iPhone 15 is out now. Would you buy one?

[aeric]

Yesterday I accompanied my fiancée to an Apple authorized dealer to buy iPhone 13 for her work use.
Shame on Samsung, due to the A23 model she bought last year has problem to update to the latest security patch and her company IT support couldn't solve it, she need to get an iPhone because she need to use the Microsoft Teams and Outlook which are managed by inTune.

 

[ilan]

Which feature(s) you love?
Design or all?

my main phone was iphone 11 so there are many improvements when switching to iphone 15 from iphone 11.

- Battery life much better
- Screen brightness/Resolution much better
- Camera has been improved a lot
- better GPU and CPU
- faster charging
- dynamic island is really cool
- speakers are much louder


i had thought to buy a One Plus or Samsung phone (so get back to android) but at the end i bought the iphone because i also have an apple watch and airpods pro so switching to android means i need to buy a new watch and headphones. a college bought few days ago the Samsung S23 Ultra and i can tell you in my opinion the iphone has better performance. the S23 Ultra is also a good phone but again iphone runs smoother in my opinion.

 

[yiankos1]

I will keep my Pixel 7 Pro! The speed, camera, and screen are out of this world. At the end of the day, that's all that matters.

 

[Sagenut]

In my opinion the main advantage of apple is that they develop both the hardware and the OS.
Because of this they can achieve better performances even with lower hardware, as they can take out the 100% of everything.
Android brands instead try to adapt a bit on a already defined base.
And if they introduce some new hardware maybe they are not able to take out all from it.
I think that Huawei can be a second apple with they Harmony OS.
And it looks that many brands are on the way fo doing their own OS.
But all based on Android, so we will see what it happens.
Having all the brands with a bit different ecosystems could cause some compatibility problems.
Today the best solution probably would be to choose between Pixel or iPhone.
But this option is not suitable for every wallet.

 

[ilan]

Today the best solution probably would be to choose between Pixel or iPhone.

?

 

[johndb]

I upgraded my Pixel 4XL to the new Pixel 8 Pro and couldn't be happier. I am not an Apple fan so the new Apple phone isn't an option for me
I do respect Apple user's for staying with the Apple infrastructure though. As the saying goes "You do You!".

 

[Tecuma]

iPhone 15 (Pro) is not a choice for me. Since the idea from Apple about CSAM technologies I lost trust into Apple and reduce investment in their products.

My main phone is a Pixel 4a (5G) with GrapheneOS. I have a iPhone 13 mini as some kind of backup. Both can be used for development purposes for the type of apps I plan to make.

As the Pixel 4a (5G) runs out of support I decided to get a Pixel 8 Pro. Beside the usage of GrapheneOS, 7 years of updates was the reason to buy this device.

 

[KMatle]

Nah, too expensive for what you get. I have a Xiaomi 10T Pro which was arround 400€ two years ago. 8 GB RAM + 256 GB.

 

[Tecuma]

Nah, too expensive for what you get. I have a Xiaomi 10T Pro which was arround 400€ two years ago. 8 GB RAM + 256 GB.

Yes, Pixel phones are expensive. But currently they are the only devices which are supported by GrapheneOS. You have very fast updates of Android. You have pure Android with no additional UI from a manufacturer.

But of course these are my topics for a buyer decision. Everyone has his own topics to make a decision to by a device. I am grateful that I have the money to buy such a device.

 

[MrKim]

My iPhone 6 works just fine. It is my Taiwan phone # phone. Battery life is amazing. Bought Used, 5 years ago, $100 US and the battery life is amazing. But my daily driver is a pixel 6 because I dropped and cracked the screen on my pixel (2?) and the battery was going anyway.

I read an interesting article recently.
Talked about the history of the Automobile.
From circa 1900 to 1950 the name of the game in America was getting everybody A CAR.
By 1950 everybody who wanted/needed a car had one.
So what do you do to keep sales going? The answer was new colors every year, more chrome, less chrome, power windows, power seats, radios, heaters, air conditioners, bigger motors - ad infinitum...
In other words add stems and seeds that you don't need to drive sales. Get people to turn in a perfectly good car so they had this years paint scheme.

Then the author threw in the sucker punch. He noted that this is pretty much the position that Apple is in today. New "cool" colors and more mega pixels that are, in reality useless. This to get people to dump a perfectly good phone for something "NEW AND IMPROVED!!"

While I have never bought in to this schtick - I am a "does this offer me anything I need?" kinda guy.

It did make me start to take a whole different view of the articles on new phones. I started seeing the carefully orchestrated nature of these articles, ("The Crazy New Feature In The NEW Blogospehere 2000 Phone that I Just Can't Live Without!!!") no doubt in some way strongly influenced by Apple/Android/Google $$ in some way shape of form. ("Hey, this guy says really good things about us! We should advertise on his blog. Maybe hire him to write some stuff for us.")

Mostly I buy new stuff because they @#$@$ change stuff and I need to test my code on new devices. I buy Pixels because they run unadulterated Android - gold standard for testing.

The funny thing is I got into computers 40+ YA because everything else I got bored after 6 months but computers changed every 6 months and I loved the challenge. Now I'm like oh #$%#$ not another effing upgrade.

 

[omarruben]

I got my Iphone XR(used one, back cracked but fully functional) 2 weeks ago , for $100 from Craigslist.... more than enough to create and test apps ... so do I want to expend $1000 for a new one??? no thank you. I prefer to pay B4i license and pay the fee for Apple Developer.