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The iPhone is stagnating really badly. This is yet another generation of overpriced, oversized, and overpowered glass slabs that bring nothing new of substance to the table. If anything, the interesting stuff is in iOS18 but that’s not saying much because iOS is kneecapped by its own limitations.
I got a 14 pro on sale a while ago and it’s simultaneously vastly overpowered for what I use it for and also frustratingly useless. All of that horsepower and tech… just sitting there doing nothing 97% of the time. It has 1tb of storage which is almost completely empty because you can’t use iPhones as storage. You can’t even drag-n-drop music onto them. I use an LG phone as my music player because it has both a headphone jack and allows me to simply drop my FLAC albums onto it.
Maybe get an android, seems crazy that you would csrry both in this day and age.
Agree on the stagnation, that has been clear for a bit now, they need to stop the showcases it is embarrasing to list colours as some laudable new feature.
I switched to iPhone for the stability when Google refused to acknowledge or immediately fix 911 dialer bugs including that Teams one. If your phone can’t dial 911 it’s useless
I’m curious - if you want to listen high quality audio, why not get an actual audio player for that? Surely the DAC in some random android phone can’t be that good?
Also, the 1TB version is really only meant so they are actually somewhat usable for recording proRes or taking pictures in RAW
The OG iPod style drag and drop for music still works.
Moreover, there are quite a few apps out there allow you to use an iPhone as an external storage device. Unfortunately, you need to do it over WiFi. USB only works for photos, videos, and music as I recall.
The iPhone is stagnating really badly. This is yet another generation of overpriced, oversized, and overpowered glass slabs that bring nothing new of substance to the table. If anything, the interesting stuff is in iOS18 but that’s not saying much because iOS is kneecapped by its own limitations.
I got a 14 pro on sale a while ago and it’s simultaneously vastly overpowered for what I use it for and also frustratingly useless. All of that horsepower and tech… just sitting there doing nothing 97% of the time. It has 1tb of storage which is almost completely empty because you can’t use iPhones as storage. You can’t even drag-n-drop music onto them. I use an LG phone as my music player because it has both a headphone jack and allows me to simply drop my FLAC albums onto it.
Maybe get an android, seems crazy that you would csrry both in this day and age.
Agree on the stagnation, that has been clear for a bit now, they need to stop the showcases it is embarrasing to list colours as some laudable new feature.
I likely will when my contract expires. But for now it is what I have.
I switched to iPhone for the stability when Google refused to acknowledge or immediately fix 911 dialer bugs including that Teams one. If your phone can’t dial 911 it’s useless
I’m curious - if you want to listen high quality audio, why not get an actual audio player for that? Surely the DAC in some random android phone can’t be that good?
Also, the 1TB version is really only meant so they are actually somewhat usable for recording proRes or taking pictures in RAW
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The OG iPod style drag and drop for music still works.
Moreover, there are quite a few apps out there allow you to use an iPhone as an external storage device. Unfortunately, you need to do it over WiFi. USB only works for photos, videos, and music as I recall.