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> Other vendors have more focus on dynamic and idle power, Apple seems to care a lot about single-core top line throughput. If that's true, it's actually more
by Analemma_ 9y ago
> Other vendors have more focus on dynamic and idle power, Apple seems to care a lot about single-core top line throughput.
If that's true, it's actually more embarrassing for the other vendors, since iPhones get comparable battery life to Android phones with batteries half the size.
- mjevans 9y agoApples and oranges. The Apple phones get better battery life because of stricter app store inclusion rules and native binary builds for all targets instead of generic automated ports. Plus the rest of the materials BoM on the phones probably cherry picks parts that are very efficient and tuned to work well with each other. Why aren't Androids in this same boat? My guess is that it's because Samsung wants to release 10 different Galaxy phones a year to have something new and shiny in every product segment instead of focusing on one REALLY polished design and leaving last year's model for their mid/low end.
- Steko 9y ago> Apple phones get better battery life because of stricter app store inclusion rules and native binary builds for all targets instead of generic automated ports. Apple does just as well in comparisons that only measure the first party browser. Apple wins in battery life because they sell $900+ phones and invest large sums in engineering specialized chips while Qualcomm doesn't sell phones, they sell chips to customers whose main concern is price.