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So, the article basically says that the FBI's demands are unwarranted because there are enough security bugs in iOS that the government can always use one of those bugs to get into any phone if it cares to do so. 

That doesn't exactly sound like a great argument. Apple should be making phones that are essentially impossible to break into, and that they are not yet doing so is good for governments, and thieves, but not so great for Apple's customers. 

Touch screens are indeed a serious problem. Knobs are so much better for navigating screen elements while driving since you are only using quick visuals for confirmation rather than as part of a more difficult hand-eye coordination problem. 

This is the one huge downside of my Tesla versus my previous car which was a BMW with CarPlay and a knob. The CarPlay interaction through the knob was far less of an issue. Also, Siri works an almost comical amount better than Tesla's voice recognition. What Tesla (Model 3 and Y anyway) does improve on to some degree is that the placement of the touchscreen is higher, larger, and easier to reach than in most other cars, so you are looking more to the side to see it than you are looking down and to the side and not squinting. 

Watching Steve Jobs give a presentation was such a refreshing blast from the past versus Tim Cook. Such a great mix of straightforward, informative, and just slightly comical. 

Metriacanthosaurus said:

GeorgeBMac said:

The upcoming lightening fast processors combined with Gb wireless speeds will be creating a great vacuum for software to rise up and fill.   Currently hardware seems to be racing far ahead of software.  But that's a familiar cycle and we know from experience that it won't last forever.  The question is:   How will software evolve to fill that void?

In the desktop space, we can always put more power to use. Always. Mobile has yet to use even a fraction of the hardware already out there. Mobile still isn't even utilizing the hardware that was out there 3 years ago.

Well, UI implementations seem to be making use of all that CPU power, though I'm guessing that slow-downs are really more related to programmer laziness than fundamental algorithmic complexity. Though from what I can tell, Apple has actually been improving the UI code efficiency in the last few release cycles. 

rob53 said:

I keep seeing people complaining about the single core speed because “most apps only use a single core” so is there any way Apple could come up with a 4-5Ghz  CPU? 

How much does it cost Apple to add more cores? Could they add a second CPU chip to do this? How difficult or easy will it be to add PCIe and various I/O to their ARM bus? How close is the A-series architecture to what Apple would need for an ARM Mac?

Most of the code that runs to make most apps work is Apple library and system service code, which I'm going to presume is already relatively well multi-threaded. If you are actually trying to do heavy computation on an iPhone, then spend the time to figure out how to use threads.