I'm sure the C spec will eventually add some better parallelism.
You are right. C doesn't need to be replaced, just updated.
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allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate
Just because the design of an Apple product is distinctive doesn't mean that the product is automatically groundbreaking.
True. But the statement you quoted doesn't say that unique products are necessarily groundbreaking. If they are groundbreaking, making them also impossible to duplicate does mean quite a lot.
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