charlesn
In terms of unifying how Apple does things, this rumor actually makes a lot of sense as it carries over what Apple does with M chips in its computers -- they mostly have all models on the same iteration of the M-chip, like the current M3, but "consumer" machines get the base version and "pro" machines get a pro version. Also, it would bring the regular iPhone into a kind of chip parity with the iPhone Pro, which would be helpful for marketing if nothing else, instead of the current situation where the newest iPhone runs on last year's Pro chip. This would allow Apple to market "a whole new chip" each year for both regular and pro iPhones and that's not nothing.
