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lkrupp said:

So who do we believe? I guess it depends on your personal bias one way or the other.

dcgoo said:

What the heck does "Google Home Mini hardware... had a serious flaw that caused the device to listen in on every noise generated in a house" have to do with poor quality displays?

tjwolf said:

"All that would remain would be backwards-compatibility measures similar to "Rosetta" allowing for PowerPC code to run on Intel processors" - there's an important difference here: Rosetta worked because the x86 processor was a lot faster than the PowerPC users were used to, so they didn't perceive much of a slowdown.  But as you mentioned yourself, the A11 is "only" about on par with a low-end x86 i7 from a pure performance perspective - so with emulation, a user would definitely notice a degradation.  Mitigating things (a lot?) are that most apps probably spend the majority of their CPU cycles inside Apple's APIs - and when they make a call into Apple's code, that can run at native speeds/non-emulated.