Android phones have long had superior hardware specs while Apple stays more conservative with hardware specs. The same has long been true of Windows laptops vs. MacBooks. If you want the best most powerful hardware don't buy Apple - apple's secret sauce is their software and control over the hardware rather than the hardware/features themselves.
I live between Chicago and St. Louis, and for the past 10+ years high speed rail is a re-occurring topic of discussion. I believe as envisioned american high speed rail is a joke. What they intend as high speed is less than 100mph and when you factor in stops along the way the actual average speed between end points will be much lower. It is a sad irony that countries like Spain can have high speed rail cutting across mountaneous areas at 180mph, but in flat land corn growing Illinois the best envisioned is 100mph. Along our rail coridor which is one of the leaders for anticipated federal funding the plan is to retrofit existing tracks for high speed rather than lay new rail from the ground up. So by decision to retrofit they're unable to achieve the real performance speeds that should be easily acheivable. IMHO the federal funding will be going into a retrofit of existing tracks that won't deliver on expected performance and results, and the average speed uptick will be modest. Just my $.02.
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Android phones have long had superior hardware specs while Apple stays more conservative with hardware specs. The same has long been true of Windows laptops vs. MacBooks. If you want the best most powerful hardware don't buy Apple - apple's secret sauce is their software and control over the hardware rather than the hardware/features themselves.
I live between Chicago and St. Louis, and for the past 10+ years high speed rail is a re-occurring topic of discussion. I believe as envisioned american high speed rail is a joke. What they intend as high speed is less than 100mph and when you factor in stops along the way the actual average speed between end points will be much lower. It is a sad irony that countries like Spain can have high speed rail cutting across mountaneous areas at 180mph, but in flat land corn growing Illinois the best envisioned is 100mph. Along our rail coridor which is one of the leaders for anticipated federal funding the plan is to retrofit existing tracks for high speed rather than lay new rail from the ground up. So by decision to retrofit they're unable to achieve the real performance speeds that should be easily acheivable. IMHO the federal funding will be going into a retrofit of existing tracks that won't deliver on expected performance and results, and the average speed uptick will be modest. Just my $.02.