Apple’s A20 Pro might be the biggest architectural shift in years. On‑device AI, new layout, and a different approach to performance.
rely less on cloud processing and more on local intelligence.
imo quite smart of apple. They make you buy all the expensive hardware, saving on absurd server costs in the “AI” arms race, while having tight control over your device, the chips, and what exactly they run. less capital bound on servers, and when the bubble pops, they have zero losses, cause consumers bought their own server hardware. Win win win
Always has been. I know pixels lose half their AI features in airplane mode, I assume Samsung does as well, but my iphone can still take and edit photos, set timers, and (more recently) summarize and rephrase text without issue.
Somehow, I suspect that this still won’t translate into more than 10 hours of battery life, dropping to 4 hours after 2 years.
in a way, I’m thinking the same thing; many of their products are turning out to be weak.
I wish there were some way to run an older phone-forward OS on modern iPhones.
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My work phone is an iPhone 16 and the battery life is great. Granted I don’t use it quite as much as my personal phone, but with the 80% battery limit enabled I still easily get 2 days per charge often 3. Meanwhile my Pixel 8a sometimes struggles to make it through a day of moderate usage
I’m always surprised when people can’t find a place to charge during the day. But my phone is 2 years old now and regularly manages a full day quite easily. Maybe the phone isn’t the problem.
Well, if you get the smaller phone, and then actually use it through the day, that is what you experience…
