> It's so sad that all technological innovation seems to be concentrated into the few products of a single company. The big advantage here is the ability to pu

> It's so sad that all technological innovation seems to be concentrated into the few products of a single company. The big advantage here is the ability to pull all of this functionality onto smaller and more highly integrated SoCs and packages. This is the antithesis of modular. If you are looking for similar performance, the best you can hope for is a more accessible competitor. Someone like Nvidia or Qualcomm releasing a SoC with comparable features. The big problem there is Qualcomm and Nvidia both have closed drivers so they are only marginally better than Apple. Since Qualcomm does such a lousy job supporting older CPUs, arguably worse (what's the value of a CPU with only 3 years of support?).