iPhone 14 will REUSE chip from iPhone 13!?

Okay, let's move on to iPhone 14 because this was a crazy story

And like I mentioned earlier, if the source weren't one that was one that I trusted

I don't think I would even talk about this story because this seems so crazy. But I'll let you take it away there

Okay, let's talk about iPhone 14. Yeah, so some iPhone 14 models might miss out on the new A16 processor

So the basic iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14. Max will launch this fall with the same A-15 processor as the 2021 models, according to Ming Chi-Quo

And this is what you were saying earlier. This is why it's got some credence. So apparently only the price of the iPhone 14 Pro and the Pro Max will support the new A-16 chip

So if this is true, this is going to be a move that Apple's never used before

And I actually wonder whether there's a bigger deal as you're making out. What do you mean

Like people's reactions to this? Well, I think the kind of people who buy, I think Apple's County on this, the kind of people who buy the regular, you know, phones. And so the pro phones won't care

Well, I don't know if that's true or not. I think for me, the idea that they're going to just come out and stage and say, hey, y'all, here's iPhone 14. And it's got a better camera and some other features that are better than iPhone 13. But you're still getting last years

processor, that seems like an extraordinarily tough sell to me. You mean you're going to give me

the same processor that you had last year and you're going to put the newer processor, which is

available, or the newer SOC, which is available into your phone that costs more, that seems

incredibly stingy to me. Like if they came out and staged and did that, I don't know how you're

going to justify that move. Apple's always done, you know, I say this is unprecedented

But Apple has, for a long, long time, has this reputation of using, you know

older technology, right? Older chips, older RAM specs, older hard drives, older SSDs, you know

like it's machines have always come under this kind of criticism. Like, you know, people are saying

well, it's, you know, I'm trying to think now some examples from recently

but, you know, like the RAM specs and stuff like that. I mean, they're never cutting edge

Apple has hardly ever, or not always, you know, using the latest cutting edge text

Like the port you just mentioned on the back, it like the old H standard You know on ports on previous machines they use older standards right And people just you know I think they don I don no one who buys an iPhone

buys it for the chip. Nobody. They buy it for the camera, right

They buy it for the screen. They buy it for the whole overall experience. And I think Apple's always been kind of like shy about sort of, you know, like promoting

anyway, you know, like make it front and center the technology that's inside the devices

it's always sort of what you can do with it it's always the chip is you don't buy it for the chip

you buy it for the experience the chip affords I think they'd be able to like

I think they'd be able to sell this and it wouldn't be a big deal I don't know

It would be to you Maybe you're right yeah It would be to me I mean again I'd be like

Are you kidding me like this is a brand new phone And you're competing with

You're competing with all of these flagship phones from Samsung and other manufacturers

They still haven't caught up you know, like on the specs. Even if it's an older model

it still runs rings around everything that they've got on Android. Well, that might be true, but just by the fact

that they are updating the internal components and saying that they're new, and now Tim Cook, T.C

is going to come on stage and try to sell you a phone that is not new. It has the exact same SOC as last year

except the cameras, but I just think that's a very odd sell to me. Like, you're going to come out

Samsung is going to be, I mean, they would be, they would be crazy not to count

capitalize off that, like, and say, our phones don't use recycled components, right

Like, we're going to give you the best components that we have in our flagship phones. And when you buy a new iPhone, but these are the flagships, are they

You see? The pros are the flagships? Yeah. So if you want to get the, if you want to get the A16 processor, you've got to get a pro

handset, you know, and you'll pay like three, 400 bucks extra. So, you know, that's a proposition

If you want to get, you know, if you just want to get a, you know, a phone further down

the line, it's got an older chip in it. But so what? It's probably got some older, it's probably got an older battery technology

It's probably got an older, you know, it's probably got all sorts of older chips in it, right? I know what you're saying

And to me, you know, I would think about it for sure. But I think a lot of people, you know, like I just had a friend who just bought a new phone

She didn't ask once about the processor. She couldn't give an S-H-I-T about what the processor is

Not, you know, and if I told her, she wouldn't care, you know. Yeah. It doesn't make any difference to her

Yeah. I mean, you might be right. You might be right. And maybe that's what Apple is capitalizing off of is like most people just don't know

And the people who do care, they'll just get a pro. we got dipsy-doo in the in the chat here saying sales of the pro models will skyrocket

Was that you, Dipsy Dio? And it like yeah you might be right about that And maybe that Apple play I just think it a very it just a bad look to me You gonna you you have these phones that have parity from a performance perspective

