In terms of usefulness and end user experience, I find no difference between the iPhone X (A11, 4 billion transistors) and my current 14.
Seems to me that all that extra processing power is still looking for a use case.
Seems to me that all that extra processing power is still looking for a use case.
LLMs on your phone are a few hardware generations out, but they are coming.
It is a useful feature. In particular in Google translate (lens function) which I am pretty was also there on the X (perhaps requiring a trip to Google’s server).
I like to keep around test devices that somewhat represent the average user’s device, and when it’s practical a low end device and test against those every so often just to make sure the app performs reasonably well.
This has been in my experience more important for Android apps than for iOS apps, though, because the gulf in power between currently-sold devices in the Android world is vastly more large than in the iOS world. With few exceptions, I find that reasonably efficient apps tested and developed chiefly on newer iPhones work fine on older iPhones, but developing and testing an Android app only on flagships will make for a miserable experience for users of low end or older Android devices.