docs: clarify input arrays in device placement #919
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Clarify how input arrays should be considered for device placement.
This new line is a repetition of bullet point 2, three lines above:
However, I am observing very high levels of ambiguity among the community on the interpretation of this paragraph, where I've had multiple people insist that the device set in the context manager or global default device should trump the device of input arrays. At which point, since all real-life backends always have a global default device, input-to-output device propagation would fly out of the window.