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These guys are insane. Every year the bloody product looks great (EDIT: not visually/aesthetically, looks like its got great features) and then the next year it somehow is even better. Satellite connectivity is fantastic. I believe T-mobile is bringing some of that too. If we get satellite backup calling or satellite data in the coming years it will be incredible.

I think I'll wait another year before I upgrade my iPhone 13 but this is great stuff.

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At the end of everyone is a line "this is the best _____ we've ever made". well, duh. it would be insane to make something worse than the previous version.

>it would be insane to make something worse than the previous version

Well, this is the company that brought us the butterfly keyboard.

I think you could sell people on a 50% worse product if it cost 1% the price.

>Every year the bloody product looks great and then the next year it somehow is even better

It's literally the same design since the iphone 11.

You need to see them side by side to notice the difference but any other user won't be able to tell at a glace that you own the 15 and not an older model.

15 is more rounded.

The memes will be great on how apple's designers opened last year's CAD files, changed the radius of the corners and called it a day, and can kick back till next year while being paid boatloads.

It's not, but the improvements have been extremely incremental. The internals of the 14 were redesigned for better repariability, and the 14 pro model moved the camera into the middle of the screen.

It litterly is, to the untrained eye, unless you comapare them side by side.

A comment that deserves to be framed.

Things look the same when you don't look for the differences. Brilliant.

> satellite backup calling or satellite data

Given the way those antennas work I doubt that. From what I understand they did some neat tricks to send very simple signals for the SOS stuff in the absence of that.

I can believe that. Perhaps network carriers will just place Starlink terminals with solar cells everywhere. Not having to do fiber or have sufficient connectivity in a mesh might make the whole thing fantastic!

I'm in the same boat. I was planning on upgrading my iPhone 13, but TBH it's pretty much in perfect shape so it feels wasteful.

Honestly if it weren't for the USB-C I'd probably just keep on keeping on; but this might be the time to jump from the Xs.

Yeah, it feels like it's perfect as a phone. I absolutely love it. I'm actually quite surprised that they take what I think as a perfect product and still add stuff to it. Very impressed by Apple in every way. Great product. Great engineering.

Somehow they always dodge the reverse Osborne effect, haha!

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