The Worst Hot Takes in Tech

[@mach1neg]

Not editing the 4:3 section of this video into a 4:3 video is a criminally missed opportunity

[@kevisakhrie4665]

I was actually anticipating for it to happen.

[@N_g_er]

Lack of preparation and/or caring

[@woapful]

nah i liked the visuals he showed

[@junaidijaz2067]

@@N_g_erI wouldn’t say lack of caring. I just don’t think he thought of it.

[@yasielromero8236]

​@@N_g_erwhy was this so funny to me 😂😂

[@declanlacey337]

As someone who worked at a phone store when the iPhone mini's were a thing, I wanted to add this thought. While we definitely sold more of the bigger iPhones then the minis, the biggest advantage that the mini has was it's ability for people to make the choice to upgrade their phone. For example we had a lot of older folks that would come in with an old iPhone that was about the same size as the mini. But they did not want a bigger phone, they simply refused. But once I showed them the mini, they choose it almost 100% of the time. Because even though the battery was not great, it was still better than an old iPhone 6 or 7.

[@Demontoastslayer]

Also it's nice to have a smaller phone when you don't have gigantic hands and are a smaller person

[@Tron_BR]

You are right but capitalism only allow profit products

[@A_GodApple]

The issue is the battery sacrifice is not worth a 100$ savings for 99% of people

[@AlexanderBlumenau]

@@A_GodAppleI would actually pay MORE for a high-end SMALL phone the size of a mini. The sacrifice in battery is well worth the fact of having a phone that fits every pocket and that I can use fully with one hand only. I currently refuse to update from my iphone mini as the current ones are just oversized bricks.

[@A_GodApple]

@@AlexanderBlumenau that’s true but thing is that people who think that is small minority. I personally just take whichever one is best value, which the iPhone mini is not unless it’s on sale for some reason

[@nugget6644]

Huge hamburgers should be wider, not taller.

[@bradystrouse6422]

How would that even work, when u add more toppings it gets taller, so you would need to take off toppings to actually make it wider and just make them spotty

[@sammyking7806]

@@bradystrouse6422 They just need some of those hydraulic press things you see in youtube vids here they crush stuff, when hamburgers get super tall its like impossible to eat them without smushing them anyways lol

[@vincecs]

@@bradystrouse6422 just make them longer, like a long chicken burger 👀

[@twoshirts1842]

​@@bradystrouse6422we talking patty, Brady.

[@Zoominguy007]

As for eating them it would be more convenient, but they would also look less appetizing

[@toreole]

The cybertruck comment is especially hilarious now Like by now everybody knows that it is a ridiculously bad product. It breaks when it gets wet, it breaks when you accelerate, it breaks the drivers bones in a crash, the features arent complete, it has so many issues. It is absolute overpriced as hell.

[@weatherlands]

The PT Barnhamobile: there’s a sucker born every minute!

[@scorpioigor]

It's also the most hideous car that has ever been invented.

[@marcovargas6205]

Also they recently stopped taking orders of the $62 thousand RWD Cybertruck. Making the AWD model that's $93 thousand the cheapest model.

[@shockwave1xD]

I think the difference between smartphone and smartwatch is often, that let's say for a weekend trip you need to take a second charger with you, you also want to wear it overnight for the sleep tracking, etc. All of those things you on't do with a phone. So I think 2 full days should be the minimum.

[@KamranYounis1]

"you also want to wear it overnight for the sleep tracking", useless feature just go to sleep bro 💀💀

[@JoshF848]

I’ve rarely had a problem with smartwatch batteries, you just need to adapt your routine to make sure it’s getting charged at the right time. Once I got used to taking it off for 30 minutes at a time when I’m at my desk to top up the battery, no issues wearing it through the rest of the day and night. Obviously any batter improvements will be welcomed but I don’t think charging it once a day instead of once a week is a particularly big deal.

[@Tom_Stevens617]

Just charge it while you shower or right before bed, and carrying an extra charger's not hard lol

[@Ziogref]

​@@Tom_Stevens617my Galaxy watch 6 classic can last 36 hours with the always on screen and constant heart rate and stress detection on and never turning on battery saver mode. I worked out charging my watch in the car works really well. I only drive 15min to work and 15min home so that keeps it topped up during the week. I have a couple longer drives so that will get it mostly to full.

[@Lepinkainen_]

If you leave for a weekend trip, you'll most likely grab it from a charger on Friday morning. And now the 48 hours only lasts until Sunday morning. Now you want 50 hours so it'll last all the way home on Sunday. And then we're at a point where it lasts just enough to not remember to charge often and you'll curse your watch when it runs out of power in the middle of the day . "Full workday" + a fast charger that's easy to carry along with your phone charger is the key if you're doing overnight trips and want to charge anyway. Anything beyond that and nothing under a full workweek is really practical, because you lose the routine for charging.

[@coledouglas6105]

I get the 1-day battery life thing... especially cause you charge everything overnight anyway but it's annoying when they advertise these sleep data functions when it's not realistic to track because you have to charge them overnight...

[@denisi1283]

You need 30min only to charge them though. I think Marques himself told in one video it fits perfectly in his “wakeup” routine.

[@castromabetha6021]

This is only acceptable because of people that use or used to iPhone products 😂 then you tend to ccept what you are given

[@yeetisnomore]

@@1da1a172 this. absolutely this.

[@nmsumike]

@@1da1a172 agree

[@pradyumnalanka7344]

It will l​@@denisi1283

[@DeanStephen]

The problem with the one-day battery life standard is these watch companies all promote sleep and health apps. What good are those if you are NOT wearing your watch at night because you are charging it? Also, what good are features like fall detection and heart alerts, if you are NOT wearing your watch at night when a great bulk of those event occur?

[@timloader]

Yeah but even with longer battery life, you’re still going to have to charge it and not be wearing it, and if you’re already in a daily routine with your phone, doing it with your watch is not that hard.

[@frosthammer917]

@@timloader Health and sleep apps would still have functionality if you could use it every other or maybe every 2/3 nights. But the fact that you can basically never use them is the issue.

[@timloader]

@@frosthammer917 it’s not an issue though - there are plenty of times in a day when a person doesn’t need their watch on and can charge. For me, I charge it when I’ve arrived home for the night and before I go to bed, works perfectly.

[@WatanabeNoTsuna.]

What are y'all about?! I sleep with my watch (and it's an old one, a Galaxy 4), and charge it in the morning while I'm showering and getting ready. It charges in about an hour. For most of them, it's one day as in 24 hours, not a work day.

[@eptic-c]

Bro you charge the god damn thing in 30 minutes, don't tell me you don't got time for that while you brush your teeth and shower for the night.. Come on

[@lupolinar]

That the Cybertruck got a street license is wild to me. That thing is a pedestrian killer with all its hard, sharp edges.

[@grievuspwn4g3]

because a Ford F150 is subject to car regulations. The cybertruck seems to be in the same US regulatory segment as a Super Duty (the truck where the petrol version is a 7 litre pushrod, and the diesels are bus engines).

[@888fluffy]

It's illegal where I live. Not enough people say how it's also very dangerous for the driver. The front of the car doesn't crumple, meaning that when you hit something head-on the driver crumples instead of the car.

[@notyourdamnbusiness8795]

@@888fluffy ....good.

