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Right? So the Apple event has just happened and I'm 99.9 Sure, Apple is going to probably strike the live stream I did covering the event. So instead of showing any kind of photos or whatever, I'm just gonna give you my opinion as basically an Apple nut I'm also an Apple shareholder and I run an actively managed ETF that has some Apple exposure in it in this video. I'm going to talk to you about my thoughts about Am I going to get the latest iPhone Keep in mind I've gotten every single iPhone since launch since launch iPhone 1 iPhone 3 you name it I use Apple iPads Apple Computers, laptops, everything I also use PC and Android though so am I going to get the latest of foam Am I going to trim the stock? Let's talk about all of that. Some of the two biggest things that came out of this event, in my opinion for me personally, were the reiteration that the Apple Vision Pro is expected to ship early next year.
That's a big deal and a second big deal which actually should help Apple's Cloud Division and their server revenues for Cloud Plus which is one of the biggest margin areas for Apple. This is where they really grow. Their margin is in the Apple services division. Cloud Plus they finally expanded the storage you can have instead of being stuck with up to two GBS of storage which you can double if you end up getting sort of like the personal on the other.
I don't know there are two versions you can get, you can I kind of expand it and double it. You can finally go from 2g or two TB of storage TV what did I write down we're going from two hold on a second obviously terabytes, but you're going from two to six to 12 TBS of storage terabytes of storage. This is great. Finally, you can pay for more storage which when you're recording footage at uh 4K or even 1080p on your iPhone you clog that up really fast over the years.
So I'm really happy to see this. I'm tired of having to go back and having to delete videos because my iCloud storage is full so this is actually a great uh update. Those are two fantastic things that I'm excited about now. I'm also an Apple uh watch Ultra owner now What? I'm going to tell you about this: Apple watch Ultra number one uh, is my opinion on the one and I'm gonna tell you about the number two and I'll tell you if I'm gonna get a new one.
so I personally use the action button on the Apple watch Ultra as a flashlight which I think is really great for my family I don't love it so much even though I'm a runner and I love wearing this running I don't use the action button that much for turning that on I use it for the flashlight option. Really functional for the middle of the night trying to find something. Beats finding my phone. Really enjoy that Is it worth having the action button just for that? Probably not.
The Ultra has always been great though for battery life. I've had almost every single watch that Apple's come out with and I'll tell you almost all of these watches just die. They don't last. They suck. I've had them metal bands I've had all the different bands they've got. The old ones suck. The Ultra actually lasts a good day and a half, which is nice. I could skip a day of charging it.
Functional. This is good. So what do we have in terms of the new series nine and then in terms of the Ultra? what do we have? Well, a lot of a hoopla about the S9 Sip that's called a system in a package. Yep, 60 more transistors, 30 faster GPU which basically just makes stuff smoother.
The big announcement here on the watch though, and this pisses me off because when I go on runs I try to use Siri all the time and I'm running and I'm like I got an 800 computer on my wrist and Siri doesn't freaking work. Sure you're not available I'm like what is this trash? Finally, the new watches will have Siri processed on the watch. no longer needing to connect to the cloud first. Thank God They're also announcing about 25 percent more accurate Siri I Highly doubt that Siri and I we still have our disputes.
Okay, but processing it on the watch is amazing. That is good. They need to do that on all devices. I'm tired of Siri having the process in the cloud.
Uh, obviously the sort of revolutionary announcement on the watch is this idea of double tap, but you have to ask yourself how much you actually answer phone calls on your watch or how functional that's really going to be for you. Is it worth upgrading to the next phone? or sorry to the next watch personally. I Don't know how much I'm going to use double Tap I Do think it's Innovative in that there's no camera on the watch, right? so they can't see your wrist I Saw some comments from people wondering: oh, can somebody else go like this near you and then control your watch? No, it's it's really measuring the movement in your wrist via the accelerometer that's in the device and then you know the movement of your muscles in your wrist. So it's not like there's a camera watching your fingertips doing this.
but it is a cool new smart gesture. I like the cover, the silence and notification or phone own Double Tap Maybe to sleep or pause, play music that's functional I Like that. There are a lot of times I find myself kind of wishing I could control it with just one hand, not having to put down a cup of coffee or whatever I do think that's functional. Is it worth upgrading though? I'll let you know at the end if it's worth it for me, uh to upgrade uh to the new watch.
