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  1. Mr. Awesome

    iPhone XR Retrospective: The iPhone XR was a great phone to buy.

    Was thinking through the history of the iPhone today and realized how lucky I was to buy a XR. Many people I know bought either a XR or an 11 due to the good value of the device, but due to the limited improvements of the 11 I think the XR was a better buy at launch than the 11. The form factor...
  2. E

    Other Apple A12 vs A13 NPU

    I have a question. Isn’t the neural engine in A12 more powerful than the one in the A13 since it can perform 5 trillion 8bit operations per second compared to the 1 trillion of the A13?? It’s also bigger in size(4,64 vs 5,79) .It looks like a big downgrade to me. Could it be the reason the XS...
  3. phillytim

    Universal What apps benefit from Apple's Neural engine?

    Sorry for the vague question, but what benefits can we actually see by having an iOS device with Apple's A-series chips (A11, A12, upcoming A13) which have the neural engine? I'm still on an A9 iPhone, so I don't yet have neural engines in my CPU. What am I actually missing, and from which apps?
  4. B

    Possible to Copy Local App Data to RootFS Using Current A12 JB?

    Hey Guys - Obviously, A12 jailbreaking is big news currently; but I do know that SSH-only jailbreak support for A12 is available in v3.0.0~b47 when it was released on 03/25/2019. Before attempting it, I just wanted to make sure that if I were to jailbreak my iPad Pro (A12) using the latest...
  5. dinojr

    iPhone X 2017 X and XR the same price, which is the better buy?

    I know the X isn't sold by Apple now, but Re-Sellers have loads of stock. Wondering if the X gets reduced to nearly the XR price, which phone becomes best value?