd keep av1 because it could cut their streaming costs for appleTV but im betting on them removing the usb 3 controller at least for the cut down version
why is ray tracing on a phone no apps have any suport for it. but yes it sucks that they sell you in the base model last years tech at todays prices. @unholydonuts
The 14 pro max charges at 27W, I’m sure the bigger 15 also charges at more than 20W. It’s annoying because apple doesn’t officially list charging speeds
I also thought this, so many channels just report on the 20W number but I have a Anker powerbank which shows the output and my 14 Pro Max also reaches around 27W.
I was thinking that with all these gaming handheld, Apple arguably has the best option for a handheld chip but practically 0 chance of it becoming a thing.
Sadly true tbh. They already have native support for PS and Xbox controllers, they just don't have the games or userbase for it. However, if they ever actually properly invested in it, I could see an 11" iPad Pro with an M* processor being an absolutely unbeatable portable gaming device. I'm tentatively hopeful that something will change though as this is the second year in a row they've focused on the gaming aspects of their various devices. If they do end up purchasing Disney, I wonder if they'd consider entering the gaming market with their own IPs..?
Gaming could be such a great showcase of the power of those tiny little chips. It's nice to see Apple finally see that as well and put some effort into it. I mean, if they actually manage to deliver and RE4 Remake looks and plays nicely on a phone then they'll make one hell of a statement.
FINALLY. Ive been using it on my Series 7 for years now and now everyone's talking about it like so evolutionary new thing like ????. im so confused its like apple just actually advertised this feature instead of burying it in the accessibility settings lmao.
@@jotec1290 They won't, it works fine on Watch OS 10 release candidate. Plus it's an accessibility feature, and Apple is big on that and wouldn't want the backlash by removing it.
6:13 "Supporting older devices." I have been using the iPhone XS this last week (running IOS 17 beta) and other than the battery life and aging cameras I'm perfectly happy with the speed and especially the size of the phone. I'm genuinely considering buying the 13 Mini and rocking that for a year or two. Edit: this phone is FIVE generations old this year
Even after a year I'm still excited about my 13 Mini. I bought when it was no longer just a rumor there will be no Mini any more, so why wait? The phone isn't getting any younger, although I switched from the original SE, so I was due for an upgrade for quite some time :-) I hope to have it also for like 5-6 years.
I bought my daughter a 13 mini when it was new. I wouldn't recommend it. The battery life is really bad. It's better than the 12 mini, but still really bad. I regret getting that one instead of the regular 13.
Have been on my XS since it dropped and besides the battery lacking, I have absolutely no reason to upgrade. Speed, cameras, display, everything is satisfactory.
how is the battery not shit at this point? every phone i’ve owned has a basically unusable battery after 2 years. My current phone is from 2018 and i’ve already swapped the battery twice
I wish I could be excited about the CPU / GPU performance - but unless they’ve done something to improve heat dissipation I fear it’ll only last a few minutes. I hope I’m wrong. Would be really cool to have LTT do some phone gaming tests with a long duration to measure throttling. I’d be curious to see if apples newer chips last longer not because they have better heat dissipation, but because they have more overhead and can run more efficiently.
The phone is made of titanium, and their copper heat syncs they did like a metal fusion method to fuse them to the chassis. So, in THEROY it actually should work pretty well.
USB c is great for when I eventually upgrade, but my 14 pro max has been sitting on a magnetic charger as needed. So beyond that the upgrade is underwhelming.
Lightning cable 480mbps usb2 speed. Usb C 10gbps, at least 20X faster. Iphone 14 battery health deteriorates fast, did Apple compensate u in the battery lawsuit? Btw wireless charging is wasting energy.
Yet iSheep are all convinced this is some crazy new upgrade and they have to buy it! Lmao...this phone has looked exactly the same for like 5 years now and the only updates its gotten was slighly faster proccesors and cameras.
@@fynkozari9271 Sure, and I will use all that when? I doubt many people plug their phone in for much more than charging. Anyway it’s nice, just not a huge upgrade. I bought the 14pm because it was the first phone that seemed like much of an upgrade since my 11.
You can, but it might charge a bit slower. Every cable should be able to do up to 30W. iPhones can't do that anyway, but for even faster charging you need special cables and bricks
I kinda understand why they didn't change it yet. People don't like change. My husband and I both have Android and his parents both have iPhones. One time he let his phone die when we were over there and I had a car emergency on the way home (he was coming back later). They thought that micro USB was the same as USB C and were so insistent that they had a cable. They did not. They also recently installed an outlet with USB A ports and tell me that they have it when I plug in my USB C brick to charge things. I took a USB A to USB C cable and left it there, for future use. Whenever one of them gets a new phone, they will complain that it's a new cable (even though I have warned them several times). To be fair, they probably won't upgrade at the same time.
Honestly, the sponsor segue here is a missed opportunity at the end, 11:10 where i expect the Ugreen sponsor because of the Green segue instead of the MotionGrey XD
Not having USB-C always seemed to me to be more of a problem for Apple haters than it ever was for Apple Users... It's not about charging ports it's about having a stick to beat Apple with, and any stick will do. They'll move on to Lack of RCS now.
Regarding the faster S9 in watches at around 9:10: Having a fast processor in a mobile device is also beneficial for battery life: If they can go back to sleep faster after completing computations faster, you'll save a bunch of watts here and there, extending your battery life.
I've been watching Linus for over 10 years, wow I'm surprised of the high apple praise! He's never unnecessarily shit on them but it's always nice to see exciting products coming out.
I think lightning disappearing will also lead to less confusion in USB-C… eventually. There’s gonna be a revolt once the “it just works” iPhone user crowd finds out the clusterfoxtrot that is the USB specification; hopefully the USB consortium is forced to simplify and mandate the goodies that are optional.
Usb-c is just so confusing, like you said wish they made things more clear to consumers. Each cable could have a different data transfer rate, charging rate etc… Wish they had some color coding or something.
there is already a system for that, it is called Thunderbolt 4 it is basically a quality stamp for the USB-C connector that says "I got USB4 + a list of other features"
Would be interesting to know if the VR video recording format is specific for the Vision Pro or if it might be useful with any VR headset and video player.
Now it would be nice if Apple could make it so you can download an entire folder from ICloud Drive. They've never done this, so I use One Drive from M$ to upload my pictures from my phone and download them to my computer. Plus Apple has that weird HEIC format for pictures. Older computers don't recognize it.
HEIC isn't a weird format tho agree that older devices don't recognise it. It a open format which is really go in terms of storage optimisation while maintaining the efficiency of the image
@@megh.rathodHEIF is open and free, however HEIC which uses HEVC within an HEIF container and is used by Apple comes with licensing costs to the MPEG LA and others.
@@megh.rathod HEIC looks like garbage though (as does webp), it destroys the contrast compared to JPEG and phone cameras tend to lack in REAL dynamic range to begin with.
I dont think that lightning was too bad, although I will agree that it over stayed it's welcome. I think that the iPhone X would have been a great time to switch to usb c
People bitched and complained non-stop when Apple switched from the 30-pin dock connector to Lightning in 2012. Imagine if Apple had switched to USB-C after only 3 years with Lightning. But yes, Lightning definitely over stayed its welcome. Should have switched around 2019. Lightning was superior to ANYTHING that was out at the time in 2012. Micro and mini USB suck bad in comparison, they could only charge and do data, no audio or video, and micro USB is very prone to breaking. I'll even go as far as saying the 30-pin dock connector was superior to micro and mini USB, it could charge, transfer data, and do audio and video.
I think physically Lightning is a superior design, it sits secure and always have a satisfying snap when you plug it in. USB-C is loose in almost every USB-C phone i own, while my 3 year old 12 pro max the connection feel brand new. @@charminbaer2323
@@joepapi619I’ve had same charger for 2 years since I got the phone although I have got spares lurking in my room and when I’m looking for a usb c cable for another device it really irritates me to only discover damn lightning cables
I thought it was ridiculous when Apple highlighted the usb 3.0 controller on the chip (which is a kind of awesome chip in terms of the gpu). But, now thinking about it, there likely wasn’t a 3.0 controller on the chip from the pro model last year that is going in the base iphone 15. I wonder if they will bump the base to 3.0 and the pro to thunderbolt next to around.
If they keep the same trend of the non-pro models getting last year's pro chip, then the iPhone 16/Plus should get get A17 Pro with the USB 3 controller. Hopefully they bump the pro models to Thunderbolt at that point.
I suspect they'll bump the features up when they want to make it seem like they did something amazing which is how the average Apple customer will view it. They always think Apple invented a new thing :)
Just wait on USB5 or USB4.0x2.1+UltraGigaSpeed_40gbps lameusbforumnamingscheme, then maybe Apple will force the base model Iphone 16 for USB-C support superspeed, and hoping a desktop mode features on ios when plugin to monitor or a dock.
