iPhone 15 How NOT to Order

**My Thoughts on the iPhone 15 Pro Max**

For purchasing the non-Pro and sort of what I would do in that case but for me personally, the way to order is to get the 15 Pro and the reason I say for me personally is because I put a huge emphasis on the camera components and using these things for shooting photos and shooting video. That's why I gotta go all the way to the pro Max this time around. Yes, they're a little bit large not for everyone. Great for multimedia battery life has been pretty good on many recent generations of iPhone. I expect the same thing to happen here.

We're up to 1200 bucks now to start and we're into this kind of scale right here 6.7 inches that'll be 50 bucks a month for two years again, careful with the payment program over there you know if you only got 50 bucks in a bank right now don't buy a 1200 phone just an opinion I don't know just just saying put 50 put 50 50 bucks into Apple stock because they're going to sell a few things. All right so the colors over here they're more subtle, I don't know sophisticated I don't really know what you want to call them there's been a lot of talk about these options and how nothing is vibrant enough. I don't know this one's actually easy for me, and it's that's weird because I expected to just pick up the black titanium and call it a day but I'm gonna flip it I'm gonna flip it around I'm gonna flip it upside down I'm gonna go with natural titanium, and the reason being is because we have this new material now, and and this showcases the fact that it's that new material.

The best if you're if you appreciate Material Science and you love the attributes of titanium then I want to be reminded on a regular basis that my brand new fifteen hundred dollar phone is made of titanium like oh I paid for something it's glass it's titanium it still watches YouTube and I respond to messages on it it's titanium, and glass fifteen hundred dollars it matches your Ultra watch if your bow run around in circles around the office training for a marathon so I'm gonna go for the titanium natural titanium model. I get to the storage here, honestly for me because everything is so cloud and I'm not shooting a feature film, can get away with the 256 in this regard, I think 128 is cutting it way too tight but I can get away with 256, the safer bet is 512. That's 200 more bucks, and then one terabyte takes it to sixteen hundred dollars which is just like all right you got to know that you want it.

I think a lot of people that will step up to that are just those that want to have the maximum spec and never have to worry about anything and this is back into the category of like is this a Production Tool for you, I don't know how many people are living in that in that Universe where they're shooting prores on their iPhone 14 Pro Max or upcoming 15 Pro Max but if you if you are shooting prores and raw then this is going to take up a lot more space and all of a sudden the storage conversation is going to get a little bit different. This is not something that I do on the phone on a regular basis it's fun to play with from time to time but if you were doing it on a regular basis you would quickly run out of storage, so that's another consideration.

**Things to Avoid**

I think maxing it out, I would say maxing it out would be a thing to avoid. I would say avoid buying Apple's first party Chargers, I would say if you go with the iPhone 15 regular go for the base and just up the storage ever so slightly, and maybe pick this cool new blue color, and if you go for the 15 Pro maybe take the max for the added camera functionality with the extra reach on the zoom. Probably don't sell your old one to Apple if you can put up with the hassle of selling it privately, and probably avoid that new yellow color iPhone 15, another year another iPhone is it necessary? No, don't feel left out these are small incremental improvements every year now when I sit and watch The Kino and I go oh here we are on number 15. What does it do? It still does roughly the same things for a number of generations now with slight incremental improvements if you don't think you need an upgrade you probably don't, and I don't think you should stress too much about not having the 2G sitting around or the one grand or whatever it happens to be.

