• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Smartphone sales in general are down. It has hit apple somewhat and devastated Android sales. Likely a result of the K shaped recovery (middle class and wealthy better off, poor worse off).

    But there is also a huge pent up demand for the USB-C iPhone. I put off upgrading my 11 for it.

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      1 year ago

      The 15 is probably gonna do huge numbers this year, thanks to the design changes and USB-C. Kinda wish I’d gotten that but I really couldn’t put off an upgrade anymore and got the 14 Pro.

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      1 year ago

      I’m on the other side. I have a 10 and it’s just dropped below 90% on the battery which makes sense because I’m no having to look for charging before the end of the evening. I also have a Synology nas which handles a lot of my “cloud” needs like backup, and your concerns about walled garden don’t really seem to apply to me.

      The biggest issue I have is even a decade later my typing speed and accuracy is well below my blackberry days. I’m looking at getting a larger model to hopefully improve things.

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        1 year ago

        Consider enabling swipe, you can get away with allot of inaccuracies swiping away the words and to me it’s allot faster.

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          1 year ago

          I’m not sure about accessing files directly from PC but transferring files via and SMB share folders seems reasonable without relying on cloud storage. I setup a dedicated folder that I share via SMB and access it using the files app.