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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Apple must really love its competition. Although Cook and crew are quick to throw a lawsuit at any company they consider a copy-cat, they aren't afraid to borrow good ideas from competitors and wrap them in glittery buzzwords.
Indeed, Tuesday's iPhone announcement felt like déjà vu—we could have sworn we'd seen various iPhone 5s features in competing products over the past year. So let's take a look at the new phone's key features, and point out where Apple is innovating and where it's playing catch-up.
The 64-bit A7
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Score one for innovation. Apple is certainly on the bleeding edge of mobile processor technology with the A7 system-on-chip (SoC). Apple didn't specify the graphics core it uses, though the mention of OpenGL ES 3.0 support during Apple's presentation makes the new PowerVR Series6 a safe bet. But it's all that talk of fancy 64-bit support that makes the A7 sound like a big deal. And to some degree, it is.
Apple is bringing to market the first consumer product with a 64-bit ARM processor. (AppliedMicro offers a 64-bit ARM SoC called X-Gene, but it's just for servers.) The move to 64-bit signals that Apple has built the A7 on the ARMv8 architecture, while nearly all smartphone chips from the past couple of years have been based on the older ARMv7 architecture.
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