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

On 2025-02-22 11:38:58 +0000, -hh said:

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

Trump the Chump's idiotic tarriffs may well be one reason, as is the on-going general price rises of almost everything, including shipping and raw materials, but there are also a few updated specs compared to the out-going iPhone SE:
  - newer / faster CPU
  - more RAM (needed for the useless Apple Intelligence gimmick)
  - higher resolution rear camera
  - larger / OLED display
(There are of course also a few small things now missing, such as the home button.)
It may also be partly due to where the new model is being made - India for example may be a little more expensive than China (which of course is becoming more and more of a "no-no" for the conspiracy nutters in some governments).