The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card)
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
this 5 year old model is still officially supported on the new version of iOS that just came out
After all, nothing helps convince the rubes to upgrade to the new model like the
hidden phone slowdown easter egghigher power requirements of a new iOS version to make their old phone run like shit.
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@izzion said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
this 5 year old model is still officially supported on the new version of iOS that just came out
After all, nothing helps convince the rubes to upgrade to the new model like the
hidden phone slowdown easter egghigherpowerperformance requirements of a new iOS version to make their old phone run like shit.FTFY, I think it's true now.
Speaking of which, I've read their claims that iOS 12 is supposed to be faster and even recommended to install on older devices. So I'm intrigued to try it.
But then the comparision is almost certainly with iOS 11 and I'm still on 10, so I'm not convinced it still won't slow down my phone to be unusable like they did with my 4S. And you can't just try it because there's no way to revert back.
If anyone has installed iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S, I'd be interested to hear about it.
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@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
If anyone has installed iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Yes, it's just as fast as it was before. No better, no worse.
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More reports about the "strongest ever glass in a smartphone":
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@Atazhaia It's still glass - how does that compare to other smartphones?
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@loopback0 About the same as any midrange phone I guess? There's nothing special about the glass in the iPhone even if the Apple Marketing Bullshit Department likes to pretend it is.
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@Atazhaia said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@loopback0 About the same as any midrange phone I guess?
Maybe but why is anyone guessing?
There's some sort of breakability score used in the article, this sounds like the perfect thing to compare phones and prove whether the claim is bullshit or not, and yet the article doesn't do the comparison.
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
If anyone has installed iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Yes, it's just as fast as it was before. No better, no worse.
Thanks.
To clarify: before what, though? My reference is iOS 10, which afaict is faster than 11.
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@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
If anyone has installed iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Yes, it's just as fast as it was before. No better, no worse.
Thanks.
To clarify: before what, though? My reference is iOS 10, which afaict is faster than 11.iOS 11, although I don't remember that performing any differently to iOS 10.
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US survey reveals iPhone XR most popular model, middling Services uptake | AppleInsider
The iPhone XR was the most popular iPhone model sold in the United States for the quarter ending March 2019, a survey has revealed, while the company's move towards pushing services apparently has quite a way to go before iTunes, Apple Music, and others are actively being used by the majority of...
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@Atazhaia said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
I see absolutely fuck all to motivate the iPhone Xs costing more than the iPhone X did at release
it's newer and it has a picture of a bitten-off apple on the back. if you don't think that's a reason enough, then you're probably just one of them haters.
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@Bulb said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
t is a status symbol. Somebody shows off with insanely overpriced shirt from Versace, somebody has insanely overpriced phone from Apple.
i agree. and by doing that, both successfully signal their status of being morons.
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@TimeBandit said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
maybe that is the reason
Didn't the 5s got a back made of glass?
My 5s does not have a back made of glass.
EDIT: Took it out of the case to double check...it's the top and bottom of the back...small strips of glass.
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
If anyone has installed iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Yes, it's just as fast as it was before. No better, no worse.
Thanks.
To clarify: before what, though? My reference is iOS 10, which afaict is faster than 11.iOS 11, although I don't remember that performing any differently to iOS 10.
So we're now up to iOS 13 and there is still no "select all" button in the mail app (or any app that Apple makes). And what;s the deal with the tiny back buttons at the top that can't seem to detect that you have touched it or insist on dropping down a menu instead of you know...going back to the previous screen.
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@CodeJunkie said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
So we're now up to iOS 13 and there is still no "select all" button in the mail app (or any app that Apple makes)
There's Select All for the text?
Unless you mean for all emails in a folder in which case no. So?@CodeJunkie said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
And what;s the deal with the tiny back buttons at the top that can't seem to detect that you have touched it or insist on dropping down a menu instead of you know...going back to the previous screen.
Works for me, although they're obviously more tiny on my (work) SE than they are on my XR.
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@levicki said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Your hair dresser and the other riffraff will no longer have the audacity to have the same phone as you.
What kind of shitty communist country you are living in? In true capitalism even supermarket cashiers and kids in elementary school can afford better phone than you. /only half s
Where I live anything new from apple seems unaffordable.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Where I live anything new from apple seems unaffordable.
It's a relatively common issue here on Earth-47. You could ask @pie_flavor if Earth-73 is better. Dunno if we have visitors from any of the other ones.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@levicki said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Your hair dresser and the other riffraff will no longer have the audacity to have the same phone as you.
What kind of shitty communist country you are living in? In true capitalism even supermarket cashiers and kids in elementary school can afford better phone than you. /only half s
Where I live anything new from apple seems unaffordable.
