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In the case of the 15 I would agree. Should have padded the hardware a little bit so that it could handle some things that were right around the corner. That's why I don't trust the 16. I feel like there's going to be some "big breakthrough" with Apple Intelligence in a year or two that's going to require higher end components that what the 16 has to offer.
Apple deliberately launched a phone with less ram known fine well it couldn’t run Apple intelligence but doing that it’s planting a seed to say I’m missing out on new software going forward trying to get people upgrading earlier. What will probably find is the ram will end up going up soon to either 10 or 12gb & that’s how new features will be a big breakthrough
 
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