Not true in the Apple ecosystem. The Apple Silicon chips in recent iPhones can trounce desktop chips from a few years ago, and the next-gen iPhone should rival a high-spec desktop from today.
Claims that Apple is going to blow the rest of the market away usually revolve around
- Careful choice of chips usually involving only apple hardware running less than current generation hardware in thermally constrained situations
- Pretending that AMD doesn't exist
- Pretending that both Intel's slump in progress and Apple's progress are permanent unchangeable trajectories rather than the current status.
- Pretending that we can anticipate a fixed factor improvement over a given time based on changing power envelope. The just add power argument that suggests that future desktop chips will n times faster based on having n times the power and cooling an oversimplification an apple engineer is unlikely to make. You haven't made this one of course you think they will be able to blow away the 1000 watt desktop in 7 Watts. Which is more interesting yet.
- Pretending that a favorable microbenchmark chosen primary because it reflects desired reality rather than applicability proves not only anything about real world performance but everything.
The 2022 iphone still wouldn't make a great computer and the Apple atrix if it were to come to pass would still require you to buy hardware that is liable to be nearly as expensive to make and as bulky as a macbook for a worse experience. Why would a premium buyer want that?
Can you imagine Apple trying to make a laptop with a phone sticking out of it cool? Sliding it into something would be problematic for cooling. The sheer uncoolness is probably even more fatal than the performance.
The fact that I can’t remove the battery, and have the phone working when connected to external power makes every single phone (even those with user serviceable battery) garbage.
I don’t know of a single recent phone that works off of external power. Personally, I think this is enough to prohibit sale of a device.
What I expect when a device is connected to power is for it to
1. work off of external power directly
2. charge the battery to an optimal level (possibly 60 to 80 percent?) and STOP charging
I’d have thought this was the default way all electronics works. I know for a fact that my 2006 MacBook just worked if I remove the battery. Same with my random Asus N61JVx2 notebook computer as well.
Why can’t new devices do this?
Laptops are designed to run off battery or power because this is how many people typically use laptops. They plug them in places where they use them for long periods of time whereas phones are virtually always charged for a short period of time often overnight and then carried around and used unplugged virtually all of the time.
I have found the best solution to be to acquire hardware with more than sufficient battery power so as to only worry about charging it every 2-3 days when I'm sleeping. Phones exist with up to 5AH of battery power.
Makes sense but really given how much every company harps about going green... I don’t know whether a lot of people use their phones while charging but I think they do. At least I do.
You brought up a good point though. I should just get a phone with a huge battery. So no pixel and no iPhone.
> 2. charge the battery to an optimal level (possibly 60 to 80 percent?) and STOP charging
Asus Rog phone 3 & 5 actually have this bypass charging, and to restrict charging level(but can only set between 80%-100%).