iPhone 14 Lineup Expected to Start With Increased 6GB of RAM

[shinkansenwarrior]

How far in the stratosphere will Tim bump prices in 2022 using the rumored incremental upgrades to break new price points and our hearts? Hope he is in a generous mood. Price difference between 14 Max and 14 MaxPro of interest to me as looking for larger screen upgrade.

 

[Abazigal]

Apple can’t even come up with that. I doubt they even offer anything close to the multitasking ability that android 12L offers. Apple could probably fire half its staff and still produce the same stuff. Not sure what they do all day.

Maybe the question then shouldn’t be so much about whether Apple could (introduce those features), but whether they should.

Apple is quite opinionated as to how they envisioned their products being used and the experience they want the users to have. More often than not, if / when a feature isn’t being included, it’s less that Apple is dropping the ball, and more that they simply don’t think the iPhone should get it.

As to what Apple does, I believe it still comes down to the “thousand nos for every yes”, then focusing on doing those few things well.

 

[Funny Apple Man]

It seems as if there would be barely any difference between the regular 13 and 14 aside from possibly new colors and ram increase.

 

[porte9]

Allows the OS to be less gimped. Maybe that will allow iOS to do things like in-app updates in the background instead of being forced to keep it in the foreground.

More like gives the devs more excuse to waste RAM. Background app updates would be easily implementable by keeping the old version of the app bundle and when the app is closed, swap it out with the new one. Of course this would require killing the old version of the app when it's closed which might aggravate someone trying to reenter the app after going to Safari or something and the app reloading instead of starting where it left off.

 

[Chidoro]

I guess it depends on the usage, but even by 7 years ago in 2015 I was complaining about memory related issues with my iPhone 5S. Moving to the 3 GB iPhone 7 Plus in 2016 was a revelation.

As for storage, now that we're all on iCloud, even 128 GB is more than we need.

We = you

 

[EugW]

We = you

“We”, as in “my family”.

 

[svish]

Will be good if the non Pro models have the same RAM as that of Pro iPhones. This might be the case this year but it will not be always though. Next year Apple might have less RAM on the Pro models.

 

[macdaddy43]

Great. Now give the base iPad 6 GB RAM and I am in. 3 GB (I believe that is what they have for the current gen) is far too little nowadays. Especially with the supposed new multitasking features coming to iPadOS 16. I am worried that it could cripple the iPads. I am still running a 6th Gen iPad and I believe it has 2 GB RAM. Still does what I need it to do, but it is definitely starting to show signs of slowdown with very frequent refreshes. I am afraid 3 GB will do the same.

Side note: Is adding an extra 2-4 GB RAM really that much more cost for a build like that? In my mind I get that iPadOS is good at limiting RAM use, but at this point the RAM has seemed to be the limiting factor in most new OS updates, not the CPU. I am convinced that if my iPad 6th Gen had more RAM I don't think I would be even considering a new one.

 

[CheffyDude]

Apple should stop releasing new phones every year. It's just the same old thing. Tim Cook screaming "this is the device that will save the world!" and then pushing last years product on you in a different color. Save the new phones for the BIG REVEAL. A folding iPhone. An iPhone that has "fall detection"

 

[SactoGuy18]

I would like to see Apple offer 8 GB of RAM on the iPhone 14 Pro, though. Especially with the large size of ProRAW still image and ProRes video files.

 

[Macative]

With what kind of apps is that amount of RAM necessary?

The camera

/thread

 

[Macative]

I would like to see Apple offer 8 GB of RAM on the iPhone 14 Pro, though. Especially with the large size of ProRAW still image and ProRes video files.

Oh right because of all the times you've run out of RAM on the iPhone 13.

 

[Macative]

I really think iPhone 14 should have 32 GB of RAM because I think it needs it because as a user I know these things.

 

[SeenJeen]

Apple should stop releasing new phones every year.

lmao sure bud

 

[Paddle1]

My wife and I charge almost exclusively via MagSafe. I suspect that's true for the majority of users, which is why there isn't a bigger outcry about it.

I doubt that, most users probably don't even know what MagSafe is. It's still pretty new.

 

[Hkfan45]

I doubt that, most users probably don't even know what MagSafe is. It's still pretty new.

MagSafe sucks. Slow and bulky chargers. I want fast 50W+ usb c charging not more stupid proprietary crap from apple.

 

[theorist9]

Won't be enough to fend off some pretty tough competition from Samsung.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

MagSafe sucks. Slow and bulky chargers. I want fast 50W+ usb c charging not more stupid proprietary crap from apple.

The iPhone 13 Pro Max charges at a maximum of 22W, fastest of all iPhones. But not for long before it drops down in power to charge slower.

But phone maker Realme can manage 150W charging:

The Realme GT Neo 3 puts other fast-charging phones to shame​

Surely Apple can do better.

 

[0924487]

It’s 2022 not 2010. ALL iPads should be multitask focused.

Not all people have the ability to pay tho.

 

[macfacts]

Not all people have the ability to pay tho.

Apple doesn't play in the low end.