Would you be interested in a Mac Micro - full Mac in an iPhone 14 case?

[sam_dean]

It's an interesting idea. An iPhone sized device (or even an iPhone itself) with usb-c. Simply connect it to a usb-c monitor (most offer power delivery) or a dock, and a keyboard & mouse (probably bluetooth) and you have a micro-pc that you can take with you. If it could offer a Mac UI on a monitor and IOS UI on a phone screen it would be awesome. The underlying OS is very similar so this could be possible. Just imagine an iPhone that becomes a Mac when you plug it into a usb-c display. Why would you not want one?

It may eat into the Mac market if not priced or restricted properly but it would be a stealth move to eat into the Windows desktop/laptop market for those who want to try macOS on hardware that is as slow as any Intel Mac without Core i9 & Xeon.

There are a lot of Windows users with iPhones.

Thermal throttling is expected without buying an external active heat sink fan solution.

The building blocks required for iPhone with USB-C is confirmed to come as early as next year's iPhone 15. 8GB memory is rumored to be included... this is the base memory of lowest-end Mac mini, Macbook Air and iMac 24".

Activation of macOS on iPhone would require a dock or display with relevant I/O such as

- USB Power Delivery
- TB4 40Gbps
- Ethernet
- USB-A 10Gbps
- HDMI
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- memory card reader

For many macOS would be incentive to buy the 1TB & larger storage iPhone SKUs.

Globally, Apple ships about the same number of iPhones and iPads as all Intel/AMD desktops/laptops annually.