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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple rumored to finally stop putting crappy RAM in the iPhone 17
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:18:22 -0400
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On 7/10/2025 5:34 PM, Marion wrote:
> Historically, Apple puts crappy cheap garbage components into the iPhone.
> Such as crappy RAM, garbage batteries & lack of basic fundamental hardware.
> 
> Hopefully, the era of absolute garbage iPhones is coming to an end.
> a. The EU forced Apple's hand on the el cheapo iPhone batteries
> b. And AI forced Apple's hand on the bargain-basement crappy RAM
> 
> To wit, the new iPhone 17 Air is rumored to have modern amounts of both.
>   <https://wccftech.com/iphone-17-air-a19-pro-chip-with-fewer-gpu-cores-performance/>
>    " It was recently reported that the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air
>      will be equipped with the same 12GB of RAM as the Pro iPhones,
>      and a leaker now claims that the handset will be powered by
>      the A19 Pro chip, but with fewer GPU cores."
> 
> While the iPhone's ridiculously low core count has always been less than
> exciting, the lack of cores is not that big of a deal compared to the el
> cheap battery & RAM capacity (which are critically important components).
> 
> Finally, being always about 5 years behind Android, Apple is catching up.
> 
> Unfortunately, no iPhone has even the most basic of hardware functionality.
> So the iPhone is still laughably substandard garbage - but perhaps less so.
>   
> Note: Apple may be using chip binning which is a way to put the dies that
> failed into that iPhone 17 Air that you will pay through the nose for.

Weird, my 3+ year old iPhone 14 Pro runs very demanding aviation 
software perfectly with no internet connection. What hardware is the 
iPhone 14 missing?

I will not get an answer to that one.