[@Powered1Buttercup]

I mean the US seems to have shit regulations with a lot of things, I’ve seen suv’s that are way too fucking big to be in the road that aren’t like vans, they’re dangerous but still allowed there. It’s wild, so I’m not surprised the cybertruck was allowed to release at all

[@oliviersavard8676]

​@@Powered1Buttercupmeanwhile you can't import anything more recent than 25 years old in the us because sAfEtY even though it's obviously because manufacturers don't want people to buy their own stuff elsewhere, same for the various states outright banning kei trucks for sAfEtY when it's obvious it's because side by side manufacturers are lobbying since a kei truck can do pretty much everything a side by side does, but better and for much cheaper

[@Sonderax]

Main argument for 3+ day smart watches is that unlike a phone a lot of us will wear a watch overnight to track sleep. If my watch lasts just 1-1.5 days it means after waking up and going about my day then sleeping, my watch needs to be charged before i start my day again or might even die while asleep. My phone isnt doing anything at night so makes sense to be 1 day battery, but watches can be worn for long periods to track health and stuff which a phone doesnt

[@Natsukashii1111]

That's why the less smart smart watch that can last a week are pretty great. Health and sport tracking but no frivolous app and it looks like a normal smart watch.

[@swiftrealm]

Exactly. It's a good take, and the Apple Watch Ultra is proof Apple can still pack a ton of features and have it last 36 hours.

[@RNRAGST]

true but it also doesnt take that longt to charge the apple watch. personally a battery charge time of 1.5 to 2 days is idea, Enough for one day, sleep and then work day until you get home incase you forget to charge it

[@DreamOfFlying]

I load my Apple watch when I shower and whenever I want to relax. It's more than enough time to get it fully loaded.

[@rewind48]

Charge it while you're in the shower...... I have never not done this.

[@chikedonaldibewuike4867]

Marques leaving the Bomb hot sauce as part of the setup for this video is just plain hilarious😂😂

[@mobtaghabejaoui4808]

and the best smartphones of the year awards right behind it!

[@GameOver-nm2us]

@@Doshinkyo I was wondering why there was a sauce in the first place

[@1230mkelly]

And strategic via being paid to do so. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is in that background without a check made out to him!

[@datamoshii]

bc hes talking ab hot takes

[@Alias_Anybody]

Throwing in a hot take about smartwatches: Health tracking is the only USP they actually have, and that aspect suffers when they have to be charged daily, especially sleep tracking.

[@Stecbine]

This is my question... I do not have a smart watch yet but I do want one for two big reasons sleep and fitness/health tracking as the primary reasons with texts and other features as the secondary reasons. So I must have the watch on when I am sleeping to track everything but I also need it on me throughout the day to track my daily activities so when do I charge it??? 1 day battery is just a no go for me.

[@romainsmiley7138]

@@Stecbine Thing is smartwatches charge fairly fast. I have a iwatch I bought second hand and use it to monitor my sleep and fitness/health tracking. I just put it to charge during my dinner and it always last me the following night and day.

[@CapnSurvivalist]

My fitbit lasts 5-7 days on a charge and it takes like 30 minutes to get to full. I love it. (It's the Sense 2 btw)

[@sergioolivares3273]

​@@Stecbinewhat I do is that I charge my watch when I wake up. I take a shower, brush my teeth, have breakfast and check some social media on my phone. By the time I'm ready to leave for work the watch is close to 100% battery. Currently using the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.

[@Alias_Anybody]

@@romainsmiley7138 It's still annoying that you have to think about it at all. Like, if you use it like a phone strapped to your wrist, one day is probably fine, but if your main objective is fitness tracking (or even using it as a tool, some models have more advanced navigation functions for trekking and stuff) the models which last one or two weeks on one charge are VASTLY superior. Less chance to miss something cause it's empty at the wrong time.

[@RJ-Isaac-TSOML]

A lot of cinema grade cameras have a function called "Open Gate" which allows for a full sensor read off. On the ARRI thus is about a 3:2. The final video is cropped down to the final delivery aspect ratio but this gives a bit more flexibility in editing.

[@ThePentosin]

Yeah but they also has a much bigger sensor and the optics to support it. So less of a penalty to image quality when cropping larger portion of the image away.

[@alexanderkupke920]

Many people do not even understand where those formats come from. A camera lens would best work with a round image, or equally cropped, a square one. Those old 3:2 or 4:3 ratios come from old traditional film or TV formats. As we all know TV's moved to 16:9 in between, while cinemas usually use even wider formats. The idea for a cinema being to present the movie as immersive as possible. Meaning to as much as possible fill out our eyes natural field of view. Vertical videos are just a trend for taking and viewing on mobile devices, as that is the most natural or convenient format to hold a smart phone. But would you want to watch those on a TV or even a traditional personal computer? Funny thing, GoPro has integrated a square format to their cameras, meant for exactly that purpose, to be cropped afterwards.

[@RJ-Isaac-TSOML]

@alexanderkupke920 I agree. I think a square sensor would be the best option for smartphones. It would be cool to have a "reframe" feature to change the aspect ratio after the video is recorded.

[@alexanderkupke920]

@@RJ-Isaac-TSOML Yeah it would get you the best of both worlds. Or make even another format common ;). Thinking about still fotografy, I think there was a number of middle format cameras that took square images around 6x6 cm on film. But in the digital world, there is yet another one I would have to see besides the GoPro doing this.

[@RJ-Isaac-TSOML]

@alexanderkupke920 this really only makes sense for smartphones. I don't expect to see a square sensor on a mirrorless or professional video camera. The sensor is a very expensive part of the camera and bigger sensors cost more money per square mm since they have more waste. But on a tiny smartphone sensor, this will be less of an issue.

[@JWRandall24]

In hindsight, I really meant 4:3 is my favourite and a more versatile aspect ratio. Aesthetically I like the focus it puts on a subject and how it makes you more considerate about composition. Cropping in on square video, treating it like 70mm IMAX film, is probably closer to an average best.

[@saketbakshi4235]

essentially you like zack snyder's justice league

[@JWRandall24]

@@saketbakshi4235 I think it looked relatively pretty but that can't hold my attention for 4 hours... The Whale is a better example utilising aspect ratio artistically

[@benwilliams1267]

70mm is actually just under 70mm right? Because of the audio capture used on original 70mm film - but they kept the term for IMAX film that is the same aspect ratio but isn’t actually 70mm- I think?

[@JWRandall24]

@@benwilliams1267 the internet tells me it's 69.6mm across, which just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily

[@conradrosgaard3481]

I honestly think that Academy Ratio is superior in both movies and video. Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes Widescreen or Cinemascope is better, but only if there’s a reason behind it. Most screens are 16:9 and that makes it make more sense that the most used aspect ratio is 16:9 as well, but a lot of people (KZbinrs and Filmmakers) make it look like it took the top off Academy Ratio instead of adding to the side of it. People like Wes Anderson can definitely understand what ratio to use and when, but most KZbinrs don’t really put a lot of focus on that *aspect* of their video and therefore I believe that Academy Ratio should be the standard. You can obviously do what you want, but unless you’re Chung-hoon Chung or Wes Anderson, mby just stick to Academy Ratio and let it put focus on the subject as is usually preferred in KZbin videos!

[@gmg90]

I think the smartwatch thing is a good take since there are also people who want to wear theirs for sleep tracking. So knowing that your watch will last during the night is much better than feeling the anxiety of having to charge it enough to get through.

