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iPhone 14 Pro Faced 'Unprecedented' Setback Leading to Removal of New Graphics Processor
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I find it extremely unlikely that the team, when experimenting with a feature that everyone knows is power hungry, would overlook doing power / thermal mgmt testing until late in the development cycle. So late in fact, that a near emergency last minute change had to be made.
I guess I don't have the same flavor of Kool-Aid that you're drinking?
The executive suite is failing by pushing new OSes and iPhones out every year.
Johny's team has been splintering for years, with a number of lead designers splintering off three years ago to form Nuvia, which was subsequently acquired by Qualcomm. Coupled with TSMC encountering its own issues getting it's 3N process up and running and you have a recipe for incremental updates a few years in a row.
Not from a marketing perspective. All the more progressive technology companies do the same. WWDC is the kickoff event for the next year cycle.
Exactly. I want end to end ray encryption.
Yep!!!
Funny enough, when I got the game and started playing I thought, WOW, the lighting and glare off the water looks really good. I just assumed RT was on. Then I started screwing with my settings and realized it wasn't even on 🤣
Too bad though that nothing Apple seems to do these days "just works". They break the code and screw up the hardware... And the fan club still loves them. What they need is hard love. They need to hear from us, "Fix the issues or peddle your junk elsewhere."
the appropriate testing should have caught an ‘out of spec’ SoC chip before it landed in a iPhone prototype . That wold be a fail of the R&D process . You are not suppose to percolate the problem down the road hoping some ‘miracle occurs here’ solution pops out of the woodwork a couple of month before full scale production . If there is a problem report it and adjust.
The iPhone is on a very rigid fixed release schedule. It shouldn’t be some greenfield , geewhiz highly experimental science project. A finished SoC the rolls out 3 month late is a bust in this context. That makes early testing more critical to an honest evaluation. if someone ‘buried’ the problem and got discovered in the prototype that is even worse . Similarly if the ray tracing software API ‘zigged‘ while the hardware ‘zagged’ and there was a miscommunication.. That is a problem if off doing the ‘wrong’ hardware experiment. ( if apple‘s RT API is too immature that is a judgement call the hardware folks have to make. Running off and doing an experiment with the wrong data is experimental design failure . )
The A16 is on TSMC N4 the A15 was on best N5P ( if not relatively stale N5). There was not much power savings from N5P to N4 so why someone would expect to hide ‘too aggressive additions’ in that small of a fab update .
Similar reports about at least one of the AR/VR SoC exhibiting simalr issues .
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iPhone’s success has both made and unmade modern Apple.
How so? While there will be disagreements about everything Apple, their strategy has been successful since 2007. Why change something that works? Apple isn't about to change it's strategy.
I don't see why game-related features matter on a phone GPU when all you can play on it are IAP crapfests. Is there any pay once game left on iOS?
OMG! Apple had to tweak their crash algorithm after release? Shocked. No, make that totally shocked!
Seems most people here expect 100.0% perfection 100.0% of the time.
Same here, really want to try out the periscope camera (if it makes it this time), but don’t know if I’d be happy with the max (or ultra?) size that is rumored to be required for periscope camera tech. We will see!I’m waiting for the 15, 😁
another 10 long months….
But only about 5.5 months for WWDC !!!
That’s someone else case-meme but had 2 situations when 100% changes to hit were missed
“That’s xcom baby”
Once something similar when a soldier was next to enemy and had only 70% to hit, lucky tango down.
Anyways I recommend on iPad for sure, it was for me better experience than lagging / frame dropping xcom2 on PS5.
iPhones have been able to connect to external displays for a decade at least.
People think that there won't be any issues with product development and manufacturing, at the initial development satge they will come up with grand ideas, they make parts, test them, collect the data and tune as they get more data, and they will know when to walk back and go with plan B.
People should stop thinking that Apple is designing phones or any other hardware hoping that people upgrade every year, they are targeting people who are using iPhone 11 or 12, very few people upgrade from 13 to 14,.
Wow...some people really hate it when you are complimentary of Apple.
When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he focused on fewere features that just work.
But people want new UI design every year now, so they are forced to update UI and new features evey year, if they don't do it then people will say Apple is not innovating.
as they add more features they break stuff.
Apple should stop adding more features and focus on making OS stable.