iPhone 18 Pro preorders are officially live: Everything to know before buying
THE SO WHAT
Each iPhone cycle is now also a distribution reset for on-device AI and sensor capabilities. If your product depends on mobile capture or inference, assume your median user’s hardware just upgraded and revisit what you can do locally versus in the cloud.
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