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rac101 said:

These need a price drop. Even the much better Beats pro buds are selling for 200...

And how is their noise cancellation? How do they let the sound through? Do they allow the pressure inside the ear and outside the ear to equalize? Just saying ...

It has A10 because architecturally and cost wise that must be the sweet spot. Yes, A11 and A12 are better still in terms of speed, etc. But architecturally by A10 there is already multiple-cores (especially, including different ones for high performance or better efficiency) and it has decent graphics (A10X is good enough for 4K AppleTV) and some basic AI capabilities for machine learning and AR (although no neural engine?). So probably the best bang for the buck for a "new" lower end model. Probably faster than 80% of the Android models released out on the market this year (all the non-flagships, like Pixel 3a). With iPad and iPod apple does have mid-tier products that are "new". And for iPhone it will just keep selling the iPhone 7 / 7+ to satisfy the mid-tier with A10. Isn't this exactly what Apple should be doing to diversify?

VRing said:

AppleInsider said:

Huawei and fellow Chinese phonemakers Oppo and Xiaomi are expected to adopt 3D sensors on upcoming 2018 models, following in the footsteps of the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera. 

Huawei already announced their system a week or so back, but it's not being used in the V10 (http://winfuture.de/news,100794.html).


It looks rather similar to Apple's system, no surprise there. It can capture 300,000 points in under 10 seconds (iPhone X does 30,000 points, but in a shorter amount of time). Huawei also claims their system will unlock in 0.4 seconds.

If it works as well as they claim, and that's an "if", then it would seem they're able to catch up to the hardware in a pretty short amount of time. Huawei also has a Neural Processing Unit as part of their Kirin 970 that's considerably more powerful than Apple's Neural Engine in the A11 Bionic, so all that remains is the software.

Can you provide me with a reference that the Kirin 970 neural processing unit is considerably more powerful than Apples Neural Engine?

harry wild said:

Nice hear about AI chip!  Maybe Siri will begin to be able to understand and carry out searches with the new IA chip!  It is so stupid otherwise.  Alexa and Google Assistant is so much better at everything.

How well does Alexa and Google Assistant understand your request when you ask in Spanish? French? Japanese? Mandarin?  Cantonese? Russian? Hebrew? Arabic? ...

Are Alexa and Google Assistant really so much better at everything???

akamine_jr said:

Surface has a huge advantage over any iPad: mouse cursor. No way iPads will be taken seriously in businesses until it behaves as a proper computer, as Apple claims they are. This coming from an Apple fan. 

Do you have an iPad? If you have the software keyboard showing, use two fingers on the keyboard area and the keyboard area turns into a giant touchpad to move a cursor within the current text box.
On latest iPhones force touch in the keyboard area similarly activates it as a touchpad. 
What else would you need a mouse cursor for? If you want to move to a different area use your finger and touch where you want to go. 
Are people aware that soft keyboard can be turned into giant touch pad to move cursor? It was a revelation to me when I discovered this. Made it very easy to precisely move around in a text box.