I hate to spoil the positive party, but what use is a fast processor when a phone os is holding down the potential of it?
Integration between hard- and software is an area everyone is focusing on today. Apple isn’t the leader in that anymore but wants you to believe it is.
Is it though?
The point of iOS is to spend your time in apps. While few, there are still apps which can tap on the full power of the A12 processor. For example, apps like Lightroom mean that you are not only able to have RAW photos in your iPhone or iPad, but even edit / review them in situations where a Mac and giant display is not feasible, such as on your couch, waiting in line etc.
In my opinion, that an iPad sports a phone OS is its entire appeal, because this means I am getting the computing power and screen estate of a Mac and the simplicity of iOS. The Mac is still there for people who want a Mac, which in turn frees up the iPad to excel on its own terms.
And it's easy to say that you are integrating hardware and software, just like it's easy to slap an iris scanner on a phone and claim feature parity with the iPhone X. What's harder is doing it properly. Not all face scanners are created equal (Face ID continues to be miles ahead of many android offerings), and as Google has shown, there's more to integration than simply slapping Chrome OS onto a tablet form factor and calling it a day.
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And nice update by Jonathan Morrison, showing himself editing 4k footage while screen recording, with no dropped frames. The Pixel Slate lags just from people looking at it.
What's that about hardware / software integration again?