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True, but... Older hardware has older chips (and possibly slower memory) so... a larger size alone would still likely have an actual processing speed impact, n

True, but... Older hardware has older chips (and possibly slower memory) so... a larger size alone would still likely have an actual processing speed impact, no? The newer OS and app versions are developed with chip/memory speed "XYZ" in mind, and that's the target they aim for. That the OS does run on older hardware is great, but if your memory size goes up 2-3 times for apps, I can not imagine that there's 0 speed impact.

iainmerrick 9y ago
Aren't you confusing apps and the OS here? Apps are definitely bigger and slower, but that's separate from whether the OS is faster or slower. Anecdotally (and I agree) iOS 11 is slower than 10 for many of the same tasks -- things like switching apps, opening the camera, opening the keyboard.