I feel like Apple is keeping up with the same mistake of making people who get the non pro iPhone feel more compromised every iteration by pushing the segment gap too much. The best part of iPhone mini was that it had the same processor as the max and only mostly differentiated in camera, screen and battery. Now we get the a year old processor that’s hardware locked out of new features which literally announced in the same keynote as the phone. They could have at least made minor changes and called it A16s or A17 and called the pro line 17 pro.
In the generation of marginal improvements it’s stupid not to bring the well established features into play for non pro iPhones. My two cents.
Things like generative AI is a user experience feature and not like an extra camera that hardly anyone uses.
I feel like Apple is keeping up with the same mistake of making people who get the non pro iPhone feel more compromised every iteration by pushing the segment gap too much. The best part of iPhone mini was that it had the same processor as the max and only mostly differentiated in camera, screen and battery. Now we get the a year old processor that’s hardware locked out of new features which literally announced in the same keynote as the phone. They could have at least made minor changes and called it A16s or A17 and called the pro line 17 pro.
In the generation of marginal improvements it’s stupid not to bring the well established features into play for non pro iPhones. My two cents.
Things like generative AI is a user experience feature and not like an extra camera that hardly anyone uses.