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Which tells you precisely nothing at all without having other specs to multiply it out. It's a useless spec, in the format presented by Apple.
> gauge some arbitrary level of performance
The fact that it's arbitrary is irrelevant; the important part is that it is a consistent reference point across cameras.
> I wish Apple would drop the now irrelevant references to 35mm.
Yes, that would be ideal, but they're not going to do that, so at the very least they should just be consistent with the specs they provide.
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Which tells you precisely nothing at all without having other specs to multiply it out. It's a useless spec, in the format presented by Apple.
> gauge some arbitrary level of performance
The fact that it's arbitrary is irrelevant; the important part is that it is a consistent reference point across cameras.
> I wish Apple would drop the now irrelevant references to 35mm.
Yes, that would be ideal, but they're not going to do that, so at the very least they should just be consistent with the specs they provide.