The Apple iPhone 17 Event was Disappointing | Here's Why.

The Apple event is over. Here's exactly

what you need to know. Specifically,

does it make sense to upgrade your

iPhone, your watch, or your AirPods?

We're going to talk about that. Spoiler

alert, it's going to come down to how

much of a credit you could get for your

old phone. If you could get 1,100 bucks

for your old phone, you can buy a new

one for 1,100 bucks, it might be worth

it because you're getting at least some

of those slightly improved chips with no

extra cost. That said, let's look at the

differences. There actually aren't that

many. So, what I've done is I've stacked

them up. Apple 3, 2, and one on the

Ultra watch. We'll start with the watch.

I have the Ultra 1, so I'll be looking

at that. Uh the Ultra 1 would upgrade

with a 15 a 50% uh greater level of

brightness, so more nits. You'll get

3,000 nits on the two or the three and

only 2,000 on the original one. You get

hyper attention notifications, which

both the two and the three have had.

sleep apnea notifications both the two

and three have had. Uh as you could see

here, you get emergency SOS via

satellite. That is the big new feature

on the watch 3. So uh you also get 5G

capability for data, which I will say if

you're ever using an Apple Watch uh and

you're trying to use Siri, which uh

version two and three do have ondevice

Siri uh but version one does not and so

you have to wait for Siri to connect to

cellular. This could be very

frustrating. The ondevice series

certainly is going to help if you move

from one to two or three. But then being

5G capable is probably also going to

help in the event that let's say you're

um you know trying to communicate with I

don't know Siri about I don't know AI

functionality in the future or

something. Who knows? I'm not entirely

sure why you need faster internet on the

watch since mostly what I at least use

it for would be maybe listening to an

audiobook. I could download those a

little faster I suppose although that's

not particularly slow or texting. Maybe

looking at my calendar or reminders. So

5G capable, cool. How much of a

difference does it make? Not entirely

sure. Uh again it's going to depend on

that resale value as to whether this

makes sense to upgrade on the prior

devices. But on device Siri I do think

is valuable because hey I want to send a

message to somebody. I want it to happen

fast. I hate that pinwheeling that you

get without on device. But two and three

have had that. Supposedly you're going

to be getting more battery life. Uh

about 20% more battery life than the two

or the one. 42 hours versus 36 hours.

That puts you about 16.6% more battery

life. the uh actual size of the screen

is a little bit larger. You could see

right here it implies the bezel is a

little smaller. I've got a 1245 mm

square area versus the 1185 previously,

which is about a 5% larger actual

display, even though the overall frame

is still 49 mm. So, you're getting a

little bit more bang for your buck

there, if you will. Now, otherwise, same

storage size, same wireless chip, a

little bit faster processor supposedly

as the S10, uh, which I'm I'm still not

sure how much they actually improve on

that versus just changing the name every

single year because it came out a year

later. This is big, though. You do move

from that LTE modem to 5G plus LTE and

the satellite connectivity. That's a big

deal. You're also moving to Wi-Fi 4 with

both 2.4 and 5 GHz. Again, still

confused as to how much that extra speed

is going to help me. But again, if I

could get uh a good tradein value on the

one, um maybe it makes sense. Let's just

do a quick look here and just grab some

of the basics right here uh to see if we

can get a trade-in value uh estimate

here. So, get a tradein value. Who made

the watch? Apple trade in value. I'm

going to have to on the watch. Oh boy.

So, we'll get a trade in value here and

I'll let you know what it says because

to me that I mean if it goes up to 300

bucks for the Apple Watch Ultra 1, it's

still going to put you somewhere around

4 to 500 bucks of a delta that you're

paying. And so, you're paying that 4 or

500 bucks really for 5G. And if we

figure out, hey, is that worth it?

Maybe. But other than that, I'm not

entirely convinced uh this is really

gamechanging in terms of um what uh new

features we got here on the watch. Onto

my series again, maybe. But the two

already had that. So, if you're

upgrading from the two with even more of

a challenge, uh is your watch free from

damage? Yes. Are the buttons free of

scratches? Yes. Uh does the band work?

