The 5s won't have Apple Pay for websites and apps?It's interesting that the iPad Mini 3 uses the A7 and supports in app Apple Pay while the iPhone 5s doesn't.
https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/The 5s won't have Apple Pay for websites and apps?
I agree that at this early stage Apple should be trying to maximize the Apple Pay installed base to make an attractive target for developers/retailers. So if the iPhone 5s doesn't support even in app Apple Pay I'm assuming there is some technical limitation.I hadn't stopped to think about it before my last reply, but it's probably just a case of them not highlighting it at the September event like they did for the new iPads at yesterday's Octobet event.
Would they really go out of their way to stop any Touch ID device from using online Apple Pay? I imagine the feature is there and working, just not mentioned.
Well presumably, after they get the Apple Pay thing going, they could use the NFC for other things.
They could open it up to third-parties, the way they opened up TouchID after one year.
So it could have other uses.
An iPad5,4 (presumably the iPad Air 2?) has appeared in PassMark's charts. According to the CPU Mark chart it has 3 CPU cores and the memory chart seems to show 2 GB RAM (in both cases, mouse over the bar corresponding to the iPad5,4).
Is this information reliable?
Well A8X appears to have 50% more CPU cores AND 50% more GPU cores than A8, so that would explain the 50% extra transistors.
It would have to be higher to make the +40% claim more realistic.It also appears that the CPU cores will have a slightly higher clock operating frequency than A8 (say, ~ 1.6GHz?).