<story><title>iPhone 14 Pro faced &apos;unprecedented&apos; setback leading to removal of new GPU</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/23/iphone-14-pro-setback-removed-graphics-processor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alx__</author><text>This yearly upgrade cycle is terrible. Their phones are fantastic, and now they&amp;#x27;re stuck in some sort of spiral to push things every year. They could stand to chill out&lt;p&gt;I got the new 14 Pro, but only because I wanted the mag charger feature. Before that, the 11 Pro was still a solid phone and did everything I wanted and more. Won&amp;#x27;t be upgrading at least 3 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>I disagree. A consistent yearly upgrade cycle is actually a good thing. It allows staggered upgrades for people who do not want to upgrade yearly, but still create the necessary incentive for incremental improvement.&lt;p&gt;A new iPhone every 5 years for example, would be dumb. Ignore the hype and marketing and just pick the one you&amp;#x27;d like if and when you upgrade.&lt;p&gt;A tangent:&lt;p&gt;Personally, I wish more things had yearly upgrades and the backwards&amp;#x2F;forward compatibility Apple devices generally have. It&amp;#x27;s a different model, but it would be nice if game consoles had improved iterations yearly. The once a half decade model creates too much of a boom&amp;#x2F;bust cycle imho. If the Switch had a new, better version every year that was both forward and backward compatible within a &amp;quot;software generation&amp;quot; a lot of games like Pokemon wouldn&amp;#x27;t look and perform absolutely terribly.</text></comment>
<story><title>iPhone 14 Pro faced &apos;unprecedented&apos; setback leading to removal of new GPU</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/23/iphone-14-pro-setback-removed-graphics-processor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alx__</author><text>This yearly upgrade cycle is terrible. Their phones are fantastic, and now they&amp;#x27;re stuck in some sort of spiral to push things every year. They could stand to chill out&lt;p&gt;I got the new 14 Pro, but only because I wanted the mag charger feature. Before that, the 11 Pro was still a solid phone and did everything I wanted and more. Won&amp;#x27;t be upgrading at least 3 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>The thing is the &amp;quot;yearly upgrade cycle&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t something people need to follow.&lt;p&gt;People (usually from the Android camp) complain that Apple never innovates on brings anything new, which is kinda true if you only take the delta between the two latest devices.&lt;p&gt;But they fail to take into account the person going from a phone that gets dropped by the latest iOS release (5+ years old) to the latest and greatest. The leap in features is staggering.</text></comment>