you know i thought it might have been the only one who noticed at least until
i read this comment on mac rumors from user roman empire but
while i was watching the september 2018 keynote i was blown away that even
apple's own executives who need i remind you managed to muster at least some
excitement about the iphone 5c just didn't seem to care about their
newest and shiniest flagships why didn't they care
what could compel someone to upgrade their existing iphone x what are the
selling points here what could compel someone to upgrade even an iphone 7 for
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i actually almost bailed on this video entirely in favor of a totally different
concept where i walked around like men on the street style and pretended to
show people the latest new iphone except it was actually just going to be
an iphone 10 because honestly even i a a
tech nerd would need to install ida or
check the model number or the storage capacity of one of the new 512 gig
models to know that it's a 2018 model year unless it was gold that's that's
the one new thing this year a gold color so the truth is i've actually spent the
last couple of weeks using the iphone 10s max as my everyday phone and i've
been struggling to find anything to say about this thing that
isn't a list of petty complaints many of which i've given up any hope that apple
will even fix and i'm just i'm having a
really hard time so i guess all we can do is get into it almost immediately
after opening the box i began missing my samsung galaxy note 9. it's got a bigger
screen it's got a more subtle rounding of the corners meaning you get more
usable screen real estate and oh right when i slid out the sim tray no
expandable storage still and not even dual sim on this model now i talked
about this in my note 9 review but the remarkable thing about that phone
is the zero compromises nature of it it's big
and it's expensive but other than a lackluster commitment
to software support which is something samsung really does need to address it
gives up nothing by contrast on my over thousand dollar
new iphone i haven't even installed my first app and i find myself reaching for
my stupid headphone dongle the one i already had mind you because they don't
even include one in the box anymore and i'm staring at what well at first looked
like a massive notch by late 2018 standards at least that is until google
released the pixel 3 xl and the game
changed somewhat that's neither here nor there while i'm whining
i really really hate the name of the iphone 10s for those of you who
are wondering the last time apple used roman numerals in its product naming
scheme was 1994 and they never went
higher than three why would that be well because it's
confusing almost no one that i know in the
mainstream refers to the iphone 10 as anything other than the iphone x and
look apple if you're gonna do something stupid like this do it properly has
anyone out there tried to type iphone 10s
on their iphone this is a perfect example of apple's
utter failure to keep pace with the auto correcting and predictive typing
capabilities of microsoft swiftkey and google's g board
as for dictation well i didn't have much more luck there either
i mean siri can at least do basic things like turn on the flashlight for me now
but alexa and google assistant as flawed as they are too are making
siri look utterly incompetent these days i mean do you guys remember when apple
was way ahead of the game in the ai assistant race because i remember
making matters worse apple's design for the iphone 10s you know
that thing that they are so far up their own butts about that they literally made
a 300 book dedicated to their own greatness
it's looking dated already the iphone 6
look went basically unchanged for four generations or three and a half
depending on how you count it and it didn't really look out of style until
the third or the fourth when samsung launched the galaxy s8 and the s8 plus
that is how far ahead apple was
that recently the iphone 10s already looks
unexceptional at best with how fast display technology is moving right now
and a big part of that is the thicker bezels on the sides and the notch on the
top the other alarming thing here is that
apple is not only failing to lead in terms of design trends they're becoming
a follower and a slow one at that when it comes to wider industry trends so
think back first apple failed to take the lead on
the trend of having two different sizes for each flagship generation
then inexplicably even after fixing that
problem with the six and the six plus
they managed to miss participating in the large phablet-sized category for an
entire generation of product last year
how is it that there was no iphone 10 max
with all of the resources and employees that apple has at their disposal to make
at most three phones per year
it really raises the question what were they doing
was it a strategy thing was it not quite ready for the september
keynote so just i don't know wait a year and
get it on the next one there's a difference between attention to detail
and striving for perfection and just being inflexible and obstinate
on that subject it turns out that i still hate the lack of a back button on
iOS the swipe right across gesture
does work and it's better than the old way of reaching up to the very top left
of the display but the issue is that much like when we were still reaching up
to the top left and apple all of a sudden started making bigger screen
phones apple's hardware is getting ahead of its software again so the back
gesture requires a really clear swipe
from the edge which is hard to execute with small hands on such a big phone now
it's far less of an issue on the iphone 10s than it is on the max but this is
the one i spent most of my time with primarily because it was less jarring
moving to it from the note 9 and then also because i found the display notch
far less distracting with the increase in overall screen real estate back to
the notch though one good thing is that it still gives apple room for face id
which faster face id by the way is one of the few headline features of this new
phone but then it also serves as yet another
example of something where apple is letting others take their feature their
idea and innovate on it and even improve it
so the oppo find x lets you swipe anywhere on the screen rather than only
at the bottom to activate its face id copycat
apple doesn't allow you to do this and instead it forces you to swipe from the
