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What is the thing you are trying to do?

These phones record 4K video at 120 frames a second.

They play high intensity video games.

They run on device language models.

People keep their iPhones for years — this power will ensure these phones can run iOS versions 5, 6, even 7 years from now.

And the uArch you’re seeing here will end up re-purposed for big brother M series chips in laptops and desktops.

So what exactly do you want?

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This is what they are saying - the power is there, but iOS severely gets in the way of interacting with it properly any time you step out of the box of "touch first Apple approved mobile experiences". It'd be awesome if one device could be my phone and laptop instead of trying to make do with the screen share on two completely separate systems.

The iPads even more so, as some literally have the same kinds of hardware as a MacBook already (minus the keyboard detaches).

This is such a niche ask. Even Android doesn’t let you do this. Samsung has Dex and most people report it as subpar novelty.

Buy a laptop you’ll be ok.

Android and ChromeOS are merging for these kinds of experiences https://chromeunboxed.com/its-official-google-says-the-andro... and both have already opened up to running anything you'd like in Linux on the side. That said, Android wasn't exactly my first pick of flexibility either.

> Buy a laptop you’ll be ok.

This kind of comment is uncalled for. Anyways, as mentioned, I do the screenshare to a MacBook today. The advantage of having both is clearly for Apple though, not me.

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