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That would add considerable weight to the phone.  Or perhaps not, and this is in conjunction with a breakthrough in their liquid metal concepts and patents.  

rob53 said:

The A12Z Bionic is up to 8 GPU cores. The Most powerful and expensive GPUs have cores in the thousands. What would it take for Apple to create its own separate 500 core GPU SoC or maybe only a 100 core GPU with the ability to use several of them in a blade setup. There's nothing stopping Apple, other than patents, from making whatever they want to any way they want to. Look at the Mac Pro. It's a fantastic workstation. 

Exactly. Look at their Afterburner Card. That’s a freaking monster, right there!

There’s only so many touch based games that are enjoyable before you realize there’s only so much you can do tapping and sliding a screen that gets hotter and hotter the more you play it.

Third party controllers are a nice addition, but nothing beats a PS4/XB1/Keyboard and Mouse for more advanced games that are native to the system you’re playing on.  Advances have been made so porting between console and PC are easier than ever before, but even then there can be gameplay issues when the controls are not taken into consideration.  Porting to Mobile?  Look at the terrible Slay the Spire port to realize that even in this day and age developers can still screw it up. 

There can only be so many Match-Three gem games, Clash of Clans, and whatever else.  Apple needs better controllers if they want better games. If they don’t care about better games, then they’ll stay on the same tier they have always played on. 

Apple takes out head phones, slims box, allowing more devices to ship, better efficiency at large scale.  Perhaps a discount on AirPods with purchase of new flagship device. Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac. 

Apple swaps AirPods with new low-end end AirPods.

Thank you for including statements denoting how piss poor IDC and their ilk are.