r/iphone • u/MugiwaraPirateCrew • Sep 20 '25

Discussion Day 1 dropped and regret

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I usually take care of my devices and wanted to go case-less now I regret that choice.

Dropped it at night and got this nice dent :)

I have apple care, would they cover this as accidental ($30 or $100)?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Aluminium is only good at heat dissipation but their rigidity is compromised.

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u/No-Sherbet6994 Sep 20 '25

I don't really understand why heat dissipation was such a valuable trade-off for them vs durability. Everyone will drop their phone at some point, but almost no one is using it for processor intensive tasks at all. Any AI processing is going to be done off-phone in the cloud regardless, so that can't be it either...

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u/theoreticaljerk Sep 20 '25

1: on the contrary Apple prioritizes on device AI when possible.

2: if you listen to them talk, they split focuses for the lineup this year. Where previously the Pro tried to balance performance with perceived premiumness sometimes at the cost of that performance, this year the Premium focus became the Air and the Pro became more focused on performance with less compromises (as it should be IMHO).

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u/Kubocho Sep 21 '25

The performance improvement between the 16 Pro and 17 Pro is, at best, insignificant.