Right now, the capabilities of the M7 chip can be duplicated by the A6 CPU, although at the cost of battery life and efficiency. Step counters, motion trackers, GPS recorders, and many other functions that will make an M7 equipped smartphone the equal of many items of wearable technology. I feel this chip will be key to a huge number of applications focused on the quantified self. The other loss is in the M7 co-processor. As more developers move to 64-bit coding, the iPhone 5c could lose compatibility with many leading applications. Today the vast majority of apps are 32-bit apps, and these run in compatibility mode on the iPhone 5s. Apple is moving towards a 64-bit architecture in iOS. The intensive workload that some of the iLife and iWork apps will require will also mean a degraded experience on the 5c compared to the 5S. The loss of performance is not the biggest loss in the chip architecture. The A6 CPU chip from the iPhone 5 remains in the iPhone 5c, but the faster A7 chip (along with the improved PowerVR GPU for graphics) which is in the iPhone 5s will have an appreciable impact on third-party apps, especially in the gaming vertical. Unfortunately the new iPhone 5c is going to struggle to retain competitive compatibility over a two-year contract. It is being marketed as new, and because of that consumers will have higher expectations of the 5c than they would if they were buying a year-old iPhone 5. One of its biggest strengths is the perception that it is a new design. Someone purchasing 'the $99 iPhone' would be aware that it is the older model, and have their expectations set accordingly in terms of the expected support levels from third-party apps. That is not the case with the iPhone 5c. For many years Apple has simply moved the models down the line after twelve months.
Barring three notable changes (LTE banding, battery capacity, and the forward facing camera), the iPhone 5c matches the specifications of last year's iPhone 5 model.
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