– They removed the chargingblock and the headphones, then decided they neededto raise the cost $30 and still have the startingmemory at 64 gigabytes. What hands? And I’ll actually pointout they parent it by $130. I’m Rene Ritchie. And you had questionsabout the iPhone 12 event. You craved reacts, you required the truth and I’m here to handle that for you. And as always representatives overat patrion.com/ reneritchie have Q& A priority. That’s just how it wreaks. But if your question didn’t get answered and you have more questions or follow up really thumped the agree button and buzzer, so that you can be notifiedwhen brand-new videos go live and I’ll hang with youfor the first hour or so.And we can chat. Cool? Let’s do this. No 120 refresh rate, why? Why 5G instead of 120 Hertz? Why Dolby Vision instead of 120 Hertz? I didn’t ask for Dolby Vision? Why can every other phone justdo this and not the iPhone? Why precisely, why? RedLetterMedia style, why. My guess is that simply because, there is not enough capacitynot enough yield more for LTPO OLED committees. Those are the ones thatSamsung is using in the memorandum 20 and they accept adaptive freshen same to what Apple has donefor years with the iPad Pro. When Apple went oxide into the LCD exposes for the iPad is when they were able to do adaptive freshen there. And what they’ve been using for a couple of yearsnow on the Apple Watch. And again, that’s becausethose flaunts went into LTPO and they use the variable refresh there to go from 60 to one forthe always-on display.On the iPad pro they useit to go from 60 to 120 for things like scrollingand Apple pencil. And too to go down to 48 Hertz or 24 Hertz to do things like reveal 24 chassis per second movies or to keep battery power. And that’s really what Apple wants to do. They don’t wanna have 120 Hertz, they wanna have adaptive refresh rate so they can drive it ateverything from 24 to 120. And based on the panels thatApple is believed to be using which are similar to the Galaxy S2 0 not the memorandum 20 bodies, that’s just not possible yet. And if you can’t do the adaptive side you have to make a bunch of trade-offs which is how other fellowships are doing it. Either they switcheddown to lower resolution and the government has scalersof questionable excellence, or their shade managementgoes out the window and you can literally seethe grey degree varying as the refresh pace mutates. And I think that’s probablyjust a agreement breaker for Apple. So again, my guess is we’ll get this as soon as Apple gets those bodies, which is probably next year.And they just decided to do it right instead of doing it right now. “Why no 8K video recording on the iPhone? Who to be concerned about Dolby Vision, give us 8K other phones aregiving us 8K, why isn’t Apple.” This is actually super interesting because I would have liked 8K, only because , not a lot ofpeople can display 8K more, but when you’re editingvideo, you can punch in to 4K. You can go and scan around in announce. So it time gives you a lotmore options in editing. But Apple is stickingwith 12 megapixel sensors. They haven’t gone to these huge, 48 or 108 megapixel sensors. So they’re limited to those 16 megapixels. And I think you need atleast 33 or more for 8K. So Apple is staying tothe quality of the 4K instead of the quantity of the 8K. And they’re doing DolbyVision for the same rationale. And I remember a number of years ago when I went to WWDC, Bob Borchers who really went back to Apple you attended him in the home pod mini segment of the contest earlier this week.He was Adobe back then and I got to go there when they were introducing Dolby Vision. And they gave us this demo with “The Last Jedi, Star Wars” trailer. Where they depicted it to us in 4K and then they showedit to us in 1080P HDR, high-pitched dynamic stray employing Dolby Vision and the Dolby Vision the HDR version precisely blew the 4K explanation out the ocean because after you get to a certain point the pixel density doesn’t matter so much better. It only becomes squander. And the quality of the likenes becomes more important than the part. And the high dynamic rangeis what is improving there. So that’s just the abilityto show deeper colors and preserve maintain highlightsas the greys get brighter and have that real deep red and sort of lush lettuce that really builds the part portrait better.And it’s why we all require Dolby Vision on Netflix and Disney plus, and with all the Star Wars and all the Marvel moviesand everything like that. And Apple emphasizing Dolby Vision as much as I miss 8K and as much as yes,( speaking in foreign word) I think it’s