It's also kind of stupid how the latest iPhone won't support the same speed as your latest MacBook but limit transfer speed instead. The USB2 in the iPhone 15 is completely embarrassing in comparison to any other smartphone with USB-C. But the point that even the iPhone 15 Pro Max will limit transfer to or from your MacBook doesn't make any sense. I think the regular iPhone should have gotten USB3 and the Pro models should have gotten USB4.
@@TheJackiMonster USB 3 can be 5, 10 or 20 gbps and USB 4 is 40 or 80 gbps. So there's lots of room for them to move. Honestly 80gbps is probably pushing it, and not really worth worrying about too much. There is an issue with the cables themselves. They get pricey if you want the highest power + highest data + length from USB 3/4 and they get thicker. A three meter cable is great if you're in bed and want to be charged, but you wouldn't want it for transferring data at your desk obviously. I think they'll weaponise it though and use it to push adoption of the next gen Mac laptops and desktops/M3 chips along with iPads and iPhones of course. What makes practical sense on your phone to get all your video/photos off after a holiday so you can do the modern equivalent of making your family look at a photo album is another matter. Anyone used to Lightning is going to be blown away by the Pro Max though. Same with charging speed potential.
WOW! LMG didn't force their team to drop a video right after the showcase, but instead it seems they are doing what they said they would do. Make good content!
The Apple Watch double tap thing has been around for a while, I actually use it rn. You can also make a fist and it counts it as a different input so making a fist normally does things the crown does and double pinching is used for selection stuff
The funny thing is I have absolutely nothing that uses USB-C (Except my PS5 controller). It's treated like we've been using USB-C for ages and apple was just the only one not using it. I have a ton of stuff that uses lightning cables and tons of lightning cables.
And this is why I wanted the EU to revise their law to require a complete implementation of USB-C, with USB 3 and Alt modes enabled, and also force mobile gadgets with internal storage to adhere to the MTP protocol for file transfers to internal storage. Windows users still need iTunes to interface with Apple hardware, which is cumbersome and non-portable, and transfer speeds from the PC are still soo early 2000s. I don't care how much you wanna sell your cloud solutions and sell your users' data, Not to mention no support for output to external displays using the standard adapters. It's neat for iPhone users to be able to charge with any charger and cable, but that's about it. Totally half-assed. This is a sin committed by various Android smartphone makers, too. USB 2 only on a USB-C gadget needs to die in a fire.
I'm 100% sure Apple kneecapped the USB port on the normal iPhone 15 with 2.0 speeds, it doesn't make senese for the A16 to only support USB 2.0 when the A14 supported 3.0 on the 4th gen iPad Air
Apples chips are always designed for EXACTLY what they need. And they didn't need USB3.0 support on the 14 Pro and that's why the 15 doesn't have it... Next year they will support 3.0 because then Apple will most likely update the 16 and 16 Plus to the A17. The USB3 support on the iPad Air 4 can have a lot of reasons, first one being that there is much more room to work with in the iPad so they could easily include a dedicated, extra chip outside the SoC to do this. On the iPhone it's not so easy to just include another extra chip there (which is also the reason why the Pro still maxes out at 1TB - there is no space for a second storage chip and there are no 2TB chips yet).
Only after having been sued by Europe lmao. They most likely would've never swapped over by themselves. But Europe requires newer tech to have USB C as Standard.
Ive had an iphone and android in my pocket for years and never got a new iphone. I finally feel like its worth it to get the new 15 pro instead of finding a deal on the previous gen. Its so so sad im paying 400+ euros more on the same model here than in america.
It’s been a great cable - far better than the plethora of (worse) standards which existed when it was developed. And it’s been supported for a bit over a decade, in that same time I had at least 7 different cables before then… Has it been time to switch to USBc for a while? Yes.
Yep, Lightning was a great connector, considering the garbage Micro-USB it competed with. Very durable and reversible plug. But moving to USB-C is good for everyone long-term.
@@erwark honestly, i never had a micro-usb cable break, lightening ones on the other hand.......... Though they finally moved to usb-c despite having slow charging as a "feature"
@@erwark we would still have this artwork, if apple would have opensourced their cable. I like lightning more than Type C and the other cables. Think about what happens when something gets into the port or the cable. I couldn't remove it because of this little thingy. When it brakes, you can throw the whole in the garbage, cause its so expensive. The could have even upgraded to faster charging.
I've been using Androids all my life and got an iPhone 14 Pro Max back in January and I'm pretty satisfied with it. And with the way iPhones can last for years, I don't think I'm gonna be changing any time soon!
I like the iPhones for how long you can use them, I had an iPhone 5s I used up until 2020 when I bought the 11 that I’m still using. The only issue is I keep maxing out my storage but that is not a big deal for me.
@@commonname571 A friend of mine still uses his iPhone 6 for his second sim card. Phone is 8+ years old and works flawlessly. That's why I decided to get an iPhone too. Storage ain't an issue, as I got the 512GB one, so I won't fill it up any time soon.
As impressive as the tech in the pro max is, 1000 USD is just exhorbitant even with all the awesome feautres. For me at least I have learned that I prefer different devices for different uses rather than draining the battery of one device for multiple uses, it also helps me be offline more which is something that is way better for my life.
Why do you guys always talk about Apple when a lot of phones are near or over a thousand dollars now. Samsung costs more than Apple, the ultra starts at $1200 and goes up to $1620 which is $20 dollars more than apple's maxed out iphone pro, and the Zfold starts at $1600 and goes over $2100 dollars. Also, it doesn't matter which side you're on, if you're consistently upgrading your phone through trade ups then you can save up to 800 dollars.
There’s no other phone with speed and ray-tracing features comparable to the iPhone 15 Pro, at any price. Don’t confuse price with value. It’s normal for any top dog product to cost more. Nobody’s forcing you to buy this if you don’t like the price, plenty of cheaper phones on the market
@@lauraprates8764 that’s your opinion. Plenty of organisations out there will make use of these features for apps and use cases we can’t even imagine yet. If everyone had your attitude, we’d still be using bricks with buttons and 30 minute battery life.
I don't know if it's since you started doing the always live thing, or maybe it's gotten worse since the hiatus but LTT is still getting buried by RUclips. I've watched over 20 hours of YT this week & I haven't seen an LTT video on my homepage once.
Lightning was great when it came out. Micro USB was pretty terrible. I was constantly going through cables, and I am not rough on things. Lightning fit snugly without fragile little pins, and it being unidirectional was pretty awesome. BUT, all of those things were improved with the introduction USB C. I am honestly surprised it took them this long to adopt something they had such a big part in creating onto their most popular device.
But... they would've made the same money if they had just been supplying/selling USB-C cables. I've had iPhones going back to the iPhone 5 and I've never had to buy a Lightning cable or any kind of Lightning connector other than the ones the came with my phones, going back to the beginning of Lightning itself. Where did Apple make all of this Lightning money people keep talking about?
@@AnirudhTammireddy Nah, I just like when people back up weird claims. I googled "what was more profitable for Apple to keep Lightning as their phone port for so long" and didn't see any straightforward answers. Can you point me in the right direction, since it's easily searchable?
@@VegasHyruler I've had countless lightning cables die on me over the years, and had to keep buying more, so that's one thing. The other, no they wouldn't have made the same money selling USB-C, apple owns the lightning patent, so when anyone makes a lightning cable, they need to pay royalties to apple. With USB-C, Apple doesn't own it, and they only get money from selling their own USB-C cables, not literally all the USB-C cables like they did with lightning.
Apple was criticized for bringing USB-C to its MacBook years ago. Every iPad and Mac uses USB-C. Lightning had a huge ecosystem around it, and could even do 3GBps on iPad Pros before they moved to USB-C. It was a good connector when the alternative was Micro USB (ughhh) but glad they're moving on.
The only thing I liked about lightning connector was its strength. My Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G USB-C connector is a little weak causing charging and data transfers to be a little problematic for charging and external storage transfers.
For context, my Note 10 had it's port chewed out by other brands of cables and the insignia brand can loosely hold the phone by it's port. My Note 20 can be hung of the insignia cable and fished out of a couch with that brand, and it has done so consistently for 2 years.
If you read the fine print, 15 pro only included a charging cable out of the box. Possible it supports 10Gbps but you need additional cable. In the ad that Apple shows recording externally ProRes for a soccer game, the cable has a huge ⚡️ logo on it. Cook is still cook.
+1 for apples support of older devices. Until I massively battered my phone dropping it then running it over then smashing it in a heavy car door (long story) my iphone 8 lasted me 5 years without feeling any slower than the day I got it, that couldn't be said about my friends similarly Samsung he lent me until I replaced it with an iPhone 14pro max
I'm a long time Pixel user but this new generation of iPhones is seriously compelling! I wouldn't have to buy really any new accessories or anything, Ironically my biggest holdout is not being able to use RCS Chat with my family anymore lol
Tbh the only thing you would be missing from pixel is the usb speeds. even if you spend extra money for the pro iphone you arent getting usb 3.2 speeds (assuming you have a newer pixel otherwise you got usb 3.1 most likely.) all in all if you got the money id wait for the iphone 16 pro series that includes 3.2 and im assuming a new chip/camera. You'd see a massive difference then.
