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i spent the last three weeks exclusively using the iphone 11 pro max apple watch
series 5 and the second gen airpods to immerse myself in
the ecosystem as much as i could
and i was constantly frustrated by the clear and obvious problems that apple
has had years to fix and just hasn't bothered with
however for the Android fans that are foaming at the mouth right now about a 10 minute
hate speech about how bad apple is you guys can chillax because there's lots of
good stuff here too along with some strange stuff like
what is so pro about a phone
so it's with this question in mind that our journey begins
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so the setup process was awesome as usual apple finally dropped the sim
requirement to activate your new device and they moved iOS 13's new dark mode
front and center on the setup screen now some third-party apps don't respect
that setting but otherwise it's great and i never switched it off again and
there's a lot of other smaller things that add up too stuff you might not
notice at first but when you do you'll wonder how you lived without it like
offline dictation which i immediately enabled when i saw it and i also enjoyed
that siri's voice responses sound more natural than ever before tell me a bad
joke i was so late to the cannibal banquet
they just gave me the cold shoulder wow that one was good hard pressing
wi-fi in the control center now gives you a list of
nearby access points which makes all the sense in the world and
what about the fact that you can attach a photo to a reminder that's freaking
awesome actually the new reminders app overall just makes Android's handling of
reminders look stupid unlike Android you
can set any ringtone you want even a longer
ringtone style one that won't shut up until you deal with it for stuff that oh
i don't know you might actually want to notice and be reminded about
anyone else notice the reminder from my uh Android phone
no me neither also managing your tasks
is straightforward with easy ways to both mark completed and delete outright
and my only complaint about it is that reminders can be easily swiped away with
no way to restore them and so parents who lend their phones to their kids will
know why this could be a problem another nice to have is that apple now provides
what looks like a way more accurate set of battery stats than their competition
and even made it easier to replace the battery with convenient pull tabs that
contributed to ifixit's six repairability score so
good job apple is what i would say if they hadn't
gone and added drm to their batteries at the same time as saying that they
consider them to be consumable
guys it's called right to repair for a reason
not privilege to repair which i guess brings me to some of the
low points of iOS 13 for me compared to previous versions apps are prompting me
constantly on privacy and security permissions this used to be an Android
problem not an apple problem and there are a lot of other little
things that they've had generations to fix now i will complain about the lack
of t9 dialing on the iphone until i am
old and gray and the fact that your home screen always ends up looking like that
one relative's desktop you've just got everything on there
why is it all there furthermore i still need to swipe from the very bottom to
fully unlock the phone and the frosted glass back can make large hand shifts
like the one to get down there and then back up here very dangerous
why don't they just use haptic touch to scroll through notifications and then a
flick to unlock or vice versa also
carplay is still bad even compared to the
horrendous recent Android auto update navigate to subway
siri has this major delay between activation and when she actually starts
listening apple maps needs manual input for most navigation and when i dared go
outside the ecosystem with my google play music subscription i only got music
playing about half the time and then never with the screen actually working
so i could see what drak was playing though in fairness google should
probably be shouldering some of the blame here and actually i guess it's
kind of an aside but i need to get this out of my system both
apple and google need to grow the
up and start treating the users of another platform as what they are
you're paying customers i'm not the only one complaining about
this google play music issue on the iphone and it has been
months and this childish app kneecapping even
carries over to the apple watch where you still
straight up cannot interact with a gmail
message seriously
your multi-billion dollar companies put your heads together and figure out
how i can scroll through as much of the email as i damn well please then
market red if it's not important i've said this before but here it comes again
i am your customer and i am one of many
people out there who pays for your service but might not always use your
operating system as for the apple watch itself i actually love the hardware it finally
has an always-on display making it the first apple smart bracelet that also
functions as a competent watch wow dictation is great but with a great
big asterisk there's no way to make quick corrections you need to press the
digital crown to cancel and try again from scratch so if whatever you're
trying to say is kind of jargony or full of acronyms then good freaking luck
honestly the thing is full of these kinds of simple user experience gotchas
siri can't understand how to mute my notifications so i have to do that
manually hey siri mute my notifications
to see your notifications swipe down from the top of your apple watch face
longer emails often cut off after the first paragraph which misses the point
of a smartwatch entirely for me and some apps have no way to click through and
then throw the app up on your phone even if they do give you full read and reply
function i mean how is this still acceptable to apple how is this still
acceptable to apple's users why am i dictating to this right now
stop it just feels like apple is backwards in
a lot of ways here and the one way where that's a good thing is that the apple
watch is actually the only place where 3d touch still exists on a current
generation apple device uh 3d touch was one of my favorite
features that apple introduced with the iphone 6s unfortunately it wasn't a 6s
i guess so they killed it i had said before that
was a hard press on the wi-fi thing no it's just a fakeo hard press it's a long
press that buzzes so
the 10 hour didn't have it and now the entire 11 series pro included dropped it
and i'm really sad i really wanted it to take off but instead we're left with
