You have more money than Intel and Samsung combined.
There is no excuse why the iPhone's CPU is built on 45nm while Intel with a much smaller amount of money is building everything on 22nm.
You're making a lot of assumptions. First of all, money isn't everything despite what you hear.
Having all the cash in the world will not give Apple the technologies that you want them to have or allow them to engineer the next revolution. It takes time and smart people. You can't throw money at a group of college students and expect them to build the next iPhone with hexacore CPUs, 8GB, 120GB and 2000x200 resolution screen in 6 months with the capability of producing 10 millions of the same device per 3 month schedule. It just doesn't happen, even if the fund is infinite, the resources and people aren't.
Apple does not build their own CPUs, they design it and then outsource manufacturing to the fabs. Apple certainly already have 22nm designs but they can't build it until the fabs have the technologies to build it at the globe scale. That is the biggest problems that Apple have, they have many designs they are experimenting but they can't build what is not possible right now. There are no Fabs that can produce what Apple needs at global scale, including AMOLED displays. There aren't enough supply to produce 10+ millions of AMOLED devices per quarter. Samsung also reserve their stocks for their own devices and they're already maxing out on AMOLEDs. In fact, there were a time when Samsung had to switch from AMOLEDs because they couldn't produce enough of it.
There were rumors that Apple wanted AMOLED displays a year ago but there were no fabs that could supply it in the reasonable timeframe that Apple needs. We'll certainly see something new in a few years but at the moment, AMOLED won't happen for a while.
At this moment, there are also no mass production 22nm processes for mobile ARM chips.
It doesn't matter how much money you have, without the experience, Apple can't just build several fabs and shrink a process down to 22nm and expect a good yield out of it on the first try. No fabs on the planet has a good yield at the moment with 22nm processes, Intel is just starting to get a lot of success and expect to go into mass production by the end of the year and sell it next year. It took Intel several years to do this, Apple won't do this in less than a year
It cost billions to just build one fab and cost several more billions just for R&D on new technologies to find a way to shrink down the process. Not to mention that they'd have to pay for the rights to do this since there are thousands of patents involved that Apple'd have to license from other fabs.
Apple can bankrupt themselves just trying to find a way to do this. Why would they do this when they can just wait for the fabs to do this and then switch to it?
Also, if Apple does everything you want, it will not be possible to even make any profits on their devices. The initial expense on just building everything out will cost tens of billions of dollars and will take several years to finish. They'll lose money on each device they'll make for the first few years before they'll start making some returns.
If Apple is willing to do this, they'll do it in parallel developments. Continue to make truckload of money and then re-invest their money into building the fabs but it'll take several years before they can produce their own stuff.
Also please give us a built in navigation app comparable to Googe's.
Apple bought a few companies specialized in this area already but it'll take them some time to come up with a better navigation system. They can't just steal what Google have already.
The same applies to screens. Please go to Super AMOLED Plus and 4" and use PowerVR Series 6 gpu and a Cortex a15 cpu.
There are no Cortex A15 CPU and the next-gen PowerVR series 6 CPU in mass production. Again, you're assuming everything is ready. Everything you're asking will happen but it'll take some time to get there. Money won't make it get there faster.
Also, not everybody agrees with AMOLED PLUS is the best display.
But now, the 4S at launch is behind competitors in terms of screen size, battery capacity, ram, cpu clockspeed and only on par with them in terms of gpu and screen resolution.
iPhone 4S is an evolution update, it's not designed to leapfrog the competition but to speed up the previous iPhone designs. Apple doesn't care about the competition, they're more focused on their own things. Right now, the internals in iPhone 4S is a huge jump from iPhone 4. The CPU and GPUs are the top contenders in those areas. Their GPU is the among the fastest on the market.
Screen size isn't always important. They won't switch to multiple devices just because there are a small group of people who prefer a 4" screen or 5" screen. Having 1 screen benefits everybody including developers who can program just for that specific screen. RAM size isn't important for most people, as it is more about how to optimize for the specific RAM. Throwing more RAM into it may encourage bad memory optimizations.
Battery capacity is about optimizations and also weight. Apple's still among the top in the market. Throwing more capacity without optimizing it will add more weight to the iPhone. iPhone 4S is already more heavy than the previous iPhone models by a few ounce.
That's not the Apple I know. And unfortunately, having already sunk well over a $1000 on Apps and iTunes purchases, I can't leave them for the better phones on the market either.
Unfortunately, that's life in the software/hardware world. Just like Windows users can't use their fav apps on Macs and Android apps can't be used on Apple devices.
Intel sunk some money into shrinking the diesize and moved past 45nms several years ago. Now they are going down to 18nm
No, they haven't. There are no mass production 18/22nm processes right now. Intel is starting to go into mass production for 22nm just now and expect to sell it starting early next year. Source:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/intel-22nm-technology.html
Also, Intel didn't just sunk some money. You're making it sound like it is a simple task. Intel has decades of experience and the largest group of smart and dedicated engineers working on this and it took them several years to get from 45nm to 32nm and it also took them a few years to go down to 22nm. Apple have neither the experience and the resources to do this.
Also, Intel has nothing to do with Apple in this case. Intel failed to come up with technologies that competes with ARM CPUs. Apple's using ARM designs that are far more power efficient than Intel, which is the reason why all smartphones are using it.
Name one smartphone with Intel chips in it. Their 22nm processes that they are working on right now have absolutely nothing to do with mobile CPUs. It's designed for high power/TDPs CPUs that goes into computers and laptops.
With all of that in mind, what you're asking will happen in time, you have to be patient and to remember that while there are a few phones that are so much better than Apple's devices, they are limited to the current supply levels. They won't be able to outsell Apple with the same components.