gonna take a while before Apple does into bigger sensors extremely considering thetrade-offs you then impel with the dimensions of the pixels and technologies likepixel-binning and all that. So it’s a nice to have, butif I was given the choice I would definitely wantHDR over 8K at this stage. “Why didn’t Apple employed Touch IDinto the iPhone power button like they did the brand-new iPad Air? Don’t they realise face ID isa huge pain with disguises on.” And I think this is where what’s usually a huge strength for Apple became a bit of a weakness.And that’s always the case. Our biggest fortes arealways our biggest frailties and that is they work onthese telephones years out. And it might seem if you listen to leaksand things like that that these decisions are allbeing made at the last minute but that’s not at all true. They’re hearing resembles of decisions that weremade a long time ago. Very, very few things are decided late on in a make cycle.So when they’re releasingthis year’s telephone, they’re already workingon next year’s phone and the phone after that. And I think if they had their druthers if they were more agile in their process if they weren’t as tightlyintegrated in a way they would been able to spin around faster and do something likeadding Touch ID as well. But currently the rumors say that Touch ID is coming back next year. That that was the sort ofplanned reintroduction period. And so far, the rumors have said, it’ll be in-display Touch ID, not superpower button Touch ID. And Apple has patents on anacoustic explanation of that. Not the visual nature yousee in some Android telephones, but the acoustical category, which I think is similar to what Qualcomm has done on Samsung telephones, that sort of technology.So I would have really liked it because we do live in a worldthat’s been radically changed over the last few months. Kenneth Perry on Patreon requested, “Any idea what the back of the iPhone 12 telephones are made of? ” And MehNitesh2, on Twitter invites, if ceramic glass is also included in the rear of either the pro or non-pro prototypes. And no, the ceramic glassis only on the figurehead. What Apple is calling Ceramic Shield. Is mostly ceramic impregnated glass. So it’s scientifically not glass but it’s a hybrid compound.And that is on the breast. On the back is the sameglass as last year. Which I believe is still stronger than any other Gorilla Glass type product chemically thickened, ion exchange style glass on the market yet. Apple works with Corning. They’re literally on the floor at Corning working on this substance and they get access to unique or usage and early versions of all the stuff thatCorning is working on. So it’s not Ceramic Shield, but it’s among the bestin class that you can get. Maybe even the best in class that you can get on the back still. GAdams_Spink on Twitter expects, “Ceramic Shield, will it convey an terminate to glass screen champions? ” And no alas, because one of the things, one of the trade-offs thatyou get with these glass these composite hybrid chemicalion exchange glass commodities, is that they can be optimized for shatter resistanceor scratch fight but they don’t seem to be able to do both.And some years, it goes back and forth between one or the other. But for the last few years, it seems like Apple and Corning both have really been focusingon shatter resistance. And you’re getting a lot ofprotection from Ceramic Shield in terms of that. And likewise the brand-new designing, the loss of the curves, just the flattening, the great flattening of the phone genuinely improves the fortitude when it comes to shatter resistance but I don’t believe there’s any change in scratch resistance.So if you were applying aglass screen champion for that previously, you’regonna wanna keep on doing that. If you’re worried about scratchings you’re absolutely gonnawanna keep on doing that. And Thomas Frank. Hey, Thomas Frank of YouTube productivity and #gearfame on Twitter says, “I only caught a little of the launch video, but which phones will have IBIS? Which ones should I belooking at as a camera person? ” And so if you’re not familiarwith camera lingo IBIS is in body image stabilization.In cameras, you can have stabilization in the body of the camera andalso stabilization in the lens and then also you can have electronic idol stabilization as well. And so all of the iPhone 12 s have OIS, which is optical idol stabilization. And that only means ifthe sensor is being shaken if it’s sway, the lensis sort of floating and will compensate asbest as it can for that. And Apple really saves ramping up the response rate on the lens, but it’s