Re:Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say
by chadgeidel on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @11:50AM
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You had to upgrade to a X when a 8 or a 7 was available - or even a new battery for $80?
Re:Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say
by valuearb on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:53PM
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When were you planning to upgrade your three year old phone? I upgraded for same reason as you (6 plus), but when I found out I could have paid $85 for a new battery to restore much of my performance my reaction was, meh. I would have still upgraded anyways.
Even if there wasn't CPU throttling to keep old phones usable, software marches on adding features and benefits.
iPhone 3: 256 Mb ram
iPhone 4s: 512 Mb ram, 490 multicore Geekbench
iPhone 5: 1 Gb ram, 1,203 multicore Geekbench
iPhone 6s: 2 Gb ram, 3,888 multicore Geekbench
iPhone 7 Plus: 3 Gb ram, 5,763 multicore Geekbench
iPhone X: 3 Gb ram, 10,108 multicore Geekbench
I have always been amazed at Apple's ability to shoehorn iOS versions and new features into such limited memory capacities (compared to Android for example). But there is always a limit to what can be done.
My daughter's iPhone 5 shipped with iOS 6, and is currently running iOS 9. Is it slower? Yes. Does it have more features than when released, heck yea.
That doesn’t bother me as much as planned obsolescence. Here’s why I had to upgrade to the iPhone X from my iPhone 6.[1]
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-addresses-why-people...