And here I am with 256GB that’s never even half full.
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Artificial marketing segmentation by selling obsolete tech taken to bloody extremes. USB 2.0 is an insult
Something people don’t realize is that we enthusiasts that know what usb 2.0 means, make up such a small piece of Apple customers.
Yeah, but it's insane (but not surprising, I called it last year when everyone said that the base model would have 3.0 this year) that a high end expensive phone is still on USB 2.0
Agreed if more people cared it would be fixed.
It’s not like it’s the flagship model. The Pro is the flagship with ProMotion and USB 3.2. The non-Pro and SE are lesser ships in the fleet with lesser features. Same situation as the iPad Pro vs. Air and other models. I am squarely mid-range with my iPhone 13 mini and iPad Air 4, and the only Pro feature tempting me is Face ID on iPad because work authentication through Touch ID feels tedious compared to Face ID on iPhone.
Most budget phones have usb 3.0 these days. Here's 74 phones under $300 with it. Many have had it for a close to a decade already. This is a transparent ploy to force people onto cloud services by making local sync incredibly slow.
Which days are “these days”? If it’s the past couple of years, the number is 13. That’s not most. Going back a decade, 74 out of 1,654 is also not most. Many? Sure. But most phones with USB-C are USB 2.0, and no one cares except people who don’t use iPhones but love to complain about them.
Most people are not going backwards to plug in their phones to backup data. Even those who do backup locally do so over Wi-Fi, which is now faster than USB 3. Fast, wired transfer is absolutely a necessity for professionals moving A/V data. The iPhone Pro is for them. For the rest of us, it’s not something I’d need, even if I was still doing regular local backup these days.
I use iPhones but hate the fact that I pay 3x as much as these phones for a sub par experience. I tried WiFi sync and it was unusable.
USB 2.0? Can't be serious... I thought it had to support USB-C
USB C does have nothing to do with speed. There are lots of USB2.0 USB C devices out there.
It is USB-C, but with USB 2.0 speeds
"Premium". Goddamn.
The only thing bothering me about the 16 is the 60hz. USB 2.0 and 128 GB don't affect me tbh.
The 60hz screen is ridiculous. They need to make the phone WAY cheaper and acknowledge it's mid-tier. But Apple want it both ways - a premium brand charging premium prices and then shovelling bottom-end specs to funnel you to the even-more-expensive models.
I hate the stupidly low base storage, but personally am not impacted due to my usage patterns and having cheap cloud storage so I'm not as passionate with my disdain!
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