Apple spent more than $26 billion on research and development last year. Musk: the performance-to-price ratio doesn't seem to be high.

CTOnews.com, Sept. 11 (Xinhua)-- blogger Trung Phan posted a screenshot on the X platform (formerly Twitter) this afternoon showing that Apple spent $26.25 billion (currently about 193.2 billion yuan) on research and development in 2022.

However, this screenshot is not meant to praise Apple, as another screenshot shows that Apple iPhone 15 will be 1 gram lighter than iPhone 14. The combination of the two pictures implies that Apple's R & D costs are "out of proportion" to the final output.

CTOnews.com note: the iPhone 15 model mentioned above is only the standard version, while the Pro / Max model has a little more weight loss than the previous generation, which is 18alpha 19g respectively.

A few hours later, Musk replied at the bottom of the tweet, "the price-to-performance ratio doesn't seem to be high." Musk seems to sympathize with Apple's huge investment in research and development without much success, so he complains.

It is worth noting that the day before yesterday, Guo Mingyi posted on the X platform that Huawei's return is actually a good thing for consumers, which can force Apple out of its comfort zone and promote its positive innovation.

Guo Mingyi also said that the iPhone 15 series models launched by Apple this year were the first phones in the industry to be equipped with CIS stacks, and without the US ban, Huawei would have been the first to use them as early as 2023, becoming the first mobile phone brand to use stacked image sensors (CIS).

The image sensors used in the new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will use Sony's stackable sensors for a double-layer (Photodiode + Pixel) crystal pixel architecture (2-Layer Transistor Pixel) to expand the dynamic range of imaging.