Okay, that double tap feature is on both the Series nine and the Ultra. Now the Ultra is also getting the S9 sip on device Siri 3 000 nits of display when I'm running in the sun I will say sometimes I can't see the screen although when I'm running in the sun, you gotta ask yourself how much do you really need to see the screen I don't know, there are cases you want to see it right? This is the point you gotta watch. But anyway, the biggest thing of the new Ultra 2 was that the modular device which is actually really entertaining in my opinion I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get my um watch to focus in on this, but I'll try it. but what's really entertaining attaining? So I actually use the uh the modular display as well. You can see it right here. I use the modular display and one of the things that I like about the modular display is I've got so many different functions on it. so I usually have it set for the UV indicator because I do go on runs and I like to know when do I have to put sunscreen on uh and a stopwatch for my kids. So I set it to like a five minute countdown I'm like that's it.
you're a timeout for five minutes I push a button gray and I put them in timeout or I'm like hey, you know how fast can you change I'll time you The kids really get excited about that I like to see the calendar obviously. Uh, the you know what what my next event is. So the modular display is really functional. For me, one of the new upgrades that they're talking about in the modular display is this idea that you could use the outside frame of the modular display to show depth I don't care about I don't go diving altitude I fly around I Got a plane but I honestly don't care what altitude I'm at.
that's not my job I ain't the pilot. Uh, and then uh, the seconds thing is like minutely interesting only because I have this thing with my son where he likes to celebrate. My eight-year-old likes to celebrate when it's exactly 12 or exactly one and so we'll watch the seconds together. But the modular display actually already has that in the little circular option where it shows you the little ticks for time.
So frankly, that's like a software change. not that big of a change. Battery life improvements they're like hey, look, we're giving you all this new performance with the same battery life as last time so it's like wait a minute. So I get on Device Siri and I get the tap tap.
Is that going to be worth eight hundred dollars for a new Ultra We'll answer that at the end of the video. Okay then iPhone 15. okay I lost it when they said the iPhone 15 has an all new design Marquez Brownlee astutely tweeted and said uh, the lady literally said that with a straight face face palm. Essentially right.
it's it's ridiculous. They're bringing Dynamic Island to the iPhone 15. So far only the pro had that in the 14 version. same 48 megapixel uh camera that was in the iPhone 14 pro will go to the iPhone 4 15 standard.
Uh, this Ultra wideband technology I Want to be clear what we did not hear at all on this event was anything about new 5G They did not mention 5G once, which means it's probably the same Qualcomm 5G modem they've been using personally. A little pissed about that. Like for me, fast internet speed is everything. That's a big selling point for me to get a new phone. The iPhone 14 Hands Down iPhone 14 on T-Mobile has by far the fastest internet I have ever seen I And you know this: if you subscribe to my channel and you see me cover breaking news stories or whatever I run around with two phones and an Android So I actually have three phones. The reason for that is I have one service I have the Google find service on my Android I have uh T-Mobile on this phone and then I actually have I also have mint on this one but those are the same bands. this is the 14 and then I have Verizon and a T on this. In case you don't know, on the iPhone this is the iPhone 13.
even on the iPhone 13, you can get two uh E-sims so you can have two different services and you can actually change the services between the two. I don't have the best service in my office here, but look at that top. you see those two bands right there. Verizon and ATT I can actually switch between the two.
This is the iPhone 13. I don't need a new phone to do that and I have the same thing over here. You'll see if I uh if I pull down I mean I don't know it's necessary for me to really go through it. but I will anyway because some people find it very interesting.
So yeah, my mints on Wi-Fi calling right now. but if this ends up focusing right here, there it is you can see Team mobile the next one's actually mint. Uh, that's actually very useful for me because on the go I could go ah ATT sucks here I switch to the other e Sim and it makes it really useful for me to have fast internet the iPhone 14 very fast 5G service way better than the 13. now no updates though in the 15 on 5G unless I missed it.
Zero updates on the 5G Now they do talk about the ultra wide band now. Ultra Wide band is not to be confused with the ultra bands that they have for 5G They're talking about the new Ultra wideband technology for find my iPhone Okay, this is not that revolutionary in that I mean they're suggesting okay maybe you could do it from three times further away. Uh, and you can navigate to to find my friends a little bit better. but frankly I have the iPhone watch Ultra right here and all the time.
