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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
You should never have to ask “why does this exist?”
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I keep saying it: The iPad Pro is and has been a top-secret test-bed for app developers to unwittingly use to port their apps to the Mx processor. It gave Apple the app library they needed to move to their own SoC without all of the "man, we got to rebuild everything" whining that came with the shift to Intel.
And now, with the M1 landing in the iPad Pro, we can see the next step in this evolution: The Ax processors are on their way out, soon to be replaced by ever more efficient Mx chips, even in the iPhone. Before long, there will be a single, consistent SoC running all of Apple's stuff, with a single, consistent library of apps to choose from, differentiated only by the UI.
Personally, I think it's the single most brilliant coup ever attempted in industry. And all right under the ever-vigilant eyes of apple's competitors, the press, the gubmint, developers, the end-users, all of us!
Absolutely brilliant!
