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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • The good

    • These phones still have some of the best screens you can buy—even the non-Pro iPhone hits it out of the park
    • They have by far the best smartphone performance, too
    • Solid gains in GPU performance
    • Camera Control brings the long-awaited physical shutter button
    • The customizable Action button makes its way to the base iPhone
    • New photographic styles allow you to move away from the pitfalls of Apple’s computational photography decisions in any direction you choose
    • High-end camera features previously reserved for more expensive models have trickled down
    • Ultra-wide photos in low light got quite a bit better
    • Battery life improvements are always welcome

    The bad

    • 60 Hz on the non-Pro phones is looking a bit long in the tooth
    • Likewise, always-on displays are now standard in some of the iPhone 16’s direct competitors
    • The Pro phones don’t offer enough to justify an upgrade over the base models for the majority of consumers
    • Possibly the most subtle year-over-year upgrades in iPhone history—if that’s really a bad thing

    The ugly

    • Not much, other than the steep prices


  • Agreed with you. In Europe, there’s a superstition that gifting a knife can “cut” or sever a relationship. To avoid this, the person receiving the knife must give a coin—usually just a small one—back to the giver. This act symbolically “pays” for the knife, turning it into a purchase rather than a gift, and preventing any bad luck or harm to the friendship or relationship.

    It’s blend of practicality, tradition, and superstition.