Yes. Ah, 225 bucks. So, if I go buy a

new one at $799 plus tax, it's going to

put me at $862

minus a tradein value on this watch of

$255. It's going to cost me $600

to upgrade from the one uh to this uh to

this new device

to be determined. Is that worth it? I

think everybody's going to make up their

own mind on that one. Let's do the same

now for the uh iPhone Pro Max series

here. So, I have the 16 Pro Max right

here, and we're going to compare that to

both the Air and the 17. You can see the

Air and the 7. The Air is on the right,

the 17's on the left. Almost copy and

paste features here. So, I'm really just

going to look for the differences. If I

upgrade, I'll get the ceramic sealed

seal uh shield back, which honestly, I

usually don't use a case, but I started

using a case because I've been too lazy

to get this repaired. Uh, but it's

started to cut uh me sometimes when I'm

using it. So, I have to be careful

because I mean, after all, it is damaged

glass right there. So, you know, I'm

probably uh somebody who could benefit

off of uh having a little bit of a

stronger back uh on the actual phone. Uh

and this is from sid sitting down with

short shorts and slipping out of your

pocket from like 2 feet up. It it blows

my mind that every year they tell us the

glass is better and then somehow it just

still cracks. So, I I I I don't see many

differences, but whatever. Uh, so, uh,

all the cores here are basically the

same. They just added neural

accelerators. Now, battery life, somehow

they say, even though both of these

models right here are the no SIM model,

somehow they're saying the battery life

is going to move up by 18%. Which that

is pretty impressive. Uh, and they are

using the ability to record forward and

backwards via dual capture. This has

been available through apps, but the

apps have been pretty clunky. So,

integrating this, I think, is very

exciting. Ultra stabilized video. Cool.

All right. Even more stabilization. They

have that on the air version as well, as

long as well as dual capture. The air

version really just seems like you're

giving up about 12 hours of battery. So,

you're just sort of slapping down the

battery power there. Uh, as far as the

actual chips, you have almost the same

amount of cores, one less GPU core on

the Air, but uh, you still get the A7

Pro chip in the Air. So, really the

extra thickness on the uh, Pro Max is

really just battery life is what it

appears to be uh, on on first glance

going through this. the Fusion cameras,

that's really just so they can crop uh

you know, they give you higher

megapixels and they crop in to make it

seem like you're getting a higher

digital zoom uh or or uh optical zoom

rather is what they're trying to build

off of. So, you do have the macro camera

in the pro system uh which you do not

have the macro camera on the single

camera for the Air. So, you do lose a

little bit of benefit there. Uh see, you

have one 2x and then here you get that

uh wide lens as well. you don't have.

So, wide and zoom lens. Uh then we've

got uh let's see here. Uh okay, USB 20x

faster transfers. That's the same as the

prior model. Mag Safe, that's the same

as the prior model. Uh you've got uh

pricing here did go up uh about 100

bucks, which I was somewhat surprised

by. And the Air starts at $9.99.

So, uh did take up a little bit on

pricing. And then as far as the display,

uh, everything here looks broadly the

same except for this. A little brighter

outside. You have 50% more nits for that

outdoor brightness. Okay, that's nice.

So outdoor brightness did get an

enhancement. We have uh weight. It's a

little heavier. It's 233 g versus 227. I

mean, 6 more gram. It's 2.6% 6% heavier

relative to the Air. The Air weighs uh

let's see 165 divided by 233. The Air

weighs about 29% less than than the uh

iPhone 17 Pro Max. That's pretty

impressive. Uh okay, Apple Intelligence.

Uh this is all copy and paste the same

here. Copy and paste. Copy paste. This

is almost the same except you get those

neural accelerators. Telephoto lens had

a smaller resolution previously, so

that's all updated now to the 48.

Spatial photos. Wow, dude. That's a

scam. No spatial photos on the iPhone

air. That's an asterisk in my opinion. I

mean, like, how often are you really

doing the spatial photos? still like I

think I when I take pictures of my kids

uh with the phone I I try my best to

turn on the spatial photos because I

when I look back at them I think it's

cool how like you can kind of see the

3Dish of it or you put on the Vision Pro

just to look at photos. I don't really

use the Vision Pro for much else. Uh

dual capture up to 4K Dolby Vision 40 uh

4K uh 30 fps is fine. They both have

that. Yeah. No spatial recording at all

on the iPhone uh Air. So, you lose

spatial recording and you lose the

battery life by going for the Air versus

the new one. H, it's a little

disappointing. You might not care. I

personally with seven kids, I I kind of

care about that. So, I think that that

probably kills the Air for me, although

I don't know how much of a contender

that was anyway. Uh, let's see here

because I just want the, you know, the

battery life. Uh, so definitely a boost

in battery life. Again, 39 divided by

33, that's 18%. That's pretty good. I'll

take that. Uh, and then we have up to

50% charge in 20 minutes. So, with a 40

watt adapter. Oh, that's actually nice.

Twice uh the fast charging wattage now

uh uh availability, which is great. And

that's going to increase your speed to

charge to 50%

uh by about 43%. That's pretty good.

That's pretty good. I do like that. Now,

I do I want to find out what the uh Oh,

you get better Bluetooth as well. So,

apparently that'll hopefully help with

AirDrop. And then uh supposedly, I don't

see it here, but supposedly the C1X chip

is going to be a a chip that's twice as

fast of a modem as the previous chip

that they used uh for uh for cellular.