still a two constituent plan and it’s a little bit more complex. So what the iPhone 12 Pro Max is doing, is raising that stabilizationinto the sensor itself. So exclusively the sensor now isfloating instead of the lens. It’s a much simpler process and it should be much morestable even than the previous OIS and also result in betterquality photos and video. So if you are a camera person you’re definitely gonna wanna entered into with the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Joshua Karp on Patreon asks, “Trying to decide betweenthe Pro and the Pro Max.What exactly are the camera differences? ” And Kyle Giglio also on Patreon queries, “How large-scale of certain differences do you project between the Pro and the Max cameras? ” And Tim Gjenvick on Patreonasks, “Any other changes? ” So you’re gonna have thestandard basic changes which is just biggerscreen and bigger artillery. And the differences in the camera is that, there is a bigger sensor, physically bigger sensor on the wide inclination onthe I phone 12 pro max. And that really means you’ll be able to bring in more light-footed andget better, better photographs especially better low-pitched sun pictures. The telephoto camera hasgone from a information of 52 I conceive 52 millimeter to 65 millimeter. So it’s just a different type of lens. The hole is not quite as good, so it doesn’t let in as much daybreak, but it’ll give you atotally different look and an additional 0.5 of zoom. So instead of going from, zero in the wide direction it’ll go to 2.5 now in thetelephoto instead of time two.And then there’s the stabilization the sensor-based stabilization that I previously just mentioned. I’ve done a entire videoexplaining the differences between the various iPhone 12 poses. So I’ll link to that inthe description as well. Cgxos on Twitter, “Should we refurbish from 11 Proif we use the camera a lot.” And I ever kind of cringewhen 90% of the videos talk about refurbishing yearover time because I definitely sounds like, if you have enoughmoney, you merely do that.If you care about always havingthe best, you really do that. If you are on an annual upgradeprogram, you simply do that. And if not, you probably keep your phone for two, three, four years. But I recognized tech Twitteris a very specific audience. So a number of years ago when therewere still iPhone lineups I think it was probablythe iPhone 10 S launching. I was at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, and I “ve spoken to” people in line and requesting them why they were upgrading. And one of the people there said that the iPhone was their primary camera that they just exercised it for everything. It was how they took photosof their newborn children. And they are unable to never go backin time and get better photos. So they always wanted to make sure they could make the bestphotos of their teenagers possible. And so they ever established surethey had the latest iPhone with the best camera possible.So if that’s your place if the iPhone is your primary camera and photography videographyis really important to you and you have the finances to do it. And the camera seems like it’lloffer you more abilities like the iPhone 12 ProMax is doing this year, then perfectly make love. But if none of those things are true, then again, I don’t think most people ever need to upgrade year over year. Warwick on Patreon wants toknow about the differences between the regular and the pro. And this year, there doesn’t seem to be that many differences, justsome dyes and the camera. And is there anything else? Apple has essentially madethe regulars into approximately pros, and so the difference with thepros really is the materials.You have the stainless steelinstead of the aluminum you have the different finishes and then you have theextra telephoto camera the LiDAR scanner, and on the Max, you just have the enhanced photographic abilities in general. So you really have tospecifically crave those things. Otherwise, the non-Pro almost Pro I suppose, is just as good a importance, probably a better appraise for most people at this level. @ChrisPirillo on Twitter icon Trailblazer, original streamer. “When is Apple gonna stop are concentrated on a dozen variants and instead on a single spectacularsoftware event again? ” And Chris is super salty that ever since we went to more than onescreen length on the iPhone he is believed that the interfaceand user experience has just plummeted on the iPhone. And I think that’s really, really fair. Back when there was onepixel perfect screen solution through the original iPhones and into the iPhone 5, 5s parties were