**My Take**

These are just my opinions, obviously, you have to do you as you've heard the phrase, you know you better than anyone else, but those are just my takes. That is my take.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro uh well it just got announced yesterday big Fanfare you know usual uh Apple event people get excited for for new iPhones I was talking to Moe about it we're watching we're like wow iPhone 15 15 times we've done this I mean it's changed a little bit as far as these Keynotes are concerned but 15 times anyway a lot of people are interested and want to know hey which one should I buy and which one should I not buy or at least which one is best for me what is the preference and so forth now I can't necessarily know like I don't know exactly what your needs are but I'm gonna go through the ordering process in order to determine some of the things I think are like a better value these are very expensive phones and of course we've seen all the memes people saying oh it's the same phone over again well listen it has USB type-c all right and that's already a big enough Improvement for me to get interested plus I like titanium titanium's cool look look I don't know you decide what you want to do with your own two grand or 1500 or whatever it is but let's go through the ordering process and find out what I like and what I think you should and shouldn't pay for so the first thing you're going to see obviously is the decision between the 15 Pro and the 15. now I'm just going to go out and say it I think for a lot of people the 15 represents the better value for money especially if you haven't upgraded in a while and you've been resistant because of cost so let's go ahead and first look at the pricing on the 15. pre-orders are starting at 5 a.m on 9 15. you'll be watching this video before that and then they'll ship on 922 so pricing on the iPhone 15 starts at 7.99 of course apple is also going to show you you can pay it off over a couple of years that's the number one thing I don't recommend you do don't don't don't pay it off over 24 months if they're writing years and months you know that they're probably trying to finesse you a little bit all right so just avoid that pay it up front if you can trade in your old model I'll get to that in a second because there's probably ways to actually get more money for your old model if you can skip out on some of the convenience so 15 or 15 plus 6.1 inch display versus 6.7 this is kind of a big gap this is a substantial difference in your pocket I think the regular size is going to actually be optimal for the majority of people unless you are looking for enhanced battery and a slightly better multimedia experience otherwise these things are fairly interchangeable so I'm going to say if you go 15 go Baseline get in there for 799 bucks because you're looking for value for money and well if you were looking for value for money I don't know that you'd be looking at an iPhone but if you're looking for value for money in an iPhone then I think the Baseline iPhone 15 is kind of the way you want to go now the next step is what kind of color should we get if we are going for Baseline you know me I would likely go for black but that is way too boring of a selection so I'm gonna go for this nice new blue which is Almost White and kind of confusing it's going to look something like this right here for the do not buy things to avoid I'm probably going to pick the yellow sorry yellow I mean you're barely yellow anyways so I haven't even really even I don't know what what or who I could offend I'm not sure that anyone I've talked to is a huge fan of this color it's not really vibrant enough to even call itself yellow it's more like urine in fact if you're talking about like this is a relatively healthy urine because it's lacking pigment the dehydrated urine may have been a better color than this type this color of urine the green I don't mind either but for me I'm going to say go ahead and go for the blue or the black those would be my preferences now when it comes to storage this is a topic of conversation here in the studio we have our ongoing debates over what is the right amount of storage and then how much do you want to have in the cloud what are you actually doing on the phone are you storing a lot of video and multimedia because that can eat up your storage and then bandwidth I suppose if you're constantly uploading and so forth so maybe I mean this is kind of a cop-out but probably the middle ground is where you want to be spend 100 more get the 256 over the 128. the 512 I think gets a little crazy going up to 1100 bucks I don't think I'm gonna recommend Max storage in either of these at least for my personal usage I find it I I personally am satisfied with cloud-based storage for most things where I would run into storage issues is if I was using one of these for Content creation where the vast majority of the footage I shot would be on one of these phones then maybe we can talk about 512 in this case or even the one terabyte on the pro model but that's just not my workflow I use cameras for the majority of like production so the majority of footage is being offloaded and sitting on cards and drives and so on so it's not such a big deal but this is a very personal thing however I'll recommend the middle ground of 256. now let's talk about trade-ins because Apple does want your trade-in however they don't want your trade-in if it isn't an existing iPhone I thought this was kind of funny as you look at the website here it's like oh you have an iPhone 14 pro Max you have an iPhone 14 pro that'll be up to 570. maybe you've only got an iPhone 8 will give you 60 bucks for it but you get to the very bottom and it says oh we have some other options we have some s22s we have some pixels they're like okay those have a little bit of value to us they have a OnePlus 10t for 70 bucks that's kind of strange addition but I like the one at the bottom other recycling not one of these we'll take care of that for you we'll Chuck it right in the bin I would say in most of these cases you can get more money for your device than what they're offering like the 14 pro Max for 650 talk about a drop off however this is a convenience thing so if I were to say head over to eBay iPhone 14 pro Max now obviously there's a lot of people selling these right now but you can see some of the pricing still I mean this one's got 80 this is 81 bids 810 bucks we head