never again this cable has been one of
the worst parts of living in Apple's Walled Garden ecosystem but thanks to
the European Union Tim Apple has been forced to join the rest of the modern
world and move over to the universally accepted standard
of USBC at least that's the version of events
that the government would have you believe according to Apple this was all
totally of their own volition definitely not because they lost a protracted legal
battle anywho regardless of the reason I
see this as an absolute win but depending which iPhone you buy it
might be more or less of a win you see USBC isn't so much a standard
specification as it is a menu of optional specifications so not every
iPhone or every cable for that matter is going to support the same features we'll
get into that later the bottom line for now though is universal charging is
finally here no matter what device you're using or which Segway I do to our
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USBC they were heavily involved in the development of the standard contributing
over 20 percent of the engineers according to nine to five Mac they were
the first to announce a USBC laptop which was a big deal since it supported
data transfer and charging over a single port and they shipped the first USBC iOS
device the iPad Pro almost five years
ago with support for all kinds of cool things like external storage and
peripherals and high resolution displays and now that's all coming to the iPhone
sort of if you had Apple's iPhone 15 and
Apple watch announcement up on your secondary monitor you might have missed
how they glossed over a teeny tiny detail regarding the switch to USBC
that's right it's goodbye lightning but
hello again to our dear friend USB 2.0
who recently celebrated their 23rd
birthday happy belated buddy so yeah just like
the old lightning cable USBC on the
regular iPhone 15 is stuck at a 2 000
era transfer speed of just 480 megabit
per second it's not unusable if all
you're doing is sending the odd file over the wires but it is pretty outdated
compared to the competition for context Samsung moved their flagships to USB 3
10 years ago and you need to go all the way down to their a series devices to
find anything that's still using USB 2 today
however to Apple's credit if you Pony up
for the iPhone 15 Pro you not only get support for USB 3 but it runs at a
whopping 10 gigabit per second which might not matter for those small file
transfers I talked about before but it could matter for some of the features
that Apple just introduced more on those later
first let's talk about the aspect of USBC that most people are going to care
about charging you get a C2C Cable in
the box so that's good but like many recent mobile products there is no
included wall warts so hopefully you already have one also it should be noted
that both the 15 and the 15 Pro are
still limited to 20 watt charging so if you're the kind of person who just gets
bothered when the capability of a standard is not fully utilized well then
you might prefer the 210 watt charging of a redmi note 12 Explorer but
personally I don't care the fact that I only have to carry around one type of
cable now from my switch my laptop my phone my friend's phone who won't buy
the same kind as me and now we have different colored bubbles it's just such
a relief that I am not going to complain about minor things like charging watts
and besides with Apple's focus on overall platform efficiency their
batteries tend to be smaller than the competition so these new devices should
charge in about an hour now let's talk about the next big thing
performance the all-new a17 Pro
processor is kind of exciting it's built on tsmc's Cutting Edge three nanometer
process and inside it you'll find six
CPU cores six GPU cores and as far as I
can tell an angry tiger that looks ready to absolutely shred any workload you
throw at this thing I mean look at this gentian impact looks great on the iPhone
15 Pro and that's cool but my mind wasn't really blown until they showed
Resident Evil Village and the re4 Remake as far as I can tell running locally on
a Flippin iPhone I mean I just about
wore out my X key seeing how smooth and
beautiful the footage looked given that they didn't do the demo live but if this
is real and reflective of the gaming experience Nintendo's handheld
competition from valve is the least of
their concerns it nuts Hardware accelerated Ray tracing
metal FX upscaling up to a terabyte of
storage 6.1 inch screen with 460 pixels
per inch 1600 nit Peak brightness in HDR Wi-Fi 60 av1 decoding and up to 29 hours
of video playback on battery I mean sure gaming is bound to eat through that
battery life a little bit faster but even with the Hefty price tag of a
thousand dollars for the Base Pro Model considering the weight and the size of
the device and the fact that it does all the other stuff it does and you're going
to be carrying it around with you anyway you guys are going to have to download this video before I delete it but
I think Apple's pricing might actually be justified there is a downside not
many games are built for metal but if Apple's new porting tools do gain
traction that caveat might end up aging like fine milk
