They’ve been moving this direction for a while. Extra GPU core in 13 Pro series was the first step. Now that Mac silicon has multiple variants, A series following suit under the 2 distinct models makes sense.
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iPhone 16 to Feature First A-Series Chip Designed Specifically for Standard Models
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Yes it's easy, but I don't make payments on my phone (pay 100% upfront) and I don't trade the old ones and prefer handing them down. Do what you want, but just because it's easy doesn't make it smart for everyone. I don't care about having the newest or best, nor I see much difference between my 13 pro and the 15 pro, when I barely use the cameras.
Yearly upgraders are a dying breed.
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This is getting out of hand. They should stop fragmenting the lineup and bring back „The iPhone“ in 2-3 sizes and a low cost iPhone SE, that‘s it. I feel the same goes for iPad.
Agreed. I think it’s a move in the right direction.N3E it's cheaper and better in general - efficiency/performance. Just less dense, but you can make a little bigger chip to offset that.
Remember the days when all Apple users cared about was the the user experience of the software and the design? Since the switch to Intel, I feel like we've become obsessed with feeds and speeds even more. Yeah, I remember when Steve Jobs use to talk the new G4 and G3, but it was kinda of an afterthought.
Let’s hope the dynamic island is smaller and the size of a hole punch and not the current monstrosity we have. Early testers to the new Resident evil games have already said the dynamic island is an eye sore for a $60 game. And it’s interruptive of the immersion in gameplay.
Imagine you have a hoard of zombies clawing at you and your dynamic island pops up to tell you that your Nan text you about her hydrangeas.
People are happy about the game and its performance. It’s stellar. But that dynamic island is already the most vocal stain on AAA iPhone gaming so far.
This trend of giving, comparatively, less and less upgrades to the non-Pros has only accelerated ever since Apple split up the iPhone line-up in 2017 with iPhone X and iPhones 8.
I really don’t know why anyone is still surprised by this?
Do you expect Apple to willingly see growth stagnate or decrease?
They make these products with profits as their first priority. Everything else is secondary.
I really don’t know why anyone is still surprised by this?
Do you expect Apple to willingly see growth stagnate or decrease?
They make these products with profits as their first priority. Everything else is secondary.
I can see those last three making their debut on the Pro first but not the standard. Standard may also get WiFi 6E while the Pro get Wi-Fi 7. USB-C 3 on Standard and thunderbolt on the Pro would be nice.
It would make sense they are trying to further the lines between consumer level and pro. Justifying in the eyes of consumers the price difference.
Never forget that the standard model is a descendant of the XR, the “cheap” model, while the Pro is what we used to call iPhone.
And since they have very few new ideas left to make the Pro better, they can only make the standard iPhone worse to justify that price difference.
And since they have very few new ideas left to make the Pro better, they can only make the standard iPhone worse to justify that price difference.
I am glad they don’t. Love how light my 15 Plus is and no finger prints
The average buyer doesn’t know anything about the technical details. Have one chip that is non-pro and another that is pro. If you’re going to attach numbers to them make them the same to avoid confusion.
What’s the difference between the Pro and the Ultra. Or is the Ultra just going to be a re-branded Pro Max that’s more expensive?
The average buyer doesn't know that there's an A-series chip in there or what that means. The chip naming isn't for them.
Naming it A18 even though it's internally an A17 would be even more confusing.
A17 Green, because green is good
Sure, I was talking about pure software functions in a thread focused on hardware.
No, I mean when there was the best phone Apple could create and they didn't purposefully gimp other models so they could have a comparison point for margin sake.