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No, they tend to use last year's Pro chip in this year's base model. The A16 only supported USB 2.0 speeds last year in the iPhone 14 Pro model (despite the iPads showing us that Lightning does support USB 3 speeds), and it's what's in this year's iPhone 15 base model.
The A17 supports higher speed through the USB Bus, so there's no reason to hold that back for next year's base model.
Actually... that's unlikely.
This year's "Pro" processor is fabricated on TSMC's 3nm N3B process that has very low yield rates - Apple is apparently taking up 90% of the global production capacity for N3B fabrication even though they only use it with relatively low volume "Pro" chipsets.
They'll surely have better yields next year, but it would still be nowhere near enough to put them in the mainstream iPhone models. TSMC has said they have a new process (which will require new chip designs) online now, and that's what next year's mainstream iPhones will use. Manufacturing might have already started (for a late next year launch date).
Pros are usually the ones who need to transfer massive ProRes video files at high speed. The vast majority of regular users don’t.
Pretty much every other phone huh? Weird.
It’s not an excuse, it’s just a reason. If the phone doesn’t have the features you want and you buy it anyway, that’s hardly Apple’s fault.
So, you’re not even a customer and you’re whining about a product you’d never buy anyway.
Opinion noted.
You’re complaining about wanting to buy the wrong model. It’s not the design that’s stupid here.
don’t blame the company for your inability to choose the correct model
Your standard is subjective, and most people are perfectly happy with it.
After all, you’ve already said you’d never buy one anyway.
Dude. Can you fanboy harder?
One doesn’t have to be a fanboy to point out nonsense
But that's exactly why last year's 14 Pro came under so much criticism for its slow wired connection: the phone itself supported capturing high resolution, high framerate, high bitrate ProRes video, but didn't have a way of quickly transferring directly over a cable.
But also, even regular photos and video can take up a big chunk of space, and having a non-cloud option for practically backing up the contents is helpful.
There is a non-cloud option – Wi-Fi. Lol