I go in here and I do the Ping to find my phone that's functional. Do I really need to like? get get even more accurate with where my phone is and upgrade to the latest watch on the latest phone to get even more Precision That's pretty good already. The find my already right. So something to keep in mind again.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you am I gonna upgrade to these devices and what? I Think about the stock in just a moment going through the rest of this. you know? initially I thought it was impressive that they were including the satellite service for free for two years, but that's actually also true on the iPhone 14. So I'm sorry when I said that in the live stream I was wrong about that, but I've corrected that. It's actually not impressive because it's the same thing as they've done previously. now. the USBC cable. this is obviously forced by the European Union which the Apple Apple will obviously turn this into. hey, we're doing USBC so we can give you external storage capabilities so you can film with your iPhone and store to an external you know, fast solid state drive.
That's cool because then I could film and if I'm on a tripod and hand it to an editor I'll tell you if I actually think I'm going to end up using that. So I'm going to write a little note here and tell you USBC storage I'll give you my answer on that. It is cool though when you get that gigabit that 10 gigabits worth of transfer speed now I will tell you if I film on the iPhone and I do not let it just store in iCloud and then it takes me like a week or whatever to go to it when I have to re-download the files if I film something and then if I same day airdrop that content 1080p 4K whatever to an editor or somebody else on my team. Airdrop is fast.
When it works, there are times it's frustrating and it's not connecting. You got to reboot stuff, Whatever. That's the way it is and so there will be some benefit to these faster transfer speeds via USBC capability. And it's nice to have a universal charger via USBC You know I I'm a big iPad junkie.
You all know that I'm a big fan of the iPad The iPad Pros are the best I Know this is not a pro radio here. this is my medium sized iPad I've got the iPad tiny. Honestly, every single iPad I have I do really enjoy I'm an iPad not I think they are incredible for reading. For studying, that's probably the most uh note taking obviously for presenting things that's useful.
Uh, but in terms of reading PDFs and annotating them, Godly and I do that all day long, right? Okay, so uh, but but there was no iPhone no iPad news in this. But anyway, it's nice to have the same charging uh Port but I'll tell you where that's a pisser. I have gone through and made my life really really simple. Where everywhere I sit down or I have a charging environment I already have an iPhone lightning cable set up and so since I use two phones I have the 13 and the 14.
it doesn't make sense for me to potentially leave that lightning environment unless I want to go through and change out all of those that I have for my second phone to USBC right? So there is some extra cost of if you upgrade to the iPhone 15 making sure that you're replacing where your lightning. Chargers are two Usbcs I Know that might sound like nitpicking, but think about it. If you have five different spots that you usually have a lightning charger, that could be your office, it could be your car. It could be in your bedroom.
It could be in your home office, your work office. Whatever it is, right, you probably do. Or you should unless your phone's always dead right then you need some more Chargers Anyway, but five different spots. Uh, you know you're gonna have to get another five pack of USBC cables. Uh, they're gonna have to have the right wattage for you to actually get the real benefits of fast charging out of these. You're probably going to spend somewhere around seven bucks at least per cable on these. You know it's gonna be another 35 bucks. You got to get the power bricks.
You're probably going to be at 100 bucks in cables, so just something to keep in mind. It's another adopt uh thing to adopt or spend money on, especially if you get the official Apple cables. Well, then you're probably gonna get ripped off, but whatever. Uh, again, you got to get the faster USBC cables I Actually have one over here I'll tell you this.
I Have a You know a lot of people don't know about this, but I have this for example, this: Elgato stream deck right here. You know it's just a little stream switcher that you use for like Tick Tock streaming or whatever. right? You plug it in. If you plug this in with a regular USBC cable, it actually won't function.
You need to have a USB uh C uh a C cable that supports the wattage that you need for fast charging. And so when and if you go, look at USBC cables, make sure you're evaluating what wattage you actually need to go through the cable because not all USBC cables are created equal and they won't actually give you the the proper data and power flow that you might expect from C. So there's a lot to learn when it comes to C and there's gonna be some adoption curve and money spending for USBC Something to keep in mind Now as far as the iPhone 15 Pro thinner bezel, titanium frame, toughest glass. bro.
Listen, I have been an iPhone dude since the iPhone 1 and every single single year they tell me the glass is going to get stronger and stronger and stronger. and almost every single year this is what happens to my glass. Okay, almost every single year I'm sick and tired of it's stronger glass and then it's a rep. uh I will say uh the I do like shout out to Pelican hashtag not sponsored.
