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Apple Pre-Event Mega Thread

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

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

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“This is our biggest camera bump yet. We think you’re gonna love it.”
- If it has USB C and a 10x optical zoom I'm almost guaranteed to swap from Android to Apple finally. Google's BS around making ads part of DRM or whatever was the last straw.
  Posted from my Pixel 6 Pro....
  
  If you don't use tap to pay and can muscle your way through documentation, GrapheneOS is easily installable on all relatively current Pixel devices. But yeah, I'm not a fan either and as long as I'm on Android, that might tip me back again to using Graphene instead of stock Android.
- As long as it makes my phone sit even LESS flat than before I’ll accept it.
  
  Can’t wait for fully bendable devices to create a Möbius strip shaped one.

thanks for starting this. first keynote on lemmy lol
is this purely a hardware release? or are we going to get talk of the EU-geolocked sideloading thing
- I would not be surprised if Apple does not mention it, in any keynote, ever.
  
  This sentence was overly hard to parse.
  “I would be surprised if Apple ever mentions this in a keynote. “

Curious to see what they cripple with usbc. And if they’re updating every lightning port product to usbc too. Be interesting if all phones will get the pill/dynamic island treatment. Hope it’s useful and not a gimmick when more apps support it
- Most other Apple products already use USBC and have for a while. It's only the iPhone they've been dragging their feet on.
  
  Except magic mouse, keyboard, trackpad and airpods. Did I miss something?
- I think it will be hilarious to watch them continue forcing their phones to communicate with USB2.0 speeds even after the move to USB-C just so they can push more people to buy overpriced iCloud storage. It will be 2060 and we will still have USB 2.0 on our apple phones.
  
  Most people haven’t transferred data between their iPhone and a computer using a cable in how many years? And USB2.0 isn’t the reason they haven’t. It’s that iCloud syncing is vastly more user friendly and, quiet frankly, effortless.
  I’m actually ok with Thunderbolt speeds being only for the Pro phones. That’s where it makes sense to upcharge for it.
  
  in 2060 the iphone will be the only piece of technology still using USB 2.0, a functioning reminder of the past
  
  I assume that the not pro iPhone will loose it’s port in the next 5 years completely.

Went on a vacation and my wife's 13 got run over by a truck and my 12 pro back glass shattered by falling on concrete. Now I'm fully ready for new phones. Hopefully one of my kidneys is enough.
- Yeah, I hear ya. Both my kids have X’s which are losing support, plus they have a lot of physical damage. Time to upgrade our 13 Pro’s, so the kids can have those ….. depending on just how expensive this is going to be
- Me reading on my iPhone X: people seem to have too much money..
- FYI you can get the back glass of a 12 repaired by a 3rd party for a reasonable price compared to a whole frame swap at the apple store basically.
  Also the 13 board might still work if swapped into another totaled phone, just chuck it up on ebay. Someone will probably buy it as a project.
  
  Shhhhh he wants to spend his money.
  
  I don't know if the 13 board is salvageable. It was in a purse when it was run over, and the button in the purse almost punched through the screen out the back. As for the 12 pro, I'm not looking to replace that. Just changing the case to hide the back. I'll check out about the back replacement. It might at least work for a trade in.
  
  Yeah that’s really unfortunate it’s not fixable…😉😉
- I’m rocking a 12 Pro Max that could use a new battery. But because it’s so big I don’t notice the drop in battery capacity/health. Thinking of maybe updating this year or just getting a new battery put in. Waiting to see what they actually announce.
  An optical zoom at something like 10x might actually do it.

My craziest prediction: iMessage for Android
- That'd be great, but I don't think that's going to happen.
  
  IIRC they openly stated in an interview that iMessage is one of people's greatest incentives to stick to the Apple ecosystem, and they have no plans of shooting themselves in the foot by releasing it on android.
  
  One can still hope. They were already doing small optimizations with the help of Google. And with all the blue bubble talk lately, they might have had another meeting about it.
- Well, that is already possible with tools such as Matrix isn't it?
  