"To apples credit, they locked a feature that should be pretty much mandatory at the price point they are charging behind an even more expensive version designed to drain your wallets" is all I heard during this... 2:54
Personally, I wish that the STYLE of plug of Lightning had become the standard. Simply for longevity of the port. I want to reitterate that I mean STRICTLY the style. The fact it was a straight forward male plug, to a female port. No random little nub in the port to have damaged. Things get jostled and you don't have to worry about that nub getting wrecked. That said, things becoming a universal standard, is VERY much a win. Again, I just did like how with Lightning the main port issue you had to worry about is gunk getting in there, and it was easy to clean out should it get gunked up. With USB-C you do have to be a lot more careful to, again, not destroy that nub if things get gunked up. And to say again. it is just the STYLE of plug that I will miss with this change. Nothing about performance.
cleaning gunk out of USB-C ports is way easier as on USB-C you only have contacts (copper plates you can't really damage) and no springs, so you won't damage anything. With Lighting, cleaning the port is pretty hard to do (especially for "normal" people) in terms of requiring to be very careful and maybe even skilled. I would use a simple paper clip and maybe some IPA to clean out USB ports if I had to, I couldn't do that with lighting without killing contacts. That said, I only ever cleared gunk out of other peoples phones and never had any gunk myself... Neither had I broken ports even though a friend had his Samsung USB-C broken (also a gunk candidate) and replaced by warranty His "new" one has gotten a bit loose since and didn't made proper contact until I cleaned it. For those smarts who'll come and say that even USB-C got springs inside, yes they do obviously, but it's on the cable and not the port. I'd rather replace a cable than an entire device.
As an aside, I'm loving Linus' new level of involvement in front of the camera making more appearances like in the olden days. Hopefully with the transition from the CEO role you'll have a bit more work-life balance at LTT.
Might've been worth mentioning the the USB C cables included with the pro models only support USB 2 transfer speeds so you'll have to buy another cable to fully utilise the 10Gbps that the phones support
@@Gurenn83 Shit Standard stays shit standard too - really hope there will be a standard in the future where we doesn't need to get a bachelor degree in USB-C to but a cable
I've had my iphone xs for 4 years, and it still feels snappy as ever. The only thing holding me back at this point is storage. I had my iphone 6s for 4 years before that, and my 4s for 4 years before that. I guess my upgrade period is every 4 years.
my brothers old air 2 still gets updates. except it was a 16gb model and he could not update because of the storage. But huge props to apple for updating it for 8+ years
@@paulotremba4688you are exactly in the 50% percentile. There are 1 billion iPhone users and apple sells 250 million iPhones annually. That means on average, every iPhone user upgrades once in 4 years
5-6 years is certainly possible with a mid to high spec phone and a battery replacement around the 3 year mark. In the UK 5G still has quite limited coverage but might be worth a handset upgrade in the future.
Good news that Lightning is finally (!) moving out! My main gripe about that is the fact that the conductors are exposed on the plug - I had a cable short out on something in my car 'between seats heap'; it melted the end of the cable and took out the charger plugged into the lighter socket... Never trusted them since that.
I am a tradesmen, so with the iPhone, I get plenty of dust/dirt in my charging port. It’s easy to clean with a lightning port. I’m scared with the new type C style that I won’t be able to clean it without damaging the center of the charging port.
I own a apple watch 5 stainless, this is still in great condition. No scratches on the screen and body, and it still runs the latest software. I have not noticed any slowdown of performance on this thing. It’s just insane how long these things last, and still get updates!
to be honest I am still waiting for the unreasonable wish of having fully working virtualization on mobiles. Doesn't matter if it's android or ios. First one to do it gets my approval. Although even if apple makes it possible those meager 6 gb of ram will never be enough for anything. Not that 12 would be either so android isn't much better though
i am SO GLAD they chose USB C instead of microusb as the standard. however, i do seem to have noticed that llightning does appear to be stronger than usb c, by the smallest but. idk if its just me, but ive gone through about 4 USB C cables in the 3 months ive had my new ipad, whereas iv onyl had 1 lightning cord in my 11 months of having my iphone.
The $1000 phones problem is kinda like suddenly everyone is using a Ferrari as a daily driver.
This new incredible chip will be 90% used to doom scroll pictures of friends and family
98%*
..and of the 2% maybe 5% will actually game on it.
That's something that I can't wrap my mind around. Most people just use phones for scrolling social media, yet they are more than willing to shell out four figures for a device to do that on.
I get most people aren't tech savvy, but when a $300 Chomebook can perform that same task, but with a much larger screen and probably better battery life, you'd think people would smarten up to buying flagship phones all the time.
Doomscrolling? Are you about to go on a murder spree or something?
Yeah, $500 is too much for a phone for me, even though it's something I use daily. As someone who doesn't game or hardly takes pictures on my phone, none of this new stuff matters to me.
The fact that Apple had a huge part in the creation of USB-C should have been enough of a reason for lightning to have died sooner
They put it on their macs before windows OEMs did too, which makes it stranger.
I dunno, they must have over over over spent on RND for it, i don't see why they didn't change from lightning to USB C like 5 years ago.
Apple said Lightning will be the port for the next decade. That's why they kept it for exactly one decade. When Apple does stuff, people get extremely annoyed. Every time and no matter what. That's why Apple is playing really really safe here and that's why they kept it so long and not changed it after only 5-6 years.
@@Winston-1984to sell lightning coords
You forget, apple likes money
@@Raja995mh33 They put USBC on their other products years ago, including mobile devices like iPad. There was no reason to keep lightning on phones for this long other than to charge for cables.
Always a vibe to watch Linus talk about Tech when I'm not buying anything
Yes
Well, just USB-C cables down the line.
Well.. in theory yes. But at least me who have kids. And now new fangle school every kind should have a ipad in school, that they only use for 3 years, then its sent home (for a fee).. we got.. well quite a few ipads at home now. Never bought any (well techically we bought them out from the school)
The one piece is realllllllll
True 😁
More like the EU fixed the problem
The thing with phones rising in pricing significantly is, I no longer feel the need to get a new phone every other year. I held on to my Galaxy S9+ for 4 years, and I plan to do the same for my S22+
When phones hit $600 I felt the same way. I looked on in horror of when I had to upgrade while rolling with a nexus 5 for 8 years.
Same! I write this to you now on my S9! The only reason I'm going to replace it is I cracked the screen back in August. I'm just waiting for the new models to launch
Until the battery swoles or reach end of support.
I'm using iPhone 13 Pro Max from 2021 and probably gonna use it for 4 more years or until they stop giving software updates. Gonna get my battery replaced next year though as it's health is deteriorating.
I kept my pixel 3 for 4.5 years before moving to the pixel 7. I plan on using that one for the same length of time, so I am on the 4-year upgrade cycle right now as well.
Can't wait for the aftermath of the "new port" on third party Type-C cables with putting USB 3.0 behind Pro/Max only - Thunderbolt's initial introduction & USB's "SuperSpeed" existential crisis name changes weren't confusing enough for consumers it seems.
Maybe this will be a good reason to revisit the cable tester with MFI Type-C cables?
We definitely want to do more cable tester content - LS
@@LinusTechTipsnice
@@LinusTechTipscan you test expensive audiofool cables?
As a cable fabricator, there is a lot of specifications that goes into the cables. They are not the same. By companies not supplying power that's tested with product, they open "the box".
I'm fine with lighting, I was for usb c though but the problems out came the convince. I had S21+ for a year and that connector got flakey enough to the point where even a wind could interrupt the connection. No matter how expensive the cable was. And who does file transfers via USB anyways? 😅
LTT actually covering a myriad of features that the main Phone reviewing channels completely ignored.
Well, sadly most phone review channels are just shills repeating some quick talking points. Even MKBHD, whom I mostly respect, is absolutely biased when talking about Apple products.
@@gd8838too right there, bud. It hurts the consumers in the end.
Tbh I’m yet to find a phone review channel that actually, you know, does a proper review. Phone review channels are a very low bar as far as quality goes.
Kinda hard to go hard on phone when the tech is kinda same, boring slab pc outside of niche tech like folds/flips/cool gimmicks
@@saladgreens912 MrMobile does pretty good
It's funny how lightning began life as being one of the great advantages of being in the apple wall garden and proving competition is good for the space (forcing the adoption of usb c over micro b)
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
Yep and it appeared because USB-C was simply not ready.
Yeah yeah, just defend anti-consumer bullshit.
@@random_profile_4046how is that defending anything???
The only advantage lightning had over usb-c was that it was easier to clean when lint and dust got into the port.
@@commonname571more accurately the only advantage USB-C has over lightning is the extra conductors (and it being open to anybody), but my point was lightning was both an improvement over apples own 30 pin and USB micro b and at it’s introduction it was by far the best SFF connector on the market
I am honestly surprised they didn’t pull one of their famous « I shall avoid that new European policy at all cost » by simply removing the charging port. I was so convinced the magnetic feature of their MagSafe wireless charging was built for this very precise reason. Hope USB-C is here to stay now!
