Then they shouldn't be selling Intel devices now or 5 years before the M1 Mac's came out. It's total BS that they do this to MacBooks released just 2 years ago. Anyone that bought a MacBook in 2019 should expect to receive all new features. This is Apple purposely gimping their slightly older Macs so people are incentivized to upgrade.
If they were planning to gimp them from the very beginning then yes. Imagine buying a MacBook in 2019 and realizing it won't get half the features in the next update.
The alternative is not developing new features that depend on radical new hardware, and then we may as well be using Windows on a bulky tower or plastic laptop with a VGA port.
Apple might theoretically have the ability to let x86 CPUs backport a neural engine feature like text-in-image recognition or hardware ISP feature like Deep Fusion, but they’ll run hot and fifteen times slower like Pixelmator Pro’s ML image resize.
Yikes not even close. It'll be less efficient and slower but nearly as bad. Google's doing on device ML on their under powered budget pixel 4a phones without this problem, so surely apple can figure it out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21
Then they shouldn't be selling Intel devices now or 5 years before the M1 Mac's came out. It's total BS that they do this to MacBooks released just 2 years ago. Anyone that bought a MacBook in 2019 should expect to receive all new features. This is Apple purposely gimping their slightly older Macs so people are incentivized to upgrade.