Having 64bit cpu's in todays mobile devices is superfluous and ignores many other factors that comprise the total capabilites of any cpu.
If you are doing 2.5gb excel spreadsheets on a iphone or ipad, you are really amazing.
Nope. You're just pushing the envelope a little.
Portability in computing devices is important! After all, just because I'm taking a dump, why should I interrupt my deep thought financial analysis? Think of the insights I could drill down to, while waiting for that second emetic wave!
Folks in the industry know this is true. That's why Apple feels compelled to demonstrate they are on it.
Or you just love bloat. Really the only reason for 64 bits is so that processes use up more RAM and run slower.
It's not about spreadsheets, Quimby. It's about moving millions of pixels around in cutting edge games on 1080p video at high frame rates. . . and a 64 bit architecture can handle it more and faster. Plus, Apple has had those co-processing chips for some time and iOS is far more efficient than Android in how it runs in the hardware and in memory usage.
What is marketing fluff is the that this put apple ahead of other companies. A number of companies can and will produce a 64bit cpu when its needed.But they aren't now? They haven't yet? IOW Apple is ahead of them.