The Apple iPhone Event was (mostly) Disappointing [Summary].

hey everyone me Kevin here for today's Apple event Roundup we're going to start with the good and we're going to go to the bad of what happened at the event first things first I'm just going to go ahead and show you my phone what I like is using the action button on the iPhone 15 and so when I hold down that action button I actually have a shortcut that pops up and it lets me turn off inverted colors if I have inverted colors on which I do sometimes for opening up social media and I don't want to get distracted on it so I have invert color automatically come on sometimes I want to turn it off so I could use the action button and then I could tap to turn the inverted color off I can activate one of my different SIM cards that I have since I have eims and once you have more than two uh you could easily switch around by using an action button move like this you could also quickly go to Voice GPT or type GPT or video or photo one of the downsides is my action button is no longer as quick for taking a photo and so now I hit my action button and then I have to tap to go to the either photo or video and it's a little bit slower so when I heard about the capacitive touch control which is actually apparently going to work with mag safe as well I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the idea of adding another button that I could then use on the side uh to essentially use as a camera shutter or to change aperture or whatever I think this is great it's going to get me into my camera action faster and it's wonderful for babies and children which as you know I got seven children so I'm kind of a big fan of this now with that said I like that we now have this uh Studio mic feature where we can adjust which directional uh well I guess Direction the microphone is able to pick up audio from Studio mix gives the effect of a recording in a professional studio complete with sound dappening walls effectively eliminating re no it's your grandma's buak times to so that could be inframe or surround sound kind of neat for filming video especially in a noisy place if you're trying to direct the mic at one spot rather than getting all that background noise some of that has already automatically happened but this is just giving you a little bit more of a software control to direct the phone towards what you want to do so big fan of that uh I do last year a appreciate that they came out with a spatial photography update that was one of the reasons I wanted to get the iPhone 15 mostly I thought hey this will be great for memories with children and I've definitely been filming spatial videos and I enjoy putting them on the Vision Pro though that's one of the few things that I like division Pro for probably more useful division Pro for editing boring Word documents but I have found that the Vision Pro is really exhausting to wear frequently especially if you're on a treadmill because that walking motion puts a lot of strain of that weight on your head and it's kind of annoying so there is a little bit of a limitation with how much I'm with how much I'm using that Vision Pro for but it's somewhat useful for that creative spatial photography or that spatial video big fan of that uh as far as the technological increases for the iPhone 16 Pro looks like you're getting a or 17% increase in memory bandwidth 15% faster than the a17 pro which is basically what's in this device I don't actually see that as being that meaningful of a difference I understand it's just a one-year model so hey 15 to 177% that's great but I don't know if I'm going to notice the difference in that so I'm not sure that I really need to upgrade Here For Speed or battery life I do realize the bezel is declining and so we're getting a slightly larger screen size by about 2/10 of an inch diagonally not bad I'm a big fan of that I don't know if it's worth upgrading I guess hey if you can get up to 1,000 bucks uh in for uh tradein value hey maybe it's worth it one of the downsides that I found though with upgrading my phone is I have so many twoof Factor authentication applications like duo or Microsoft or Synology or Google oth or ubiquity and every time I change devices have to go through and redo all of these and unfortunately if you go through and redo all of them and you do it like you forget one of them you kind of get screwed and sometimes you get locked out of systems that you really need to be in resetting them otherwise can sometimes be a pain them but so the iPhone upgrade cycle has gotten a little bit less desirable for me because of all of those device specific two factors that are somewhat annoying I also last time I upgraded from the 14 to 15 had some issu getting some of my eims transferred over so then I had to had end up having to go into specific stores like the T-Mobile store and I wasn't super excited or jazzed about that so uh as far as some of the other updates we got from the iPhone 16 Pro supposedly we're getting a better thermal casing which is good because I've actually found the iPhone 15 overheat sometimes by doing matterport scans which is a little bit of a bummer just shouldn't be overheating on that uh but happens so uh with that I don't know is the iPhone really going to be enough Sizzle for me to upgrade let's just say I'm not spamming the refresh button right now being interested in upgrading this is going to be more of one where I'm kind of going to sit like all right maybe I'll get the motivation one day but that faster button on the side is it worth the headache of going through the upgrade and I don't know usually I end up doing it but right now I'm not feeling jazzed enough to to do it for these upgrades I like the extra button but that's about all I'm getting and I don't know that I want to go through the effort solely for that button especially since with that action button that I already have from the 15 model I can already get to my photos relatively quickly now is it possible that if you had the 14 or prior where you don't already have the action button and now you'd be upgrading to the action button and that capacitive touch button would that potentially be worth it probably more worth it mostly because I find having the physical button to get to uh the camera a lot easier than having to like hold down the bottom right corner of your home screen to get to that little camera icon that's one of the things at least that I found the iPhone 16 