Another thing, the only persons this would bother is someone upgrading from a iPhone 13 to 14. If you upgrading from a 12 or earlier, it won't even cross your mind that you are using a one year old SoC thats likely optimized.
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iPhone 14 Still to Boast Performance Improvement Despite Sticking With A15 Chip
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While I agree with your statement, those exact same words have been true for many years.
But I think you're forgetting that increasingly more and more people spend more and more time with their tech and thus feel that any small improvement to their experience is worth all the added expenses, even if it's just a spec bump and not really any new hardware.
Plus, most consumers buy smartphones using various deals and offers that either lower the price or spread out the costs over years, or both.
So the whole thing of scrutinising your needs and funds and the actual gained value of upgrading to a new product, like most other out-of-pocket purchases involve, simply aren't a part of the equation for most smartphone buyers.
The 14 standard might see very low sales if it's really as lacklustre as the analysts paint it. But only because the 14 Pro, 14 Max Pro and new 14 Plus/Max will sell better than ever.
Not with a price hike that is rumoured they are not. It wasn’t enticing people at £999 so I can’t see a price increase tempting people further.
This is all much to do about nothing. Let’s see what actually happens in a few weeks. Not worth getting excited about. They haven’t listened to us in a decade anyway!
“Better modem”. The lamest excuse to increase the price or make me “update” (is this an update???) my 13 to a 14…
Thinking it again, CPU is basically a commodity now and the raw speeds of phones CPUs is negligible. Perhaps faster memory, more RAM, wider bus, bigger cache, etc. Can make a bigger difference in “snappiness” overall.
Still the question remains: what drives the updates now, from the hardware point of view?
Thinking it again, CPU is basically a commodity now and the raw speeds of phones CPUs is negligible. Perhaps faster memory, more RAM, wider bus, bigger cache, etc. Can make a bigger difference in “snappiness” overall.
Still the question remains: what drives the updates now, from the hardware point of view?
Bring back Touch ID. That would be an update for me!
It will probably be more like what they did with the Xs, where it simply replaced the X, which was no longer sold at all. So that would like like the iPhone 13 disappears (except for the mini most likely), the 14 is sold at the same price as the current 13, and the cheaper model continues to be the 12.
Yea was 800 Instant and some Installment credits. Just could be difficult getting your first with nothing to trade.
The A15 is a mighty fine CPU. And anyone who upgrades their phone for each new generation has more money then sense.
I'm still rocking an 11 Pro Max that's starting to have battery issues. I'll be getting whatever the new biggest iPhone Pro is gonna be called. As to the general populace, they will buy the new iPhone 14 regardless of what chip is in it. Most people (not on this forum) don't know or care what processor, or generation of said processor, is in the iPhone. It seems like they only want the newest one, especially if it's in a fun new color.
I think Apple will stop selling the iPhone 13 once the 14 is out (other than the mini)…
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Agree 100% - especially now with the non-Pro iPhones keeping the A15.
Agree 100%.
SE 2022, 12, (maybe) 13 mini and all the new iPhones 14 is the official 2022 lineup.
Especially the standard 14 won't benefit from comparison to last year's lineup. So 13 has to go.
*I highly doubt the 13 mini staying since it is 1/1 just a 13 (standard) with a smaller display and battery and would thus serve to highlight how few upgrades the 14 (standard) has actually gotten, assuming no new SoC.
I feel like 13 was a really well-optimised version of 12.
So maybe 14 will be a exceptionally well-optimised version of 13?
Seems like there's something missing for the 14 (standard) to be a $799 iPhone.
I don't like all this talk of discontinuing the 13. I've been waiting until September to trade in my 8+ for a 13 mini when the prices drop. Still going to hold on and see what happens, but I'm preparing for a mad scramble to get hold of the last of the minis now as soon as the 14 announcement happens.
I only upgrade my phone about every four or five years when it starts to feel like is getting slower. I got an iPhone 13 so I'm all set for quite awhile.
The standard iPhone 14 models will still have better performance than the iPhone 13, despite containing the same A15 Bionic chip, according to leaker "ShrimpApplePro."
In March, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that only the iPhone 14 Pro models will feature the A16 chip, with the standard iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max models to be equipped with the A15 chip like the iPhone 13. In an April edition of his newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman agreed that standard iPhone 14 models are "likely to stick to the A15 from last year or a variant of it." The rumor has since been echoed by other sources like Taiwanese research firm TrendForce.
This differs from Apple's strategy to date of equipping all of the latest iPhones with the same chip. For example, the iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max are all equipped with the A15 chip.
Despite retaining "some old hardware," the non-Pro iPhone 14 models will "still have some overall performance boost over the iPhone 13 series," ShrimpApplePro said in a tweet. This is reportedly due to a new cellular modem and a new internal design, among other changes.
These other improvements could include more memory, with the all of the iPhone 14 models expected to feature 6GB of memory, 2GB more than the iPhone 13. The iPhone 14's new, more efficient modem is expected to be physically smaller, use less power, and offer a high level of performance. As such, ShrimpApplePro's claim that the iPhone 14 will still offer performance improvements seems likely.
Earlier this year, Gurman said that "beyond trying to make the Pro stand out," ongoing chip shortages may have contributed to Apple's decision to limit its upcoming chip to the iPhone 14 Pro models.
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As always, the value of technical advancements can be very subjective.
- Ram: Earlier rumors mentioned up to 8GB Ram. At minimum, also the smaller models will have 6GB this year (up from 4, i.e. 50% increase). And it could jump to a faster type (LPDDR5), have a wider bus and sip less power.
- Camera: 48MP on the main cam (vs 12MP now), with an option to combine sensor pixels for better low-lighting pictures. Improved lens configuration. Front cam improved and with auto-focus. Enough upgrade reasons already for quite some people.
- Battery life: Even noticeable improvements don’t necessarily require new battery tech. Savings can also come from better components with lower power consumption, such as e.g. Ram, CPU, radios, display etc.
- AoD could be a big deal - if not for you, then for others. And the new screen is said to be able to go down to 1Hz (instead of 10Hz now), helping with battery and probably being a key factor for always-on.
As I said above: Different people appreciate different upgrades. But at the end of the day, even the improvements that you consider “minor“, add up over the course of a few generations. Just experienced that a couple of times in recent weeks with (amongst others) the picture/camera quality differences between an XS and a 13 Pro.
It’s a very concerning sign that Apple may be planning to increase the Pro models price even more.
maybe a-lot more..
maybe a-lot more..
Time will tell. Apple knows what it’s doing and I’m sure knows what the market will bear for their high end iPhones.