haptic touch which is just long pressing with a nice vibration
it's only a little bit slower but i do still miss it for what it's worth they
did make good use of its removal the 11 pro's battery is a full 0.65 millimeters
thicker than before and only 0.4 millimeters of that is from thickening
the phone out right actually maybe apple has been listening to me all along
in a backhanded sort of way and what that culminates in is a worst-case
scenario of over six hours and 20
minutes for the pro in geekbench forest battery life with the pro max even
better than that and that's that half screen brightness not bad at all
as for the rest of the guts there are a lot of adhesive seals
yeah but that's kind of par for the course for a phone that is rated for
such an impressive to the point of honestly being kind of overkill level of
ingress protection four meters of water is deeper than most
swimming pools go so you would have a hard time killing this phone with
submersion alone and if something did die virtually everything inside the
phone is a detachable module even the face id sensor and selfie camera are
separate from the display in case you need to replace that someday which you
might because the screen on mine scuffed the first time i put it in my pocket
with nothing else in it the front and back glass may have proven to be every
bit as shatter resistant as apple says but the hardness at least from my
experience doesn't seem to have followed suit so i would recommend a case
and a screen protector because guys you do not want to break this thing
dumb super retina display xdr
name aside the screen really is great
not only is it incredibly sharp and bright at any given time thanks to its
sustained brightness of 800 nits it can
even hit 1200 nits while viewing HDR photos and videos that is a 20 higher
brightness than even most high-end monitors and tvs and get this the
display HDR spec only actually calls for
500 nits on true black displays like
this amoled one to put it in a mobile perspective it's nearly double what the
iphone 10s max and most competitors are capable of so it's great for showing off
those next-gen smart HDR photos that you can take with the three rear cameras
did i mention it looks great from any angle love this thing all right cameras yes
cameras plural i'm starting a movement where we don't call these lenses anymore
because that isn't what they are it's like me like jumping from my minivan
over to my motorbike and saying i'm changing my tires slow fees are
irrelevant i hope but the front-facing camera is a lot better than previous
generations and i am all for that the stock camera app while still lacking
professional shooting modes even on the pro models is still very simple very
usable and they've added a bunch of features including a much more mature
edit mode in the photos app and and samsung i hope you're taking notes they
added the ability to quickly capture video while you are in photo capture
mode this is such a useful feature and i
can't even begin to imagine through what convoluted process samsung managed to
pioneer it only to abandon it later and
then let apple take the lead i guess i'm just glad to see it coming
back because once apple does it everyone's gonna have to do it when shooting photos apple's new semantic
rendering engine makes extensive use of the a13's bionic machine learning
accelerator to quickly identify what's in the image and optimize for it it
works in two parts the first is similar to traditional HDR and that's a buffer
of underexposed frames which is used to reconstruct detail in bright areas and
then a single overexposed frame that's taken for reconstructing darker areas
then the engine scans for things it recognizes the sky gets denoised while
hair is sharpened and faces are given subtler highlights and shadow processing
from the previous step to retain a more striking true-to-life effect this is
also how apple manages to pull off their high key light mono portrait effect
lttstorm.com by the way all of this has helped even further by a
combination of optical image stabilization and software image
stabilization that makes for a ridiculously
stable shot both while shooting stills
and obviously it's especially noticeable while shooting video the ultra wide
camera doesn't get ois but with that wide of an angle it's pretty tough to
notice just like it's tough to notice any significant difference in image
quality between the three cameras they all look great as we saw in our non-pro
iphone 11 review though not everything is perfect and compared to the likes of
the pixel line results can sometimes be below par in terms of clarity and color
accuracy but i don't think anyone's going to
complain about the image quality overall here what i'll complain about is that in
spite of all the good in the cameras the hype train made it seem as though you
could switch between them seamlessly and there is definitely a delay when you do
it i mean it's not a huge deal like being able to do it with a delay is
better than not being able to do it at all but well apple didn't exactly go out of
their way to temper expectations during their demos and zooming isn't as smooth
as i was expecting and i guess that's really what this all boils down to
expectations there are so many things
that are missing that would lend the iphone 11 pro some
pro street cred like a high refresh rate display usb type c bi-directional
wireless charging professional shooting modes a high quality analog output or a
reduced or removed notch but if we take a step back from
telephoto and have a look at the ultra wide picture
the whole thing comes together in a way that's still really positive
even if i think it costs more than it should and
everyone should just buy the iphone 11 non-pro so
stupid name stupid camera bump and decidedly last
generation looking display notch but it's the most premium iphone experience
and long gone is the time when iOS versus Android is some kind of black and
white this one is better decision and anyone who says otherwise is frankly a
pathetic fanboy now to be clear i've preferred Android for quite some time
now and as of filming this i'm already back enjoying the widely varied
if sometimes buggy hardware ecosystem on the Android side of things this time in
the form of the galaxy fold review to come by the way subscribe so you don't
miss it but i actually plan to keep wearing the apple watch if for no reason other than
to make a point about the deplorable state of Android smart watches so thanks
for watching guys check out our 10 ways iOS is better and are 10 ways Android is
better videos for more of my thoughts on the two ecosystems as a whole massive
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