It's just format-shifting content. Rather than reading an article, someone might prefer to have the content casually chit-chatted at them. Nothing wrong with that, and a handy function if you're into that sort of thing. I can see uses for it.
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Tons of websites say this but in my own testing during my commute the difference is almost unnoticeable, let alone a full 25%.
I always find myself coming back to the dragonfly brain. A dragonfly brain needs exactly sixteen neurons to take input from the 30,000 ommatidia in its eyes, use that information to plot the three-dimensional flight path of airborne prey, compute an intercept course, and send those signals to the wing muscles.
How many transistors do we need for that? Input from 30,000 camera pixels, tracking moving objects in 3D space, computing vectors. Now you have a neuron to transistor efficiency ratio. Now multiply that by 86 billion. One brain. AGI's gonna take a hot minute, folks.
It feels like just the choice to make a modular phone completely exhausts a company's creativity. None of them ever make bold choices with their modules. Make a module with a slide-down hardware keyboard. Make a module with Flitchio-style gaming controls on the back. Make one with big dual front-facing speakers. Either take risks or don't.