Apple's new iPhones, with powerful processors, evolving AI, advanced machine learning, and more, suggest the time is right for Microsoft's 'Surface Andromeda.'
I've long asserted that slate-shaped smartphones are not phones, but powerful mini tablet PCs that have telephony as just one of their many functions. What we call `smartphones` are consistently used as touch-centric tablet computers and are today's most frequently used `PCs`.
Apple's 2007 iPhone started this phenomenon and introduced mere iterative advances until, arguably, 2017's bezel-less, home button-less iPhone X redesign. This iPhone boasted more advanced silicon, A.I., machine learning (ML) and more, and it introduced `the future of the smartphone.` (Apple's wording.) Though heaped in marketing bluster, this 10-year milestone device may represent a transition point between what we categorically accept (or what history will define) as `smartphones` and the beginning of something else.
Admittedly, 2018's iPhone X ...
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