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To be honest, I cared a lot about the raw power of my phone when I used to game of it. Unfortunately mobile games developed have turned into that despiseful, ad-ridden; watch a video to get an extra live freemium model and basically I lost all interest to game on it.

I'm sure you know this already, but there are some stellar games for iOS without all the crap. The Monument Valley Games & Alto's Adventure games are my favorites.
 
You seem to confuse interface choices as having something to do with "power". Interface choices have nothing to do with power.
  • Split screen: this is already done, but on the iPad because splitting a small screen is of limited value
  • PIP: this is already done, but on the iPad since having PiP on a small screen is of limited value
  • HDMI support: this is practically already obsolete in the age of Airplay and Chromecast. Might as well add a VGA port. And there's always a dongle if you need one
  • Multitasking: are we really still arguing about this like we're back on iOS 9? What multitasking are you doing on Android that you're not accomplishing on iOS?
  • Real File Manager + Mouse/trackpad support: iOS is an OS with 2 basic underlying philosophies: a touch (finger) interface and an application-centric rather than file-centric approach. If you take either of these away you just have Mac OS X. Apple already makes plenty of devices that use OS X.
  • Stylus capabilities: we know exactly how Apple feels about stylus support by how the handle the Apple Pencil: an option for special cases, not something you need everyday on your phone.
Your idea of progress for a phone is to turn it into an old laptop. Why look backwards?

Perfect.

He's probably a traditional PC user..
 
I agree with this sentiment, was a nice surprise to find a nuts deep technical article here. More when the A11 comes out hopefully!
Yeah, if we had more articles like this, there would be less reason to read stories elsewhere. Imagine if MacRumors did AnandTech style reviews. That would be incredible. Next on my list would be more opinion pieces, like 9to5Mac does, where they do diaries and such using new Apple products to more fully immerse the reader in what it's like to use the product day-to-day. I remember reading some good ones in the past, such as the ones Juli did covering the Withings smart watch, that seemed a bit more in-depth. I'd also like opinion pieces about what Apple should do next in iOS/macOS and more engagement with the community about what we'd like to see. They do this occasionally with iOS feature request roundups and occasionally quote the users here, but I think there could be a lot more. I'd like to see more dialog in general about where the industry is headed and what sorts of potential future products we could see based on the more cumulative effect of recent hires, trends, surveys, etc. Then this site would be about perfect, aside from some inconsistent moderation issues.
 
What tech illiterates don't understand is synthetic benchmarks can be gamed and they don't equate to real world performance. As high as the ermahgawd factor was with A10X it still couldn't software decode 1080p HEVC with Infuse, nPlayer, etc. Compare that to a 5 year old x86-64 CPU that can software decode 4K HEVC fine.
 
I'm sure you know this already, but there are some stellar games for iOS without all the crap. The Monument Valley Games & Alto's Adventure games are my favorites.

Yeah I'm aware there are, and I try to support them every time I find one of those using the traditional model. I just prefer to pay for my games upfront and enjoy it as much as I'd like, and all the crappy freemium model has really turned off from the mobile gaming scene in general (as a result of this I'm looking at the Switch, but not enough games to make me pull the plug yet).
 
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Did you see where I said stellar ratings and reviews so most of everything is actually done well.....

Did you ever see where I asked if you had ever used TouchWiz? Like cyanide, it is an acquired taste:)

As for reviews, Apple products also get them. BFD. How is BlueBourne going in that amazing Android world? Hint, it won't go well once weaponized.
 
They must have a version of high sierra working on these A11 chips SO....

Why not put 4 of these into the iMac Pro for audio processing and more...

Use the tech in other computers
 
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