[@Kaizagade]

My watch tells me to charge for 10 minutes to make it through the night, if you set your time you’re wanting to sleep it will do all the working out and reminders for you. I find it super useful. But as long as my Apple Watch has 20% before I go to bed, I know it will last and have battery when I wake up and then I charge it while getting ready in the morning :)

[@CGingerbreadman]

I wear mine every night as an alarm for the morning. Much nicer waking up to a vibrating wrist than any audio alarm, and it doesn’t disturb others. I just end up charging mine a bit before I go to bed

[@gmg90]

@@Kaizagade My watch reminds me of charging it before going to bed as well. It's a pretty neat little feature tbh.

[@gmg90]

@CGingerbreadman I do the same except up to the point of having my phone silent. So, every morning my phone just blast me with its loud alarm and I dismiss it on my watch.

[@rookiepaw7305]

@@CGingerbreadman This is a great idea, I'm going to keep this in mind when I get my watch back.

[@somogyiimi]

only one concern: I had Apple Watch and a Garming Watch at the same time. Yeah, Apple had that 1.5 days battery life but Garmin had almost 2 weeks and never felt that Apple is so much "smarter". That's why I feel that one was a good take.

[@krystian4725]

It’s because Apple is a smart watch and garmin is sport watch with smart watch features I would call it

[@rodrigojds]

both watches really aren't comparable though.

[@nikbivation]

EXACTLY

[@sir_whocampsalot2876]

Huawei makes some watches too that can easily last for more than a week, but i dont feel like an apple watch does that much more than a Huawei watch for it to justify having such a shit lasting battery

[@cameraman8329]

@@sir_whocampsalot2876 its honestly fine dude. charge it in the shower and while reading before bed. never had issues with anything and you dont spend time without the watch except when you dont need it. its an amazing watch and has insane app support compared to huawei

[@JoelMurphy77]

If Apple made discrete GPUs, they'd probably only serve the workstation GPU market and charge $10000.

[@cromefire_]

And that one only does ProRes and one Apple 3D software and gaming isn't at all supported which is why it's good at those that... They just optimize their stuff differently, like an NVIDIA A100 or especially something like an AMD MI300X (that one doesn't do any graphics/3D calculation). If you want high performance in a small envelope you better optimize for very few things...

[@rano12321]

apple needs to make a good gpu backend api first

[@pinkchckn]

Vertical videos sure have their place, but horizontal will always be preferred because as humans we have two eyes that are horizontally alligned, and much more horizontal periferical vision than vertical. It feels natural and comfortable to see things horizontally.

[@Inbal_Feuchtwanger]

Yeah to me 16:9 is the happy medium and 21:9 resolution is the best for movies.

[@escapegoat32]

There’s a reason 99% of panoramic photos are horizontal

[@kissu_io]

The 4:3 ratio is basically what is called Open Gate on some cameras (like Panasonic) that indeed grabs an image with the whole chip and is then friendly to edit for both landscape and portrait videos (avoids dirty result or the need to shot a 2nd take). 👌🏻

[@BlindMango]

This (or something like it) is really what needs to happen to compensate for people who don’t know how to film

[@daniellrodriguezs]

MTF sensors are 4:3 aspect ratio. But full frame sensors are 3:2

[@CC39]

I wonder why sensors weren’t manufactured in circle or octagon shape for utilising all lights entered through the lens. 1:1 is the best proportion.

[@SalmanRavoof]

@@CC39 manufacturing efficiency.

[@ojtheaviator1795]

​@@CC39 also, consider the history. Photographic film and later movie film was rectangular. How else could you subdivide a strip without wasting film? Since everyone got used to rectangular imagery, digital sensors followed suit

[@ctrlcf]

The problem with the Apple Watch is how can I realistically use sleep tracking and have enough battery for my watch to get me through the day

[@skizm5804]

charge it before you go to sleep every other day. works for me

[@IncapableKakistocrat]

I have a series 6. I just leave it on charge for an hour or so before bed, and then again for a little while the next morning while I'm getting ready for work or whatever.

[@Optora.]

That would annoy the f out of me. My HUAWEI watch gt3 pro I use on iPhone cost me 200$, made of titanium and real saphire crystal (Apple Watch Never had that after Series 2 always glass mix) If I wear 24/7 with sleep/sport tracking it runs at least 7 days.

[@AndrewKarmy]

20watt charging while you shower gets me more than 24hrs on my Apple Watch SE (gen 2). From full to 10% I'm able to go 40-48hrs

[@Solid_Fuel]

just buy 2😁

[@pkoppula]

Showing everyone why you're the best in tech videos. Great video, Marques 👍🏽

[@shanef6884]

I absolutely love the 12 mini. I got mine on release and it served me well until it randomly lost all wireless function for some reason the day before the 15 released. I went to the apple store that day to get service. Since it was the last in-store support day of the 12 mini, they were missing the part that needed to be replaced. They only had one 12 mini in stock which happened to be the same color as the one I had so they gave me the new 12 mini for $200 which was the price of the missing part. I will always love this phone even if the battery is a little lackluster.

[@Zacmmmmmm]

proving his point

[@parthibanarivalagan3119]

12 mini user here , from my experience people have never noticed my phone as an iphone , it’s a plus for me because of its size & when someone do notices it , they use it and they love the compact form factor that my mini has and they compare it with their big screens, as a con this phone needs regular charging between days , since an older phone might need those frequent charging between days , i had no problems with it & i developed a routine to charge it frequently and this con kinda disappeared for me

[@dudebroguymate]

It's a real shame that they discontinued the Mini. I have a 13 Pro and the standard iPhone size is already at the edge of usability for me so there's no way I could use a bigger phone. I would have loved to have a Mini option. I guess all that's left now for small phone enjoyers is that one Zenfone?

[@Karaoke-Bear]

Watching this on my iphone 12 mini. My backup phone is the first gen SE. these phones are so convenient to carry.

[@PAshish-dh5fk]

Why dont u go for 13 mini if battery is such an issue for u

[@_Makanko_]

I'm guessing the issue with the take on smartwatch is a lot of companies are touting health and sleep tracking but when you don't have a battery that can last you the entire day and night cycle..

[@jayshukla7866]

David's idea of an ankle bracelet instead of a Smartwatch resonated with me a lot. Wear a normal classy watch and while having something discreet to track your health and sleep, you can even have a haptic motor of some kind so you get notifications, but you have to check your phone to read it.

[@J_S_246]

Fitbit Flex 2 was it… unfortunately, they didn’t make newer versions

[@electronights3589]

So basically a WHOOP

[@LexanderMiller]

Yeah, the issue is that wearing a smart device anywhere not visible is a hit for the company.

[@kermdeezy5330]

I collect luxury watches which can be a pretty snobby scene, and even most of those guys all agree there's nothing wrong with wearing one on each wrist.

[@chillichompa34]

smart ring...?

[@pilcrow1546]

While 4:3 videos might not be the best thing, I think 4:3 monitors for working, are. Vertical space just allows you to be more productive! However most of the time a 16:9 flipped to portrait just isn't wide enough. My ancient 20" 2007FPb oriented vertically as part of a set up is my absolute favourite monitor to work on. And I wish manufacturers would still make such things today.