From slow usb2 speed 480mbps lightning cable to 10gbps usb c. Now Iphone can have android charging speed circa 2017.
@@fynkozari9271 5+ years to implement the same features as most Android phones is the Apple way.. But hey at least the Pro models got decent transfer speeds!
@@infernaldaedranope, the EU law DOES NOT require a charge port. They could have gone fully wireless.
@@infernaldaedra I agreed with you at one point, till I started using a wireless headset to listen to audiobooks at work, which we weren't allowed to do. After years of the convenience, I can no longer stand wired, unless I'm stationary, like at my PC anyway. So I essentially never even desire to plug in headphones to my phone anymore.
if you're using apple wireless charging you're just to lazy to start a fire 😂
I'm stocked that the A17 Pro has ray tracing acceleration, not because I care about ray tracing on a phone, but because it means they'll likely add ray tracing acceleration to the M3 processors.
I'm stocked too
AC Mirage and RE4 on a mobile phone is insane, and very telling of a future where any game that runs on Metal can run on your phone. Stoked to play No Man’s Sky natively on my phone lmfao.
I also hope that due to competition android users also get these improvements way earlier due to apple pushing such things.
@@gutzbin Phones are surprisingly powerful new phones are often substantially faster than a couple years old or even cheap new office laptop.
I’m more hyped for metalFX up scaling actually being used in games (genshin impact). It looks better than FSR right now.
Before yesterday, Apple fans thought USB is the country next to USA
😂😂😂
Lol as a android user is true
you mean americans in general believed that lol
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I Get It
😂
the double tap finger gesture for the apple watch isn't new. I haven't watched the keynote so idk if they actually advertised it as "new" but I've been using it for 2+ years already. It's an adaptive gesture so its function is contextual. I mostly use mine to pause/play media, it's SO freaking useful. A couple weeks ago I was doing house work (painting mostly) and had dirty hands or was wearing dirty/wet gloves. I had my iPhone playing through a bluetooth speaker and anytime i needed to pause, just double tap my finger to my thumb and boom, music paused without touching a single device with my grubby mitts! It's freaking awesome. And there are way more gestures too with clenching your fist/tapping fingers but I only use the simple double tap otherwise it gets a bit overcomplicated and less useful
But yeah sick feature (but not new lol)
if i understand correctly the gesture now works in standby and the user interface looks more nice.. thats the „new“ thing. all the old watches dont get the new interface and it only works turnt on. The functions seems to be the same between both versions
I wonder if Apple engineers are actually uploading OS image in USB 2.0 speeds, that's really slow and will take a lot of time to test any changes
They probably use wifi and small patches.
@@varno That would be an impressive feat to have bootloader with Wifi capability that can load OS image without verification, that would be a really nice ground for jailbreak
@@Gastell0 i guess they flash the nand in production, before it's soldered onto the board
@@Gastell0 oh, no the os images are probably signed with a dev key, and dev devices probably have an exception to that chain of trust, the ios devices are impressively locked down. But a minimal kernet with a wifi driver is on the order of 10s of MB. I don't work there, but knowing what is public about macos internals, that would be my guess.
@@0q2628 That's not what I meant, when you're developing an OS or some component or software, you're pushing the whole OS or some components to the test device, typically over direct connection from developer machine to test device over usb connection, if it's usb 2.0, it will take forever each time
Problem with A17 Pro is that next year's base models will not only get a one year old processor but a cut down version of it.
Sounds like something Apple would do.
Probably a non pro chip. I think by doing so it creates a bigger feeling of innovation and progress when the base model inherits some of the pro features
Yields get better on chips over time, especially with new die casting at 3nm. It makes sense to put a higher-end chip in a higher-end model.
And you will still buy it 😂
So the problem isn't with the chip itself, but with Apple. Just being pedantic... but I do agree
I find it interesting when people get rid of a perfectly good phone in order to get the latest model. I try to use my stuff to destruction.
Why hate on those people. You do you. And let them be. Everyone has different lifestyles. And people have different reasons.
i still have a working Galaxy S6 (from 2015)
i would not consider it a viable "daily driver".
then again i don't buy a new phone every year either, more like every 3-4 years
@@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher I said it was interesting, not that I hate anyone xd
i'm stuck at galaxy s9 since there is no better phone after that. mostly downgrades, removed headphone jack, sd slot etc. i mainly use old hardware for this reason. because it is just better
There's a very high demand for old gen Iphones in so-called developing countries and trade-in offers can sometimes be so good that it's actually cheaper to upgrade. So yeah, you can get the latest model with a good offer and your perfectly functioning old-gen Iphone will be resold to someone who will be more than happy to use it. It's basically a win-win situation for everyone involved.
Linus has stopped garbage talking about Apple. Nice to see that. Keep publishing unbiased reviews without garbage talks and your name will be mentioned in Apple keynote 🙌🙌🙌
Quoting one of the comments from MKBHD’s iPhone video,
“Congratulations on the mention, I was proud to see your name when the slide came up! Also the fact that it happened means:
1. Despite your objective reviews of their products they don't consider you a biased reviewer
2. Because of that they probably actually listen to your videos and take your criticisms, who knows ti what extent but they must be aware
3. Your integrity is such that they consider a positive review from you to be an achievement (which is pretty awesome)“
I hope you will take this comment positively! Keep it up 🙂
I'm a cyclist and the Apple Watch seemed pretty cool but
1. I don't have an iPhone
2. Garmin watches cost less or the same and for the niche that I'd use it for, they have basically all the features... but as a standalone device
The gesture thing would be a great feature though to not have to let go of the handlebars
i guess the watch is "feeling" the muscle movement under the skin, and when you are grabbing the handle bars, maybe this could falsely trigger the gesture
Garmin and even Polar watches don't even come close to the look & feel and overall user experience of an Apple watch, and I say this as a ~600$ Grit X owner.
My guess was actually the opposite, that you don't accidentally trigger it while grabbing the handlebars but instead don't even have to let go of the handle bars to trigger it intentionally. Guess someone needs to test it.
Also now that you say it, you might actually accidentally trigger the action when switching gears or braking.
Btw pretty sure the apple watch, like many other smart watches and heartbeat sensors uses light to shine through the arm and look at movements in veins and muscles, they probably use that for the gestures aswell.@@0q2628
And a garming 530 is million times better than any watch
@@RandomUser2401if you want another phone on your wrist, you buy an Apple Watch. For everyone who doesn’t, but still wants a fitness watch, there’s garmin. I owned a few generations of AW just to realize the constant notifications and managing two phones was exhausting.
7:25 "a customizable action-button FINALY" Bro even my X-cover 3 from 2014 (9 years ago) has one
Even after all these years I still find it more than a little amazing that I have a more powerful computer in my watch and in my phone than I did in the actual computers I used throughout the 80s and at least part of the 90s. We live in interesting times.
@@mavfan1Ja. Discrete components set them apart.
@@mavfan1 I would say the difference is two things, 1. Generally the components are all on one Chip. 2. A lots of the components are configured just for that type of device and there are components that aren't in traditional computers. (For example, there being Gyroscope and accelerometer in your watch or phone, 5G Antenna, etc.)
@@mavfan1he meant there's more computing power in his watch, than there would have been in a ZX Spectrum, say. I suspect you knew that. In a technical sense they're all computers, but there's a very big difference between one you can play Elite, Exolon or Saboteur on and a watch. Now... if we could plug our watch into a mouse, keyboard and large screen that could be fun.
Pick any smartphone from the last 10 years and it has far better performance than any pc in the 80s or 90s and even early 2000s
Yeah too bad they don't let you do anything with all that performance... You are limited to mobile apps. Imagine if they had included thunderbolt instead of usb2 and you could use a usb-c dock to turn it into a computer (like Samsung dex but on steroids) and actually use all those CPU and GPU cores + metal API and carry all your computing in your pocket all the time
When Linus said "or dimmer for that matter" at 9:29 my phone gave me the 5% warning and dimmed the screen, at first I was like "wow, what immersive editing" until I realized.
Nothing to do with the content just thought it was funny.
That double tap feature (plus a few more cool hand gestures) already exists as part of the accessibility settings (go look, it’s there). Apple’s just bringing it to the forefront now.
They probably improved it a lot. That why they never made it mainstream.
@@nocivolive huh? I dunno how they can improve on it: it works pretty damn well already.
And it isn’t mainstream because no one knows about it. It’s hidden right now in accessibility settings. In fact, I only know about it thanks to another RUclips channel showing it off some time ago.
Yes, I always use it to take selfies on my iPhone, stop timers on the watch, etc.
I can’t thank you enough.
@@nocivolive That's also my guess. It works OKAY now, but if they're bringing it to the forefront, perhaps they improved the actuator sensors or ML model or something. I get a lot of accidental triggers with it with the Accessibility option
Raytracing and AV-1 decode (and hopefully encode too?) on the M3 will be sick
(Somehow I missed the "on the M3 part" of the comment)-
They would have said encode if it did. It's 100% just decode
@@Hobo_X He's talking about the next generations desktop class M processors. If the IPhone gets all that than they will surely give the Macs a hell of a lot more oft it.
