[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]You're right. Apple has the weird position of being behind in most places and ahead in others (Firewire, DisplayPort, Thonderbolt, etc.).But, if you ask me, their true "innovation" is not coming up with new ideas, but instead taking old ideas and changing them ever so slightly to the point that everyone wants it. Brilliant really.I personally have a love-hate relationship with Apple. Love their laptops and software, but hate just about everything else about them. Especially their gadgets. Barf.In terms of this dual core phone... is the software out there actually designed to run on dual cores? Or are we going to have one of those dual-core phones that actually only uses one core.[/citation]
Great question there. Most people talk a bout companies being behind in the hardware department but in order for the hardware to mean anything the software has to be able to use it. Being that IOS's core is based on OSX it would not surprise me if that multi threaded capability is already there. The question is, will the app's actually use it.
Can anyone confirm weather or not Android actually leverages some of the current dual core processors in some of the newer phones? I am not sure there is even a way to validate that unless someone wrote some special app for that.
Apple has a release schedule, they don't just randomly release stuff whenever someone has something they don't. If it is a differentiator they will release it on the next phone but if there is another driving a particular feature then it might not make it in the next release. This does not mean they are behind, it just means that they do not respond with new hardware every other month when a new Android device comes out.
I also have to agree with you, I like Apples products in general, hate some of their business practices and they absolutely suck with their network devices. Timecapsule......... great idea from a backup perspective but as a network devices........terrible. Bridging does not work at all and wireless ranges is not very good. Even the wireless capabilities in the laptops are not that good. Great chipset though (Astheros) but I think they turned the power down so save battery life or something. Just does not have good range.