If you have the device in hand, you've pretty much won.

I'm worried more about the "secure enclave."
  It has been a year and it's still not broken. I hope it stays that way.

Ding.

We have a winner.

CPUs and GPUs do matter for things like battery usage and screen quality though(well, GPUs do; if you have a 1440p screen your GPU better be able to cope with it). Also memory still matters in some ways. I'm kind of disappointed that the iPhone 6 is still 1gb of RAM, but I suspect that has more to do with issues of power consumption than it does Apple being cheap.

It's all a balancing act, and if the final goal isn't UX, then everything is going to come crashing down.

64 bit ARM was last year's tech :)

Oh, wait... Poor Android fans...

(Yes, there's nothing magical about doubling the CPU's data paths, but doing so also gives you a convenient excuse to also throw out all of the garbage in the 32bit ISA; or at least, not require it on 64 bit applications).

For most non games? A few megs. For things like, specialized medical scanners or tools to interface with random heavy equipment? Probably way more.

It's games really that fill my iPhone. Well, games and podcasts. :)

UKIP also is hideously racist and right wing.

I don't think right wing policies have ever actually worked. It always seems like they just consume whatever was working in the system and leave behind a broken, incoherent, and ineffective shell of its former self.

By apps on the cloud, I mean, you can't have apps that your phone can use in the cloud. Deleting and shuffling apps around just because you're on the 16 gig tier phone isn't great a UX either. I think they'd rather just throw in more storage if people had that problem.

I've made a similar point earlier. If they're out to sell iCloud, they're doing a bad job of it. You can't store apps on the cloud, and not a lot of apps store app specific data to make the iCloud free tier feel constrained.

Other than display, why is it benchmarking better than the Samsung Galaxy S5?

Half the cores, half the ram, and ... no appreciable gain in performance.

Never mind last year's 300 dollar phones.

There's a massive difference, in so far as I know, that the Quebecois separatists were facing a different sociopolitical economic set of problems.

The Canadian Prime Minister isn't thumbing his nose as the Quebecois concerning oil revenue from Quebec for instance. Nor do conservative policies generally negatively impact quebec.

The Tories fucked up pretty bad, and will probably continue to fuck it up for union.

Actually I'm willing to speculate that the reason why it's 16/64/128 isn't for any insane conspiracy theory reason, but rather that Apple may have just gone overboard on the 8 gig chips in their supplier chain(Keep in mind, iOS devices use flash in pairs; so a 64gb phone is really 2x32; etc). Given that at their size, they need to order their parts well in advance, it's easy to get trapped with an excess of parts.

They figured most people wouldn't notice or care. The 6s probably will go 32/64/128.

Yes, I know.

I must have had a ministroke or something because I meant to reply to the guy who wanted transparency back in place of the flat colors.

He said he didn't have any colorful opinions on it. I thought Linus couldn't make breakfast with out swearing twice.

Looking at OSX 10.10, why not have both?

Although at this point, I'm shocked Microsoft just doesn't open up the APIs to let people completely reskin windows. I might come back to Windows if I can run LiteStep again...

it's about how aware to the rest of the system any given thread is to the rest of it. Android's implementation of keyboards is incredibly unsafe.

As far as intents vs iOS extensions go, you're right, but the reason why is that Android doesn't do much of anything to keep things playing cleanly.