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Yeah, it's amazing. We've had decades of improvements in hardware performance, only to end up with software that's slower than anything that came before it. Yet
by svdree 11y ago
Yeah, it's amazing. We've had decades of improvements in hardware performance, only to end up with software that's slower than anything that came before it. Yet apart from a small minority, nobody seems to bat an eye.
- kuschku 11y agoOh, the people do care. Even my mum complains every day about it. "Can’t be that a 4 year old smartphone can’t run a chat app like whatsapp fluently" But she refuses to buy a new phone, because that would just fuel this even more.
- goldenkey 11y agoOr rather, the new phone would burn jet fuel even more.. That's the main problem, we shouldn't be coding for saturation of resources. It's ridiculous how wasteful apps are these days.
- kuschku 11y agoYes, that is the exact issue. Upgrading just costs money and does not really improve anything. I see it myself, upgraded from Huawei Ideos X3 (2.3.7) to Motorola Moto G (5.0), and it’s just as slow as the old phone was. Despite being twice as expensive.
- maccard 11y agoThere's plenty of us (game developers) that do our best to push the hardware!