No! The original Original Trilogy was released on DVD in 2006.
His point wasn’t that the iPhone put together a bunch of distinctly NON cutting-edge hardware into something that wasn’t really on the market yet, and was groundbreaking in the way they combined it, not in the actual components.
And iPhones haven’t ever been pushing the tech curve; even the iPhone 6-es are roughly where last year’s Android phones were- except for the cameras, which are admittedly stellar.
They use the same ARM cpu core family as the Android phones, and their own GPU, but in most tests I’ve ever seen, there’s very, very little performance difference- the kind of thing you’d see in a lab under very controlled conditions, but not in real-world use.
Nope. Sony had no control over content. How would they? (All they could control was the use of the Beta logo and Beta/Betamax words on the boxes and apparently didn’t really set that up well. Something Philips did better with DVD where if you want to use “DVD” on a disc/box, the disc has to meet certain standards and a license is required.) Porn producers did seem to prefer VHS for some reason, and that is rumored to have been a factor. (Maybe the fuzziness of the image kept the viewer from noticing all the actors’ blemishes.) Porn on Beta was available, just not in the same quantities as VHS.
Saying “they use the same ARM cpu core family” mis-characterizes the situation.
Apple and Qualcomm license the architecture and custom design their own chips using the instruction set. The others license standard arm processor designs.
Apple’s single core performance substantially outperforms all other mobile cpu’s.