And there are normal gpus and apps that support AV1 now. For example Arc, RTX 40 and DaVinci Resolve.
It's revomlutiomn, Johmny!
you ready to lose a lot of battery life ray tracing uses a lot of power
@@WRo1901 Arc and RTX40 are not "normal gpus", that's high end and cost as much as the phone... and DaVinci is Software, which is obviously less performant then a "on-chip" solution... ffmpeg can encode AV1 for years already, so software has never been an issue.
I haven't used a cable for data since ios got over the air os updates and added backups to iCloud. This is probably true for most users, especially the non-pro/max/ultra (whatever suffix they are calling it) model ones.
Lightning was basically a precursor to the USB-C design. It was amazing compared to its contemporary, mirco-usb. Lightling lasted about the same length of time that the 30-pin dock connector did, they were due for a change.
I still say the USBC cable ecosystem is a mess. They never adopted clear labeling or color coding of what a given cable's capabilities are. 480/5/10/20/40 Mbps, 4/8k dp, 30/60/100/240W power. And the more capable cables linked thunderbolt have very chunky connectors that are awkward sticking out from a phone by up to an inch. I just wish the USB-C cable people would actually use the standardized logos on their cables, but almost no one does.
What I'm interested in is the spatial video recording. I'm sure most people don't care about 3D but if it works well enough and doesn't degrade the quality of the video I'm all about it.
Considering this is Apple's answer to their new flagship. I'm kind of curious to see what Samsung are cooking up for the S24 Ultra
I’m guessing it’s gonna still be super similar to the S23.
@@skylovescars69420same, but i really hope not.
@@skylovescars69420 There's not a lot to innovate now, smartphones are now at the point where 90+% of users don't care about increases in speed, gaming power, storage, camera capability, etc. I guess the next big 'advancements' will be improvements to folding phones and extending the battery life to over a day. But I don't expect any other major alterations to the design of phones.
2TB storage
@@Jake-rs9nq The speed/power will increase very slowly in a way that users don't care from one year to another(also because not much functional change happens), but once it increased enough after some years that power that accumulated over the years may enable new things that wouldn't have been reasonable to implement a few years ago because because the power wasn't enough. And that function maybe something many people will care.
I'm hoping they will make the concept "use your smartphone as a desktop pc "mass compatible. Android maybe by cooperating with microsoft to implement a very windows-like UI for the desktop mode. Many causal users won't bother buying an extra desktop for home use when they can just buy a monitor and hook up their smartphone and use it like a classical desktop for web browsing and writing, with all the UI-comforts of a classical Desktop (Samsung dex still has many flaws)
As someone with an Apple Watch 8, Double Pinch is already buried in the accessibility settings. But it doesn’t work quite as fluently as I want it to, so I’m excited to see what the next update brings.
I’ve been using it for about a year now (and love it) so I thought them calling it “new” was a stretch
I've been using it on my se and although not perfect, it works most of the time
Apple Watch 6 user here. Same with me. Buried in accessibility.
USBC is leagues better than micro USB, I'm just glad USBC is the standard now.
Not even comparable.
MicroUSB was never a good invention, and probably should never have existed in the first place. It was utterly embarrassing how prone to failure the ports were.
Microsoft hasn't been the standard forever. Not sure why it's relevant to this video.
It's always weird to me when people complain about micro USB being fragile. My current phone was a cheap model from 2017 and I've been using its micro USB port daily (several times a day, even) for 5 years now and it's still perfectly fine. I've worn out a few cables, though. But I'm also like, unreasonably careful with it. I'm unhealthily attached to my phone.
bot@@companyoflosers
I despise micro B. Still use a couple devices that have it. An old xbox one controller and Bose BT headphones from 2021 (Bose put a 2.5mm audio jack on the damn thing too REEE! 🙄 ) When it’s time to charge I gotta go look for that highly inferior cable
When youre celebrating someones "birthday", you're not celebebrating their birthday, your celebrating the anniversary of their birth.
Feels like the segues were supposed to be switched.
"No matter which segue I do" followed by motion gray that can do multiple work positions
"green, like this segue" followed by Ugreen
We can see how much they used that week off to “slow down and catch all of their mistakes”
They never have their sponsor segues match their sponsors.
I may have phrased it wrong. I don't think it was an actual mistake, just that it would've been funnier if they were reversed.
Linus's segues are usually pretty out there.
The gaming side of things was interesting. It does look like Apple is gearing up to becoming a heck of a lot more accepting of game devs coming to iOS/macOS/visionOS.
who would want to be seen with an Asus gaming phone? They are so cringe
Honestly, all this stuff about games being ported to iPhone makes me wanna buy a backbone one
@@paulotremba4688yea gaming phones are just silly. Like it'd understand if there were actual games to play and not pos mobile games like genshin and all that trash.
Plus people need to stop complaining about charging speed and learn to keep their phones at a good state of charge. Besides, fast charging harms the battery in the long run. Even the measly 20w or so charging apple allows now drains peoples battery health to 90% or so after a year of use (see a lot of 14 pro max’s around 90% health while mine is at 100%). I go out of my way to only use 5W charging for my 14 pro max, and have never found myself running out of battery. I typically use a USB port on my PC which can only output 5W max, or the USB port in my car which is also 5W. A old 5W wall wort would work too tho if you have one. Charges plenty fast imo and I also always keep my battery between 20 and 85%
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 im so glad someone says this about batteries. I have a program that keeps my m2 air battery at 80% charge when plugged in. Also my 14 pro max is at 97% health and i use wireless charging 95% of the time. I charge every other day or when my battery is 50-65% charge
" F I X E D " is a big word for Apple.
*Innovated
*reinvented
i dont feel like a company that encourages customers to buy a brand new device every single year is really doing good for the environment.
The thing you missed is they names their chip A17 Pro.
thay means next year the non-pro models not only will be getting 1 year old chip hut also a cut down version of it (A17 bionic, basically non-pro).
I think they'd keep av1 because it could cut their streaming costs for appleTV but im betting on them removing the usb 3 controller at least for the cut down version
I haven't seen any RUclipsr comment on this yet, but it definitely seems like it.
This right here is why you shouldn't be an apple fanboy. All you guys get hoodwinked once a year lol
why is ray tracing on a phone no apps have any suport for it. but yes it sucks that they sell you in the base model last years tech at todays prices. @unholydonuts
Next years iPhones will get A17 pro power and Apple will introduce the redesign and A18
The 14 pro max charges at 27W, I’m sure the bigger 15 also charges at more than 20W. It’s annoying because apple doesn’t officially list charging speeds
I also thought this, so many channels just report on the 20W number but I have a Anker powerbank which shows the output and my 14 Pro Max also reaches around 27W.
That still seems plenty fast, there's diminishing returns pushing these crazy charge rates. Better for the lifespan of the battery too
Can charge in 30W. ONLY IF U HAVE A ORIGINAL APPLE CHARGER 😂😂😂😂😂
@@hugosorolla9478 Not true, I use third party cables and bricks and it charges at about 27W just fine.
@@hugosorolla9478wrong, any USB C Power Delivery charger and lightning cable. iPads also charge at over 30W since ages btw
I was thinking that with all these gaming handheld, Apple arguably has the best option for a handheld chip but practically 0 chance of it becoming a thing.
Sadly true tbh. They already have native support for PS and Xbox controllers, they just don't have the games or userbase for it.
However, if they ever actually properly invested in it, I could see an 11" iPad Pro with an M* processor being an absolutely unbeatable portable gaming device. I'm tentatively hopeful that something will change though as this is the second year in a row they've focused on the gaming aspects of their various devices. If they do end up purchasing Disney, I wonder if they'd consider entering the gaming market with their own IPs..?
Gaming could be such a great showcase of the power of those tiny little chips. It's nice to see Apple finally see that as well and put some effort into it. I mean, if they actually manage to deliver and RE4 Remake looks and plays nicely on a phone then they'll make one hell of a statement.
6:31 Ironic how he held up a samsung note 9 as im about to upgrade from a note 9 to an iphone 15 lmaoo
The programmable action button is super cool, I love that feature on the Galaxy Note 9 I'm using now (technically remapping the Bixby button)
9:50 Double Tab was already an feature on Apple Watches it was just called „assistive touch"
FINALLY. Ive been using it on my Series 7 for years now and now everyone's talking about it like so evolutionary new thing like ????. im so confused its like apple just actually advertised this feature instead of burying it in the accessibility settings lmao.
Yeah and I use it all the time! I like the hand clench gesture better though.
@@MTM358 i do prefer the hand clench gesture but the double tapping has been more consistent for me for whatever reason lol
@@MTM358 yea hope they don’t kill it
@@jotec1290 They won't, it works fine on Watch OS 10 release candidate. Plus it's an accessibility feature, and Apple is big on that and wouldn't want the backlash by removing it.
