The on-device features are enabled by indexing the device state almost constantly (which is why they also rolled out hidden, non-searchable apps with this). There would be no way to keep a cloud clone of the device in-sync AND respond to user requests using the cloud data in real time.
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Apple Explains iPhone 15 Pro Requirement for Apple Intelligence
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Oh yes I understand that. Some have pointed out that Apple should have bumped the RAM in anticipation of AI requirements. My point is that they had the opportunity and must believe 8GB is sufficient for the job.
Could be the RAM. A16 devices only have 6GB RAM as opposed to iPhone 15 Pro's / A17 Pro, which has 8GB standard. Just like the M-series devices all having 8GB as the minimum.
And yes, inferencing does take a toll on RAM. I'm rather surprised that they even got it good enough (probably, we'll see soon) to run on 8GB RAM since GenAI requires 16GB RAM minimum. Even the new Copilot PC stuff releasing soon has 16GBs minimum.
Why would the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max get cut off earlier than the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus? With the iPhone 13 and 14, Apple has the excuse that the A15 in the iPhone 14 is a little more powerful than the one in the iPhone 13, but no legit excuses for dropping the 14 Pro a year before the 15.
Gemini Nano was a big selling point of the Pixel 8a advertising, and that's a budget phone with 8 GB RAM.
Apple has designed Apple Intelligence to work in a certain way. Apple doesn't want to make changes to the foundation of Apple Intelligence just to get it working on older devices. Offloading is a fundamental change to the design.
This is how Apple almost always does these things.
I have both, don’t worry about it, but as you said it’s a forum and that’s what a forum is for - “a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged”. Everyone is allowed an opinion on products they purchased and companies they invest in. If they are not, the world becomes a worse place.
So that’s the reason why the next generation iPad mini, next iPhone SE and maybe next Apple TV should get at least 8GB of RAM because it wouldn’t look good if any future iPads and iPhones didn’t get Apple’s new signature feature.
Apple can anger many of the Macrumors commenters all of the time, and these commenters can not stop being angered all the time, even if they don't use Apple devices anymore.
Apple should offer anger management classes to these Macrumors commenters, and only support it on newer devices with 16Gb of RAM, making them go insane.
I get the point you’re trying to make here, but that part is simply not true.
In fact, Apple has never once gone 4 years without increasing RAM in an iPhone line- both for flagship and “non-pro” lines. (longest stretch was 3 years).
On average, Apple increases the iPhone’s RAM every 1.88 years.
Apple pushes "privacy" so hard cause it requires 0 ram, it's all profit.🐑💰🤑
Planned - or should I say forced - obsolescence. It is that simple. We are now crossing a threshold. Every lightning products is getting put out to pasture now that USB-C has entered the scene. And 8GB products has been positioned as the new bare minimum. One should probably take that into account when purchasing the new iPad Pro; one has 8GB and the other has 16GB
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Of course, Apple could easily accommodate 6GB products, but they are not going to. Why? Simple...Profits.
If you believe otherwise, I am afraid that you are a moron. It is that simple.
)Of course, Apple could easily accommodate 6GB products, but they are not going to. Why? Simple...Profits.
If you believe otherwise, I am afraid that you are a moron. It is that simple.
yeah the argument that they always try to expand new features as far back as possible falls of a cliff when they don't display battery cycle counts on certain models, despite it being in the log data for custom shortcuts to pull.
They already have a mid year "upgrade", it's a software upgrade, it's when all the promised September software upgrades get released.
