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I'm gonna get down voted but that's why I buy Apple phones. Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience
by EZ-E 8y ago
I'm gonna get down voted but that's why I buy Apple phones. Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience
- coderdude 8y agoShut up. You get downvoted cuz ur bad. The hardware is good
- jackconnor 8y agoYea I kind of agree. I think most people, myself included, just don't really recognize minor performance differences, only relatively large ones. And I've always thought that these things improve so fast year-to-year, that it's kind of pointless to try and keep up. So, i shoot for a phone I like that performs pretty well, and just leave it at that (hello iPhone SE).
- ekianjo 8y agoApple does the same thing when they introduce new models. They pretend it runs x times faster than the previous flagship one. Same thing really.
- briandear 8y agoThey actually do run x times faster. They almost always have faster chips than the previous model. So they’ll pretty much always be faster. Who would release a slower phone as a new model? It doesn’t make any sense.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoMaybe if it tripled battery or something
- lostlogin 8y agoCan I have this please. It can be thicker and heavier if that helps.
- notamicroshill 8y agoYes please.
- ekianjo 8y agopoint is its not as fast as they claim it to be, because they take edge cases as always. I never said the new models are slower, no need to strawman my argument.
- jackconnor 8y agoThe point is that it may be such a minor difference that most consumers would never know the difference, not that it's worse.
- Someone1234 8y ago> Comparing processors, ram, test scores means nothing compared to the actual experience But Apple brags endlessly about their A11 "Bionic" chip and similar[0]. Arguing that Apple values experience over specs might have been a valid argument back with Steven Jobs, but Apple's presentations spend significant amounts of time talking about hardware specs these days. I don't specifically mind that Apple does, but people need to stop pretending like Apple hasn't changed as a company with the shift in leadership. [0] https://youtu.be/M4Pc1eQtWmQ?t=11m43s https://youtu.be/M4Pc1eQtWmQ?t=11m43s
- culturestate 8y agoApple has always tailored their marketing to whatever their advantage is at that moment. If they have the best tech, they'll talk about speeds and feeds - if they don't, they'll talk about the experience or some other aspect. This is almost as reliable a tick-tock cycle as Intel's.
- mcphage 8y ago> Apple has always tailored their marketing to whatever their advantage is at that moment. What's Option B? Advertise based on what they're not good at? "Snapple: Made from the Fifth or Sixth Best Stuff on Earth"
- culturestate 8y agoI'm just noting for GP that this has been SOP at Apple for a long time, not something new.
- mcphage 8y agoOf course it is. It’s the only useful thing you can do when advertising.
- aslkdjaslkdj1 8y agoThe A11 chip's CV module is the reason FaceID works as well as it does. And FaceID was their one of their major marketing points of the X and likely the phones being announced this month.
- ali_af 8y agoPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware I never get tired of this quote, and I will always point to it when people compare iOS/Android or macOS/Windows.
- drampelt 8y agoAnd that's why I buy Google phones. The processor being slightly slower doesn't matter to me if I prefer the overall experience
- bitL 8y agoIf you don't mind being stuck storage-wise with no SD card slot... 4k videos fill up internal storage pretty quickly.
- euyyn 8y agoWhen you buy a Google phone you get unlimited backup storage in Google Photos. You never think again about things like that.
- nickthegreek 8y agoYou can use unlim google photo backup on your iPhone as well.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoUnlimited backup storage for low-quality, highly-compressed photos. If you want to store photos the way they were shot, you'll quickly run out of space and will have to pay up. (That's what made me pay Google directly for the first time; extra storage for backing up photos.)
- soylentcola 8y agoGoogle's phones (ie: Pixels and their XL variants) get full size photo and video backups included. Even if you don't have a Google phone, the free-of-charge backup only compresses photos over 16MP which is still pretty adequate for most people taking snapshots on their cell phones. For the hobbyist or pro photographer backing up their full frame RAWs, sure, you want a more professional (read: paid) backup solution but that doesn't seem unfair to me. For the 95% of users who want to free up space taken up by vacation snaps and selfies, compressing photos over 16MP is often acceptable when it doesn't cost extra.
- beerlord 8y agoI switched to Apple after my Nexus 5 stopped getting updates about a year after I bought it. Bought an iPhone 6S second hand for $320. Still getting updates now, and looks like I will for the foreseeable future. The core feature iPhones are missing is USB Type C- I won't upgrade to a new iPhone if I cant use the same headphones on my laptop and phone (either 3.5mm or TypeC)