
The use cases for all that processing: You’re handwriting notes on your iPad ($329 and up) with the Pencil during a meeting, and you want to see a map of Zanzibar. “Which means that the computational power of the device has to be such that it can do that level of processing locally.” “It’s gotta be happening in real time, right now, on the device that you’re holding,” Federighi says.

The massive amount of statistical calculations needed to do this are happening on the iPad itself, rather than at a data center.

That dynamic understanding of how people write means Apple’s software can reliably know what you’re writing as you’re writing it, but combined with data on a language’s syntax, the iPad can also predict what stroke or character or word you’ll write next. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