literallydesigning by the pixel and there was only one telephone to sort of manage to focus on every year.So everyone on the human interface team was carrying that telephone, and complaining about anylittle defect they witnessed. But even back then there were just all sortsof glitches and weirdness. I think that some of thisis rose colored glass and you can make a list a mile long, about troubles that existedwith merely the one screen size. But clearly that’s exacerbated now that we have so manydifferent screen sizes, because everything fromsize courses to auto layout it time establishes much more opportunity for those things to go wrong.And scale is always the foe of quality. It’s much harder to time many many things much more broadly than it is to do one thing. So I repute those epoches have just progressed and it’s only tech nerds like us. It’s the 1% that reallydeeply care about that. And if any firm wants to be successful they eventually haveto look beyond the 1 %, they have to address themass market and their needs , not their needs, but theirpriorities are certainly different. @reekeanu, whoa, on Twitter invites, “Any risks the iPhone1 2 mini, may have less RAM than the iPhone 12 andan underclocked CPU? ” My guess is it won’t have less RAM. I don’t know about the CPU. We’ll have to wait and check. But this is one of those things where I wouldn’t worry about it. And again, it goes backto the nerd culture versus mainstream culture is that, we want everything with zero compromises and that’s just not howdesign, developing, product, implementationany of this works. There are always trade-offs. If you miss something smaller there’s less apartment to make things inside it.If you have a smaller battery it’s less able to absorb to handle spikes in CPU demand for example. It’s why Apple no longer constructs phones as big as the original SE or 5s Modern processors like A14 would just stumbled it extremely hard-boiled and it would brown out andthe phone would shut off. So Apple is gonna do, my guess, my hope is that Apple will do what they usually do and that is make sure that everything is workingin an integrated way.And the CPU is demanding exactly what the artillery is available through. And at who are in need of slight changes in base or peak frequency they’ll do that. I don’t expect any of that but I wouldn’t be surprised by it. And I really don’t think it matters. It’s more of a implementation detail and something thatnerds get anxious about, I think often for no reason. @deerspider on Twitter, “They remove the chargingblock and the headphones. Then decided they neededto raise the rate $30 and still have the starting memory at 64 gigabytes, what utters? ” And I’ll actually point outthey heightened it by $130 , not $30. And @Zaigum, “What’s yourview on USB-C being included but not the charging block. We all have blaming blocks for USB-A. Is it really an environmental reason, or precisely a highway for us to waste more on a USB-C compatible bill block? ” So the iPhone 10 R was $800 andthen the iPhone 11 was $700. And now the iPhone 12 is going back up to $ 800 on Verizon and AT& T but $830 if you simply buy it outright or on any other carrier. And the iPhone mini is slotting in beneath it at $700. But again, $730 if you’renot on Verizon and AT& T. And that’s a considerableprice hike particularly in 2020, when I feel like just as a world we are less able to absorb. A mas of parties arereally hurting right now and phones general, theprice of almost every phone has shot up this year. Mostly due to, higher character showings more expensive spectacles, but too 5G. And what Qualcomm ischarging for processors on the Android side, but alsojust 5G modems in general. A fortune of them buy $100. And so I get that, the iPhone, the regular iPhone has gone from a lower concentration LCD, much less expensive display, to a much higher density OLED, much more expensive display. And from a relativelyinexpensive LTE radio to a significantly more expensive 5G radio, particularly in the US where theyhave millimeter waving radios.If you look at Google’spricing for the Pixel, the Pixel 4a( 5G ), deity, so many numerals and notes. That’s $100 more exactly if youget the millimeter motion version on top of the extra charge for 5G. And Apple is maintaining theprice on the pro frameworks those are still $ 1,000 and $1,100 but they are just not inclined or capable, I guess to eat that much additional cost on the regular frameworks and on the mini. So I’m really conflicted on this because I think in oneway, it’s really great that they have increasedthe quality so much of the regular modelsthat they are as