6:13 "Supporting older devices." I have been using the iPhone XS this last week (running IOS 17 beta) and other than the battery life and aging cameras I'm perfectly happy with the speed and especially the size of the phone. I'm genuinely considering buying the 13 Mini and rocking that for a year or two.
Edit: this phone is FIVE generations old this year
Even after a year I'm still excited about my 13 Mini. I bought when it was no longer just a rumor there will be no Mini any more, so why wait? The phone isn't getting any younger, although I switched from the original SE, so I was due for an upgrade for quite some time :-) I hope to have it also for like 5-6 years.
I bought my daughter a 13 mini when it was new. I wouldn't recommend it. The battery life is really bad. It's better than the 12 mini, but still really bad. I regret getting that one instead of the regular 13.
Have been on my XS since it dropped and besides the battery lacking, I have absolutely no reason to upgrade. Speed, cameras, display, everything is satisfactory.
You are worried about battery life on the iPhone xs but you wanna upgrade to a mini ? 😮
how is the battery not shit at this point? every phone i’ve owned has a basically unusable battery after 2 years. My current phone is from 2018 and i’ve already swapped the battery twice
I wish I could be excited about the CPU / GPU performance - but unless they’ve done something to improve heat dissipation I fear it’ll only last a few minutes.
I hope I’m wrong.
Would be really cool to have LTT do some phone gaming tests with a long duration to measure throttling. I’d be curious to see if apples newer chips last longer not because they have better heat dissipation, but because they have more overhead and can run more efficiently.
The phone is made of titanium, and their copper heat syncs they did like a metal fusion method to fuse them to the chassis. So, in THEROY it actually should work pretty well.
@@NelsonBlvd :) there's a for the public solution. just double down on niche. the new norm.
@@NelsonBlvd honestly it seems like a waste to make a consumer phone out of titanium, when aluminum or recycled plastic would do just fine.
@@NelsonBlvd Isn't it only the outside rail that's made of titanium? They said the inside is still made with aluminum.
@@andrewlalisand then some Boeing will crying that they dont have enough titanium for aircrafts...
The EU made Apple fix the problem they created and then Apple did the same thing again
If the EU made Apple fix the problem only for them to do it again, is it even a problem for Apple?
USB c is great for when I eventually upgrade, but my 14 pro max has been sitting on a magnetic charger as needed. So beyond that the upgrade is underwhelming.
Lightning cable 480mbps usb2 speed. Usb C 10gbps, at least 20X faster. Iphone 14 battery health deteriorates fast, did Apple compensate u in the battery lawsuit? Btw wireless charging is wasting energy.
Yet iSheep are all convinced this is some crazy new upgrade and they have to buy it! Lmao...this phone has looked exactly the same for like 5 years now and the only updates its gotten was slighly faster proccesors and cameras.
@@brokentradgedythere’s litterly a whole video explaining the updates to the phone, lmao. There’s a whole new button on the phone, for gods sake.
@@fynkozari9271 Sure, and I will use all that when? I doubt many people plug their phone in for much more than charging.
Anyway it’s nice, just not a huge upgrade. I bought the 14pm because it was the first phone that seemed like much of an upgrade since my 11.
He is staying on AMD
Only issue I have with usb-c is the non standardization of power delivery, i cant just use any usb-c block or cable.
You can, but it might charge a bit slower. Every cable should be able to do up to 30W. iPhones can't do that anyway, but for even faster charging you need special cables and bricks
I kinda understand why they didn't change it yet. People don't like change. My husband and I both have Android and his parents both have iPhones. One time he let his phone die when we were over there and I had a car emergency on the way home (he was coming back later). They thought that micro USB was the same as USB C and were so insistent that they had a cable. They did not. They also recently installed an outlet with USB A ports and tell me that they have it when I plug in my USB C brick to charge things. I took a USB A to USB C cable and left it there, for future use. Whenever one of them gets a new phone, they will complain that it's a new cable (even though I have warned them several times). To be fair, they probably won't upgrade at the same time.
Honestly, the sponsor segue here is a missed opportunity at the end, 11:10 where i expect the Ugreen sponsor because of the Green segue instead of the MotionGrey XD
I always check back on this channel to wait for in-depth explanations like this. The Pro it is.
Not having USB-C always seemed to me to be more of a problem for Apple haters than it ever was for Apple Users... It's not about charging ports it's about having a stick to beat Apple with, and any stick will do. They'll move on to Lack of RCS now.
Im interested to see how they score in repairability since that was an underrated feature of the iPhone 14
Said something about trying to make it even better.
The 14 has terrible repairability, all of the parts are serial locked and AASPs can only replace the screen abd the back or else its a whole unit
@@jacksong6226still scored better than Samsung S series according to iFixit
Regarding the faster S9 in watches at around 9:10: Having a fast processor in a mobile device is also beneficial for battery life: If they can go back to sleep faster after completing computations faster, you'll save a bunch of watts here and there, extending your battery life.
I've been watching Linus for over 10 years, wow I'm surprised of the high apple praise! He's never unnecessarily shit on them but it's always nice to see exciting products coming out.
Hearing Linus commend Apple is rare. Glad to see the good acknowledged WITH the bad.
How do you use titanium and be net zero at the same time?
Slave mine workers in Siberia or Hainan don't account for much in the way of carbon emissions.
@@scrooglemcdoogle nor do the slave chinese workers, good thing they use boat transportation more now, maybe they'll be able to escape more easily
I think lightning disappearing will also lead to less confusion in USB-C… eventually. There’s gonna be a revolt once the “it just works” iPhone user crowd finds out the clusterfoxtrot that is the USB specification; hopefully the USB consortium is forced to simplify and mandate the goodies that are optional.
Usb-c is just so confusing, like you said wish they made things more clear to consumers. Each cable could have a different data transfer rate, charging rate etc… Wish they had some color coding or something.
there is already a system for that, it is called Thunderbolt 4
it is basically a quality stamp for the USB-C connector that says "I got USB4 + a list of other features"
Would be interesting to know if the VR video recording format is specific for the Vision Pro or if it might be useful with any VR headset and video player.
You might know this already, but it can be played on quest 2 and 3
@@AnthonyMiele Really? Very nice! Thank you for the information!
@joelb5391 yes!
Correction: quest 2 and 3, not 1
Yoooooo! That exact lift desk was given to me as a gift as they needed something that held heavier items, was such a score!
Now it would be nice if Apple could make it so you can download an entire folder from ICloud Drive. They've never done this, so I use One Drive from M$ to upload my pictures from my phone and download them to my computer. Plus Apple has that weird HEIC format for pictures. Older computers don't recognize it.
HEIC isn't a weird format tho agree that older devices don't recognise it. It a open format which is really go in terms of storage optimisation while maintaining the efficiency of the image
There is a desktop client for icloud drive that syncs your folders to your pc.
@@megh.rathodHEIF is open and free, however HEIC which uses HEVC within an HEIF container and is used by Apple comes with licensing costs to the MPEG LA and others.
@@megh.rathod HEIC looks like garbage though (as does webp), it destroys the contrast compared to JPEG and phone cameras tend to lack in REAL dynamic range to begin with.
[has a Samsung phone which takes pictures in HEIC]
I dont think that lightning was too bad, although I will agree that it over stayed it's welcome. I think that the iPhone X would have been a great time to switch to usb c
People bitched and complained non-stop when Apple switched from the 30-pin dock connector to Lightning in 2012. Imagine if Apple had switched to USB-C after only 3 years with Lightning. But yes, Lightning definitely over stayed its welcome. Should have switched around 2019.
Lightning was superior to ANYTHING that was out at the time in 2012. Micro and mini USB suck bad in comparison, they could only charge and do data, no audio or video, and micro USB is very prone to breaking. I'll even go as far as saying the 30-pin dock connector was superior to micro and mini USB, it could charge, transfer data, and do audio and video.
bruh i wrap my charger around my 7+ like a christmas present to get it to charge. its good riddance
I think physically Lightning is a superior design, it sits secure and always have a satisfying snap when you plug it in. USB-C is loose in almost every USB-C phone i own, while my 3 year old 12 pro max the connection feel brand new. @@charminbaer2323
@@joepapi619I’ve had same charger for 2 years since I got the phone although I have got spares lurking in my room and when I’m looking for a usb c cable for another device it really irritates me to only discover damn lightning cables
I thought it was ridiculous when Apple highlighted the usb 3.0 controller on the chip (which is a kind of awesome chip in terms of the gpu). But, now thinking about it, there likely wasn’t a 3.0 controller on the chip from the pro model last year that is going in the base iphone 15. I wonder if they will bump the base to 3.0 and the pro to thunderbolt next to around.
If they keep the same trend of the non-pro models getting last year's pro chip, then the iPhone 16/Plus should get get A17 Pro with the USB 3 controller. Hopefully they bump the pro models to Thunderbolt at that point.