[@georgioszampoukis1966]

Honestly 1:1 sensors would actually make the most sense. They can make the most out of every circular lens while also allowing for endless cropping capabilities. Shoot everything, then later decide what portion you need.

[@TeethCollect]

Really wish videos shot naturally at 1:1; as a video editor it was always a pain cropping usual horizontal videos to vertical for TikTok lol

[@hadensnodgrass3472]

The problem with that is that people want to use all of their sensor. It would require mindfulness that you are going to crop the video later. Otherwise, it will look wonky with way too much headroom or the subject way off to one side.

[@t0astface]

I know I don't get all the pixels I could but I always shoot in 1:1 on my phone so I never have to worry about what orientation I'm holding my phone. Kind of annoys me I can't shoot landscape or portrait regardless of the orientation of my phone (I dunno anything about cameras so I don't know the technical limitation here) but shooting 1:1 makes this really easy to not worry about.

[@slipknotfya]

​​@@t0astfacethe limitation is that the camera sensors put in phones are a 4:3 rectangle. That means that shooting in 16:9 or 1:1 does not use a section of the original rectangle, effectively losing vision that possibly could've been used in the frame. If you were to take a picture in 4:3 and 16:9 in the same phone, the 4:3 will have more pixels and have a wider field of vision simply because you did utilize all the pixels available to the camera sensor, if that makes sense. Now, square sensors would mathematically the best ratio since you can most optimally crop them into any other aspect ratio, but manufacturers stick to 4:3 because phone screens are all rectangles, be it vertical or horizontal.

[@Winters11]

⁠@@t0astfaceyou only lose filming in 1:1. The only thing the camera is doing is cropping out the image on the origin. You only loose information. Don’t really gain anything there.

[@ryangolder705]

Love that Da'Bomb is sitting in the back whilst talking about hot takes

[@nate4553]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed. What was going on with the ladder as well??

[@jazua315]

Ooh lol good catch

[@LeutnantComanderData]

haha I thought that was a silent announcement for an upcoming episode of hot ones with mkbhd as guest

[@aexsyrfaembal]

and you can see smartphone awards trophies on the same table, hinting at the upcoming 2023 edition

[@benguest209]

I think the main difference between phone and watch is that in theory you're wearing your watch 23 hours a day, lets say you take it off whilst getting ready for work and getting ready for bed for 30 mins each. So you need 30 minutes recharge a day to be enough to last forever. With your phone you go 8 hours a day not using it at all, and even then there are periods of the day where you can charge it easily. That being said, 1 week battery life for each would be perfect!

[@kazooduck]

it is so great to just be able to wear the watch all around for no reason to take it off except showering maybe, i charge my garmin maybe once a week and i could just slap it on the charger when i shower, it could also last longer, but i have a lot of features on

[@mesonofgib]

The whole iPhone mini thing reminds me of movies and the differences between _critics'_ ratings and _audience_ ratings. The iPhone mini scored very highly in the "critics'" opinions (i.e the tech KZbinrs and review sites) but relatively poorly with "audiences" (i.e. hardly anyone actually bought it).

[@andrewh.4186]

It's more of a cult classic really, it's just that the "cult" isn't big enough. Personally I'm using an SE 3 after owning a SE 2, 8, 7, and 6. Clearly I don't like a big phone. But I also want a simple cheap one.

[@3717D]

Oh brother

[@bashaarabdul-baki3121]

Yes, cult following. But I tell you, that cult is more than halved by the battery issues amidst plenty other minuses. You take very special things and put in the pros and max-es… no one’s definitely going for the mini instead of those. I think it’s really a great take if there was a complete pro in a small form factor. Apple users brag a lot. You can’t brag with the mini against the rest so there’s a tendency to feel less in size (and in all others). I have used only the minis since the debut so I can tell for sure.

[@vuxluongw]

i can't speak for other regions of the world, but here in Asia people just buy the big phones for the sake of the "Pro", "Max", "Plus", "Ultra" titles. people really don't give a damn about bigger screen sizes or longer battery life, and i don't know if i should call them stupid or just have too much money to spend.

[@butteranium]

​@@vuxluongwfrom Malaysia and this is kinda true, peers around me automatically associate "good/premium" phones when they hear the word Ultra, Pro, Max etc. The word Mini doesn't evoke the same image in their heads, almost everyone I know doesn't own a mini iPhone

[@kabo123]

I think the smart watch only lasting for a day is a really good take. One of the biggest use cases I would have for a smart watch is monitoring my sleep. Now it would add some sort of anxiety to have to know if you have enough battery left before going to sleep every single night...

[@WillParker322]

Better get the anxiety app on your watch

[@Dwivil]

Only 1 day? Mine usually lasts for 2 days.

[@iAmCracky]

The Ultra will easily last you a day and a night, been doing it since release

[@THAT1ZELDAFAN]

I think the issue is that the usages of phones grew faster than battery tech. If the batteries were able to have higher mAh (say, 13,000) in the same size and form factor of current phone batteries or smart watch batteries, it would be a non issue, but that's not the case. Users need to push for improvements in battery tech if we want to see multiday devices make a return

[@mikemccormick6128]

Well, you will probably be putting it in sleep mode, so battery usage should go way down while sleeping. I don't think most people wear their watch 24/day without ever taking it off.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Your balanced perspective on these hot takes is refreshing, and all your points make us question what we've readily accepted without much thought. Your series is a gem, giving us some food for thought and a greater understanding of tech.

[@Official_ADub]

4:3 6K is 16:9 4K and vertical 9:16K as well. I think that’s super cool that you can shoot in 4:3 and it scales to both types of formats

[@michael.bester]

That bottle of Da Bomb Beyond Insanity just hanging out in the background of a hot takes video… Chef’s kiss.

[@Heisenberg_747]

My most regretted purchase is got to be the series 8. It barely lasts 1.5 days with all sensors on. In my busy schedule I always forget to charge it rather find it overwhelming. So I went back on my regular watch. Hassel free wear anytime.

[@Doggodoggodoggodoggo]

Same!!!!!

[@shonza00]

I stopped using the Watch for the same reason. It doesn’t need to last more than 24 hours, but it needs to be able to charge quickly when I take a shower.

[@JasonB808]

Smart watches have other features that people don’t know about outside the health tracking. Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay. Mass transit cards (Japan, Europe, and some other countries not USA), Digital lock access via NFC, smart home controls, GPS directions (Apple Watch taps you on your wrist when the next turn is and displays the direction of the turn). Ifs easy to remember to charge smart watches. Just put a watch charger by bed and place watch on charger before bed. It will be fully charged next morning. There are really expensive old school Rolex watches that required the user to wind up the watch every morning.

[@Afaik777]

@@JasonB808all this stuff doesn’t need extra power when nor used. And again, huawei watches have all that with 2 week battery life, I don’t understand what is the apple’s excuse

[@Heisenberg_747]

@@JasonB808 it’s been 6 months I haven’t used my watch and I didn’t need to use any of these features which you are pointing out. :)

[@tobias_dahlberg]

Man I loved my 13 Mini. Perfect size for someone who just needs news, messaging, phone features etc. I don't play games, I don't watch KZbin on my phone, I do all that on my PC or Laptop. The only thing was the battery. I had gotten used to the battery and when the phone broke and I switched to a 14 Plus I noticed how much better the battery life here is. I can get 2 days of use out of a single charge. I have gotten used to the big size, but I still miss the agility of using the 13 Mini. I could reach everywhere on the screen using just one hand.

