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iPhone 14 Pro Faced 'Unprecedented' Setback Leading to Removal of New Graphics Processor
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You have to think that the heavily rumoured 'rent your idevice' from Apple scheme will launch early next year, to kick start 'sales' again.
(I said 'sales' as I'm assuming that you'd only ever rent your phone with this - for a lower monthly price point - and never get a chance to own it i.e. unlike the upgrade program).
They've obviously reached a point where the iPhone has plucked all of the low hanging fruit.
But they might tempt a lot of people with older iPhones to sign up to a relatively low rental price point for a newer model.
I’ve been wondering when ray tracing was going to come in to the m series. It seemed conspicuously absent.
Wow Johny Srouji's team starting to splinter. Nothing related to Mac OS (gui choices, QA) suggests that the current Apple mgmt is very good at dealing with system complexity. If JS's team (which had been its own entity) is by necessity coming under the aegis of Apple's main mgmt team...
So, many bought an iPhone 13 labeled as a iPhone 14.
Not on the phone but this would be perfect for AppleTV and apparently, it would already be doable since power isn't an issue there. Heat? Put that fan back in, I don't care. It could finally become a decent game console competitor if Apple wasn't treating gaming like a hobby.
Yup. I upgraded from a standard 11 to the 14 Pro Max and the difference is amazing. I Won't be upgrading again for at least 3 years.
Very excited for real time ray-tracing. Will revolutionize my iPhone gaming. To be fair, the only game I play is Crossy Road but that frog is gonna look *great*!
You’re making a lot of assumptions. It could just as easily be that this was the *cure* for the toxic workplace that they had.
There has been a lot of stories about people poaching the chip team OGs. So the fill-ins have been responsible for the most recent rounds of chip designs.
I essentially bought the phone for the 48MP camera and 4K Cinema modes, which allowed me to take some incredible photos and video of once in a lifetime family vacations this year. No regrets.
The bean counter Tim didn’t want to invest the resources and capitol to substantially iterate over the 13? The annual slow trickle of “improvement” sounds about right.
Overall iPhone graphics have basically “looked” the same for over 10+ years. Have to improve it somehow other than just incremental speed processing improvements, right?
Well, there are things that they rushed to us though. And sure those ended up ugly to almost all of us. Lucky they haven't gone the "rushing to the public" route for this ray-tracing extra feature. Because if they did, boy it would be a perfect storm + utterly epic disaster combo. Think of it like Antennagate + Bendgate + Batterygate, all combined in one device.
You answered your own question. A new chip would give the watch more battery life.
dynamic island is a gimmick that got over with most 14 pro owners after a month 😂
As I told the last person who thought this was a gotcha, no, it's not.
The Watch does not do static compute loads the way the iPhone does. There is only so much you can do with a tiny battery to begin with. They could achieve a better power draw drop with a simple process node shrink on the existing chip.
The people complaining about not getting a new Watch SoC are complaining because it's not NEW SHINY and not because they wanted a battery life increase.
Folks, don’t fall for the Apple PR spin machine. Apple PR loves to “leak” sensational statements about a “just missed,” or “changed at the last minute,” feature, to build hype about how “bleeding edge” Apple is. In reality, the chip decision was made well before the iPhone 14 was in production.
With the power of iPhones increasing and the adoption of a Thunderbolt 4 port it should be possible to plug an iPhone into the Studio monitor and use it as a Mac. The ultimate portable Mac, but I'm not holding my breath as I'm sure they will never do that.
Why were you expecting massive advancements every year? Some years will be iterative update while other years will be generational updates.
If Mac OS isnt on the iPad, which uses desktop chips, it’s not going to be on the phone. Besides, what good is all that power when it’s a tiny sealed enclosure that would overheat and throttle when you try to use it as a Mac.
Good people do not leave well managed companies in mass. Sure a individual may be bought, but no, this stinks of poor management. Someone has been promoted past their ability.