back over to Apple's site and you'll get the same model up to 650 and that auction was still going on so you're probably going to get closer to a thousand this is no kind of Revelation like you probably already know this but if you're all about convenience you could do your trade-in directly on their website now the other thing to keep in mind you get almost nothing in the box anymore other than the device and the charge cable now the nice thing this year is you are going to get a USBC charge cable which brings me to today's sponsor which is our great partner over at anchor who have such a variety of USBC accessories to take advantage of with your new iPhone 15. first off is this little guy this is the Nano pro charger and look how tiny that is this is about the same size as Apple's old 5 watt power adapter and it's providing 20 watts of power Apple's old form factor matching this which was like five watts of power charge faster for a cheap price and in something that basically fits into your pocket so this is a 5 000 milliamp hour power bank that just plugs into the bottom of your new USBC iPhone how sick is that 22.5 watt capable power bank so fast charging power bank so then you've got this in out port on the side so we can charge up the power bank itself or charge other devices via this port and the whole thing folds down so look how pocketable that nice little type c unit is of course this is cross-platform since we're USB type c we're now plugging in to our Samsungs and our pixels and well even our iPads because they were already on type c maybe you want a little bit more power plus it seems like you can just hang it up look how genius the little design will you hang it off something don't you and then anchor has other stuff for nice little desktop charging stations you know about anchor they've got something for everyone and now even more so for iPhone users since we can say goodbye to the lightning stuff all right so let's talk about the pro model which is going to be it's going to be my iPhone of choice so I gave you like a little bit of criteria for purchasing the non-pro and sort of what I would do in that case but for me personally the way to order is to get the 15 Pro and the reason I say for me personally is because I put a huge emphasis on the camera components and using these things for shooting photos and shooting video and that's why I gotta go all the way to the pro Max this time around yes they're a little bit large not for everyone great for multimedia battery life has been pretty good on many recent generations of iPhone I expect the same thing to happen here we're up to 1200 bucks now to start and we're into this kind of scale right here 6.7 inches that'll be 50 bucks a month for two years again careful with the payment program over there you know if you only got 50 bucks in a bank right now don't buy a 1200 phone just an opinion I don't know just just saying put 50 put 50 50 bucks into Apple stock because they're going to sell a few things all right so the colors over here they're more subtle I don't know sophisticated I don't really know what you want to call them there's been a lot of talk about these options and how nothing is vibrant enough I don't know this one's actually easy for me and it's that's weird because I expected to just pick up the black titanium and call it a day but I'm gonna flip it I'm gonna flip it around I'm gonna flip it upside down I'm gonna go with natural titanium and the reason being is because we have this new material now and and this showcases the fact that it's that new material the best if you're if you appreciate Material Science and you love the attributes of titanium then I want to be reminded on a regular basis that my brand new fifteen hundred dollar phone is made of titanium like oh I paid for something it's glass it's titanium it still watches YouTube and I respond to messages on it it's titanium and glass fifteen hundred dollars it matches your Ultra watch if your bow run around in circles around the office training for a marathon so I'm gonna go for the titanium natural titanium model I get to the storage here and honestly for me because everything is so cloud and I'm not shooting a feature film I can get away with the 256 in this regard I think 128 is cutting it way too tight but I can get away with 256 the safer bet is 512. that's 200 more bucks and then one terabyte takes it to sixteen hundred dollars which is just like all right you got to know that you want it I think a lot of people that will step up to that are just those that want to have the maximum spec and never have to worry about anything and this is back into the category of like is this a Production Tool for you I don't know how many people are living in that in that Universe where they're shooting prores on their iPhone 14 pro Max or upcoming 15 Pro Max but if you if you are shooting prores and raw then this is going to take up a lot more space and all of a sudden the storage conversation is going to get a little bit different this is not something that I do on the phone on a regular basis it's fun to play with from time to time but if you were doing it on a regular basis you would quickly run out of storage so that's another consideration so things to avoid I think maxing it out I would say maxing it out would be a thing to avoid I would say avoid buying Apple's first party Chargers I would say if you go with the iPhone 15 regular go for the base and just up the storage ever so slightly and maybe pick this cool new blue color and if you go for the 15 Pro maybe take the max for the added camera functionality with the extra reach on the zoom probably don't sell your old one to Apple if you can put up with the hassle of selling it privately and probably avoid that new yellow color iPhone 15 another year another iPhone is it necessary no don't feel left out these are small incremental improvements every year now when I sit and watch The Kino and I go oh here we are on number 15. what does it do it still does roughly the same things for a number of generations now with slight incremental improvements if you don't think you need an upgrade you probably don't and I don't think you should stress too much about not having the 2G sitting around or the one grand or whatever it happens to be these are just my opinions obviously you have to do you as you've heard the phrase you know you better than anyone else but those are just my takes that is my take and when