Emergency satellite SOS was a massive selling point for upgrading to the iPhone 14 to a lot of people. To your point though, my 2015 iPad is just now being dropped from future updates.
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aeternum@kbin.social 1 year agoyup. they might upgrade the camera, but i mean, who cares? iOS gets updates a LOT longer than android, and so what is the point of upgrading?
nezbyte@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pat@kbin.run 1 year ago
Meanwhile in Canada it's being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 year ago
These are two separate features.
I doubt many people actually have a use case for satellite SOS though.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's some pretty remote places in the US. So you don't need it 'till you need it.
thejoker8814@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very interesting, do you have any source or references that springs to your mind? I have emergency SOS enabled, but it never happened to me that it has been falsely triggered. And I can’t imagine many scenarios were it would be.
Pat@kbin.run 1 year ago
I had it enabled for a bit and everything worked fine, but I was worried about accidentally triggering it so disabled it before hearing about the false alarms.
Here's an article from the CBC about it.
smolyeet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Recently , 5G in the 12, 144hz in the 13 pro , satellite and crash detection in the 14 , this year usc-c. Upgrading that often is an enthusiast thing really (or marketing).
li10@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yeah, marginal camera improvements are kinda meh to me. Has there really been anything that significant since Face ID?
5G is the only thing that springs to mind for me, but I’ve honestly never felt that 4G held me back on a phone considering it works perfectly for playing videos…
WagesOf@artemis.camp 1 year ago
Android has gotten high refresh and variable refresh which is great for battery life. Other than that just raw speed, which is usually just throttled down for better battery life and monstrous huge screens.
As far as I can see on the apple side they haven't seen anything but incremental, and sometimes increments in the wrong direction, changes in the last 6 years.