good as the pro models wereprobably just two years ago. Certainly as the iPhone 10, maybe as the iPhone 10 S. Probably actually between the iPhone 10 S and the iPhone 11 pro.It’s remarkable how good that presentation is, and it’s not the same processor and the same 5G millimeter gesticulate in the US and 5G in countries around the world. But 2020 somebody, it is just so hard. And the removing theplug and the headphones I think it’s just, again, 2020. It’s the worst possible timing for that, because it computes one more burden to people. And even if it’s not a monetary onu it’s a cognitive inconvenience becausethey have to worry about it. And I know like tech geeks areall, USB-C this, USB-C that, and they would make fun, I would make fun of Apple for including a USB-A to lightningcable in previous iPhones because the Mac bibles havehad USB-C going on five years.But the truth is mostpeople don’t have Macs. It’s still a majority PC market and a majority older PC market that have USB-A type connectors. And Apple has onlysupplied USB-C for 1 year and merely on the Pro modelings. The iPhone 11 Pro is the first one to have a USB-C the lighten cable. And USB-C charging brick in the box. So doing this, changing the cable and taking out the blaming brick , not only do “youve had”, maybe you have one fromyour Nintendo Switch or from an Android tablet, maybe you have one from another invention, but if not a lot of parties are gonna be without a charge brick or at least one that doesn’twork or requires an adapter.But they probably have to just go out and get another charging brick. So I really wish Apple would have framed a little bit more moneywhere their cheek is here in terms of the environment. Like for sure, removethem from the box for people who don’t need them but time have a little check box. And I’m saying this ordershaven’t gone live yet. So we don’t know exactlywhat they’re gonna do and maybe they can still do this. Maybe they will still do this, but have a little checkbox thatsays, I need a superpower brick. And then that does carried as well. And then people who don’tneed it, don’t get it. We save all of that e-waste, all of that extra shipping but the people who really do need it can get it and get a high quality one. They’re not sort of running out to the corner store inthe midriff of the darknes going the inexpensive reject version that may not be anywhere nearlyas safe as one that they get from a reputable brandlike Apple or Anker.So on the pricing, I still have to thinkabout it a little bit more, but on the power cable there’s still a couple ofdays until it pre-orders, but I actually hope Apple manipulates this well. I don’t expect it but I certainly hope they handle it better. ARYMANBHattac2 and this is an all cap. So I’m guessing I have to shout it. “What is the plasticy thingon the side of the iPhones? ” And that’s in reference to a small round rectangleon the bottom side of the US version of the iPhone 12, and that’s for millimeter billow. Millimeter brandished necessitates more RF, more radio-frequency transparency. Previous copies had tohave RF transparency windows I envisage on four out of thesix line-ups of the phone.And so “youve had” like the screenand you had the back glass and then you’d have these various cutouts. It’s probably gone a little bit better but you still have to have more open regions for reception with the high-pitched circles than you do for LTE or themid or low bandings of 5G. So millimeter beckon on the iPhone in the US means they just have tohave that extra cutout to let the signals go in and out. @LangfordGuy, “Why millimeterwave exclusively for the US models? ” And that’s just a realityof the present 5G market.As nascent as the millimeterwave high-pitched circle 5G deployments are in the US, they’re still way aheadof most other countries. For two reasons, one is, some countries like Canada haven’t even auctioned off the range for millimeter motion more, that’s been pushed out to next year. But other countries have goodenough low banding and mid strap that they don’t seem to feel the need or the rapidity to push out high-pitched stripe anywhere as quickly as Verizon and AT& T are doing in the US. Where the the low-pitched and midbands are far more held. And I think ideally midband will be so good that a lot of places simplywon’t roll out 5G mmWave or they’ll do it in veryspecific implementations like the cliched stadiums do now.But just for most of the world it’s gonna be an FR1 frequency range one, low-grade and mid-band world for 5G. And China remains to be seen of course, but for now, there’s noreason to do it anywhere other than