Matisyahu's Blog

Unfortunately I didn’t get to watch the event live (it is really early on Wednesday and I wasn’t going to get up at 5 am to watch it) but I was able to give the presentation a quick browse through picking up the key points that were raised. For me, the biggest ‘feature’ (if you can call it that) is the move to USB-C and the increase transfer speeds for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max because it supports the USB 3 protocol (vs the non-Pro which uses the USB 2 protocol – which IMHO isn’t too bad given that even at 480Mbps I don’t see it being an issue for the majority of those who purchase the non-Pro model).

Although I have a Nothing Phone 1, I much prefer the Apple ecosystem so I’ll be looking at moving to the iPhone 15 Pro Max in the next month or so – I may even buy it as an early ‘end of the year holiday’ present for myself where I’ll go for the 256GB model. I’ll avoid doing the whole 12/24/36 months interest free deals because they’re such a nuisance if one tries to make additional payments. Oh, and I’ll also get a nice leather wallet case from Snake Hive too – learned my mistake a few years ago via a cracked screen which cost a small fortune to fix. With that being said, given the tight financial conditions, I’m going to hold off from any dreams at the moment and focus on getting my financial house in order – dreams are good but being on a stable financial footing is even better.

Side note: I’ve gone back to the old Reddit design and now I can see why people prefer it over the new design – originally I thought people liked it because either a) they never like anything new or b) being contrarian – going against the prevailing orthodoxy. I always assumed the slow opening of tabs wanting to open posts in new tabs was the result of Safari being slow but the moment I moved to the old Reddit design everything was so much faster. From loading pages, to loading posts in new tabs (which I do when viewing photos so I can quickly flick through them) not to mention the fact that it uses a whole lot les memory and isn’t buggy (recent fiasco was changing my email address to my iCloud ‘hide my email’ and found the new design either wouldn’t work or if it did work the link sent was broken – when I did it through the old website everything worked).

Regarding the memory message that comes up when using Safari, at first I was blaming Apple but now I blame the website for failing to build an efficient website that doesn’t guzzle down memory like I guzzle down Pepsi Max. Problems that I attribute to the browser I have found have more to do with the website being buggy and using Chrome on Google websites is no guarantee that the experience won’t be buggy either – see my recent post about YouTube shorts skipping the next video if you click on ‘Don’t recommend this channel’. I hope that a combination of what the Webcompat project are doing combined with web developers brining their websites inline with Webcompat should address those issues – at least that is what I hope.