this pre-order opens up I'll be ordering a natural titanium 15 Pro Max with 512 storageso the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro uh well it just got announced yesterday big Fanfare you know usual uh Apple event people get excited for for new iPhones I was talking to Moe about it we're watching we're like wow iPhone 15 15 times we've done this I mean it's changed a little bit as far as these Keynotes are concerned but 15 times anyway a lot of people are interested and want to know hey which one should I buy and which one should I not buy or at least which one is best for me what is the preference and so forth now I can't necessarily know like I don't know exactly what your needs are but I'm gonna go through the ordering process in order to determine some of the things I think are like a better value these are very expensive phones and of course we've seen all the memes people saying oh it's the same phone over again well listen it has USB type-c all right and that's already a big enough Improvement for me to get interested plus I like titanium titanium's cool look look I don't know you decide what you want to do with your own two grand or 1500 or whatever it is but let's go through the ordering process and find out what I like and what I think you should and shouldn't pay for so the first thing you're going to see obviously is the decision between the 15 Pro and the 15. now I'm just going to go out and say it I think for a lot of people the 15 represents the better value for money especially if you haven't upgraded in a while and you've been resistant because of cost so let's go ahead and first look at the pricing on the 15. pre-orders are starting at 5 a.m on 9 15. you'll be watching this video before that and then they'll ship on 922 so pricing on the iPhone 15 starts at 7.99 of course apple is also going to show you you can pay it off over a couple of years that's the number one thing I don't recommend you do don't don't don't pay it off over 24 months if they're writing years and months you know that they're probably trying to finesse you a little bit all right so just avoid that pay it up front if you can trade in your old model I'll get to that in a second because there's probably ways to actually get more money for your old model if you can skip out on some of the convenience so 15 or 15 plus 6.1 inch display versus 6.7 this is kind of a big gap this is a substantial difference in your pocket I think the regular size is going to actually be optimal for the majority of people unless you are looking for enhanced battery and a slightly better multimedia experience otherwise these things are fairly interchangeable so I'm going to say if you go 15 go Baseline get in there for 799 bucks because you're looking for value for money and well if you were looking for value for money I don't know that you'd be looking at an iPhone but if you're looking for value for money in an iPhone then I think the Baseline iPhone 15 is kind of the way you want to go now the next step is what kind of color should we get if we are going for Baseline you know me I would likely go for black but that is way too boring of a selection so I'm gonna go for this nice new blue which is Almost White and kind of confusing it's going to look something like this right here for the do not buy things to avoid I'm probably going to pick the yellow sorry yellow I mean you're barely yellow anyways so I haven't even really even I don't know what what or who I could offend I'm not sure that anyone I've talked to is a huge fan of this color it's not really vibrant enough to even call itself yellow it's more like urine in fact if you're talking about like this is a relatively healthy urine because it's lacking pigment the dehydrated urine may have been a better color than this type this color of urine the green I don't mind either but for me I'm going to say go ahead and go for the blue or the black those would be my preferences now when it comes to storage this is a topic of conversation here in the studio we have our ongoing debates over what is the right amount of storage and then how much do you want to have in the cloud what are you actually doing on the phone are you storing a lot of video and multimedia because that can eat up your storage and then bandwidth I suppose if you're constantly uploading and so forth so maybe I mean this is kind of a cop-out but probably the middle ground is where you want to be spend 100 more get the 256 over the 128. the 512 I think gets a little crazy going up to 1100 bucks I don't think I'm gonna recommend Max storage in either of these at least for my personal usage I find it I I personally am satisfied with cloud-based storage for most things where I would run into storage issues is if I was using one of these for Content creation where the vast majority of the footage I shot would be on one of these phones then maybe we can talk about 512 in this case or even the one terabyte on the pro model but that's just not my workflow I use cameras for the majority of like production so the majority of footage is being offloaded and sitting on cards and drives and so on so it's not such a big deal but this is a very personal thing however I'll recommend the middle ground of 256. now let's talk about trade-ins because Apple does want your trade-in however they don't want your trade-in if it isn't an existing iPhone I thought this was kind of funny as you look at the website here it's like oh you have an iPhone 14 pro Max you have an iPhone 14 pro that'll be up to 570. maybe you've only got an iPhone 8 will give you 60 bucks for it but you get to the very bottom and it says oh we have some other options we have some s22s we have some pixels they're like okay those have a little bit of value to us they have a OnePlus 10t for 70 bucks that's kind of strange addition but I like the one at the bottom other recycling not one of these we'll take care of that for you we'll Chuck it right in the bin I would say in most of these cases you can get more money for your device than what they're offering like the 14 pro Max for 650 talk about a drop off however this is a convenience thing so if I were to say head over to eBay iPhone 14 pro Max now obviously there's a lot of people selling these right now but you can see some of the pricing still I mean this one's got 80 this is 81 bids 810 bucks we head back over to Apple's site and you'll get the same model up to 650 and that auction was