I can afford it. I just prefer a cheaper phone and use the money saved to go drinking like most sensible people.
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@cvi said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@sockpuppet7 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Where I live anything new from apple seems unaffordable.
It's a relatively common issue here on Earth-47. You could ask @pie_flavor if Earth-73 is better. Dunno if we have visitors from any of the other ones.
Apple sells great budget hardware. Unfortunately instead of pricing it accordingly it ends up being the literal most expensive thing on the market
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@levicki that's ok. Also, calling all hell holes communist is a no true scotsman. It's like the commies that say everything that failed isn't true communism.
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@sh_code said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@Bulb said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
t is a status symbol. Somebody shows off with insanely overpriced shirt from Versace, somebody has insanely overpriced phone from Apple.
i agree. and by doing that, both successfully signal their status of being morons.
You must be a fun person to hang out with, hating people based on the phone they use. ;)
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Works for me, although they're obviously more tiny on my (work) SE than they are on my XR.
Hey, man, after almost a year now, how do you like your Xr? What made you go for that one? (I know there's nothing special about this question, since most people did.
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@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
after almost a year now, how do you like your Xr?
I've only had it 6 months but it's brilliant.
@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
What made you go for that one?
It's cheaper than the XS and my carrier had an offer which made it £200 cheaper, and the only features sacrificed are ones I didn't care about plus the battery life is superb.
TBH I'd still be using my 6S if it wasn't for 2 things - the Lightning port was iffy and sometimes required the cable to be wedged at a an angle to charge and the battery was only charging to 80% of its capacity. Both could have been fixed for significantly less but I fancied a new phone rather than fixing one that was over 3 years old.
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
after almost a year now, how do you like your Xr?
I've only had it 6 months but it's brilliant.
@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
What made you go for that one?
It's cheaper than the XS and my carrier had an offer which made it £200 cheaper, and the only features sacrificed are ones I didn't care about plus the battery life is superb.
TBH I'd still be using my 6S if it wasn't for 2 things - the Lightning port was iffy and sometimes required the cable to be wedged at a an angle to charge and the battery was only charging to 80% of its capacity. Both could have been fixed for significantly less but I faniced a new phone rather than fixing one that was over 3 years old.What's interesting to me is that I haven't seen that many Xrs in Poland. It's mostly Xses. Could be I just don't notice them this much cause they're all wrapped snugly in cases and then look like 8s this way.
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@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
Could be I just don't notice them this much cause they're all wrapped snugly in cases and then look like 8s this way.
They look more like the X/XS than the 8 - the hole for the camera is generally vertical, the screen goes nearer to the edge with a notch out of the top like the X/XS (and the screen is actually larger than either) and unlike any of them it comes in colours that aren't silver, the ever-changing "Space Grey" or "Gold".
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
I faniced a new phone
Must be an Apple thing
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@levicki said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
@kt_ said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
You must be a fun person to hang out with, hating people based on the phone they use. ;)
Why single him out? From what I can tell, most people on this forum are like that.
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@loopback0 said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
TBH I'd still be using my 6S if it wasn't for 2 things - the Lightning port was iffy and sometimes required the cable to be wedged at a an angle to charge and the battery was only charging to 80% of its capacity
Still using my 6S here, as probably mentioned before. I "fixed" the port with a bent paperclip by removing the lint that had accumulated in it. (You would not believe how much of your jeans ends up compressed in such a tiny port.) The battery I had replaced under the battery-gate program in December (deliberately as late as possible) at the reduced price, which wasn't cheap but at least pretty reasonable.
Works like a charm, without much of the idiocy of newer models. (And of course, "3d touch" and "hey siri" are disabled)
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@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
You would not believe how much of your jeans ends up compressed in such a tiny port.
I would, because I have the same issue with my 7 (and the 5S that I had before that). And yes, jeans pockets are breeding grounds for dust and fluff and other stuff, and all of it ends up in the Lightning port. (Well, except for the odd moments where much of it ends up all over the screen - static electricity is a thing still - or jammed in the edges of the protector case thing.)
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@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
I "fixed" the port with a bent paperclip by removing the lint that had accumulated in it.
I'd already done that more than once, there was something actually wrong with the port or the pins or something. It needed replacing.
I probably wouldn't have justified the XR at full price.@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
(You would not believe how much of your jeans ends up compressed in such a tiny port.)
My SE seems to be lint free after nearly 2 years although I'm not sure how. It spend 18 months in the same pockets as the 6S.
@topspin said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
And of course, "3d touch" and "hey siri" are disabled)
I had 3D Touch enabled on my 6S but never actually used it. The XR doesn't have it.
Siri is disabled on every Apple device I have - as is OK Google and whatever the Samsung thing is called on my Android devices.