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get my face out of there. uh, this Pelican wallet I Really, really enjoy this kind of Pelican wallet right here. I'll go ahead and open it up for you. Basically what it has is, uh, it's a little storage there we go I'm trying to do this live. It has two spots. It's got obviously a spot where you could slide in the credit cards and then you can slide some money under here. uh what? I actually do when my second one is I actually keep a security key in this one. So if you have a purpose for this at work or something like that, a little security key and then I also keep an Apple Air tag which I've labeled custom label 1337 in there.
So I keep that sort of in here. So I have a security key spot and then one for credit cards, driver's license, and uh, you know, money. Uh, cash, some cash, two dollar bills, whatever you want to keep. So I do find those Pelican uh, hard cases somewhat useful.
Probably one of my favorite. Mac uh Mag safe accessory Rather okay. that gives you a heads up on this. Now the other thing to keep in mind on the announcement: iPhone Phone 15 Pro Same sizes a lot of talk about obviously about recycled materials.
Carbon neutral I'm going to skip that. that was talked about a lot. Uh that they still have their goal of you know, zero carbon footprint by 2030, blah blah blah Okay the one thing that I do like about the 15 is the customizable action button. So right now on the iPhone you have the the little switch right here to go from uh you know ring to not ring.
It just turns the ringer on and off which is annoying because if you are already on do not disturb then that ringer button doesn't matter. Now if I turn off, do not disturb but it's on silent then you forget. Oh I'm not going to get phone calls or I'm not going to hear phone calls. So customizing that action button much like the customizability of the action button of the Ultra watch is actually very functional in my opinion.
you being able to customize it to Flashlight which is what I use on my ultra voice memo. Brilliant! Quickly hitting one one button and going to voice memo Brilliant Move right there launching the camera I already I mean you already kind of have the launch camera button right here. It's not that hard to launch the camera from here, so I don't know how useful that that is I'd probably go either voice memo or flashlight since I have flashlight on my ultra Honestly I'd probably go voice memo uh like oh hey, would you mind if I record this really quick boom click done right. useful or you have it changed from your do not disturb settings.
Maybe that's where I would lean I guess it would depend if I'm traveling or what my needs are at the time or launching a shortcut or accessibility that I do like the iPhone 15 Pro will have the A17 Pro three nanometer chip Asml and Intel are gonna be happy about these things. Uh, A Tsmc as well Asml is the company that manufactures the lithography machines that bring you down to three nanometers. Intel is getting the first three nanometer manufacturing capability in America uh and uh and a Tsmc which produces a lot of the Apple products. Uh has this as well Machine Learning is expected to be twice as fast USB 3.0 transfer speeds fine. We talked about that. We talked about airdrop. Honestly, the biggest pitch they gave was they're like oh, it's four times as fast for Ray tracing which is for like video games I'm like wait a minute That's not actually that great of an upgrade. Probably the bigger upgrades came from the camera which you're gonna be at the same 48 megapixel camera uh, 24 millimeter lens.
However, I and I It wasn't clear if they're just going for a a digital Zoom here or if this is going to be an optical zoom, but they're letting you go from the 24 Mega sorry the 24 millimeter zoom on the 48 megapixel lens to 28 and 35 as a focal length which is nice for for portraits or really just Photography in general I Believe Because this is 48 megapixel, it's probably just going to be digital. So this is really a software upgrade to get those extra 11 Meg uh millimeters which quite frankly, if you're shooting at 48 megapixels, you could just crop yourself. So I don't actually think that was that big of a revolution. What was a physical Revolution was that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will let you go from 3x optical zoom to 5x optical zoom, getting you out to 120 millimeters on the max.
That's a big difference for distance Shooters But you have to ask yourself, is that a big difference for everyday users? So uh, now what's my take on this? Oh, and then of course we're getting 4K 60 up from 30. uh, according to the external the iCloud Plus update. Okay, we talked about that. find my via satellite.
That's kind of cool. Okay, good. And then we got the carbon footprint updates. blah blah blah blah.
