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That chip will still require drivers, and you'll still need a compiler for it, and there will be an OS running on it. The use of the 1.5GHz processor is to use high-level constructs to generate beautiful, powerful applications.

There are phone app programmers, and there are phone programmers. If the phone programmers wasted the power in that processor on the core APIs, the energy and expense would be wasted.



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