I feel like a big part of it is just that there’s absolutely no reason a regular consumer needs >1Gb equipment when (essentially) no home internet providers provide internet speeds that fast and no regular consumers need it.

The prosumer market only gets cheap for new equipment when you can convince regular consumers they need it and that has barely happened for 1Gb, let alone 10Gb.

I didn’t support the loss of the 3.5mm jack at the time, but at this point? Digital is obviously the future, I see no reason why I should be held hostage by the atrocious DAC included in my phone when my nice headphones can do so much better.

Bluetooth vs Wired is still a discussion worth having but defending the 3.5mm headphone jack is where you lose me. Headphone manufacturers should have hopped to USB as a standard a long time ago and they didn’t solely to milk more money out of analog audiophiles.

First statement is definitely true, second statement is generally true but is super software and implementation dependent. Generally the issue isn’t fast vs slow cores it’s keeping all of those cores fed with data with memory and the OS scheduler handling events that makes a larger difference.

Obviously software makes the biggest difference of all in how many threads it allocates and where. This is an especially difficult issue as optimizing software for a server and for say a gaming PC are totally different problems with different optimal solutions

Web browsing RAM speed/size and crypto acceleration makes the biggest impact generally which is why Apple CPUs do so well there. That said web browsing is a pretty broad spectrum as they can run essentially arbitrary code depending on the website.

It wasn’t possible until recently but it’s a really interesting sleeper feature that is incredibly smart imo.