The real question is whether Apple can make it uglier, bulkier, and heavier than last year’s phone.
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iPhone 14 Pro Rumored to Have 6GB of Faster RAM
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I remember people on here saying “we don’t need more then 4gb of ram” fun times and this was only last year too
it will look more like silver/grey like the iPad does.. or like the Sierra blue does, more grey than blue. Boring
May finally ditch my 8-plus and go for one of these models. But why am I worried the prices are going to skyrocket again.
There's these amazing things called cases. Put it inside and carry wherever you need. Depending on your lifestyle, If you're active, a large product is not practical. However, if you don't engage in lots of physical activities, carrying around something the size of a 12.9" iPad is cakewalk and beats using a tiny miniature display any day. Especially if your entire lifestyle revolves around productivity
No, the cellular iPad is devoid of phone functionality. It’s not possible if you need to receive OTPs or other SMS and regular phone calls. Some apps like WhatsApp are not even installable on the iPad. Apple made it so you cannot just have an iPad to replace the iPhone. The iPhone is more profitable, so there shall be no substitution product within the company’s own lineup.
If you’re in the US, price won’t skyrocket that much. Probably just a $100 increase from the current price points at the most. If you’re outside the US, then yes, we have to worry as the jump can be huge. I’m debating if I should just upgrade to the 13 mini now instead of waiting for 14 to be released as I’m afraid Apple would not drop the 13 price, but increase the 14 launch prices instead. We already have Apple launching the 3rd gen SE here at higher price than the iPhone 11.
Yea never know you needed it until having less is a problem. Haven't tried Android since GS8+. Don't remember that one crashing as badly as in previous years, but the updates were still horrible, even security ones.
Yes hasn't risen since 8 to XS, and that was $100USD. Curious if they will go with the we need to raise prices because of supply cost, or if they will realize consumers are also getting squeezed, so even $100 could squeeze an iPhone out of people's wants budgets
I can at least see some Blue in Sierra. Midnight Green and Pacific Blue always looked dark gray to black unless in very bright light. My wife might jump on the Purple just because it's Purple, but I at least want some cool feature like AoD or USB-C. And also depends on if the price rises or not.
They use to call something like the iPhone 14 the 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S. But it looks like the 's' years were hurting sales and encouraged less upgrades. Physical redesigns are not so much of a big deal, there is only so much you can do with a rectangle. But, I certainly agree its time to switch to USB C especially with a product lineup that embraces it: Mac, iPad, AirPods, their chargers.
On the contrary.
The consumer segment that Apple targets want that high value. If more people are able to own Apple branded products, they will want something more expensive and exclusive. There's a reason nobody bat an eye when Apple raised the iPhone price to $999. So when regular consumers are getting squeezed, Apple has to actually increase their prices, so people will still see Apple as that highly desirable luxury brand. Apple doesn't really care about the low end consumers. The Apple brand is so highly desirable, even people who cannot afford the retail prices will try to find a way to obtain Apple products through second hand market. It may sound weird, but that's the consumer behavior.
Watch, iPhone 14 Max will be the best selling iPhone ever, and even with increased price, the Pro models will be selling well too.
You probably misunderstoof the meaning of Pro in Apple products. The Pro stands for Profit, aka more profitable for Apple, higher margins items.
6GB? Is this 2014? Apple, stop skimping on ram. For the cost, we should have at least double that.
I can’t tell you what to do but I can promise you I wouldn’t do it if I was you.. I can promise you if I could right now I would Tear this whole iPhone apart piece by piece every inch inside and out is completely broken into little pieces everything and throw it in the river and never look back but enough said best of luck with apple and your device honestly god bless
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This is a company that is selling $1500 Pro laptop with only 8GB of RAM, so not too surprising 😂
Cause their CPUs are so bad they have to compensate somewhere else.
Well, even cheap Android phones have 8GB of RAM, but that's because RAM is cheap, and it's easy to sell a bigger number. So iPhones having less RAM for the dollar is partly Apple saving their own cost.
As for actual use, unfortunately, Android is not really taking good advantage of those big amounts of RAM anyway. Most OEM skins are very aggressive in freezing apps to save battery, so those large amount of RAM tend to be unused most of the time other than, maybe gaming. Eg. my S21 has 8GB of RAM, but most of the time, it doesn't even use more than 4GB of RAM or so, even if I use many apps to multitask. Majority of the time, the system would already close the apps down to save battery before RAM becoming an issue.
So in real use, Apple using having only 4 to 6GB of RAM is probably align with how iOS is optimized and operates. But of course, cost wise, Apple definitely could've put more and improve longevity of the device.