Re: Apple rumored to finally stop putting crappy RAM in the iPhone 17 Air

On 7/10/2025 5:34 PM, Marion wrote:

Historically, Apple puts crappy cheap garbage components into the iPhone.
Such as crappy RAM, garbage batteries & lack of basic fundamental hardware.
 Hopefully, the era of absolute garbage iPhones is coming to an end.
a. The EU forced Apple's hand on the el cheapo iPhone batteries
b. And AI forced Apple's hand on the bargain-basement crappy RAM
 To wit, the new iPhone 17 Air is rumored to have modern amounts of both.
  <https://wccftech.com/iphone-17-air-a19-pro-chip-with-fewer-gpu-cores-performance/>
   " It was recently reported that the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air
     will be equipped with the same 12GB of RAM as the Pro iPhones,
     and a leaker now claims that the handset will be powered by
     the A19 Pro chip, but with fewer GPU cores."
 While the iPhone's ridiculously low core count has always been less than
exciting, the lack of cores is not that big of a deal compared to the el
cheap battery & RAM capacity (which are critically important components).
 Finally, being always about 5 years behind Android, Apple is catching up.
 Unfortunately, no iPhone has even the most basic of hardware functionality.
So the iPhone is still laughably substandard garbage - but perhaps less so.
  Note: Apple may be using chip binning which is a way to put the dies that
failed into that iPhone 17 Air that you will pay through the nose for.

Weird, my 3+ year old iPhone 14 Pro runs very demanding aviation software perfectly with no internet connection. What hardware is the iPhone 14 missing?
I will not get an answer to that one.