And now you're going to leave behind two of the phones that are supposed to be your, I mean

you say they're not flagship models. I think they are. They're your newest phones. And now

they're new in name, but they're not new in internal components. And now your, your iPhone SE is

using the same chip as two of your newer, way more expensive phones

I think the whole thing is very strange marketing. The SE just kind of like the new SE, I mean, that kind of like, you know, begs my point

You know, it sort of goes against it, right? Because it does use the latest chip and it's as fast as the latest phones

Yeah. So, I don't know. You know, I mean, that was just my impression when I saw this story

I think like, you know, there's a, I think a large percent of the population that will not care whatsoever

So maybe what they're doing then is. So you'll have the SE, which is the older touch ID, older camera technology

and smaller form factor, right? And then you'll have the newer iPhones

It's not as fast as the pro iPhones, but it has the, like, the brand new camera technology

all the newest bells and whistles, aside from the internal, well, the SOC, right

So it's not going to be as fast. And the pro has everything, which..

You know what I bet they'll do is even if they're using the same old chip, I'll bet they'll give it a new name

You might be right. You might be right. There you go. It's like when AT&T called their faster 4G network or their faster 4G speeds, they call it 5G

And everyone was like, what the heck? All of a sudden my phone said 5G and I was like, what is this? And AT&T was like, well, it's almost as fast as 5G

So now they call it 5G, which is essentially just a faster mode of 4G

And people don't know, right? I mean, there's a lot going on in life in life. People don't have time to investigate this stuff

So you might be right. It might be a genius move. But it's like calling it like the bionic, like the bionic chips

And Phil Schro was like we just added bionic because it made it sound cooler. That was the only reason that there's like an A14 bionic

You know, it's like there's no such thing. Bionic doesn't actually indicate. There's no additional functionality or anything

Right. It's going to be the A15 bionicol. Bionicle. It's going to make it sound really cool and new

So we'll see if this happens. I just thought this was stunning news to me because I never would

Well, you know what they're doing it's going to be the supply chain, you know, supply chain shortages

Yeah, yeah, you might. So, you know, they're doing it in a pinch, I'll bet. And you know they can probably get their hands on a whole bunch of older chips because you know the fabs are churning those out But maybe they having trouble setting up you know getting the yields on the new chips So they going with this

So we got David Howard in the chat saying he agrees with Leander and streamlined Android phones

are crappy wannabees. Look, I'm not arguing that. I'm with you all the way on that

I just think from a marketing perspective, it creates this strange disconnection from you

from you having a premium phone because you say it's your newest phone, but now you're putting old

hardware internally. I just think from a marketing perspective, that could be a problem for them

I never buy the regular iPhones anyway. So I'm always, like, I'm a pro guy. We're all pro guys here

pro people here, right? So we know which ones we're getting. This is going to affect us

But I also wonder. Just a riffraff. Yeah, just the riffraff and the police, right? But I do wonder

if that means they're going to raise the price of the pros because we're like, well, it's pro now

It's like, you're getting the pro stuff. All the pro stuff's in here. So, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit

In fact, I would be surprised that they didn't raise the prices of iPhones and everything else

I mean, the price of everything is skyrocketing, right? Well, talking to chips, actually

we had an interesting story a couple of days ago, which was a company called Media Tech

which I think they make chips for TVs and stuff like that

I mean, they're definitely not one of the big, you know, chip makers. They've come out with a new chip for Android phones

which is almost as good as the latest A-15s. And it beats the pads off anything

from Qualcomm or Samsung. Really? And some people were wondering whether the benchmarks were correct

because it's so much more powerful than anything else on the Android side

or whether it's been tweaked. They said in the past, benchmarks are sometimes tweaked

and they don't reflect once the handset comes out, it doesn't get anywhere near

the performance it does in these sort of early tests. But it was interesting. This media tech company is like coming out of nowhere

I mean, it wasn't on anyone's radar screens and now they have like, you know, what looks like the second most powerful chip

in the mobile space. Huh. Come out of nowhere, huh? Well, see, I mean

you have specs on paper and in marketing materials, but like, what does it actually do

when it's inside of a phone, right? That's a different story. Well, these are based on geek bench stuff

that people noticed geek bench scores. Yeah. And what's the wattage on it

Does it take your battery life down to like three minutes? I have got a clue, yeah

Your phone's so hot, you can't even touch it