  I heard it has some disadvantages. I don’t use Android, I just want my friends to be able to use iMessage without any hassle.
- Never.
- Lol, after denial of iMessage relevance in EU to be sure do not have to apply to the interoperability law enforced by by EU, I doubt.
- I actually think this is the perfect amount of crazy to work.
- For a fee!
  For a mere $300 a month “iOS on Android” subscription, Android users may have iMessage and message other iOS users as if they were a proper Blue Bubble.

An interesting effect of unifying Mac and iPhone tech is that games ported to Mac need little work to be ported to iPhone.
Getting actual AAA games on iPhone is kinda cool but still seems very impractical. Mostly because if you can afford an iPhone 15 pro you can afford a game console, Mac/PC, etc.
- Controls are definitely the limiting factor at this point. I've tried a few console and PC game ports via Apple Arcade recently, and they all run great but the touch controls are really clunky - especially when they try to emulate analogue sticks.
  It's about time Apple took a stab at a games controller, leaving it to 3rd parties hasn't created enough momentum. An Apple take on a gaming pad would be interesting, especially with some sort of MagSafe iPhone mount. A controller also seems a natural expansion for the Vision Pro.

Did I miss it our did they not announce release dates for iOS 17 etc?
- If you missed it, I missed it too
- I didn’t notice it either. Maybe they don’t know at this point.

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

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

I'm ready for a new iPhone. My XS needs an upgrade!
- Same exact boat here. My xs has served me well but it’s time for an upgrade.

Guys, if you want your youtube channel to blow up right now, talk abou the event, be as clickbaity as you can
"The iPhone 15 is a blast, I can't even look at my 14 Pro Max anymore!"
"The iPhone 15 titanium at $2000, is it worth it?"
"Apple keynote: One more-more thing"
- "DO NOT buy an iPhone 15 before you watch this", thumbnail is a shocking face with mouth wide open, holding an iPhone and the HUGE texts "SHOCKING REVEALS. IS IT WORTH IT???"

Don't really think there'll be much this time around for me to get personally hype about, but it's always fun seeing what they roll out.
- Same. I’m due for a new phone with my three year cycle, but it feels like the updates are becoming less meaningful while being more expensive. I’ll most likely skip this one and maybe even the next one. But we’ll see how it goes.
  
  Yeah between the rumors on a price hike and also the regular pro not getting the periscope zoom like the pro max I’m sitting this one out. Excited for usb c and all but I think I can hold out another year or two.

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

What’s the best place to watch this in VR with other people? Probably a niche question, but it might be fun.
- Probably Big Screen. It's multiplatform and free!
- Hopefully not as niche once Vision Pro comes out :P

I just want to see iOS opening to other app stores

But.. double tap already exists through Accessibility. Or am I missing something?
- It sounds just like Quick Actions, which can already be used separately from the Assistive Touch Accessibility feature…

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

USB 3 support lmao. Such revolutionary tech.

That double tap ad was hilarious
Reminds me of the old wii ads

What’s the event about? More vr headset info?
- Likely the next iPhone. It's all but guaranteed to feature USB C to comply with EU regulations.

Never before have I sern them recycle product cards from the year before. Looks like the Ultra 2 is like the new Apple TV 4K, very small update. Why not just skip a year?

Now the fun game of how do I get a non US model iPhone into the US.
Fuck eSIM. All my homies hate eSIM.
- Same, looking at buying overseas and bringing it back

Many of the posts in here are awfully salty for Apple enthusiasts. lol.
Doesn’t matter though I ordered a 15 pro max (512gb blue) immediately.

Fingers crossed for an M3 MacBook Air!
- No computers in the September events
- Didn’t they JUST upgrade the MacBook airs? I bought my wife one…
  
  Don’t worry it won’t be September. Either end of year or early next year. Even then it’ll likely be the same hardware but with m3, which apparently will be 3nm chips so curious to see the performance/efficiency of that.

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