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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.

I don’t understand why people are complaining about Apple throttling down your phone to keep it running and prevent a sudden shutdown. Worn out batteries are unpredictable and sometimes they just can’t provide enough power to keep your phone running, which results in a sudden shutdown (had it happen to me many times with my old iPhone).

Now imagine that sudden shutdown happens while your doing something important... such as taking a precious picture/video which you can’t take again (a birthday for example). That’s the main reason Apple did what they did, and that’s to prevent these sudden shutdowns from happening. iOS monitors the battery’s health, and if it finds that it’s too work out, it decreases the performance of the system to make it more energy efficient, and hence reducing the chances of the battery not being able to provide enough power.

It seems like nowadays many people try to find any reason to complain about apple. And this battery situation just goes to prove how misinformed they actually are on how much this actually would benefit the users. 

As for the switch to Apple silicone, that’s actually a great move from Apple... not only is intel starting to fall behind in their chipset game, but also apple having their own chipset for the Macs would allow them to fine-tune it. And it will also give apple freedom with their chipsets compared to them being limited to what intel had to offer.

And to anyone scared of the transition, I’ve explained in detail on how the transition will be smooth in my above post.