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tht said:

Did you try charging the battery while disconnected to the VP? A 5W to 10W should charge the battery without the VP connected. It would take 12 to 6 hours...

Last night, after getting 20% battery warning while wearing AVP, I disconnected from the battery and charged battery only.  While charging battery only, meter showed 52W draw.  Some time later, maybe 30 minutes, I checked and was showing 26W charge rate.  Again, as I mentioned before, almost all LION chargers are "smart" and reduce charge current as they near capacity.

foregoneconclusion said:

Faster charging usually means shortening the overall life of the battery.

It certainly can.  Battery material closest to the anode reaches full charge first, the distance from anode reduces charge exponentially.  Thus, fast charging can "cook" the battery material closest to the anode.  Thus, almost all decent chargers today are smart.  You only charge at full rate until close to 50%, then charge rate drops off dramatically.  Thus you can reach 50% very quickly, 80% short time later.. 100% much later.   Apple's "optimized charging" now on iPhone and other devices are trickle charging over a long period (generally at night).  Some things, like your laptop, now stop charging at 80% unless you turn off this feature.

Also, this is just for the "license".  ARM isn't supplying anything physical.. just the intellectual ideas, which @blastdoor points out, is largely from Apple in the first place.  If their product or rate was too high in the first place, they wouldn't have been considered an option.  Decades later, ARM wants more.  Of course.  230+M iPhones last year is a $70M annual check to ARM for providing decades old IP.

waveparticle said:

One big miss of iPad Pro, it does not have GPS. Galaxy Tab S9 has gps. 

iPad Pro does have GPS, but requires the Cellular model.

Updated iPhone 14Pro, iPad Pro, Air M2 all with out issue.  Upgraded from Dev Release 1.