I did think, and still do, that with the iPhone 15 non-pros, they never originally intended to use that processor. Maybe there was meant to be a version of the one in the 15 Pro, that was better than the iPhone 14, but not as powerful as the iPhone 15 Pro, and it just had issues, so they went with the iPhone 14 processor, as knew that would work fine for the phone.
I've found the last 3 years underwhelming to be honest with you. Is what it is. Fan boys will love it. General public, like past updates, will adapt but won't be blown away......
Nah...it'll be John Ternes. Apple is still a hardware company. Software just sells the hardware.
Don't forget: the A17 processor (the one in the 15 Pro/Pro Max) was the first of the 3nm process in the A series. Yield rates were probably still not great at the time the iPhone 15 line was being finalized and put into production. So they may not have had enough to go around to all of the devices. Also, it's notable that the M3 (the Mac / iPad analog to the A17) was discontinued in favor of the M4, some say because the M4 3nm process was superior. So there may have been some permanent issues with the A17 / M3 that prevented a sufficient supply.
It’s always like that with Apple. I’m a French Canadian and we still not having the French transcription for phone voicemail and this feature is there since 2017 I think? We still don’t have the feature to just say « Siri » either.
You do realize it needs more memory to run locally than the excluded devices have.
RCS really is the barely glossed over flagship feature of this release. It‘ll be a great upgrade for US people.
And you do realize the competition already do a good job, not only in the US, to bring us AI features that work flawlessly on many devices?. Geez, even my bootcamp Windows 10 received the Copilot beta integration lol and it works very well.
The mobile devices running AI are sending most the stuff to the cloud, which then means responses are not as fast as running on device. Also, reliant on signal and mobile data speed. If you have an Android and an iPhone trying to use AI whilst on the tube, where there’s no data signal between stations, the iPhone would work, the Android wouldn’t as it had no signal - an extreme example, but makes my point.
Samsung has had 8gb base for what 4-8 years now. See why. Also, many of them are not anywhere closed to as advanced as what Apple demoed. Most are limited voice commands with some fuzzy word matching logic to do things like open an app click some text or other in an app. I used samsung bixby it isn’t much.
Copilot is mostly in the cloud very little on device. A few days ago it was taking 2 minutes to respond to basic requests for me on a workstation with 64gb of ram and a ryzen 9 cpu.
This. These people who do not develop for ai really have no idea how complex it is to get 2 or 3 services working flawlessly together with mix of on device and cloud processing. It is not an easy task.