bottom which is a little tougher ergonomically especially when you're
holding such a large and heavy phone and often requires you to shift your hand
down i guarantee you that someone has already dropped a 10s max because of
this now i do need to derail the rant train a
little bit here for an in fairness to apple segment
Android fans have always loved pointing
out how wrecked apple got by their favorite device du jour having that same
feature or a better one while conveniently ignoring that there's
typically been no single device on the Android side that brings it all together
in the way that apple does so to be clear i am not recommending the
findex over the iphone 10s or even the iphone 10 or even the iphone 8 for that
matter but Android fans also never had the note 9
to point to before now you're probably noticing by this point in the video that
i've brought up the note 9 a lot normally i try to limit my galaxy note 9
mentions to one to two per video as much as i love it and the reason for that is
the price the galaxy note 9 is an unfair
comparison for the vast majority of other devices on the market
unfortunately for apple they give up any leeway that they might have had
otherwise when they command the highest price of any mainstream smartphone
though to be clear i'm glad that they're at least offering a 512 gig option even
if it costs 1500 us dollars so then the iphone has traditionally set
itself apart in the camera department how's that going honestly not too bad
apple's color science continues to stand out from anyone but google but i still
have some frustrations starting with apple's assumption that every power user
will use a third party app i mean i get that the included one is supposed to be
one touch dead simple any idiot can do it
but then if that's the case why do you guys keep cluttering it up there are so
many modes they don't even all fit on the screen anymore including the
incredibly unnecessary square and if we're gonna have all these buttons why
not add some of the customization that people are asking for most of the
complaints i've seen about this phone are actually about the selfie camera and
the uh the smoothing and processing that's being done by it that doesn't
appear even now to be possible to turn off
with that said though my worst experience was actually in portrait mode
it managed to do everything from this astonishing background removal on a
moving target down to this atrocity where it managed to add a couple of
extra teeth to my daughter's smile now these kinds of heavy processing
techniques have long been included on competitors devices with major ones like
samsung even enabling them by default but one difference is that they tend to
be more transparent and they tend to
allow more configuration of the processing so why was the response to
turn it to 11 and lock it there and why not record an unaltered version of the
image for safety is this just the
apple knows what's best for you mentality hopefully by the time i post this video
apple will have patched themselves out of this mess overall the camera in the normal mode
the one that i always use it in and ignoring dxomark and all that kind of
stuff just using it day-to-day to capture the moments that mean something
to me met my expectations let's move on
to a couple more apple knows best frustrations
if you capture a screenshot of something you can only share to apps that apple
expects now this is better than locking you down to first party options but a notable
omission that made my life more inconvenient for the last couple of weeks is the facebook pages manager
now i'll work around the first time that i did this was for me to save the
screenshot locally but then this was another apple knows best thing so what i
realized is that there's no way to manually select your photos folder when
you want to save a screenshot you actually just have to
exit the screenshot and then confirm that you want to keep it and it'll
automatically go to your photos folder like i mean i get that this is
intuitive but why remove the option from the other
way it's this kind of thing that always has and probably always will irk me about
the iphone one thing that they did fix this time
around is notification management though so huge gold star there it is super easy
to access grouped messages and emails and you can dismiss your whole backlog
in one fell swoop just oh beautiful awesome there you go and
there's more good news mostly good news so i'm a lot more used to gesture-based
navigation now from playing around with it on a couple of Android phones
actually including the oneplus 6 and you know what gesture navigation is
fine but it's not entirely without issue and
not everyone will necessarily prefer it and actually this one is a criticism of
both samsung and apple buttons or gestures you know what it's
2018. they're both good i would like to have a choice and i think you guys can
both do better which i guess brings us perfectly back to annoyances so uh this
whole video is actually getting kind of exhausting maybe we won't go for much
longer um all right here we go
you still can't hard press your wi-fi icon in order to get to your wi-fi
settings you have to do it the long way the upgrade still can't have gaps
forcing you to make big piles of useless crap in the top of your screen to put
your most frequently used stuff at the bottom where it all belongs there is
still no t9 dialing
i don't understand why that's so hard and
a year freaking later a year after the
launch of the iphone 10 the notch still gets in the way occasionally like right
here in the twitter app where i actually had a heck of a time targeting the
handful of pixels that i needed to hit in order to switch to my personal
account what i can only hope for is that maybe this is an indication that this
notch design language will be short-lived
so i think that's pretty much it
so let's close this video out with the craziest part
almost everything that i just said for the last 12 or 13 minutes or whatever
has been common knowledge to people who pay attention to the iphone for a year
so the iphone 10s it's boring it risks
nothing but people bought the crap out of the last one so
i guess if it ain't broke don't fix it enjoy your iphones everyone
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you know i was really looking forward to going back to the note 9 but then like
all these phones started showing up razer phone 2 the rog phone pixel 3.
like i'm not going to get back to the note 9 for like two months