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iPhone 14 Still to Boast Performance Improvement Despite Sticking With A15 Chip
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Considering there are likely people still in the upgrade cycle with 3-5 year old phones. I’m typing this on my trusty iPhone 8 running the latest iOS. So, I am likely the target they are aiming for.
I rather agree. Phones of all kinds have gotten boring. Nothing ever improves on them but the cameras, so all the new fancy features are always photo/video related. Phone cameras were good enough years ago. It’ll get exciting again once the phones turn into glasses. Give me Apple Glasses every day of the week even if it has to be tethered for a couple of years before they can fit everything into the frames. For now, it’s “oh, another camera upgrade? Yawn.”
Will make no difference to a 12/13 user. We have plenty of ram - as we should for the money we paid. Mate. Good for a pre iPhone X person ? Although my iPhone 7 wasn’t even that bad just a year ago. (Back up phone I finally sold since I got apple care now with theft protection haha).
I have to agree. Whilst I love the battery on the iPhone 13 pro max, and smooth screen is cool, it was hardly worth the $2000aud upgrade. Like, let’s be real for a second, it’s a battery.. probably cost apple $3. I’m not hating on apple, I do really like my iPhone, but in this climate, if apple wants my premium dollars, it’s gonna have to knock my socks off a-la-iPhone-4S/5
It seems likely that I will skip this year.
If telling yourself that to feel better about your purchase helps you, then by all-means. However, you should have held off.
Same here. I was going to wait for the 14 but from what I was reading plus the promotion offered by Verizon for my XR trade in- going to the 13 Pro Max then was a no-brainer. I like heavy, big phones- I have a huge hand and they’re comfortable.
My main questiion is whether A16 is based on 5nm all over again, or whether 4nm or even 3nm. A node shrink could bring a good performance bump and energy/thermal savings.
But to be honest, I'm seeing little reason to upgrade from the 13 pro max... if the 14 only has 6 GB RAM as well, then there's absolutely no reason to upgrade... the 13 Pro Max has beautiful Pro Motion and I could care less if the 14 Pro Max with only 6GB RAM gets an Always On Display. What good is an Always on Display when the phone is in my pocket?
Anyone know if the 14/14 Max (non pro) will get ProMotion?
But to be honest, I'm seeing little reason to upgrade from the 13 pro max... if the 14 only has 6 GB RAM as well, then there's absolutely no reason to upgrade... the 13 Pro Max has beautiful Pro Motion and I could care less if the 14 Pro Max with only 6GB RAM gets an Always On Display. What good is an Always on Display when the phone is in my pocket?
Anyone know if the 14/14 Max (non pro) will get ProMotion?
Why? It depends where you’re coming from. I was coming from an Xr. I could’ve stayed with the Xr but the promotion at the time was really good - I was getting like $500 trade in credit for the Xr. It afforded me the jump that I never would’ve made otherwise.
My point is how do they market that to the casual user who has no idea/little interest in what a "core" does. The average consumer is not on this site following every benchmark on a device.
You got a 30 second ad to convince someone to buy a new iPhone or upgrade from last year's.
The spin will be fun to watch this fall.
I’m more interested in how Apple handles this in their September keynote. I’m sure they’ll talk about a 25% boost in graphics power plus whatever minimal increase they’ll get from more RAM and a faster clock speed. Whether they mention it will be the same SoC in the 13 Pros, I don’t know. You’d think they have to since they always talk about the new A-series chip in their keynote. They’ll probably gloss over it while showing A15 w/ 5 GPU cores in their features slide while never saying out loud what SoC is in it. Then they’ll segue into talking about the A16 before getting into the new Pro features.
I wouldn’t worry about their marketing, though. I assume it’ll be the same as usual. Apple usually releases a series of commercials that each pick out one iPhone feature and talk about that. They never talk specs or A-anything in their commercials since customers couldn’t care less about that stuff.
Hopefully Nancy’s visit doesn’t affect future chips otherwise this is good as it gets for the next several years. 
That is a LOT to infer from a rumoured decision to use the same superpowered pro chip from last year in this year’s consumer model iPhone.
Apple are a smart company. They’ve proven themselves to be so over the last two decades of monumental growth, smash hit product releases and consecutive record breaking earnings. If they’ve realized they don’t need to put the same bleeding edge chip that goes in their pro phones into their consumer phones, I wouldn’t read much more into it than they’ve figured out that’s what makes the most sense right now.
People forget one thing (which was the primary reason I switched to Apple) is that you get years' worth of iOS updates for "free" when you buy a new iPhone. Then compare that with Android. Most Android phone vendors only support one or two versions of Android on their handsets, so you have to upgrade your phone much more often to get the newest features.
I know I can miss out on the iPhone 14 Pro Max because I know that my iPhone 13 Pro Max will still get the iOS update at precisely the same time.
I know I can miss out on the iPhone 14 Pro Max because I know that my iPhone 13 Pro Max will still get the iOS update at precisely the same time.
Yes it's insane the price range of fridges now is like $500 to over $10k! And on the 70s Show everyone just got them based on color. Maybe the water ice on the door and a chest freezer on the bottom could be nice, but I don't need all that tech on a fridge, and I love tech. I do miss the old place where you paid for washer/dryer with an app. I'd rather pay with cash here than use the garbage card that is erroring a lot, and you can only load at a single machine in the complex instead of an app. And it was nice to get a notification it was done, even though it was always wrong on the early. But I can always just say Hey Siri, set a timer for ## minutes
Same with storage. There's no way it costs close to what we pay to increase capacity. And you can see it going to sales sites. It's a pittance more for the higher capacity models.
Not good enough. Definitely skipping this non-upgrade. Hopefully enough people will not bite, so apple will reconsider their predatori tactics next year.
All I care about is them retaining the 13 mini with a nice price cut
I’m sure there’ll be plenty of non-CPU goodies, but that said I’m very happy with the hardware on my 13 Pro. Now, I’d they could just get all the dang new bugs out of iOS, I’ll be a happy camper.
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Not if you don’t want to spend over a grand it’s not. These phones are always incrementally better than the previous year and unless you’ve got a 3 or 4 year old phone, it’s much the same.
said:Not if you don’t want to spend over a grand it’s not. These phones are always incrementally better than the previous year and unless you’ve got a 3 or 4 year old phone, it’s much the same.
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Agree with you. But money comes money goes. But the precious time/year with the latest iPhone does not.
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I think it's more like charging more for outdated hardware technology. Such as using the same body for iPhone 12/13, MacBook Pro 13".
The software is up-to-date.
Here in Australia you can get a 20-25% discount on the iPhone 13. Given that the iPhone 14 will be a very small incremental update and be more expensive, I would be crazy to even consider an iPhone 14. No thank you. I have an iPhone XS and will grab a discounted iPhone 13 this week.
To be honest, I'm waiting for the Apple Watch Series 8 since I've never owned one. My iPhone 13 Pro Max can last for another year unless there is something significant about the announcement of the iPhone 14 Pro Max that changes my mind.
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If it impresses you then fair enough. I just can’t relate to why it’s satisfying I suppose and it annoys me how overpriced the Pro iPhones are compared to the standard mainstream iPhones.
If it impresses you then fair enough. I just can’t relate to why it’s satisfying I suppose and it annoys me how overpriced the Pro iPhones are compared to the standard mainstream iPhones.