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Apple was first with 64 bit iPhone chips. Remember Qualcomm VP at the time claimed it was nothing. Apple Silicon for M1 was impressive for instant in low power high performance.

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Those are both still (major) incremental improvements to known tech, not cutting-edge research. Apple takes what other companies have already done and does it better.

all cutting-edge research other companies are supposedly doing are also incremental. Depends on your vantage point.

But last at bringing a calculator on the iPad =)

No one has ever brought a native (not 3rd party) calculator to the iPad before. Apple is the first.

> No one has ever brought a native (not 3rd party) calculator to the iPad before. Apple is the first.

I'm not sure I understand... Considering apple makes the ipad, wouldn't all ipad calculators other than apple's be 3rd party by definition?

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