[@AliveGhost13]

buy an android mini phone

[@SkiingIsBelieving859]

why’d you go from the mini to the plus? why not just the standard size

[@tobias_dahlberg]

@@SkiingIsBelieving859 Because I heard about its insane battery life and wanted to try it.

[@newagain9964]

@@AliveGhost13android and google are gross

[@jhalanddesign]

I'm still on a iPhone mini, and not going to change until there's a new one (I went from 5s to mini, I'm in for the long game) and I guess people didn't get it because of reviews always stating that the battery was week. So if it was slightly better, with one and a half day battery it would have sold like hot cakes.

[@akdesign94]

The hot ones sauce easter egg in the hot takes video is genius. This is why you get paid the big bucks MKBHD 😂

[@cooptheyeti5103]

I really miss the iPhone mini tbh, having something that easily and comfortably fits in your pocket that can do everything the other phones can is a godsend

[@jijokoshyksjijo3989]

true.. I wish the 13 mini will be released as SE down the line.. then that will be my first ever iphone..

[@omens3403]

@@jijokoshyksjijo3989the size isn’t the problem it’s the trash battery

[@brighamyates]

Interesting take on MKBHD iPhone Mini. The majority of my friends and family members wish for an iPhone Mini with the same specs as the pro models. Most all tech KZbinrs say the same thing “they would sell mini phones if people wanted them” missing the point that people are just stuck with the bigger iPhones because Apple isn’t putting the same specs in them.

[@Dr904]

I even “downgraded” to a 12 mini just a month ago. And now I don’t see myself ever wanting a bigger and heavier phone ever again!

[@jijokoshyksjijo3989]

@@omens3403 agreed.

[@P.A.T.]

I have a 13 mini. I started using iPhone since 6s and I can say that 13mini is the best phone I ever had (comparing to 6s, 7+, 11Pro). A better battery starting with 12 mini would have made this shape a great option. I got a A54 for work and I really hate the big dimensions. At this moment, if my 13 mini would suddenly stop working, I would buy another one without thinking about it. This is the first iPhone I have never dropped. I will let you think why.

[@naruto6918]

doesn't that big camera bezel annoys in gaming and watching videos?

[@GameOver-nm2us]

@@naruto6918 You forget it's there after a while; said while is immediately lol. You only even notice it if the phone is being filmed and you see the phone in the video it was filmed, which I suppose never happens. No it doesn't, at least for me.

[@naruto6918]

@@GameOver-nm2us try playing pubg or watching movies 🤣it sucks in battery and thermals. It’s not at all useful for heavy users. Look wise it is perfect except that ugly bezel since my friend uses 12 mini

[@KarimMaassen]

I actually bought a second one now that I still can.

[@GameOver-nm2us]

@@naruto6918I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make here, it's good enough for me, I don't play mobile games as I got a full fat gaming laptop that can run every game, watching content is good and thermals is also good. What was the point of your comment anyways? To belittle the phone? Well guess what, you just made a fool of yourself trying to argue with someone that honestly couldn't give a single dry huge turd what phone I am using. It can scroll TikTok, it can make calls, it can text, it can play videos, it's good enough.

[@ShAnKyShaDy0110]

The capital one ad came up at the end of it. The guy was like “what’s in your wallet?“ Then it cut straight back to Marques and he was like “lots of things, cameras, cars, printers” lmao

[@brenanconroy4052]

My biggest counter to the watch thing: you're supposed to sleep with your watch on, at least if you want to take advantageof all of the sleep advertised functions of smartwatches. That immediately makes you need way more than a 1 day battery for a smartphone, because smartphones you charge while you sleep.

[@michaelchen2718]

0:08 "Girls who choose to buy Pixel phones instead of an iPhone are hot" 100% agree!!!

[@jmoney211]

As opposed to the girls who are forced to buy pixel phones?

[@TomiPercsi]

No red flags at all with a girl rocking a Pixel phone for sure; if I know no one got me, I know Sahil Jain and Michael Chen do.

[@B.D.F.]

4:40 Still rocking my 13 mini. I agree they could make it a bit thicker and put in a bigger battery, but I also think they should make a Pro mini.

[@vanshkejriwal4823]

Hey similar dp!

[@sairoadways4365]

A 5.8-inchh screen would have been a good, the size of a regular 7 maintaining a compact design with a bigger battery.

[@SudoDeveloper]

Yes, what I don't understand is why they are reluctant in adding some more mah and not just 20-30 mah to battery.

[@sairoadways4365]

they won't have anything to give in the next update then😂@@SudoDeveloper

[@zoinked1351]

Was contemplating getting it this year refurbished but alas as soon as the announcements came the 13 minis were gone from the refurb section. Price of a new one doesn't make sense as it's well over 800 EUR so I'll have to stick it out with my SE2 until something else more appealing gets released.

[@recondite_me]

6:38 I think you meant the *14 Plus*

[@kulrajsingh2017]

Yea

[@MrLucky5001]

14:30 lol that was basically me before getting my 1st smartphone. I only used my old phone for calls, texts, checking the time, setting an alarm and occasionally google something. I wasn't trying to use my phone as little as possible. the battery just lasted a month, because there wasn't much to do on it. at least after I finished high school and stopped playing games on it, when I was bored in class or during breaks.

[@Joehizzle]

Just realized why your videos are so much better than other KZbinrs. You don't put on the fake excitement and ridiculous expressions others do. Just talking like a normal dude

[@Its_Hectorrr]

You hit the nail on the head

[@AbbStar1989]

I'm a new subscriber here and certainly do appreciate the down to earth approach.

[@skyscraperfan]

Yes, I love that never makes a strange face on a thumbnail. I hate those, because they make me feel not taken serious as a viewer. Nobody in real life would make a face like those annoying KZbinrs.

[@ziminski13]

I think the watch comment is a good take. The major thing you're missing on an apple watch is sleep tracking. If you want it for health data, you're missing maybe the most important aspect by taking it off every night

[@Tom_Stevens617]

Most people I know charge it while in the shower, not overnight. Besides, it's far from the most important aspect anyway

[@princeoinkins8408]

they charge fully in like 30-45 minuteds, no need to charge it all night. I charge mine after work while relaxing or in the shower.

[@Chris-bz9pg]

I wear my older Apple Watch every night...

[@janis23]

@@Tom_Stevens617 If you exercise sleep is the most important thing for recovery.

[@janis23]

@@Tom_Stevens617 If you exercise sleep is the most important thing for recovery.

[@tallefjant]

The iPhone 13 mini is THE device that Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive have always strived to create. A small device, internet communicator/pocket computer with a "infinity pool inspired display design". In 2021 Apple really succeeded in creating that vision which Steve Jobs and Jonathan had in 2007, and when they released the product in 2021 people were surprisingly not impressed. Not necessarily because the device is a worse tool than the larger iPhone models, but because it doesn't live up to how the world has developed since 2007. This is a very good example of how hard it is to predict the future. Even Steve Jobs himself did (imo) miscalculation of the form factor of the device/tool that he himself had created for the world.

[@simongervais9302]

2:30 isn't this 4 year ago show the same demo show where they actually broke the unbreakable glass ?

