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You're right that it is an unfair comparison to the state-of-the-art. And a lot of people are considering upgrading their older systems not because those syste
by cptskippy 9y ago
You're right that it is an unfair comparison to the state-of-the-art. And a lot of people are considering upgrading their older systems not because those systems are slow or under-performing but because of other factors like portability, dying batteries, and failing hardware. I think their point is that an iPad can be a suitable replacement for a lot of people not necessarily looking for an upgrade.
My mom has a behemoth of a Dell laptop from 7 or 8 years ago. It's an i7 with 8GB of RAM and if I dropped an SSD in it for her then it would hum along just fine. It has performance parity with my maxed out Yoga 2 from a couple years back. She's looking to upgrade it not due to performance but because it's heavy, the battery is dead and a replacement is $200, and she want's a 10-key.
My point is that performance is no longer the driving force compelling people to upgrade.
- spronkey 9y agoWell, it is somewhat on iOS because somehow Apple's software gets extremely heavy. Wirth's law or something. The iPad 2 used to feel pretty damn speedy, now it's an absolute dog.
- cptskippy 9y agoDefinitely and I think that trend will continue as the platform matures into something approaching feature parity with a desktop operating system. Hopefully that won't actually happen. Apple and Google are putting a great deal of thought into the APIs and features they're implementing on iOS and Android with much consideration to factors such as battery use and performance. That being said, the latest versions of Google's apps have really kneecapped the Nexus 4 which I've used as my daily driver since 2012. Sadly I might just have to upgrade.