So the iPhone This this is a big one. Okay, Am I going to get the new iPhone the new Watch. My bottom line thoughts on whom this is all functional for: Okay first: I Want to be crystal clear? Yes. I have had every single freaking iPhone since launch I've never skipped an iPhone launch in my career I walk around with two iPhones in my pockets I got an Android as well but these are my daily Runners The airdrop NFC Uh.
connections. The the functionality between the iPhones and the different or the iPads and the different laptops is fantastic. Okay, hands down these are fantastic products. Now before I say if I'm gonna get this iPhone 15 you gotta ask yourself, for whom is the iPhone 15 very useful? Well probably for somebody who's on an older model who's been waiting to upgrade, right? Fantastic.
If you're on an older model, you're waiting to upgrade to the latest and greatest Maybe. Now is that refresh cycle time for you individually? Is there a niche group? A photographer who is going to want more stabilized telephoto photography? Yes. Is that going to be 99 of the iPhone user base? Absolutely not. Is 99 of the iPhone user base going to care that your 24 millimeter lens can go to 28 or 35.? No. So there's a niche audience here in studio. Do I Really think professional photographers are going to put the iPhone on an in-studio tripod? No. Do I Think that some YouTubers who want to use the iPhone in studio and connect to an SSD to hand to an editor are going to be interested in the iPhone 15 for USBC connectivity? Yes, Is that really functional for me? No. Because I just have Canon cameras set up in my studio already and quite frankly, I'm not going to use an iPhone at this point in my studio.
though if I were a newer YouTuber sure I'd use an iPhone in a studio and it's kind of useful. Although I could just airdrop the footage right. If you're local enough to use a a solid state drive, then you're local enough to airdrop. So I don't know if that's convincing enough.
Very very Niche upgrade on the cameras. The actual 5G service appears to be exactly the same. We didn't even hear battery improvements. Okay, the physical changes in terms of the titanium frame.
don't care, the inside being more repairable don't care. Like frankly, the upgrades here, it's tough what you're really doing for 99 of people. What you're saying is if I have the iPhone 14 I'm going to get the iPhone 15 because either I'm a techie and I want the latest and greatest or I really want that switch button that's going to let me quickly switch to shortcuts. Okay, so if you want to spend a thousand bucks again for an iPhone because now you got to go pro right? You got to go to the iPhone 14 pro Uh or sorry the iPhone 15 Pro to be able to get the switchy button here which is going to start at.
Let's see, the max is going to start at 11.99 So if you're going to get the large one, you're at 11.99 and the iPhone 15 Pro is going to be 9.99 Sure, maybe you can get some trade-in value on your four team, but realistically, is it worth a thousand dollars for the little switchy button that is now a shortcut button? Uh, and USBC My answer to that? No. I'm not going to upgrade to the iPhone 15. I Feel horrible saying that as an Apple shareholder, it's in my ETF uh I can't do it I I Like I have to replace my docs. Uh, the benefits for me aren't worth it.
I can upgrade to the iCloud storage Uh, larger storage settings with software like I click a button? Do I really care about that quicker do not disturb setting? Not really. Now the nice thing is that do Not disturb setting does update to all of your devices, right? So if you could do it physically with a button, it changes everything. But what I really care about is a physical switch Anyway, you know. I So I try to just leave the physical switch on loud and then I just have my do not disturb setting the way I want and frankly, changing the Do Not Disturb setting from your watch isn't that hard now. I'm not wearing my watch so it might take a little extra second here. but generally what I do is I just swipe up from the bottom and then I hit the little sleepy mode and then it says do you want to go to Do Not Disturb personal work I change it to work on for an hour on until this evening or on until I leave and it's done automatically updates on all my devices anyway, my iPads, my iPhones and all that. So because that do Not Disturb setting I can control for my watch anyway and it updates on all of my devices really means I don't necessarily need this physical switch and I just just leave it on loud all the time. That's what I've done for the last year.
So for me I hate to say it I can't see going to the 15 as an upgrade from the 14. now if this was my first time getting into the iPhone would I save money and go for the 14. it depends in my situation. If I didn't have an iPhone and I was gonna go for an iPhone I would buy the 15 just because if I was going to go from not having it to having the latest, I'll have the latest right I'll pay the extra you know, three 400 bucks and just to have the latest If I was tighter on money or I wanted to invest that money into stocks instead which is the more prudent, financially responsible thing to do.
Would I go for the iPhone 14 and save three 400 bucks instead of going for the iPhone 15. Absolutely same battery at least based on what we were presenting. Same battery, same 5G You get the always on display. You get the um, uh, what's it called I forgot the little this Dynamic display set up over here at the top where the phone call comes in or the directions.
