Current Events > Apple announced iOS 16 and holy shit, is it underwhelming.

(+) Yeah! (+)

• Lock screens can be fully customized with color, font, and placement options, and paralax effects
• iMessages can be unsent and edited, within a specific window of time
• iPadOS now has a dedicated first-party weather app
• New iPadOS multitasking, but it looks like some mid-2000s Linux bullshit and is only available on M1 iPads
• No Man's Sky is coming to Macs, and runs like dog shit

Unsent iMessage is fuckin awesome

no more whoopsies!

It most likely leaves "message unsent" which causes a conversation anyways

Thats easier to explain than some other things

iMessages can be unsent and edited, within a specific window of time

Stop sending dick pics

That iMessage part might destroy many legal case that depend on texts, depending on how it's implemented.

Very good for regular peeps though

I dont know what more I really need from my phone, its pretty good as it is, but the added customization options are neat.

Function > everything

iPods were a lot of fun to use.

It's kinda hard to reach the top of the screen anyway, eh? Album art. Yuck.

Function > everything

How about an always-on display?

That's going to drain your battery incredibly fast.

That's going to drain your battery incredibly fast.

I remember seeing people complaining when Safari on iOS changed to make the address bar on the bottom of the screen because obviously people will complain about any change.

I use two browsers on my iphone, one where the address bar is still on the top, and WOW is being on the bottom a big improvement.

we all know the reason why they push underwhelming stuff like this so they can stop supporting perfectly fine and performing hardware to push people to buy new

They also have a new app (Freeform) where you can open it and just draw stuff like Paint.

I've wanted this forever. I always had to use Notes before.

Maybe but their devices are still supported longer than all androids so this argument doesnt really hold any water

pay

True but it's becoming a weaker argument by the day. Samsung (who basically owns Android at this point) is up to 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of security patches on their flagships. When you get to 5 years, who really cares anymore?

How about an always-on display?

Freeform isn't intended to be an iPad version of MS Paint though.

* Lock screens can be fully customized with color, font, and placement options, and paralax effects
* iMessages can be unsent and edited, within a specific window of time
* iPadOS now has a dedicated first-party weather app
* New iPadOS multitasking, but it looks like some mid-2000s Linux bullshit and is only available on M1 iPads
* No Man's Sky is coming to Macs, and runs like dog shit

Now can it allow me to finally have good lock screen backgrounds?

So why would Apple enable that on a tiny Apple Watch battery but not their smartphones which have much larger capacities?

I was just reading about this. Supposedly they will implement this when they put out phones with OLED displays.

dude get a cat or dog

So why would Apple enable that on a tiny Apple Watch battery but not their smartphones which have much larger capacities?

dude get a cat or dog

But iPhones have had OLED displays since iPhone X right?

Nobody needs their phone display to be on when they aren't using it.

Traditional Watches have expectations to have their display on the whole time.

Series 7 Apple Watch:
-> 41mm: 352430 = 151,360 pixels w/ 284.2 mAh internal battery
compared to iPhone 13/Pro 2,962,440 pixels ~= 19.572x more pixels w/ 11.355x / 10.890x more battery

-> 45mm: 396484 = 191,664 pixels w/ 308.8 mAh internal battery
compared to iPhone Pro Max: 3,566,952 pixels ~= 18.610x more pixels w/ 14.093x more battery

Apple iPhones:
13 /Pro: 25321170 = 2,962,440 pixels with 3,227 mAh / 3095 mAh battery
Pro Max: 27781284 = 3,566,952 pixels with 4,352 mAh battery

The Total # of Pixels needed to be rendered & GPU/CPU/SOC processing demand for driving such few pixels on your Apple Watch is far more reasonable than compared to the full blown iPhone which has significantly more pixels and proportionally smaller batteries. Having to render that many more pixels is more demanding on not only the display's power draw, but also the CPU/GPU/SOC.