TBH, I think that most experts who didn't see this coming were simply in denial. Disqualifying benchmarks because... it's mobile? Disregarding performance and

TBH, I think that most experts who didn't see this coming were simply in denial. Disqualifying benchmarks because... it's mobile? Disregarding performance and cooling differences with an iPad because... it's an iPad? They all sound like excuses to disregard the obvious results. Synthetic benchmarks can lack fine grained precision. They might be bad at determining who's on top when there's a very small gap. But they provide valid results for determining if two products are in the same LEAGUE. Sure, I an iPad could't run Linux, gcc or StarCraft,, but that's mostly an ecosystem issue, not a hardware performance one. We've seen this coming for years now. Both the big obvious signs, and the little signs, like Apple continuously unifying code and APIs across platforms.