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Earlier this year, we heard reports and rumors that Apple might split the iPhone 14 lineup with two different processors. The company could reserve the latest and greatest for its Pro model phones to help it stand out and improve sales.
One of the most reputable analysts who often breaks news about Apple products, Ming Chi KuoRecently began to insinuate Instead, he suggests that Apple is looking to bolster the bigger, better and more expensive Pro line to boost sales and further differentiate the high-end option from the company’s other phones.
It looks like Apple will be reusing last year’s A15 chipset in the more affordable iPhone 14 and an iPhone 14 Max. Then, like previous new smartphone launches, Apple will introduce a faster, better and all-new A16 chipset, but it will only be available in the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
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– 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) July 6, 2022
At first glance, this doesn’t seem like something we’d expect from Apple. However, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard such a rumor to help boost sales of its biggest and most expensive smartphone.
For example, many smartphone buyers can’t justify the higher price of the Pro model. Especially when something like the iPhone 13 was almost the same, only it had two cameras instead of three and some minor things were missing. And while some Pro models include faster GPUs or additions like Apple’s 120Hz ProMotion display, that’s not enough to get regular buyers past the $1,000 mark on a phone.
Essentially, it looks like Apple wants to reuse the A15 processor from all of its iPhone 13 models in the new iPhone 14 later this year. If you get a regular iPhone 14 or iPhone 14 Max, it might have last year’s chip. And if you want the absolute best performance, you’ll need to pay more dollars for the iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max.
Remember that this is still just a rumor for now, but it comes from a reliable source. Who knows, maybe we’ll get two variants of the A16, similar to what Apple did with the M1 processor for its MacBooks and other devices. We’ll have to wait and see.
via XDA Developers
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