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.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
      242·
      1 year ago

      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…

      • eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.netEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          I thought of that and looked through the steps to do it and I’m pretty sure I’m past the age of me wanting to try. There was a day it would have been something I couldn’t wait to do but I’m pretty sure I’m ~10 years past that day.

          • eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.netEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            Kind of? It’s only supported on Pixel devices currently. I think a closer comparison to Cyanogen is LineageOS, since Lineage is literally a fork of Cyanogen after the original maintainers closed up shop. Lineage is more akin to AOSP/the stock Android experience, whereas Graphene has been hardened a bit more than your typical Android release to lend itself to a more privacy-centric experience. Tap to pay and Android auto don’t work on Graphene which broke it for me at the time, but I would consider going back despite that if Topics can’t easily be disabled on Android 13/14.

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve heard that about the browser, and does give me pause. I use Firefox on all my devices these days. But GrapheneOS and the like are beyond my desire to try to make work and maintain.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    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

  • johnthedoe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Powerpoint@lemmy.ca
      8·
      1 year ago

      Most other Apple products already use USBC and have for a while. It’s only the iPhone they’ve been dragging their feet on.

    • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • affiliate@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        in 2060 the iphone will be the only piece of technology still using USB 2.0, a functioning reminder of the past

  • nieceandtows@programming.dev
    142·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      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

    • Tschuuuls@feddit.de
      31·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • nieceandtows@programming.dev
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • nicetriangle@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • fer0n@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • fer0n@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    What’s the best place to watch this in VR with other people? Probably a niche question, but it might be fun.

  • Nogami@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • WuTang @lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    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”
    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
      1·
      1 year ago

      “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???”