Most of these things are software updates. Anyway, the camera for 99 of people is basically the same. They didn't even really talk about better video in this one. Yes, maybe the the Um A17 is going to be a little bit of a better chip for some of this graphic processing.
Again though, for 99 of people, is the 15 worth the upgrade from the 14? Again, as an Apple investor, as somebody who's gotten every single new Apple phone, the answer to me is a hard no and ordinarily Lauren and I are the first people like we'll wake up early to go pre-order the new phone. This is not it. It just wasn't encouraging enough and in this kind of consumer environment I Don't see other people going for it either. Okay, now what about the watch? Is the watch worth upgrading to? Uh, and then we got to talk about the stock.
Okay, is the watch worth upgrading to? What are we getting with the new watch? If you already have the Ultra look, If I didn't have the Series 8 and I didn't have the Ultra and I've been waiting to get the watch. Would I get the Ultra 2 or the Series 9 probably? Yeah. I Think these are great devices. They are the best watch to exist.
The iPhone 14 is the best phone to exist. I I have some of the best Android devices as well. So I compare ecosystem wise I know I'm going to piss off some Android folks on that I'm sorry, it's just it's just better and the watch is just better at Apple It is very, very good and I highly recommend the product. But again, if you already have the Watch one, what are you getting? the Ultra Watch one? What are you getting from going from the Ultra Watch one to the Ultra Watch 2. Well, you're not getting any new buttons. You're getting the fact that the frame on the outside is now functional for display. although that might come to you through software updates. Anyway, you're not getting a better battery.
You're not getting better. 5G Service you're getting on board processing of Siri Yeah and that's roughly it. Beyond Then the little tap feature. Those are the two big things that you're getting.
So for me is onboard Siri processing and the tap tap feature. Worth it. Well I'll say if it was just the tap tap feature, the answer would be no I don't really care that much to control with the tap Tab And quite frankly because they showed that the tap tap feature is going to kind of bring up like all the different apps you could cycle between I Kind of suspect that it's going to be one of those things where like oh, I'm going to tap tap to silence a song and then it's actually just going to do a different function like pull up your shelf instead I'm like ah, this is going to be a little frustration and learning curve around using that with. without a doubt it's not enough for me to get a new watch.
No battery life improvements, whatever. And the battery life on the Ultra one is already great. Now as far as onboard Siri processing, is that worth eight hundred dollars? Well, I'll tell you this the times I'm frustrated by Siri not being able to process is when I'm on a run in one specific part of my run where there's no service. What? I love in that part.
to have onboard Siri processing to be able to write a memo down? Absolutely. Is it worth eight hundred dollars? No. So once again, can I justify going from the Ultra one to the Ultra 2? The answer to that is No. So unfortunately for the first time in a very long time, this refresh cycle for me is one.
I'm probably sitting out now I am very excited about the provision still coming early next year I told myself I don't know I can't see myself buying it but I'll probably will I probably will buy the provision just because I I got I Gotta try it I gotta try it. Okay, these upgrades I can visualize I could see how they're going to apply to my life I Can tell you it's not worth the money as far as uh then a newer iPad Would I go for a bigger iPad Hell yeah. Would I go for a new iPad probably didn't hear anything about that at this event. Am I gonna upgrade my iCloud storage? Absolutely.
Uh. am I a little frustrated? uh that? uh that Apple didn't bring us more? Yeah, probably I mean Apple's down 2.2 percent so it kind of expected, but then again, other parts of the market are down as well. The Nasdaq's down one percent test is down two percent so you can't really say this was highly unexpected and that Apple's getting punished for the stock wise. is it worth trimming Apple Okay, that's the last question. So I actually did reduce my Apple exposure about a month-ish ago. uh and I increased my allocation to other stocks that I thought had a bigger upside I do still have Apple exposure Is this event going to change my opinion on Apple Stock? Not really. Do I really think the stock market is pricing in that Apple's revenues are about to take off on all these new product announcements? No? uh. As a result, I Don't really think there's a big need to like Panic sell Apple or oh my gosh, change all the allocations in Apple.
This was heavily expected that this wasn't going to be that incredible of an event or discovery of new products or whatever. It's unfortunate because we'd like to see some new innovation. We did get some new things here, but a lot of the new things that I care about Honestly like hearing about when that Vision Pro was coming early next year. Great news: The iCloud storage upgrades to six TBS and 12T Fantastic.
