{"id":6770,"date":"2019-11-29T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:43:21","slug":"product-review-iphone-11-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/29\/product-review-iphone-11-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Review: iPhone 11 Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve been a Mac fanboy since I bought my first Mac laptop computer. Coming from the industry standard PC\/Windows environment the Mac was a revelation in simplicity. I had no routine tasks to perform, no re-stacking those little blocks, no blue screen freeze ups, no re-booting, no unplugging the power, no internet viruses and the thing worked for 10 years before it was too slow and space-limited to run a film editing program. My old Mac still works fine but it\u2019s been softwared into obsolescence. Once I got the hang of never needing to do anything and learned the Mac Way of doing tasks I never looked back.<\/p>\n

Mac users used to laugh about the bloatware that came standard with each new iteration of Windows. PC users had to upgrade their computers to fit all the useless junk that Microsoft stuffed into their multi-level marketing system masquerading as an operating system. Macs were clean machines: If you wanted extra programs you went out and got them.<\/p>\n

With Apple fandom comes an Apple phone and I\u2019ve had the 3, 4 and 6 models. For the most part the phones have been okay. The 6 I\u2019ve been using for a long time was getting glitchy. I suspect the glitches are pre-programmed into the phone to drive sales of newer phones. The thing needed re-booting everyday. It was almost like Windows software had infected the thing. Web sites stopped displaying properly and the newer iPhone software versions (free!) were not compatible with the old 6. My wife decided that I needed a new phone and with Black Friday deals flying around on the Internet she secured a new phone at somewhat of a good price.<\/p>\n

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The biggest reason for choosing the 11 Pro over the other iPhone models is the camera. Or cameras. There are 3 separate focal length lenses built into the back of the phone: A super wide 13mm, a wide 26mm and a standard 52mm (all view angles 35mm equivalent). Note: These ranges are optical so you are not just zooming into an ever-decreasing pool of data. I don\u2019t know if the three lenses share a sensor or if each lens has its own sensor. If you do digitally zoom there are a lot of pixels. I don\u2019t know how many. You can look that stuff up online. Anyway, I don\u2019t care about file sizes as long as they don\u2019t get too big.<\/p>\n

The new 11 Pro is supposed to be water resistant. I\u2019m not going to test it out but that is a big improvement for motorcycle riders. No more digging around for a plastic grocery bag or a ziplock when it starts to rain.<\/p>\n

Once you get past the great camera and the improved water resistance Apple has become Microsoft. This phone is full of bloatware and programs that I will never use. It\u2019s the most intrusive thing you can buy. Everything you do or say is tracked. I spend my free time looking for ways to shut the junk off. If it\u2019s not facial recognition it\u2019s Siri butting onto the screen trying her best to seem relevant. The overly sensitive touch screen keeps taking me places I don\u2019t want to go. Maybe there is a way to deaden the touch response.<\/p>\n

The home button is gone so you have to tap out, but that motion sometimes takes you to another screen. I\u2019ve yet to figure out how to stop the first open-screen from displaying my messages. Anyone can pick up my phone, tap the screen and see my latest communications. The home screen is two pages of junk I will never use. Maybe I\u2019m not typical.<\/p>\n

Everything seems to take an extra step or two. To screen shot I have to choose where to save the image; with the old 6 it went to photos automatically. The button functions are relocated for no good reason. I\u2019m sure there is a way to work around this stuff. The thing is, I shouldn\u2019t have to opt out of all this junk. I shouldn\u2019t have to search through the extensive menu layout to find intrusive software and shut it off. I couldn\u2019t even activate the phone without signing into iTunes. Apple isn\u2019t selling you a phone any more; it\u2019s selling a tracking device for advertisers. They should pay me to carry the thing. If someone invented a lead-lined, soundproof pouch to slip your iPhone into when you want to be alone they could make billions. Maybe print happy pictures of cats on the dead-zone pouch and call the thing \u201cGarbo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best camera is the one you have with you.\u201d It\u2019s an old photographer\u2019s clich\u00e9 but so true. Get the iPhone 11 pro for the cameras.\u00a0 There is no other reason to subject yourself to the bloatware. And the cameras are enough reason for me to put up with Apple\u2019s nosy corporate attitude.\u00a0 With this phone I\u2019ll be able to rely even less on a real camera when I travel on a motorcycle. I\u2019ve just got to watch what I say around the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a Mac fanboy since I bought my first Mac laptop computer. Coming from the industry standard PC\/Windows environment the Mac was a revelation in simplicity. I had no routine tasks to perform, no re-stacking those little blocks, no blue screen freeze ups, no re-booting, no unplugging the power, no internet viruses and the … Continue reading “Product Review: iPhone 11 Pro”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,66],"tags":[961],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-joe-gresh","tag-iphone-11-pro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}