[@nononono3421]

Definitely need to do a yearly worst tech hot takes of the year review.

[@michaelchen2718]

13:04 This refreshes a sentiment I heard a while ago: that people don't care about new features and whatnot. What they really want is a much longer battery life!!!

[@wolfferoni]

I'm this person. I don't use my phone for very much and I try not to be on it. Basically bare minimum stuff. I was perfectly happy using a 10 year old phone but the battery died and it wasn't worth replacing since it's the cost of a whole phone these days. I really don't need any fancy camera or bigger brighter screen, just want a better battery so it lasts longer. Surely there's a market for a phone like this to exist

[@thenintendoman]

With the GPU thing, I think people underestimate the performance gap between Nvidia and anything any other company is currently doing in that space. Like, all those AI bots and image generators are running on Nvidia GPUs.

[@AnEagle]

Well on raw performance, at least according to their official numbers, AMD is supposed to be catching up. But software and support contracts will probably make them lose out anyways

[@jeremyg9305]

What people underestimate is 30 years of driver support and revisions and how important that is for PC gaming.

[@mitsuba4615]

people are also forgetting that if apple ever made gpus, there is only a small chance that they ever gonna make it compatible with non apple products

[@dudebroguymate]

Nvidia, AMD and Intel hold a ton of patents in the space and a new player would have to navigate around them and tread carefully. It's a very very difficult, if not impossible challenge. This is why we don't see new companies making GPUs. And if a company did create something new, one of the big three would just buy the company.

[@GWT1m0]

​@AnEagle AMD has always been "there" for raw compute. Its always about the software stack and developers are hooked on Cuda (Nvidia only)...

[@jukeboxfandango]

4:30 - Thank you for finally giving a sane take on the Cybertruck. So many people are just dog-piling because making a video trashing the cybertruck is guaranteed hits, but they don't really have anything to say mostly just a lot of youtuber nonsense

[@alexhawk1918]

If you account for inflation, the base model Cybertruck should cost 48,000. He said it would be 39,800 in Nov 2019. The base model is 60,000

[@mere24601]

Shhh! You must not speak ill of King Musk! His followers will condemn you!

[@4paapii]

Honestly Marques overlooks a lot of important details like this.

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

Thats literally just flat out lying though. He delayed it, surely that would be enough to keep reducing prices, have you seen how much lower battery prices have been? Instead they canceled orders of the cheaper version.

[@_brrr]

I know this is a tech channel, but I was kinda sad you didnt talk about the artistic merit that there is in 4:3. The snydercut released in square for a reason!! Sitcom people love it to, you can listen to charlie day gripe about wanting to go back to fullscreen in the commentary tracks.

[@krokasan1]

I am convinced that the main problem of the mini iPhone was price. They sold it for only $100 less so it was positioned as a very very expensive phone that had subpar battery life. The mini iPhone should have been an SE type phone. Same with the iPad mini, I think. I hope they release another iPhone mini as a budget option at some point

[@emman6793]

SE is already the mini budget phone you're talking about

[@hassnaindar9586]

No it's literally a niche product, people crave about wanting a smaller phone but VAST majority buy the bigger one

[@Random_dud31]

​@hassnaindar9586 i would argue its more about marketing rather than people wanting more. If Apple had a mutil billion dollar campaign about the iphone mini, then its would have sold tons. But Apple didn't want to canablize their oun products so, they didn't do it

[@dimglow]

the thing is that mini iphone isn't much cheaper to make compared to the regular or plus iphone. the difference is much less than $100. the problem is people's expectations.

[@Amphibax]

@@hassnaindar9586 And for the people that really wanted a smaller phone they would pay the price. Heck I would pay a 100$ extra to get a small version.

[@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman]

The great advantage of the 4:3 for video and photography is that light sensors in cameras can grab more pixels with a smaller lens, and that's why it's still used in cellphones for maximum resolution pictures. But for playing video games 25:9 is the best ratio, no doubt.

[@krane15]

It was a technical limitation. It was the shape of CRTs. There is no advantage.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

@@krane15I think you are misunderstanding what he’s saying. Every lens gives off a spherical image, a circle. To make best use of that lens’s resolution you try to fill it up with an image sensor as square as possible. A perfect square is best, 4:3 is next in line. Has nothing to do with CRTs, in fact 4:3 dates back to the earliest films, way before television existed. It’s just physics.

[@ern6318]

1:00 Ahhh I see the trophies for the MKBHD SMARTPHONE AWARDS

[@ajragnarok]

Also the "da bomb" hot sauce 😮🧐

[@danielberg2791]

Amazing video as always! I usually can’t figure out the hidden messages in the background props… but hot (sauce) takes (smartphone awards) competition (ladder indicating the finals steps) must point to the upcoming yearly video

[@rocketronin]

Please keep up with this series. You can bring different versions of it. I am personnally waiting dor for "the celebrity version"

[@QuantumFantasy]

12:00 "track your sleep! Here's not enough battery to do it" my Garmin lasted about 20 days when it was new, but I'm fairness it's basically the spiritual successor to a Pebble watch

[@DemetruisMiller]

Love how the smartphone awards trophies are casually sitting in tge background....... can't wait😂

[@kubev]

8:28 - 100% agreed on a square aspect ratio! Just ensure video content is encoded with meta data that facilitates intelligent auto-cropping and maybe push for more of a multi-tasking approach to media consumption with the UI. Add support for widgets or whatever to fill in or at least populate the "empty" areas of the screen with the press of a button so you can check alerts or sports scores or something. There's no one "best" aspect ratio for all content, and I hate feeling like we're locked into really wide or really tall aspect ratios for video content. And I hate that it's nearly impossible to find a 3:2 monitor for desktop PCs, and the one truly square monitor I could find is ridiculously expensive. I think some sort of projector that could output at different aspect ratios without dropping the pixel count would be amazing, but I'm not sure that's practical.

[@pratham6412]

🤓☝️

[@Kevin-mx4vm]

​@andreacx18:9??? You mean 2:1?

[@kubev]

@andreacx I'd still argue square for TVs. For starters, there're too many older shows that suffer when cropped for widescreen, and having 16:9 as a standard only encourages they continue doing that. Secondly, it's not as though you don't run into vertical videos on KZbin on your TV. Lastly, you could rotate the display in order to change the location of the controls and inputs without having to worry about how content would display. Just include some means of auto-rotating the UI (which also wouldn't need to be redesigned for multiple aspect ratios, since it's still square). I wish more TV manufacturers would just do something along the lines of a One Connect box like Samsung, but they wont, and I swear the inputs are always on the opposite side I'd prefer.

[@D_ND_H]

Watching this on a 4:3 folding screen. I can't deny, it always makes me extra happy when video's fill the entire screen. More than if my regular screen is filled. Its a blast watching older music videos etc.

[@DK_lma]

I just wanted to say that i really appreciate how freaking crisp your footage is.

[@enso3140]

4:3 for video kida does make sense for the flexibility of modern media comsuption but something that i would truly love to make a comeback especially as a laptop user are 16:10 screen even with a relatively big 16" screen the lack of vertical space really kills split screen usage on the 16:9

[@dudebroguymate]

>>laptop user

[@distar7471]

8:5 all the way.

