The Apple thread

Finally Apple Fitness+ will be available in more countries. Only took them a year to add subtitles!

Hope the GF will be able to use it on Apple TV without an Apple Watch...

It is a first gen Apple product, tho, so you have to expect a little self destruction.

As I drowned my iPhone X a few weeks ago I'll be all over a 13 Pro in Blue.

I'd really like an iPhone mini, shame they had to limit the 120Hz feature to the Pros.

I guess I'll stick with my X, wait if next year's model (no mini anymore it is rumoured) will be so good that I want the new one, and if not, buy yesterday's mini then.

The GF has my old iPad Pro 10.5" from 2017. Still holds up well, snappy. She does the same things except poker.
It would still serve me well TBH, if I hadn't had the itch for a new one with the Magic Keyboard.

I can’t help but feel Apple are running out of ideas. More Power and a bit better camera and screen just feels like the 13 is a stop gap release. I’m still using my trusty old XR which does all the same stuff… and the real bonus is paying only £7 a month for my SIM only contract.

I like a new bit of technology as much as anyone, but seriously - Why upgrade?

Its also a bit of a double edged sword for them. I have seen a ton of 'meh, I'll just keep my iPhone [whatever]' and the thing is, yeah, you can. No problem.

The girl is rolling with an iPhone 7 and hassling me to upgrade so she can have my 11 but a) I dont really need to and b) the 7 is actually fine. She wants a bigger screen and better camera but other than that, she could get another year out of it easily which would make it a six year phone.

Small, incremental updates have always been Apple's thing. Each year a bit better. But that bit gets progressively smaller as the product category matures. Apple Watch has reached that point already. They can throw in some new health monitoring hardware, OK. They could increase battery life, but unless its 5x what it is today, it won't really matter.

I'd like to get an iPhone mini. But what exactly will that get me compared to my current iPhone X, really? It's a bit smaller and lighter, and I'm interested in a MagSafe wallet. The latter could turn out to be something I use for a few weeks and then not use anymore. It would be even worse if I didn't want to get a smaller phone. What real-world improvement would an iPhone 13 (Pro) bring, except for the camera, which I'm not a power user of?

I’ll be all over the iPad mini very soon. Mine is 10(!) yo and I still use it sparingly for magazines and books.

To be fair, it's only two biometric authentification methods. The fingerprint sensor is simply in a different place in the iPad than in the iPad Air/mini.

Yeah the android stuff is only for the stuff that you can't get on windows though. It's really just a shitty small pc that will do the basics instead of a shiny tablet that looks pretty and only does what uncle Apple says it can.

I don’t think it takes too much imagination to understand why someone would use something paperback sized over phone sized for things like media consumption, casual browsing etc. Or why bigger sized tablets are becoming decent productivity devices in their own right, I think an iPad Pro is now the defacto device for digital artists and photographers and is picking up a lot of steam in music production.

Depends on what phone size you use. Compared to the standard iPhone model, an iPad mini has 2.5x the screen area. Even compared to an iPhone Max it's still nearly twice the screen real estate, and compared to an iPhone mini it's nearly 3x.

Sure there are even bigger Androids. But for people who want their smartphone to be small (iPhone mini size), a tablet makes perfect sense for reading, surfing the web, watching videos in bed etc.

I’m in for two new standard iPads for my young boys this year. Their current ones are 2013 models that have done the job but are both cracked and smashed up (we were given them years ago). I figure if new ones last 4 or 5 years they’ve been worth the money.