The cpu is better but the software is worse and more bloated so they fight against each other
replyThis sums up my entire experience with technology progress over the past 40 years.
reply40 years from now we won't be able to boot our device until an LLM codes the software on the fly for it. (Each time it boots, of course.)
replyThe traditional expression of this idea is "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away".
replyThe names are different now, but they were always metonymic.
And of course, those of us in the Motorola/Apple ecosystem didn't have the same problems. :)
Do they really do it just because it's cheaper? I thought they did it for each generation to offer the best of that generation; it makes sense for more powerful chips to have more cores and higher capacity, but it doesn't make sense for each core to arbitrarily be less efficient or less performant just because you didn't buy more of them. Especially because this approach makes the base models an extraordinarily high value compared to base models from competitors.
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