What workload are you envisaging to be run on an iPhone where this even matters? Hyperbole aside, what target population of iPhone users even care about overclocking, and specifically what tangible benefit will they get out of it?
But there’s good news — this architecture will end up in MacBooks, Mac minis, Mac Studios etc.
It’s like complaining that they put a good engine in a civic when you can also buy that good engine in other configurations that will let you do more with it.
So why insist on doing it on a phone?
In practice, the engineering effort to enable that just doesn't seem worth it. And in a zero-sum world of engineer time, a cost better spent elsewhere. Let my laptop be a laptop, and focus on making that experience the best it can be. And let my phone be a phone, and focus on making that experience the best it can be.
I think people fundamentally don't understand Apple when they want them to engage in the same kind of "jack of all trades master of none" pursuits that led to subpar Windows experiences and the fragmented Android ecosystem.
You can kind of see Apple dabbling with this a bit with iPadOS. And it's an absolute mess. My least favorite operating system Apple makes. All available evidence right now points to Apple simply not being able to neatly converge different computing paradigms. They are right to show restraint with their most important product.
I'm ok with them experimenting with this with the iPad, because frankly, the iPad does not matter. But I do not want Apple to mess up the phone for the two people on hacker news that want to hook theirs up to a thunderbolt dock.
If I pay for hardware, I want to use it however I want. I know that is a fucking crazy idea for them corporation bootlickers.
To me feels like you have a paratistic relationship with the brand of your phone maker. And you will fight other individuals to defend their monopolistic actions.
But to address your concern, Apple is clearly not for you and that is fine, you have choices, like the premium value and control you get with PinePhone. No corporate bootlicking required!
The choices are to run a worst OS or a worst CPU. How did not I see how many choices I have, I must be blind! Thanks for opening my eyes mate.
So a market already exists for those that want full control over hardware and embrace hacker culture and don't subject you to corporate bootlicking, yet this is still not enough? I actually meant what I said when I say Apple is not for you, because this is a segment of the market they're not interested in.
If it matters to you, put your money where your mouth is, and support the markets and initiatives that embodies your values; you never know, you could contribute to efforts in creating a CPU that surpasses Apple or whoever is the incumbent.
Don't make me laugh.
You are just not only a bootlicker, because you defend corportations monopolistic practices, but a troll.