> Apple decided not to make a new processor for an old phone... shock and awe.

I am pretty sure that this is a new phone.

I think they meant to say old processor or old SoC.

I'm not sure your read makes sense, but I suspect the most charitable interpretation of their comment would be:

"Apple is using the old stock of USB2-only processors for the non-pro phone, and it's common for the non-pro devices to use last-gen processors"

That’s what I meant. Oops.

The iPhone 15 was just announced. It's not an old phone.

Yeah, they decided to use and old processor on a new $800 phone that can't support something my $400 phone does.

But what can you expect, they're just a poor indie company, we need to lower our expectations of them.

Which also means they didn't implement the CC lines on the USB-C connector and just tied them down with 5.1k resistors so that actual USB-C devices provide any power at all.

> old phone

Announced yesterday

Checks out!