Apple CEO Tim Cook will today unveil a series of reasons why your existing iPhone is now disappointingly obsolete and why you should immediately spend over £1,500 on the new iPhone 16 Pro.
Apple just can't resist making ridiculous margins from their customers, even when their devices do allow for upgrades to the default configuration.
For instance, with a Mac Pro, you have to pay an extra $800 to go from 64gb to 128gb of memory. For $800, you could get about 384gb of ram in 64gb sticks from a different vendor.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion in these parts, but honestly, 8gb is often fine for the people who are buying entry level machines.
I use a 2014 Mac mini for work, which has 8gb of soldered RAM. For sure I’d increase it to 16gb if I could, but I honestly can’t say I have any issues with it. It’s running Sonoma via OCLP like a champ.
But yeah, what Apple charge for RAM is downright criminal.
The software of today is more demanding than the hardware. You have to increase the hardware to have a good user experience.
The upgrades that they are shilling are neither hardware nor software upgrades. They are just an addition of Learning Language Models (LLMs) that only give information based on statistical data and sentence structures. This is why many of the AI chat bots out there are extremely unreliable.
The integration of Ai into user devices is, simply, a waste of user storage, hardware, processing power, and bogs down a system that is already running at capacity due to the hardware limitations (not increasing the standard RAM amount).
They start to lock out old phones from new updates. We gave my grandma an old phone (an 8) but it only supports io16 so we can't enable 'senior mode'. Barely 7 year old device.
Same actually, and a refurb m1. That’s not to say apple doesn’t use predatory tactics, and hard agree with complaining about laptops sold with 8gb of ram. I use windows, Mac, and Linux daily, and for my devices I want to last and not worry about, I go apple.
+1 for the M1, went for a refurb on a whim and it was the first time in a while I genuinely felt like I was living in the future. That thing can run Stray at more than competent frame rates and still be dead silent and lukewarm to the touch. It's like a big Steam Deck
XS Max here, it’s insane how long these things last. I will be upgrading this year though, cuz my partner has a 64GB phone and needs way more space for cat pictures. I’d like 120hz and USB-C!
Honestly the biggest issue that was pushing me to update was that my podcatcher had been getting laggier and slower to respond to remote commands when minimized. I thought it was a ram constraint, but the developer refactored the 10 year old code base last month and now it’s zippy as heck.
Now, my only issues are ones expected of any phone of its age: battery wear (repairable), RAM limiting minimized persistence of modern apps (no compelling leap until maybe this year) and storage space (manageable). I am looking forward to MagSafe, USB-C, Oled and left behind support for AirPods whenever I eventually do upgrade.
I had a XR until 18 months ago, and honestly, it was still a solid device. But part of the good thing about using an iPhone is how well they hold their value, so I made the choice to sell it while it was still worth £150. Put that towards a 13 mini which will serve me nicely for a couple more years yet.
“Such is the scale of advancements we’ve made, that 2024 Tim Cook would walk up to 2023 Tim Cook holding a bit ‘L’ on his forehead before giving him an atomic wedgie for having such a crappy iphone.
"We've made so many advancements that 2023 Tim Cook would look at 2024 Tim Cook utterly horrified at his own ineptitude, and look at a mirror while holding up a big L on his forehead before giving himself an atomic wedgie.
I'm not a fan of the whole "atomic wedgie" bit either, feels dated
See you say this, but anyone who bought a cheapo Galaxy S20 in 2020, stopped receiving major Android version updates in 2022 whereas anyone who bought an iPhone XS or XR in 2018, will still get a major iOS version update in 2024...
Oh wait, what's this, the S20 was a flagship device, comparable or more expensive than the iPhone 12 at the time? Well that's a bit embarrassing...