uh obviously they mention 30% less power 3 nanometer technology in the chip optimized for AI That's great but the iPhone 15s are expected to be able to use the same AI Tech and we heard a lot of the AI updates from the prior AI event like the on board generative AI search your photos search within videos that you've taken it's safe and it'll be audited the storage of its systems will be audited that's great but we heard a lot of this information at the prior event uh the AI event and we still haven't seen some of those updates released Beyond if you are one of the rare beta users that wants to use the beta update software and we still don't have a dedicated time frame in terms of when we're actually actually going to get those specific updates at least outside of beta the first set of features will be available in beta next month with more features rolling out in the months to come so not particularly excited about uh like Hey where's our AI like when is it finally going to show up even though I think apple is going in the right direction with apple intelligence big fan of on device AI I'm not as big of a fan with how long it's taking for them to actually release it I like the idea of oh I'm going to take a picture of something and then be able to Google it but I can also do that today with uh Google search you could search by uploading a picture anyway I did think the hearing protection option uh that they're coming out with in conjunction with the Apple um airpod pros and the iPhone where they can now do a hearing test for you I thought that was kind of cool but I don't think anybody really under 40 is going to care I don't really care that much but then again I'm also uh 32 so you know I'm under that 40 range anyway uh I didn't see a reason to upgrade the airpods Max uh either as well as the airpods like none of the features I heard here were encouraging I did like that on the new Watch series 10 you could play music through the actual device that was cool but again I don't know that I'm going to use that too often for example this personalized spatial audio they've already had that feature USBC has already existed Beyond lightning so also not so enthused on those upgrades now I was most looking forward to the Apple watch Ultra upgrade and I didn't really see a big upgrade here either now I have the Apple watch I think this is the first Ultra uh and yeah Apple watch Ultra this is the first uh generation of the Apple watch Ultra so I believe at this point this is now 2 years old and it's a great watch I love it but I didn't see anything that made me want to upgrade this again for the second year in a row I didn't upgrade last year when they had the tappy thing I just didn't think it would function very well so far from what I talked to about this with people people like yeah no it's not really worth it uh didn't upgrade to that one last year and I don't feel compelled to upgrade this year either mostly yeah cool get a new dark color but I'm okay with this color I also don't really care about the new watch bands because I think they're a little overpriced I personally really like this watch band that I found on Amazon hash not sponsored only sponsor around here is life insurance you can get into as little 5 minutes by going to metkevin.com lifee but look at that I think this is a really cool watch case right or um watch band right here because it has sort of that integrated wood and then that metal look and so I think that's really cool and this was like 20 something bucks on Amazon I had to scroll to like page five to find the darn thing uh but anyway I thought it was worth it uh so I bought it it was a little bit of a pain in the butt to size though so just a heads up like you're going to sit there at your kitchen table for a while going why did I do this to myself uh I mean it's a cheapy so what do you expect right uh I could quickly find out what that order looked like as well oh yeah here it is okay so this was my order right here on screen yeah $24.99 I'll put a link in the description here but I bought this uh in July and I've really enjoyed it since then uh okay otherwise uh let's see what other notes that we had here from Apple we've got uh jet black for the regular watch and they're adding sleep apnea and snorkeling updates same thing though with atrial fibrillation uh you know sleep tracking loud sounds ovulation I mean these are all somewhat old we've already known about these things the idea now that the new Apple watch series 10 is uh the thinnest watch ever and it's 40% brighter from a side or angled viewing angle okay I mean I guess if I had like an old version I was going to upgrade anyway great that's kind of how I feel about all of these updates do I think any of these things are actually going to Spur some kind of super cycle of upgrades to be super beneficial for Apple stock unfortunately no I don't see any any of these upgrades being that critically impressive or important uh or enthusia for me to say oh yeah this this is it this is the moment I've been waiting for uh so for me I think most of these devices are sadly a pass uh I'm a little bit disappointed in saying that because I honestly I was looking forward to upgrading the watch it's been 2 years but oh well that's not going to happen and I just don't think going through the effort of all of this res setup on the iPhone 16 for maybe 15% faster or more efficient is really going to be worth it for me the only thing that might one day convince me is that capacitive touch uh for opening up my photos app or taking photos or whatever but I'm still not convinced that that's going to be enough for me to actually pull the trigger on the order button that's my take anyway thank you so much for watching have a good one out there goodbye good luck let me know what your comments are down below and check out our paid partner with life insurance at metkevin.com life insurance you can get in as little as 5 minutes thanks so much bye these things that you told us here I feel like nobody else knows about this we'll 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 PA there financial analyst and YouTuber meet Kevin always great to get your take even though I'm a licensed financial adviser licensed real estate broker and becoming a stock broker this video is not personalized advice for you it is not tax legal or otherwise personalized advice tailored to you this video provides 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