QUOTE(benny888 @ Sep 11 2013, 10:26 AM)
Yet you will still see buyers queue up to buy it. It is after all an Apple! I have used all the iPhone series till ip5 n yet none of them ever impresses me. All this talk of smoothness is just an illusion as Apple knows once they allow widgets n 3rd party launcher interference they will lose their edge. I was so crazy that I paid rm1000 extra premium for the very first iphone.
Not sure there will be any queue now. The queue for buying high tech stuff will be a memory we cherished as techno buff.
QUOTE(joytest @ Sep 11 2013, 10:28 AM)
5s pricing is probably high to recover the r&d costs for the 64 bit cpu but if you look at how intel prices their stuff, new architecture fits in at the same price points of the old architecture while they quickly deprecate the old one.
Maybe they think the faithful will open their mouths wider to swallow a longer register....
You talk about 64bit only for addressing yesterday.
64 bit architecture is not only for memory address.
iOS7 native code incorporate new 64 bit instruction set. Means, 1 instruction in 64 bit can do 2 things when using 32bit instruction. It will be faster I think. decoding will be faster because 1 clock cycle can decode 2 things. But executing might be same.