still going on so you're probably going to get closer to a thousand this is no kind of Revelation like you probably already know this but if you're all about convenience you could do your trade-in directly on their website now the other thing to keep in mind you get almost nothing in the box anymore other than the device and the charge cable now the nice thing this year is you are going to get a USBC charge cable which brings me to today's sponsor which is our great partner over at anchor who have such a variety of USBC accessories to take advantage of with your new iPhone 15. first off is this little guy this is the Nano pro charger and look how tiny that is this is about the same size as Apple's old 5 watt power adapter and it's providing 20 watts of power Apple's old form factor matching this which was like five watts of power charge faster for a cheap price and in something that basically fits into your pocket so this is a 5 000 milliamp hour power bank that just plugs into the bottom of your new USBC iPhone how sick is that 22.5 watt capable power bank so fast charging power bank so then you've got this in out port on the side so we can charge up the power bank itself or charge other devices via this port and the whole thing folds down so look how pocketable that nice little type c unit is of course this is cross-platform since we're USB type c we're now plugging in to our Samsungs and our pixels and well even our iPads because they were already on type c maybe you want a little bit more power plus it seems like you can just hang it up look how genius the little design will you hang it off something don't you and then anchor has other stuff for nice little desktop charging stations you know about anchor they've got something for everyone and now even more so for iPhone users since we can say goodbye to the lightning stuff all right so let's talk about the pro model which is going to be it's going to be my iPhone of choice so I gave you like a little bit of criteria for purchasing the non-pro and sort of what I would do in that case but for me personally the way to order is to get the 15 Pro and the reason I say for me personally is because I put a huge emphasis on the camera components and using these things for shooting photos and shooting video and that's why I gotta go all the way to the pro Max this time around yes they're a little bit large not for everyone great for multimedia battery life has been pretty good on many recent generations of iPhone I expect the same thing to happen here we're up to 1200 bucks now to start and we're into this kind of scale right here 6.7 inches that'll be 50 bucks a month for two years again careful with the payment program over there you know if you only got 50 bucks in a bank right now don't buy a 1200 phone just an opinion I don't know just just saying put 50 put 50 50 bucks into Apple stock because they're going to sell a few things all right so the colors over here they're more subtle I don't know sophisticated I don't really know what you want to call them there's been a lot of talk about these options and how nothing is vibrant enough I don't know this one's actually easy for me and it's that's weird because I expected to just pick up the black titanium and call it a day but I'm gonna flip it I'm gonna flip it around I'm gonna flip it upside down I'm gonna go with natural titanium and the reason being is because we have this new material now and and this showcases the fact that it's that new material the best if you're if you appreciate Material Science and you love the attributes of titanium then I want to be reminded on a regular basis that my brand new fifteen hundred dollar phone is made of titanium like oh I paid for something it's glass it's titanium it still watches YouTube and I respond to messages on it it's titanium and glass fifteen hundred dollars it matches your Ultra watch if your bow run around in circles around the office training for a marathon so I'm gonna go for the titanium natural titanium model I get to the storage here and honestly for me because everything is so cloud and I'm not shooting a feature film I can get away with the 256 in this regard I think 128 is cutting it way too tight but I can get away with 256 the safer bet is 512. that's 200 more bucks and then one terabyte takes it to sixteen hundred dollars which is just like all right you got to know that you want it I think a lot of people that will step up to that are just those that want to have the maximum spec and never have to worry about anything and this is back into the category of like is this a Production Tool for you I don't know how many people are living in that in that Universe where they're shooting prores on their iPhone 14 pro Max or upcoming 15 Pro Max but if you if you are shooting prores and raw then this is going to take up a lot more space and all of a sudden the storage conversation is going to get a little bit different this is not something that I do on the phone on a regular basis it's fun to play with from time to time but if you were doing it on a regular basis you would quickly run out of storage so that's another consideration so things to avoid I think maxing it out I would say maxing it out would be a thing to avoid I would say avoid buying Apple's first party Chargers I would say if you go with the iPhone 15 regular go for the base and just up the storage ever so slightly and maybe pick this cool new blue color and if you go for the 15 Pro maybe take the max for the added camera functionality with the extra reach on the zoom probably don't sell your old one to Apple if you can put up with the hassle of selling it privately and probably avoid that new yellow color iPhone 15 another year another iPhone is it necessary no don't feel left out these are small incremental improvements every year now when I sit and watch The Kino and I go oh here we are on number 15. what does it do it still does roughly the same things for a number of generations now with slight incremental improvements if you don't think you need an upgrade you probably don't and I don't think you should stress too much about not having the 2G sitting around or the one grand or whatever it happens to be these are just my opinions obviously you have to do you as you've heard the phrase you know you better than anyone else but those are just my takes that is my take and when this pre-order opens up I'll be ordering a natural titanium 15 Pro Max with 512 storage\n"