the US. MaxyJprime on Twitter says, “Since the Canadian iPhone 12 swon’t have millimeter curve, if I buy one from the USwill it work in Canada and also down the road when Canada subscribes millimeter curve? ” 5G doesn’t prowl yet. It’s like the early days of LTE, if you get a 5G and youput a US 5G SIM card in it then you go to Europe, it won’t work at all. You’d have to get a Europeanspecific 5G SIM card settled that in. And then it’ll make probably most neighbourhoods, because Apple is supportingjust the widest possible amount of 5G bands that theycan on the iPhone 12. So you should be able tojust get a local SIM card wherever you are, introduced that in and work with whatever 5G is available in that area if any.Millimeter billow being certain exceptions though because it’s US merely for now. So if you get a US iPhoneto have millimeter brandish in different countries, first I think you’ll bewaiting a long, long time. And second it’s uncertain whether it’ll even work in that country, because the bands are so different. Never buy based on whatmight happen in the future only ever buy based on what you have now. So you’ll have better LTE. You’ll have 5G where it’s available. And in a couple of years you can reassess and there’llbe much better deployment much better network equipment, and considerably better 5G modems in whatever you buy in a few years. And as for 5G in general and all the different mixtures of that. I’ve done a entire explain on that, so I’ll link to it in the specific characteristics. And JullianSibi asks on Twitteralso about the $30 discount from AT& T/ Verizon onthe iPhone 12, 12 mini. And is that misleadingto advertise the expenditure with those rebates? I think it’s just unbecoming. I conclude John Gruberused the word unseemly. And I picture a companyespecially a company like Apple would do better to justadvertise the rate most people are going to get.And then note that you canget an even lower price through Verizon or AT& T, just for clarity, simplicityto avoid mistakes. And time to avoid beings having a negative feeling about Apple, only employed the sticker price on there and then make them feel goodabout getting the discount not bad about not going it. Darius Dunlap on Patreon questions about differences betweenthe A1 4 on the iPhone 12 extremely iPhone 12 Pro Max. And what we know about the iPad processor. I’m guessing iPad Air processor. “And what do you think thatportends for Apple Silicon Macs presumably coming next month? ” As far as we know they’reidentical processors right now. The A14 Bionic is in both the iPad Air and all the iPhone 12 s. And I did a entire explainer video a depth descent on the A14, where I addressed this. So I’ll link to that in the specific characteristics but basically Apple wants to be efficient.So they make a chip that they can scale from the iPhone 12 mini, all the highway up to the iPad Air. And, you are familiar with, perhaps the iPhone, extremely the iPhone proshit the persona signal processor action more often, wayharder than the iPad Air does. And maybe the iPad Air because it has a muchbigger thermal envelope can run high-intensity graphicsapplications for longer. They can sustain performancefor longer than an iPhone but the microchip really is builtto scale between those inventions. And in terms of Apple Silicon Macs. I think we’re seeing thisgeneration of Apple Silicon IP, like all the different compute engines and all the different blocks, accelerators, or controllers all of that. And I think that’s what we’llsee in Apple Silicon Macs but I would be surprised if wedidn’t see dedicated blocks. They’ve already talked abouthypervisor acceleration and just think about anything that you’d want accelerated on a Mac that would be differentthan an iPhone or iPad.And I think that’s thesort of chip situateds we’ll recognize particularly in the earlygenerations of Apple Silicon Macs. Donald Hawk on Patreonasks, I’m really concerned about putting these MagSafemagnets in my pocket close to my cards. I conclude for credit cards, foranything that’s really robust that’s meant to last-place, it’ll be fine. I mean we’ve got magnets and a cluster of other thingson our concoctions these days. I conceive for flimsierimplementations, like hotel poster keys if we’re still exerting those these days when we get back to using those, I would be more concerned. But for daily help, extremely since Appleis making a wallet case where likely, Imean they’ve gotta know that people are gonna putcredit cards in there.I don’t think it will be a problem for any of those sorts of pieces. 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