[@M_a_t_z_ee]

Not having enough battery life for a smartwatch was the reason why I hesitated to buy a smartwatch in the last 5 years. Then I discovered Garmin and I would say it's more of a sports watch, which I prefer. Surely Apple has the advantage of a lot of different apps, but battery is just more important to me. I now have the Forerunner 965 and it can really last for weeks. After testing the battery for 1 week their calculation with 23 days seems really accurate (with sleep tracking and heart rate 24/7). Also there's an energy saving mode, where they claim it lasts ~54 days. With other models and solar you could run it forever under the right circumstances.

[@kalvin.]

And it’s not even a big ask, I think charging nightly is ok because we do it with our phones, but if it’s touted as a serious sports watch that tracks health and sleep, it needs to last a single weekend off the charger. It’s only a matter of time before Garmin and WearOS really collab and make an ideal smartwatch/fitness watch to rival the Apple Watch, and perhaps then Apple will adjust and improve battery life and other fitness features.

[@raics101]

The way I see it, there are two types of people that buy a smartwatch, those that actually need a smartwatch and those that need a new gadget. The reason 1 day battery life is acceptable is because the latter vastly outnumber the former, so who cares if it turns off in the middle of doing nothing with it.

[@unorthodoxbox]

There was a video by an animator called Noodle that spoke about aspect ratios. It was interesting and I do suggest others look at it. So as someone who lived during a time when VHS was a thing. I recall some films getting a widescreen release and a 4:3 release. What this meant is in some films whole scenes would be reshot with actors closer, scenes cropped and edited to work on 4:3. Sometimes directors were in charge of this, other times not. As a result some films were bad. Like the artistic intent of a director was just ignored. xD What I’m trying to say is if content is made in 4:3 for viewing on phones. If done right it’ll look great, if done poorly it’ll be very noticeable.

[@iampetemitchell]

00:28 The Cybertruck may not be as overpriced as everyone says. 02:29 Cyber truck specs and pricing have changed since promised. 04:17 Tech products often fail to meet initial promises, leading to disappointment for consumers. 06:00 The iPhone 6 is the best sold iPhone of all time. 08:00 Debate over ideal video format 09:57 Speculating on whether Apple would excel in making other tech products 12:03 Smartwatch battery life acceptance vs. industry standard 13:58 Tech industry pushes for more features while maintaining 18-hour battery life standard

[@pfcstuck]

@ 7:30...... I still HATE vertical video. I can't stand TickTock, Reels, and YT shorts for popularizing vertical video and have trouble watching content on those platforms. Our eyes are next to each other, not above and below each other making our visual range wider than it is tall. Horizontal video just works better for people.

[@michaelchen2718]

15:05 interesting tradeoff: 10 different devices that each do 1 thing that each last 1 month, or 1 device that does 10 different things and lasts 1 day

[@BMWROYAL]

3:40 dumb logic when all those trucks have more features and a better interior than the cyber truck

[@ydoucare55]

8:19 - Why not just use a square sensor and let the software/firmware crop and rotate to whatever orientation you want without having to physically orient your phone, that way, we can always just hold the phone naturally with one hand to record portrait or landscape. You could even give the person option to record the squared size and then crop it after the fact.

[@RobertSimon7]

Ever since i started using a Garmin Fenix smartwatch that lasts 14 days between charges i just cant go back to the 1 to 2 day smartwatch. But probably, like the clips about "why dont you have an iPhone, are you broke?" the same might be said about the iwatch, at least in the USA.

[@tansku1]

To add to the 4:3 debate. I personally like to shoot with 8:7 aspect ratio with Gopro 11 and edit it to vertical or horizontal or any aspect ratio. I would bet 8:7 sensors will become popular in the future because why choose while filming if you can make the decision while editing.

[@SolidBlueBlocks]

8:7 is so close to 1:1, why not have 1:1 then? Even more versatile

[@denvera1g1]

8:20 Here is my hot take 3:2 because it is native to many MANY sensors, and laptops/tablets with 3:2 also tend to have a lot of room for large decent track pads(keyboards cant really get narrower, so that mean the screen must be taller, and thus more room for activities)

[@Joker-fj8hg]

Nah, 1:1 is the way to go

[@dudebroguymate]

Novideo is the way to go.

[@electricminecrafter]

6:06 still got me my iPhone 6s, not giving it up until it breaks

[@reinisze123]

Not really a hot take, but regarding the smartwatch battery life - that's exactly the reason why i went with a fossil hybrid watch. they advertised like 2 weeks battery life, but mine regularly goes well past a month.

[@randomstorm1973]

6:45 Bro said 14 mAx with utmost confidence

[@RameeHamad]

My Garmin venu 3 gets about 10 days with hr tracking, ecg, taking calls, sending texts, Ect. But the catch is that all the text processing, call management and voice assistant are processed on my phone. It's more of a Bluetooth device then it's own stand alone smart device. So I get your point on the battery situation. Cause I still have to charge my phone, and if I don't it basically becomes a GPS fitness tracker and nothing else. Still love this iteration of the tech though. I'm used to charging my phone. So I don't have to think about it. I've had many smartwatches from Motorola, Garmin, Apple, and Fossil. This is by far the best I've used.

[@definitelynotacyborg]

You still get some smartwatch features with the Venu 3 if you are away from your phone. You can still use Garmin Pay for example, you can listen to music, etc. And unless you pay the insane premium for an LTE enabled watch (in my region it's almost a 150€ premium on an Apple Watch Series 9 for example and roughly 300€ for the Ultra and the Venu 3 was cheaper than a non-LTE enabled Series 9) it's also just a bluetooth device that is tethered to your phone.

[@polyspace]

The thing about the mini is there is always going to be a part of the population that wants a small phone. I guess it wasn't a significant enough part of the population for apple to justify making newer ones, but i think if they released more minis the way they do the SE every few generations I personally would continue buying iphones. I have a 13 mini and i plan on using it until it's dead, at which point im going to buy whatever phone is the best at the same size.

[@Volatile_Viking]

OK, Mr. Squirrel Hands

[@laurenz728]

To me myself the IPhone SE is the IPhone Mini. Or isn't it? Case closed.

[@maheshbabu-fj3tx]

4:3 is perfect for iPad viewing both for portrait and landscape

[@amai_zing]

Love JxmyHighroller - his basketball breakdowns are really well conceived and put together

[@sgallegos702]

Loved that open immediately.

[@jaypatil8537]

Do I see the smartphone awards trophies back there? 1:11

[@harriska]

Copyyyyyy

[@ajragnarok]

Also the "da bomb" hot sauce 😮🧐

[@ThatBlobfish1]

13:06 we upgraded my dads phone to a 15 from the x. After a week or so he said the phone was nice but he was disappointed that his phone didn’t last for 5 DAYS like the old one and only lasted for 2-3💀

[@michaelchen2718]

13:43 question: smartphones must be approaching the limit of brightness on screens in terms of safety, right? (remember that brightness is on a logarithmic scale)

[@parkerwilkins5495]

They aren't even close. Even the flash on the back of the phone is still much brighter

[@michaelchen2718]

@@parkerwilkins5495 dude the flash is blinding 💀

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

4:3 is great for a home wall. Widescreen suits a cinema wall. 16:9 is the LCD panel makers ripping off people at home because the difference saves them a ton of money compared to 4:3 for the same "inches". 4:3 is great for document work, coding, watching etc.

