[citation]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]
Agreed. At least with the first part. I'll add that they have the best showmanship in business. It's not just that everyone wants their gadgets, but believe they were the inventors of many of them. It's crazy how they get away with it, and sometimes I hate them for it. But I can't really say much as nobody else, and I mean NOBODY is able to combine all these aspects in business together.
[citation]I'm sure that with them launching iOS 5 in the next few months they'll announce dual-core optimization/support and take advantage of it with the new hardware.This is where Android falls short IMO - all that horsepower and look how poorly they are optimised. Even the WP7 1ghz snapdragons are buttery smooth - moreso than anything else I've used to date.[/citation]
Even though this is kind of Google's fault, it's more of the nature of the platform than anything else. Both Msoft and Apple have very strict rules on hardware (apple only uses ne a generation of course) so more effort can go into optimizing the platforms. Google, in order to push their platform to as many people as possible have attempted to become the Windows (or errr Linux...) of phones. Problem is, Amd, Nvidia among other hardware suppliers release tons of drivers and spend a lot of effort in ensuring stability and performance. I believe it is up to the phone makers to do this instead of the soc makers right now, and hopefully sombody can correct me on this if I'm wrong. Maybe this will change with tegra but right now it's just not seen as that important. Hate it or love it, this comes with having such an open platform.