Re: Apple tacitly admits their CPUs and new Modem are merely a marketing gimmick

On 2/21/25 18:24, Alan wrote:

On 2025-02-21 13:08, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-02-21 15:15:28 +0000, Rick said:

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There is an easy solution here.  If you don't like the product, don't buy it. 

Bingo.

The fact is that nobody in the real world gives a damn nor will ever notice any supposed slowness. It's only the tech geeks and the odd extreme high end user that might be bothered at all. Computers and devices reached peak speed and efficiency for 90%+ of users years ago and it's now become little more than annual updates for the sake of the companies making more money.

 Especially when one of the features Apple's modem doesn't have isn't anywhere NEAR universal yet.

Pretty much my thoughts as well.  I looked at that design trade-off as being a reasonably good one:  the modem in question lacks the one niche cellular band that's shortest range & has limited deployment, so it might connectivity when at a stadium concert 1x/year, but it being ~1% more power efficient helps me every day when I leave my home's WiFi.
In any event, there's more things than just geekery to criticize the new iPhone 16E about.  Since the Apple modem is to not pay Qualcomm's high chip licensing costs, then why did the price jump up by so much?  For the $170 increase from $429 to $599 is a whopping +40%.  Tariffs?
-hh