I agree. Imagine AR Kit being manyfold powerful and useful not just with games and gimmicks but useful stuff. But only a small percent of hardware, the latest h

I agree. Imagine AR Kit being manyfold powerful and useful not just with games and gimmicks but useful stuff. But only a small percent of hardware, the latest hardware can run those features. That would considerably hinder the adoption rate and the market won't have enough incentive to double down on it. Instead a good proportion of older hardware able to run those new features will suddenly create a whole new market with just a software release. And I do think iPhone is doing lot more computation than people appreciate. A very easy example is that of the Photos app. Face recognition, scene detection, and object detection among many other things happen on device. Comparing that to Google Photos, none of that happens device; all computing is done on cloud. So it gives Apple an opportunity to decentralise all that computation and optimise ,related costs while also upholding its privacy edge over the competing platforms.