[pritovido]

"Tricks" makes great difference in life. I can jump over a meter high with my bicycle because someone who knew did teach me the "bunnyhop trick". That and other "tricks" give you the ability to do things save on a bicycle that most people consider impossible or too risky.

Knowing the tricks of a trade, like software development, means the difference between starving or success.

In the same way there are "tricks" that you know about relationships and money and work that can change your life radically.

Trick in English have different meanings. It can be something intended for deception or illusion, but it could also be a habit or mannerism.

In Apple case, those tricks are not really tricks, but strategic informed decisions.

Apple has lots of knowledge about what the market needs and is willing to pay for, they have access to the purchase data of tens of millions of people.

If you have no access to real information, some decisions of the companies that do will look comical or nonsensical.

[saagarjha]

I know exactly why these things exist: it’s because they serve specific strategic interests that Apple has. They aren’t how the processor is getting great single-core scores on Geekbench.