I suspect they'll bump the features up when they want to make it seem like they did something amazing which is how the average Apple customer will view it. They always think Apple invented a new thing :)
Just wait on USB5 or USB4.0x2.1+UltraGigaSpeed_40gbps lameusbforumnamingscheme, then maybe Apple will force the base model Iphone 16 for USB-C support superspeed, and hoping a desktop mode features on ios when plugin to monitor or a dock.
It's also kind of stupid how the latest iPhone won't support the same speed as your latest MacBook but limit transfer speed instead. The USB2 in the iPhone 15 is completely embarrassing in comparison to any other smartphone with USB-C. But the point that even the iPhone 15 Pro Max will limit transfer to or from your MacBook doesn't make any sense.
I think the regular iPhone should have gotten USB3 and the Pro models should have gotten USB4.
@@TheJackiMonster USB 3 can be 5, 10 or 20 gbps and USB 4 is 40 or 80 gbps.
So there's lots of room for them to move. Honestly 80gbps is probably pushing it, and not really worth worrying about too much.
There is an issue with the cables themselves. They get pricey if you want the highest power + highest data + length from USB 3/4 and they get thicker. A three meter cable is great if you're in bed and want to be charged, but you wouldn't want it for transferring data at your desk obviously.
I think they'll weaponise it though and use it to push adoption of the next gen Mac laptops and desktops/M3 chips along with iPads and iPhones of course.
What makes practical sense on your phone to get all your video/photos off after a holiday so you can do the modern equivalent of making your family look at a photo album is another matter.
Anyone used to Lightning is going to be blown away by the Pro Max though. Same with charging speed potential.
APPLE: “We will do it, but only when no one else uses it because of wireless charging and data!”
BECAUSE
REASONS
WOW! LMG didn't force their team to drop a video right after the showcase, but instead it seems they are doing what they said they would do. Make good content!
The Apple Watch double tap thing has been around for a while, I actually use it rn. You can also make a fist and it counts it as a different input so making a fist normally does things the crown does and double pinching is used for selection stuff
Yeah, it's been an accessibility feature for years and is awesome.
Fist, fist, pinch, pinch, bro you ok?
do you know which models do this? I have an older one and can't find that option.
@@Shaflugi I know the 6 can and I’m pretty sure that’s the oldest version, maybe the SE? But I’m sure it doesn’t go much older than that
@@ShaflugiMy S4 does it
The funny thing is I have absolutely nothing that uses USB-C (Except my PS5 controller). It's treated like we've been using USB-C for ages and apple was just the only one not using it. I have a ton of stuff that uses lightning cables and tons of lightning cables.
My teacher is using this video for a little assignment. Life is good :)
They - sort of - did.
They neutered the transfer speeds on the regular 15 models.
So how do you know this
@@NaraSherkothey said only the Pro has USB 3
2:09 It's due to it being USB 2 on the regular models, and 3 on the pro.
Its literally in the video
And this is why I wanted the EU to revise their law to require a complete implementation of USB-C, with USB 3 and Alt modes enabled, and also force mobile gadgets with internal storage to adhere to the MTP protocol for file transfers to internal storage. Windows users still need iTunes to interface with Apple hardware, which is cumbersome and non-portable, and transfer speeds from the PC are still soo early 2000s. I don't care how much you wanna sell your cloud solutions and sell your users' data, Not to mention no support for output to external displays using the standard adapters.
It's neat for iPhone users to be able to charge with any charger and cable, but that's about it. Totally half-assed.
This is a sin committed by various Android smartphone makers, too. USB 2 only on a USB-C gadget needs to die in a fire.
I'm 100% sure Apple kneecapped the USB port on the normal iPhone 15 with 2.0 speeds, it doesn't make senese for the A16 to only support USB 2.0 when the A14 supported 3.0 on the 4th gen iPad Air
Apples chips are always designed for EXACTLY what they need. And they didn't need USB3.0 support on the 14 Pro and that's why the 15 doesn't have it...
Next year they will support 3.0 because then Apple will most likely update the 16 and 16 Plus to the A17.
The USB3 support on the iPad Air 4 can have a lot of reasons, first one being that there is much more room to work with in the iPad so they could easily include a dedicated, extra chip outside the SoC to do this. On the iPhone it's not so easy to just include another extra chip there
(which is also the reason why the Pro still maxes out at 1TB - there is no space for a second storage chip and there are no 2TB chips yet).
@Raja995mh33 Well the 4th gen Air has the Same Soc as the iPhone 12, so it only makes sense that Apple intentionally made the iPhone 15 USB 2.0 only
On the scene, it was almost like they solely invented USB C
Apple was an early adopter of USB-C in the MacBook line.
@@MTM358And contributed 20% of it engineers to USB.
Apple: "We're so innovative"
Also Apple: "USB is the universally accepted standard, so we're using that now I guess"
Honestly, really glad the USB standard, while slow to do it; actually did the thing they set out to do; and it's pretty damn good.
Only after having been sued by Europe lmao. They most likely would've never swapped over by themselves. But Europe requires newer tech to have USB C as Standard.
Ive had an iphone and android in my pocket for years and never got a new iphone. I finally feel like its worth it to get the new 15 pro instead of finding a deal on the previous gen. Its so so sad im paying 400+ euros more on the same model here than in america.
its 250 now, they dropped the price a little after they raised them on the 13
It’s been a great cable - far better than the plethora of (worse) standards which existed when it was developed.
And it’s been supported for a bit over a decade, in that same time I had at least 7 different cables before then…
Has it been time to switch to USBc for a while? Yes.
Yep, Lightning was a great connector, considering the garbage Micro-USB it competed with. Very durable and reversible plug. But moving to USB-C is good for everyone long-term.
@@erwark honestly, i never had a micro-usb cable break, lightening ones on the other hand.......... Though they finally moved to usb-c despite having slow charging as a "feature"
@@erwark we would still have this artwork, if apple would have opensourced their cable.
I like lightning more than Type C and the other cables. Think about what happens when something gets into the port or the cable. I couldn't remove it because of this little thingy. When it brakes, you can throw the whole in the garbage, cause its so expensive.
The could have even upgraded to faster charging.
I am not a fan of the usb-c. I have 2 iPad pros that have it and both are a pain at times. Lightning cable never gave me any issues.
@@michaelwatts5341"usb-c bad, lightning good, no I will not elaborate"
The New USB-C on the 15 Pro Max also outputs monitor with upscaling for gaming.
I've been using Androids all my life and got an iPhone 14 Pro Max back in January and I'm pretty satisfied with it. And with the way iPhones can last for years, I don't think I'm gonna be changing any time soon!
I like the iPhones for how long you can use them, I had an iPhone 5s I used up until 2020 when I bought the 11 that I’m still using. The only issue is I keep maxing out my storage but that is not a big deal for me.
@@commonname571 A friend of mine still uses his iPhone 6 for his second sim card. Phone is 8+ years old and works flawlessly. That's why I decided to get an iPhone too. Storage ain't an issue, as I got the 512GB one, so I won't fill it up any time soon.
As impressive as the tech in the pro max is, 1000 USD is just exhorbitant even with all the awesome feautres. For me at least I have learned that I prefer different devices for different uses rather than draining the battery of one device for multiple uses, it also helps me be offline more which is something that is way better for my life.
Err the pro max is 1200$👀... so yeah
Why do you guys always talk about Apple when a lot of phones are near or over a thousand dollars now. Samsung costs more than Apple, the ultra starts at $1200 and goes up to $1620 which is $20 dollars more than apple's maxed out iphone pro, and the Zfold starts at $1600 and goes over $2100 dollars. Also, it doesn't matter which side you're on, if you're consistently upgrading your phone through trade ups then you can save up to 800 dollars.
There’s no other phone with speed and ray-tracing features comparable to the iPhone 15 Pro, at any price. Don’t confuse price with value. It’s normal for any top dog product to cost more. Nobody’s forcing you to buy this if you don’t like the price, plenty of cheaper phones on the market
@@little_fluffy_cloudsAnd there is no need for this stuff on a fucking phone, this is just vaporware
@@lauraprates8764 that’s your opinion. Plenty of organisations out there will make use of these features for apps and use cases we can’t even imagine yet. If everyone had your attitude, we’d still be using bricks with buttons and 30 minute battery life.
I don't know if it's since you started doing the always live thing, or maybe it's gotten worse since the hiatus but LTT is still getting buried by RUclips. I've watched over 20 hours of YT this week & I haven't seen an LTT video on my homepage once.
“First USB-C iOS device …” Well that can only be Apple. Genius writing.
Lightning was great when it came out. Micro USB was pretty terrible. I was constantly going through cables, and I am not rough on things. Lightning fit snugly without fragile little pins, and it being unidirectional was pretty awesome. BUT, all of those things were improved with the introduction USB C. I am honestly surprised it took them this long to adopt something they had such a big part in creating onto their most popular device.
That problem they created made them a ton of money in the meantime.