Now, I think that's a big deal because I

like to upload videos and I like them

uploading very very rapidly. Uh I don't

know though that the chip is the

bottleneck. Uh because I think it's

probably more T-Mobile or Verizon or

AT&T or whomever you're using that's the

bottleneck for your actual upload speeds

on the phone, right? So, uh you know,

okay, these are decent upgrades. I think

this is going to come down to, you know,

how do I feel about uh, you know, a

tradein credit. So, the iPhone 16 Pro

Max only gives you $700 towards uh, a

trade-in value. So, you get a $700

tradein value for the prior phone. And

let me see what my storage is just to

understand the difference here. So my

storage

uh oh wow a little challenging to

actually about here we go. Okay. Uh so

we have iPhone 16 Pro Max iPhone storage

512. So I have the 512 that's going to

cost me $1,400

to upgrade to this. And they didn't even

ask me what size I have over here. So

they're going to give me 700 bucks

regardless of the size. I get no extra

value for the size. That's a little bit

of a pisser. So, I'm going to get 700

bucks. Uh, it's going to cost me $13.99

plus sales tax. It's going to cost me

$1,510

minus $700 for the prior phone. It's

going to cost me $800

to get an 18% battery life improvement.

Hopefully a little bit more of an

improvement on the cellular modem,

better Bluetooth,

uh, and the dual capture video, the

front and back.

All right. Okay. So, that's that. Then

you've got the AirPods Pro 3. Now, I

have to say, they they say 4x more

active noise cancelling than the

original, but that's only 2x better than

the two. Uh, and the live translation

product is great. uh if you need that. I

mean, maybe that's cool when you're

traveling. You know, I was just in

Japan, but my concern is how like is

that going to rely on connecting to my

phone and then actually having a good

connection? Like what's the latency here

going to be? Because if the latency

sucks, it's going to be really annoying.

But what I do think is cool is heart

rate sensing during workouts. If you're

not an EyeWatch user, that's actually

cool because now you could track your

footsteps. You get more battery life as

well. You could track your footsteps.

You could track

exercise and your workouts basically

with uh um your your AirPods, which is

kind of remarkable. So

impressive. Uh and they did a great job

here uh including that. I don't know

that it justifies upgrading from the

priors, but you know, it's it's another

year. It's another set of incremental

updates from Apple

upgrade on all of them. It would cost me

$810 to get the Pro Max. It's going to

cost to get the new watch. We said it

was going to be $255 less than it's

going to cost about $67 to upgrade the

watch if I remember correctly. And then

if you got a new one of these, $2.49

plus a little bit of tax. It's going to

cost me about 1,700 bucks to get

basically the latest and greatest from

Apple. Uh, and

what what am I really getting with that?

I'm getting heart rate monitoring in the

AirPods. For me, I don't care cuz I have

the watch. I'm getting the dual video on

the phone. I again, I don't know how

much that matters. I'll I'll show you. I

have this app called Double, and I don't

use it that much, honestly. But, uh,

I'll I'll go ahead and put that up on

screen here so you can see it uh how

this functions. And there we go. So this

is the previous dual function that they

had. And if I take a photo or or I do a

little video clip here. This is just the

third party app. I could then after the

fact decide, you know, where do I want

to put myself?

It's a little glitchy. It's It's okay,

but like I'd rather the Apple version of

that integrated, but kind of like

technically I already have that and I

don't really choose to use it often.

So, I don't know how how beneficial that

is. The extra battery life, you know, I

do like that. I'm kind of tired about

having to carry around uh uh you know

battery packs all the time, but I don't

know that an 18% battery life is going

to make a difference. I think I'm still

gonna have to carry around battery

packs. So, not much is going to change

there. And I just keep buying more and

more anchor packs. Uh so, like pretty

incremental update here from Apple. Uh

obviously, you know, everybody's going

to make up their own mind in terms of

how like is is this finally worth an

upgrade? Uh is this like really exciting

for Apple stock for me?

No, it's and not a surprise. You know,

as the event concluded, the stock is

trending towards its trend line again,

233. Remember, you always get my trend

lines and and my call outs on what I'm

seeing with technical analysis as well

as my 10 stocks to buy for the next 10

years in the meet Kevin membership over

at meet.com. But you do a breakdown and

my reaction of the Apple event.

incremental at best. Does it make sense

to upgrade? I mean, if you want to blow

some money, why not? But beyond that,

I'm not very excited.

>> Why not advertise these things that you

told us here? I feel like nobody else

knows about this.

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Pra there, financial analyst and

YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great to

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