It's getting really frustrating to see how AI is playing out in the mobile space.
Every year, we nerds demand silicon and performance improvements, but now the chip prices have climbed so high that it's starting to eat away at other component costs on EXPENSIVE phones.
Camera sensors THIS year might be down grades from camera sensors LAST year, because the chips got more expensive.
This is partly in service to hawking all this AI bullshit, but the snazziest new AI features coming to phones are mostly performed on data centers and in the cloud.
So, we're paying for these insanely powerful chips, that AREN'T doing the AI on-device much, and likely paying more for similar or downgraded productivity and photography features, all to INCREASE the demand on data centers (eating up more water and electricity).
The phone likely could have replace MOST consumer needs for laptops and desktops today, but instead we're trying to drive more cloud computing.
It's really disappointing.
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