just like your old Android devices that are sitting in a drawer with zero modern
software support another thing Apple keeps doing right is supporting older
devices even if it ends up slowing them down a bit and you might not care a
whole lot about the extra performance of this new chip today
I certainly don't as long as my phone's fast enough whatever but in five years
when your iPhone is getting the freshest updates it could make the difference
between feeling the need to upgrade or still feeling completely fine on your
now many generations old device don't get me wrong regardless of how Pro they
are I'm still not thrilled that phones randomly cost over a thousand freaking
dollars now but given the alleged cost of the latest
manufacturing nodes I'm also not that surprised and it's hard to argue that
the value is not there with the a17 pro
at its heart the iPhone 15 Pro is looking like the biggest generational
leap in at least a little while I'm talking spatial video capture that you
can upload to the Apple Vision Pro that might become affordable at some point
the ability to capture prores footage straight out of that high-speed USB port
into an external storage device for easy ingest and video editing the titanium
materials that make it the lightest pro model ever the thinner bezels the
replaceable back glass I mean that's super cool a customizable action button
finally like okay this is kind of sick
guys and up to 5x telephoto zoom on the
pro Max like the gang's all here guys it's a pretty compelling package if
there was ever a generation to skip and a generation to buy it seems like
they're called 14 and 15. even the
non-pro 15 has a lot going for it here I
mean you might hate the lighter colors compared to the more adult Pro Line and
you might be disappointed like I am that it stuck with the last generation a16
bionic chip which come to think of it is
probably the reason that it's also saddled with usb2 but it is still a
formidable performer and it comes with a slew of upgrades like machine learned
voice isolation during your calls A roadside assistance program in
partnership with AAA to flesh out their SOS emergency features a second gen
Ultra wideband chip to help find friends or items in crowded or cluttered spaces
and the cool Dynamic Island feature that hit the iPhone 14 Pro that is now on the
15 and the 15 Pro with some minor improvements they have crammed a lot
into these tiny devices kind of like how we crammed a lot into our new stubby
version of the LTT screwdriver get yours today lttstore.com
speaking of small devices they also talked about the new Apple watch series
9 and Ultra 2. both of them are featuring The S9 system in a package or
sip with 5.6 billion transistors with a
beat that is more transistors and I know this is not an Apples to Apples
comparison but that is more than a GTX 680. and speaking of Graphics it boasts
a 30 faster GPU I don't know if Apple
watches ever necessarily felt like they were too slow but if you consider how
much they're trying to offload to this thing now it might just need all that
processing power Siri requests are now going to be handled locally finding your
iPhone by using your watch has never been easier and the screen has never
been brighter or dimmer for that matter managing to run it anywhere from two or
three thousand nits depending on if you want to pay Lord money or King money for
a watch all the way down to just one the
coolest feature though and one that if we're being realistic is probably going
to start a new trend where people make this gesture when they want people to
shut up is the double tap hand gesture controls that you can use to answer or
end phone calls when you're wearing the watch you just double tap and
you've hung up how cool would it be if that worked in real life someone's like
talking at you while you're trying to focus you're just like
I wanted to do it pretty badly when they showed the cringy mother nature skit to
boast about how carbon neutral they are I mean don't get me wrong I am stoked
for any progress that we can make towards reducing our impact on the
planet but wow that was that was something else to save you from having
to watch it long story short by 2030 they are aiming to be Net Zero across
their entire business but just Apple next time please just tell us that or
better yet tell us that you've also improved your repair ability there were
a few other things uh Better Health features with biking support and
advanced metrics uh name drop on watch OS 10 better ping that iPhone support
automatic homepod connectivity waypoints and precision finding there's a depth
app for diving so if you're a diver that's pretty cool most of this though
is you know hey that's cool but kind of Niche and things that only some of you
will care about and if you do we're gonna have links to the pre-order page
down below they start shipping September 22nd we'll also have some alternative
phone link down below but I gotta say considering everything Apple showed off
today starting to feel like the grass is
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you guys enjoyed this video check out the WWDC coverage that we did earlier
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