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		canucker2016 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone Air They did increase the RAM for the iPhone17 by 50% (8GB -> 12GB [sorry, there was no RAM bump, I was looking at the iPhone17 and iPhone17 Pro page and confused the 17Pro RAM for the 17 RAM amount]) and the 128GB storage option is gone, so the 256GB option is the minimum now, for the same price as the initial iPhone16.

behnamoh 4 months ago [–]

> They did increase the RAM for the iPhone17 by 50% (8GB -> 12GB)

good. they just caught on with Android in 2020.

NetMageSCW 4 months ago | [–]

Fortunately different Operating Systems have different RAM needs and they’ve been making the trade-off between power usage (battery weight) and RAM fairly well.

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