But... they would've made the same money if they had just been supplying/selling USB-C cables. I've had iPhones going back to the iPhone 5 and I've never had to buy a Lightning cable or any kind of Lightning connector other than the ones the came with my phones, going back to the beginning of Lightning itself. Where did Apple make all of this Lightning money people keep talking about?
@@AnirudhTammireddy Nah, I just like when people back up weird claims. I googled "what was more profitable for Apple to keep Lightning as their phone port for so long" and didn't see any straightforward answers. Can you point me in the right direction, since it's easily searchable?
@@VegasHyruler I've had countless lightning cables die on me over the years, and had to keep buying more, so that's one thing. The other, no they wouldn't have made the same money selling USB-C, apple owns the lightning patent, so when anyone makes a lightning cable, they need to pay royalties to apple. With USB-C, Apple doesn't own it, and they only get money from selling their own USB-C cables, not literally all the USB-C cables like they did with lightning.
@VegasHyruler you do know anyone can buy a usbc from anywhere for any price and it's not a fixed, one vendor market for usbc right
@@Coliflower185 *laughs in* alibaba sellers making 1:1 clone connectors and chips which simulate the hdq prom
The EU fixed the problem that Apple created
EU didnt fix a problem apple created, it made apple move on from the times where there was no USB-C and only the inferior micro-b.
They are advertising that they are USB-C now as if it was their choice🤣🤣🤣
Wait.. Does this mean we can expect to see a giant stack of USB cables tested, like HDMI and DisplayPort that you did before?
I think there is no Test needed here. As much as I know if there is no integrated "Apple-chip", there is no highspeed...
Apple was criticized for bringing USB-C to its MacBook years ago. Every iPad and Mac uses USB-C. Lightning had a huge ecosystem around it, and could even do 3GBps on iPad Pros before they moved to USB-C. It was a good connector when the alternative was Micro USB (ughhh) but glad they're moving on.
Pretty limited though. That 3gbps only works in host mode.
The only thing I liked about lightning connector was its strength. My Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G USB-C connector is a little weak causing charging and data transfers to be a little problematic for charging and external storage transfers.
For context, my Note 10 had it's port chewed out by other brands of cables and the insignia brand can loosely hold the phone by it's port. My Note 20 can be hung of the insignia cable and fished out of a couch with that brand, and it has done so consistently for 2 years.
i find this hilarious because my sister and friends have broken a ton of their lightning cables and I, an android user, broke only one.
@@eianfederle2715 You are not understanding the problem my phone is broken not the cable.
THE SEGUE AT THE END KILLED ME. IT WASNT EVEN FOR THE UGREEN SPONSOR. 😭😭
If you read the fine print, 15 pro only included a charging cable out of the box. Possible it supports 10Gbps but you need additional cable. In the ad that Apple shows recording externally ProRes for a soccer game, the cable has a huge ⚡️ logo on it. Cook is still cook.
I think that cable is $70, correct me if I’m wrong tho
Thunderbolt cables are much thicker. You don't have to buy Apple's. Most people just use it to charge.
+1 for apples support of older devices. Until I massively battered my phone dropping it then running it over then smashing it in a heavy car door (long story) my iphone 8 lasted me 5 years without feeling any slower than the day I got it, that couldn't be said about my friends similarly Samsung he lent me until I replaced it with an iPhone 14pro max
I'm a long time Pixel user but this new generation of iPhones is seriously compelling! I wouldn't have to buy really any new accessories or anything, Ironically my biggest holdout is not being able to use RCS Chat with my family anymore lol
Tbh the only thing you would be missing from pixel is the usb speeds. even if you spend extra money for the pro iphone you arent getting usb 3.2 speeds (assuming you have a newer pixel otherwise you got usb 3.1 most likely.) all in all if you got the money id wait for the iphone 16 pro series that includes 3.2 and im assuming a new chip/camera. You'd see a massive difference then.
I've gkt the 6 Pro so fairly recent. Yeah the 15 has had some odd issues that I'm sure will be fixed with the 16
@@WilliePeck plus the ray tracing will hopefully be more ironed out. That av1 decoder is hot ASF though on the 15 pro!
"To apples credit, they locked a feature that should be pretty much mandatory at the price point they are charging behind an even more expensive version designed to drain your wallets" is all I heard during this... 2:54
Personally, I wish that the STYLE of plug of Lightning had become the standard. Simply for longevity of the port. I want to reitterate that I mean STRICTLY the style. The fact it was a straight forward male plug, to a female port. No random little nub in the port to have damaged. Things get jostled and you don't have to worry about that nub getting wrecked. That said, things becoming a universal standard, is VERY much a win. Again, I just did like how with Lightning the main port issue you had to worry about is gunk getting in there, and it was easy to clean out should it get gunked up. With USB-C you do have to be a lot more careful to, again, not destroy that nub if things get gunked up. And to say again. it is just the STYLE of plug that I will miss with this change. Nothing about performance.
Same goes for USB-C, and a lot more robust than lightning.
I agree with the style part, I like for the next standard of USB to be male plug to female port also.
cleaning gunk out of USB-C ports is way easier as on USB-C you only have contacts (copper plates you can't really damage) and no springs, so you won't damage anything. With Lighting, cleaning the port is pretty hard to do (especially for "normal" people) in terms of requiring to be very careful and maybe even skilled.
I would use a simple paper clip and maybe some IPA to clean out USB ports if I had to, I couldn't do that with lighting without killing contacts.
That said, I only ever cleared gunk out of other peoples phones and never had any gunk myself... Neither had I broken ports even though a friend had his Samsung USB-C broken (also a gunk candidate) and replaced by warranty His "new" one has gotten a bit loose since and didn't made proper contact until I cleaned it.
For those smarts who'll come and say that even USB-C got springs inside, yes they do obviously, but it's on the cable and not the port. I'd rather replace a cable than an entire device.
As an aside, I'm loving Linus' new level of involvement in front of the camera making more appearances like in the olden days. Hopefully with the transition from the CEO role you'll have a bit more work-life balance at LTT.
I personally prefer lightning, it's more durable and easier to clean
Might've been worth mentioning the the USB C cables included with the pro models only support USB 2 transfer speeds so you'll have to buy another cable to fully utilise the 10Gbps that the phones support
Apple being Apple as always 😑
Good thing I have tons of those already, since USB 3 is by no means new!!
@@Gurenn83 Shit Standard stays shit standard too - really hope there will be a standard in the future where we doesn't need to get a bachelor degree in USB-C to but a cable
I've had my iphone xs for 4 years, and it still feels snappy as ever. The only thing holding me back at this point is storage. I had my iphone 6s for 4 years before that, and my 4s for 4 years before that. I guess my upgrade period is every 4 years.
well every 4 years is a solid upgrade rotation.
Yep I’m also still running my launch xs max and it’s still 100% functional as a phone
my brothers old air 2 still gets updates. except it was a 16gb model and he could not update because of the storage. But huge props to apple for updating it for 8+ years
@@paulotremba4688you are exactly in the 50% percentile. There are 1 billion iPhone users and apple sells 250 million iPhones annually. That means on average, every iPhone user upgrades once in 4 years
5-6 years is certainly possible with a mid to high spec phone and a battery replacement around the 3 year mark. In the UK 5G still has quite limited coverage but might be worth a handset upgrade in the future.
Good news that Lightning is finally (!) moving out! My main gripe about that is the fact that the conductors are exposed on the plug - I had a cable short out on something in my car 'between seats heap'; it melted the end of the cable and took out the charger plugged into the lighter socket... Never trusted them since that.
You left it in the car where it get insanely hot and the plastic melted since apple use a softer plastic for the enviroment :)
I am a tradesmen, so with the iPhone, I get plenty of dust/dirt in my charging port. It’s easy to clean with a lightning port. I’m scared with the new type C style that I won’t be able to clean it without damaging the center of the charging port.
You could buy a magnetic detachable cable(like apple MagSafe in macbooks)
Linus is never going away and i never want him to ... Keep it up man
He's never gonna give you up, or let you down!
@@kuba3848 or run around,
I own a apple watch 5 stainless, this is still in great condition. No scratches on the screen and body, and it still runs the latest software. I have not noticed any slowdown of performance on this thing.
It’s just insane how long these things last, and still get updates!
to be honest I am still waiting for the unreasonable wish of having fully working virtualization on mobiles.
Doesn't matter if it's android or ios.
First one to do it gets my approval.
Although even if apple makes it possible those meager 6 gb of ram will never be enough for anything. Not that 12 would be either so android isn't much better though
Maybe the iPhone 15 Pro will soon be up there at the Switch Alternatives like the Steam Deck or all these Windows Gaming Thingys.
i am SO GLAD they chose USB C instead of microusb as the standard. however, i do seem to have noticed that llightning does appear to be stronger than usb c, by the smallest but. idk if its just me, but ive gone through about 4 USB C cables in the 3 months ive had my new ipad, whereas iv onyl had 1 lightning cord in my 11 months of having my iphone.
You're definitely doing something wrong
I've not broken a single usb calbe in my entire life and I use them since 1996
what now?