I have my doubts. Once the A16 ramps up production around June 2022, Apple should make every iPhone 14 model with the A16 SoC, but offer it with 6 GB RAM on rhe regular models and 8 GB RAM on the Pro models.
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Kuo: Only iPhone 14 Pro Models to Get 'A16' Chip, Standard Models to Retain A15
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I follow Apple pretty closely and never remember them lying about screen brightness, nor being sued for it.
Same with their graphs.
Hmm, no, I don’t see a difference.
He has sources and is making predictions based on them, some of which may be right, some of which may be wrong. How is that different from creating rumors?
That does not sound very realistic to me.
Apple has just put the A15 inside the budget iPhone SE. I wonder why it would keep the same chip inside its forthcoming iPhone 14, which is expected to cost a lot more. Plus, by inserting the A15 chip inside the iPhone SE, Apple has already allocated the production.
Apple has just put the A15 inside the budget iPhone SE. I wonder why it would keep the same chip inside its forthcoming iPhone 14, which is expected to cost a lot more. Plus, by inserting the A15 chip inside the iPhone SE, Apple has already allocated the production.
They never were sued for it to my knowledge. That's the point. People can't even tell if many things that are advertised are true or not, and sometimes even Apple lies.
This makes very little sense. Apple doesn't bifurcate by performance, they bifurcate by design. They literally just launched iPhone SE where they bragged about its best in class processor, even as a mid-range phone. Why would they upend that years-long successful strategy by lowering the performance of the non-Pros? Plus that having less chip SKUs per year makes support easier- they would need to support A15 for an extra year. Meanwhile Kuo is also claiming that MacBook Air will launch with two-year old M1? And we've heard these sorts of rumors in other years and it never panned out.
I hear the argument about the chip shortage, but that's not an issue for bleeding edge chips like this. So I am very skeptical of this one.
I hear the argument about the chip shortage, but that's not an issue for bleeding edge chips like this. So I am very skeptical of this one.
If you look at recent years of iOS support, Apple has been cutting support by performance, and largely by RAM. iPhone 6 with A8 doesn't run iOS 15, but iPad mini with A8/2GB runs it.
iPhone 14 and 14 Pro will both carry 6GB RAM, so we can expect the same length of iOS support.
Chips are getting bigger and transistors aren't shrinking as fast. Producing millions of expensive chips costs a lot more than supporting A15 for an extra year.
Apple, spend your money and effort on an iOS redesign. Your hardware is already top notch!
No, it's literally the complete opposite. MacRumors and 9to5Mac have both confirmed that it's him.
I wouldn't be surprised if this does end up happening. As the general form factors become closer it makes sense for the price point to differentiate more on luxury features, such as nicer screen technology, some of the latest camera advancements, and... potentially the processor as well. Someone can pay for "very good" or "excellent" based on their personal needs and tastes. I'd imagine one year they stagger it (soon makes as much sense as any time due to supply chain issues and silicone shortages) and then keep them staggered.
The only real thing I can see standing in the way is if staggering them would prevent Apple from rolling out global updates and improvements (e.g. which impact security) across the board. But maybe that's a non-issue.
The only real thing I can see standing in the way is if staggering them would prevent Apple from rolling out global updates and improvements (e.g. which impact security) across the board. But maybe that's a non-issue.
Redesign? What advantage would that offer to the consumer? Apple already has two separate entities with hardware engineers and software developers/engineers. Traditionally, if you look at how they designed iOS, it’s never been radically different, it just has been more of a mature process over the course of time with adding, supplementing and eliminating. I don’t think a ‘redesign’ is what iOS needs, when it should be more about core functionality working in tandem with the hardware. I’d wager plenty of effort is sacrificed into iOS, it’s just not as streamlined as it used to be, but that also comes with challenges as the hardware advances.
No, you are wrong. iOS is completely limiting to power users like myself. Everything, from lack of truly useful automation tools, to basic functions that take too many steps, impacts my ability to be productive. I shouldn’t be forced to use my backup android device to get work done because apple flat out refuses to bring its mobile devices into the modern era.
Man first we probably won’t get the pill front camera and now we won’t get the new chip? This years base models might even be more disappointing than the 13.
I specifically asked you, what would that offer to the consumer with a redesign? You seemingly ignored that.
You taking yourself only into consideration shows you have a lack of understanding of the paradigm of what iOS is. And this one sentence in your post clearly indicates that. So there again, you don’t understand what a ‘redesign’ would actually incorporate from an engineering standpoint, because you think it’s about the small minority of people like yourself.
If you follow/understand Apple in the slightest, you would know that it’s been a maturity process over the years, and never have they been to a point where they need a ‘redesign’ because of ‘power users’. Your point of view is unrealistic and not practical.
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But what screen are they lying about brightness on? Given their users, if this is true there should be something to back it up.
Apple always said that the HDR level brightness was only for HDR images and video, not the UI.
A real world perspective would be people keeping their iPhone longer as nobody legitimately needs a new phone every year or two but they are nice to have for some. Or people buy last years model at a cheaper price which is a model still very much up to date anyway.
Enthusiasts are a different kind of consumer of course and these options won’t be relevant, but they are a niche segment. Very few consumers in the real world are analysing their processor performance on their smartphones.
Wrong. Apple advertised 1,000 nits sustained full-screen brightness–something it cannot do–and then shipped laptops with the same peak brightness as before leaving people wondering what was going on. It can't even sustain the now advertised SDR brightness of 500 nits. These are just simply facts.
The point of all of this was stated in my initial post, and it is not that people deserve juicy payouts.
I wonder will the regular iPhone 14 model inherit the extra GPU version of the A15 and 6 GB of RAM? And the iPhone 14 Pro get the new CPU/GPU cores with 8 GB of RAM?
Well the CPU upgrades have brought us photo processing for better photos, battery efficiency, and features like LiDAR that need that computational power. But I agree, software needs to push these CPUs to their limits. Give me Siri that can have conversations with me and be an actual assistant. Let me see directions with pointing my camera to the street with AR arrows.
I think for the first time software is holding back the hardware. Or maybe they’re not sure what to do with all that power.