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avon b7 said:

What counts is how many they sell from revision to revision, not on the opening week or month. 

Then Apple for the past ten years has had it where it counts:

277.1MB on an over the air update for an iPhone 6S.

I’ve been very happy with iOS11, I think it’s actually made my 6S a little faster.
Installing 11.0.2 as I compose and post.

SpamSandwich said:
You also don't have a clue what is the reputation of a stranger who is a licensed cab driver. A person with a driver license is the exact same thing, the only difference being that the other person has paid extra for a cab driver license/medallion, which used to give them a favored position in terms of controlling the market/availability of cabs until Uber and Lyft came along.

Sorry SpamSandwich but you don’t seem to have a clue how the taxis and minicabs are licenced in London; there is no control of market/limit to the number of drivers vehicles and operators that are approved provided they meet the necessary level of trustworthiness and competency.  It is that licence that’s a sign of the stranger driver having been properly assessed as far more trustworthy than the unlicensed stranger.
It is also provides a means of monitoring to ensure and deal with issues that arise.

It is notable that for the past decade or so the vast majority of sexual attacks on women in “cabs”  have been carried out by drivers with no licence to offer a cab service.
It had become so frequent that the Metropolitan Police has run campaigns recommending people to only get licensed taxis and private hire cabs for their safety.

It will be interesting to know how Apple decides what direction to take in development of its processors.
Do they evaluate what works smoothly and not so smoothly, then look at how they can improve the performance in that area.
Alternatively do they think "what will be a good feature to have in an Apple Device", prototype it, then work towards designing a processor that delivers that feature at the right size, power consumption and price?

Perhaps an answer lie in studying the evolution of Apple processors from their first A4 to the current A11.

Apple explicitly expressed the latter thinking when they designed the custom controller chip for  the 5K Retina iMac.

BarryMarshall said:

It is about the only thing that the iPhone X has going for it.

Well seeing that the A11 is much superior in its computational ability than its nearest competition, on that front alone, the iPhone X has a lot going for it.