[@yaycupcake]

I'm gonna counter the iPhone mini argument and say that I upgraded from my beloved SE to a 15 plus SOLELY because I needed longer battery life for a change in my day to day lifestyle (in which I am at a charger less and less often, but on my phone more and more). I don't mind the bigger display, but honestly it really is a lot harder to use for certain things. Reachability is tough and I also play a lot of rhythm games which require you to hold it in landscape and hit the middle of the screen with your thumbs. And without accidentally making inputs on the sides/corners with your palm. I make so many more mistakes in those games because of that. If they had battery life comparable to the plus/max I would have, in a heartbeat, picked a mini (or even standard size) phone. Or another 6~SE3-size phone, which is really my favorite size in terms of usability. For the record, I never got the SE "because it was a budget model", I always got it solely because it was a better size for me than even the standard iPhone size. I didn't get the mini phones only because they didn't happen to align with when I happened to need a new phone at the time.

[@ner02]

Just wanted to say at 4K on KZbin, this was the best lit/captured/graded/encoded shots of a human I have ever experienced. Thanks for continuing to excel technically in everything you do.

[@thabreez456]

4:3 is great because a lot of the time you get the whole frame. Like on iPhones you normally can’t shoot in 4:3 but holding the shutter button in photo mode allows you to do it. But there’s a lot more distortion so you might wanna zoom in a little anyways

[@benjabin6729]

I think 6:5 is the best because that's the aspect ratio of my phone lmao

[@victorabreu13]

​@benjabin6729 What phone has that aspect ratio?

[@benjabin6729]

@@victorabreu13 fold 4

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

See, the stuff at 2:12 there. I genuinely believe Tesla should be sued by investors or regulators for stuff like this. At this point, it feels like the Cybertruck was a marketing tool first, meant to pump up the value of Tesla stock rather than actually bring value to shareholders. It is not controversial to say Tesla is overvalued, so why is it that it continues to work on hype alone when it's clear that no stock can survive on hype alone.

[@soldier0n]

The stock exchange has a big component of hype, just like the crypto market. Welcome to capitalism

[@snazzy]

3:2 gang rise up.

[@FatLabRat]

Boo

[@JeremyIrving1]

THANK YOU for calling out the absurdity of people complaining about battery life while not taking into consideration all of the other benefits. So tired of people not getting such an obvious compromise.

[@MegasXLR]

When I record concerts I attend I try to keep the performer at the center while recording in landscape. This way I can watch the whole thing normally on a TV or PC screen but I can also post it normally on Instagram in portrait if I have to (if I have portrait pictures with the singer for example) as Instagram crops landscale videos at their center (you can't choose where to crop it) :)

[@TopDedCenter]

I think cameras sensors should be able to capture a full 1:1 so you can record portrait or landscape regardless of how you're holding your phone. Or maybe there's a setting i missed that allows me to record video using that technique.

[@gnuiorc]

Best would be a up to 1” radius sensor with hexagonal pixels. Then you can edit it at any angle and ratio you want 😂

[@Utkarsh_A]

Some cameras do offer exactly what you are describing, it's called open gate, it uses the entire sensor. It was intended for anamorphic lenses where you gain some extra info when you de-squeeze the image, but works out real well now with theneed for different aspect ratios in post! Pretty sure the term comes from the era of motion picture film

[@shivorath]

The sensor isn't phyiscally 1:1 though, so you are either throwing away parts of your sensor during recording (might as well just crop afterwards then) or you would need to physically have a different shaped sensor built into the phone. Which to keep the same horizontal resolution, would then require a larger sensor vertically with more megapixels so added physical size and added cost.

[@DarthBenneth]

I still rock a mini iPhone and I agree I am in the minority of loving the size of the phone. Still feels amazing in the hand, I never have an issue with battery because I only use it really on the go (I work from home so not often), and it isn't intrusive in my pockets. I like the iPhone mini because unlike other smaller phones, it doesn't sacrifice the software or hardware experience like the SE or smaller Android phones. It genuinely feels like a flagship phone in a compact form factor. My only gripe with removing the option of a mini iPhone or just small phones in general from the market is removing options for consumers, mainly because big phones aren't suited for everyone while small phones aren't suited for everyone. It would be nice if the market had small, medium, and large options, where instead it feels like you get only medium, large, and extra-large options IMO.

[@mr.sunmeadow]

i agree. i feel bad for my friends who have the iphone 13 mini because they can’t upgrade in the future to another mini. For some people, the mini is the best option. I find my 12 Pro to be too big for one hand use. i’d love a mini without the notch lol

[@TheCollabCurator]

4:18 OMG that wiper blade looks so stupid. “Hey everybody see my wire blade!”

[@duckmcduck007]

The smartwatch battery thing gets me though... especially seeing as half the usefulness of the thing is in sleep tracking. If I don't remember to charge it before I go to bed, or forget to put it back on.. that data is gone. Never recorded. If I had 3 days running, so many more chances to charge it before running out. A new sensor, brighter display, better fitness tracking, faster who-knows-what... maybe I upgrade, maybe I wait yet another year. Give me an extra 2 days battery life, I ain't waiting half a minute to upgrade.

[@shaun7163]

I totally agree that the battery should be better, but I think you might be over-valuing sleep tracking. I only say this to try and reduce your feeling of FOMO by the way! Most sleep tracking on smartwatches is complete trash. They regularly have no idea when you are actually asleep or not and their sleep zones, well I wouldn’t trust those at all!

[@duckmcduck007]

@@shaun7163 Thank you, that is kind of you :) For me, I don't need super accuracy or great detail. I'd just like to have a general idea of how much sleep I get and when. So, consistency is key. AutoSleep has been doing alright at that. As it is, though, I either forget to charge or reapply the watch every other day, and so the statistics are useless. XD But I take your words to heart, that the grass doesn't really seem green anywhere yet. Here's to hoping someone cracks it :D

[@ChrisFranklin.2260]

This video style and topic analysis is great! Keep going with these, we will watch!

[@lukagrubesa5586]

The main problem I have with smartwatches today is that they do too much unnecessary things. First i had a samsung watch and the only things i used it for was telling the time, reading notifications and receiving calls, everything else felt like bloat. Now I'm much more happier with the Fenix 6x pro, since it does all of that plus has a battery life that lasts me months

[@Liz3rdWiz3rd]

Love Da Bomb hot sauce in the background. Great video!

[@andrasoravecz2505]

The square aspect has a point and if you think about it, camera manufecturers should start incorporating square sensors or even better circular ones, that can be cropped in post for the desired orientation and aspect ratio. The lenses covers a much larger area than the sensor anyway. No more rotating the camera, no more shooting multiple shots for different platforms

[@Nyiati]

The bigger the sensor the smaller the yield of usable sensors, right? Current sensor size is essentially a cost saving measure

[@cl00x3r]

ur just wasting a lot of space(both pixel and storage) by cropping everytime u shot. just inefficient

[@bar10005]

IIRC most phone sensors already are squarish, they are just downsampled and cropped to more rectangular ratio by most default settings, e.g. Pixel 8 (Pro, same main camera) Marques is holding in the video has full resolution of main camera of 8160x6144, so 4:3.

[@Yeldogg]

Yes, when you start to think about it, it makes total sense. I love my snapchat glasses for that single reason. It records circular videos which are horizon leveled, always.