[deanhills]

I'm still not over Apple's battery scandal of a few years back. I was on the receiving end of it, and could make a first hand comparison with how slow its performance was at the time.  Hopefully Apple has overcome that problem with its current models, but my confidence in Apple's hardware manufacture being much improved over other smart phones in the same league is not that high.  Let's hope I'm wrong and Apple taking charge of its own manufacture of the chips will mean an upgrade and not a downgrade of its standards and allow it to add new technology that its competitors will not be able to do with Intel manufactured processors.

I'd be interested to know how much more expensive it will be and also whether it's going to widen the gulf between Apple and Android phones even further.