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You can tell the Pro version has a lot more to offer when you select a New Document. Everything from standard paper and photo sizes to social media, film and even icon specialized sizes. As expected, you can use CMYK color values but the file is saved in RGB. There's a whole lot more features and $59 is still a very reasonable price for a very good and fast image editing application.

Apple makes the hardware and licenses the software. They allow developers to write and sell software through the App Store. Why do we need multiple app stores when one is enough. I feel comfortable that the apps I download from the Apple App Store do not contain malware. I've read buying through Android app stores is like buying Windows software, you never know what extra things will be included. Apple needs to charge developers so it can maintain the App Store system. Of course most courts haven't the faintest idea how computers work or what's involved in maintaining computer hardware. As far as I'm concerned, Apple has the right to restrict access to its hardware from developers by providing only one way to get applications onto iOS devices. If someone jailbreaks an iOS device, they are breaking the law, although I'm sure courts don't understand that either. I've also read that Amazon takes a healthy cut from every sale they make as well as forcing ebook authors to accept artificially low prices on their books. As we all know, the courts refuse to go after Amazon and Google for all the semi-legal and illegal practices they're getting away with.

The problem I see with Android phones containing facial recognition is except for the very top end implementations they will work part of the time and be very easy to bypass. This will cause the same kickback from government officials who think everyone uses the same design and chips. Look at Apple Pay. Samsung comes out with it's fake magnetic strip copier and merchants think they can get away with not upgrading their hardware (yes, this is still an issue). Once cheap Android phones come out, I'm sure Samsung will use the same magnetic strip garbage and merchants will again see no reason to upgrade their equipment.

I'd like to see Apple develop and deploy a restaurant handheld POS device (I know there are some) that uses Apple Pay Cash along with iBeacon or whatever else they can develop so people can pay at the table without giving the server their credit cards. (None of the restaurants in my area have anything close to this and places that have those weird tablet devices at the table are not something I would use.)

My Geekbench 4 scores on a iPhone 8 Plus show the following:

CPU
ARM @ 2.05 GHz, 1 processor, 6 Cores
single-core 4229
multi-core 10381
Compute 15295

These look a little better than the ones in the chart. My results also show CPU speed.

To put this in context, my late 2015 iMac Retina 5K, 3.3 GHz quad core i5 has scores that aren't that much butter than my phone, until you get to the crazy compute score.

single-core 4954
multi-core 14458
compute  Radeon R9 M395 2048MB 77845

In other words, the Bionic A11 is a very fast and powerful device. It would be interesting if Apple could take this design and change it to run in a desktop environment. Their GPU needs a lot of work but maybe it would take that much effort to pack 4-6 GPUs into a desktop system. I know it's not that simple but the single-core CPU results show the A11 is in the ballpark of a really good desktop computer already.

king editor the grate said:

"Patel noted that any sub-4K content you own is upscaled on the device with what the Apple TV picks for settings as a default, and processed into 4K HDR regardless of source, at 60Hz. The upscaling apparently works fine for Apple-provided content, but fell down with a HBO Go viewing of "The Dark Knight" in HD.”

I wonder if it will upscale ripped DVDs served from old iMac? I guess the question is partially answered in the next graph: perhaps, but poorly.

Apple can't control HBO's pathetic excuse for any kind of streaming. As for upscaling your ripped DVDs (as well as mine), you have to remember what happens when upscaling any image or video. If something isn't there, it won't be there when it's upscaled. Forget all those movies showing a heavily pixelized image magically becoming clear when they apply some secret government algorithm. Even NCIS quit showing that, saying there wasn't enough data to get anything better. 

Even if you were to re-rip all those old DVDs into 4K (or even true 1080p), I don't believe there's enough original data to do a good job of it. I just noticed Handbrake has a new version 1.0.7 that includes a setting of Apple 1080p60 Surround gives you a H.264 video (up to 1080p60), AAC stereo audio and Dolby Digital (AC-3) surround audio that works with Apple TV4. We'll see if they upgrade to handling H.265/HEVC. Of course Handbrake doesn't decrypt encrypted movies but it still might be worth a test, which I'll do on some DVD's I own.

It might require Blu-ray content to actually get high enough definition to look nice on a 4K screen so all of our DVDs might be worthless anyway.