We needed this. Uh, are the upgrades worth it to go from 14 to 15 without a battery life? Improvement or 5G Improvement or serious camera improvements for normal users? No. Are the watch improvements worth it for no change in battery life on the ultra? Uh, or you know, really any other function other than the tap tap or onboard? Siri Improvement No, it was worth it. No.
so that's my take. Thank you so much for watching my uh recap. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Thanks Not advertise these things that you told us here I Feel like nobody else knows about this? We'll try a little advertising and see how it goes.
Congratulations man, you have done so much. People love you People look up to you Kevin Financial analyst and YouTuber meet Kevin Always great to get your take.
Second time listening through this review. I appreciate you took the time to do this. I learned a lot of details regarding upgrading to either 14 or 15 basic phones.
I updated every year but not this year Kevin
Ultra watch already has the double tap function not new, only new to non-ultras
my 11pro max is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 keeping until i destroy it. it’s everything i’d want out of a phone
The new phones have a Qualcomm X70 modem with greatly improved 5G. This is common knowledge. And the speed test sites are reporting average speed increase of 24%. I’ve also upgraded every year and am not about to stop now.
Ya but you don’t want to look like a peasant on your pj with last years iPhone
Horribly underwhelming.
I'm really excited about the new USBC cable, which means faster data transfers and the possibility to connect external storage. Also, the longer battery life for the Ultra watch is a nice improvement, especially for someone like me who likes to go for runs.
But I'm still not sure if I want to upgrade. I need to think about whether the new features are worth it. Great video!
Let me tell you something, in India if Apple sell plain simple glass for 2000$ . Still they buy it they just need the freakin "logo"😂
throughout the segment of iphone15 intro, all I heard was "titanium titanium titanium" literally the least I care about
Nah I really want to test this new silicone. I love new gaming possibilities 🤷♂️
Good summary 👍
Hu Wei is beating Apple
Stop saying 5G. Embarrassing
I've been on a 2 year upgrade cycle for a long time now, and the devices have been so good that now I'm wondering if that's going to move to 3 years.
Extremely pathetic. Xiaomi & Samsung are supremely fabulous. Have all & much more than the 'fruit' phone
Most YouTubers claimed the 15s would get bigger batteries. I am disappointed that did not happen.
Maybe it was good for Apple to pouse between the upgrades. Apple stands for big steps in innovation (like touch-screen, etc.) which I dont see it now. I am sure usage-driven innovation is not at the end and we still have room to grow.
Engineering 1. Design 0. No change to the iPhone form factor is so boring. Hard to get excited when the biggest news is a charging port
Engineering 1. Design 0. No change to the iPhone form factor is so boring. Hard to get excited awhen the biggest news is a charging port
USB-C will make it much more attractive to switch from Android!
The iPhone 15 pro models reportedly have the Snapdragon X70 5G modem which is an improvement from the 14 Pros. They renewed Qualcomm agreement through 2026 so next year pro will most likely have the X75 with the agreement ending in 2026 if Apple can get their in house modems done by then and they may test it a version of the ultra watch first before a mass product like the iPhone or cheaper watches.
Nobody cares if you're disappointed or not, its APPLE.
Take the money you would buy a new IPhone 15 / Pro Max and invest in Apple shares !!! Defo a big disappointment
Will be getting the 15 Pro Max in Titanium Blue, but disappointed there is no iPhone 15 Ultra after all the rumors. Generally underwhelmed by the color options this year. Most looking forward to Apple Vision Pro and a larger iPad Pro if the rumors are true.
Kevin wants to make a bigger dip on stock to buy it up.
I’ll upgrade when you can fully use satellite service and not just an emergency text
Was the tap tap feature not already there ?
This used to be called hand gestures and was already available on every watch.
Could you not just say Siri answer the call , haha 😂
Just buy the Huawei Mate pro 60 Kevin
Kevin talking about spending 100 dollars in usb c cables and saying it’s expensive but has a 5 million dollar plan 😂
I'll never buy an iPhone with that gapping hole on the screen. Why didn't they just make a "Dynamic Notch?" Same capabilities but not interfering with screen space.
apple aint been the same since steve jobs died
Kevin I have a iPhone 12 Pro Max and was waiting to get the iPhone 15 pro Max. Is it better to save a few hundred bucks and upgrade to the 14 Pro Max and maybe just wait till the 16? Thanks