Maybe by 2020...Apple needs to milk users with smaller performance increases each year.
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Future iPhones Could Support 4K Graphics and Much Faster Gaming With PowerVR Furian
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Yes, Apple has definitely dropped the ball on a highly-refined user interface, and developers have capitalized on that with their own versions of the interface, creating a mixed bag experience across Mac apps. Not liking it.
As for iOS 10 feeling slow on your 6S, that sounds like you may have some misbehaving or outdated apps. The OS runs super fast on my SE and my girlfriend's 6S. No sluggishness anywhere. Do you quit apps periodically or leave everything running in the background?
Again, Apple has been the leader in the industry in adopting new GPU variants and architectures for their A series processors.
Some of you people need to stop embarrassing yourselves.
Wow! That's crazy! I thought we were just hitting the plateau in terms of mobile processing power but apparently not...
I'm guessing you're quite wrong: when Apple does something, they generally have a pretty specific reason - it may not be a reason that makes sense to everyone (or even anyone), but they have a reason. They have a very long history of _not_ chasing specs.
If they put 4K support in phones, I'm guessing it's either because they jump to supporting 4K across all their platforms (iPhones, iPads, and AppleTV as well as Macs - oh, but not the watch), or it's because they get into AR on the phone in some way, just like Tim Cook has been not-exactly-telegraphing for the past year.
This is Graphics power, where advances are being made at a much faster clip in mobile chips vs. desktop GPUs.
It's the main computing device for billions of people on the planet, in much of the world the only computing device a person owns.
It's generational, those of us over a certain age prefer to use England, Scotland etc compared to the newer use of just The UK. Anyway, using England in this case was not wrong.
At this rate the iPhone is going to be a more powerful computer than the Mac. Note to Apple: update your Macs!!!!
Now this might be useful in the next Apple TV. Still a pretty big missed opportunity for Apple in the console gaming space. The Apple TV is very capable of being a gaming platform. And Apple is probably capable of releasing a new version at $149 with an updated CPU and GPU.
Build it and the developers will come Apple. You messed up with the Apple TV controller. But you've corrected that. Release some new hardware. Get your stuff on a yearly refresh cycle. This seems to work well for the iPhone. This works well for iOS and MacOS. You can do it for the other product lines as well. And not every refresh needs to be a game changer.
Build it and the developers will come Apple. You messed up with the Apple TV controller. But you've corrected that. Release some new hardware. Get your stuff on a yearly refresh cycle. This seems to work well for the iPhone. This works well for iOS and MacOS. You can do it for the other product lines as well. And not every refresh needs to be a game changer.
Connected (I know there is another term) reality is far more valuable than virtual reality. Non-fiction.
Not more powerful. More valuable.
For VR. However I suspect if Apple ever release a headset it won't be one you plug a phone in to, but have its own display so they can leave the iPhone display as it is.
Actually, I'm laughing at yours. Specifically regarding the (lack of) ability to read an article, glean the information in it, and assimilate it properly. But do keep up the good work-- I love a good laugh.
What, no one else on here thinking about the Furian name being a reference to The Chronicles of Riddick?
I honestly can't see Apple jumping on the 4k screen bandwagon. It would be utterly stupid for Apple to spend money on a 4k screen and a more powerful GPU and a bigger battery in a phone purchased by hundreds of millions of people - with only a handful of folks interested in using it as a headmounted VR display. Outside of VR, a 4k display in a phone is pretty pointless.
Someone commented that a 4k-capable iPhone might be useful in providing 4k AirPlay. I don't agree with that. The rendering is done by the AirPlay receiver - e.g. the AppleTV - so it must do the heavy lifting to display the pixels on the screen. On the iPhone side, I'm not even sure how much the GPU needs to get involved as it seems to be primarily a byte pushing activity over a network.
I just had a thought: if the lightning port on an iPhone were "Thunderbolt", I could suddenly see the use of a 4k-capable GPU. Imagine a future iPhone being your "desktop"! Just hook it up to an external display and connect bluetooth keyboard & mouse and off you go
Come to think of it - in such a "mode" the iPhone could be your track pad, so you wouldn't even need a mouse! If Apple goes that route - send me some royalties for my idea
Someone commented that a 4k-capable iPhone might be useful in providing 4k AirPlay. I don't agree with that. The rendering is done by the AirPlay receiver - e.g. the AppleTV - so it must do the heavy lifting to display the pixels on the screen. On the iPhone side, I'm not even sure how much the GPU needs to get involved as it seems to be primarily a byte pushing activity over a network.
I just had a thought: if the lightning port on an iPhone were "Thunderbolt", I could suddenly see the use of a 4k-capable GPU. Imagine a future iPhone being your "desktop"! Just hook it up to an external display and connect bluetooth keyboard & mouse and off you go
Come to think of it - in such a "mode" the iPhone could be your track pad, so you wouldn't even need a mouse! If Apple goes that route - send me some royalties for my idea 
ARM architecture can be used in Windows based machines. You might be able to build a desktop computer that uses ARM. DirectX12 already has support for ARM architecture.
Is 4K pointless on Windows machines, and in this example - desktops?
Pppfffffttttttttttttt hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaah 4K gaming on a phone! Hahahaha hahahaha.....
Erm.. NO! Not in the next in few years they won't.
I mean what else do they mean by, can support 4k graphics? Or are they talking about streaming 4k videos? The statement makes no sense.
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No, it is three different country's plus Ireland. If a place is based in England it's perfectly acceptable to say, based in England.
Erm.. NO! Not in the next in few years they won't.
I mean what else do they mean by, can support 4k graphics? Or are they talking about streaming 4k videos? The statement makes no sense.
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No, it is three different country's plus Ireland. If a place is based in England it's perfectly acceptable to say, based in England.
Duke gets it right. Here's a link to a very helpful calculator which illustrates his point. https://www.pointsinfocus.com/tools/minimum-resolution-calculator/
Could be true - you'd probably know better than most here.
But the company in question is from Kings Langley -a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. My wife grew up in Hereford btw.
Anyway - England-based might be an acceptable way to phrase it, especially since they have no HQ's in Wales or Scotland,
Won't be too long until iPhones have more powerful GPUs than Apple's computers!