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Maybe no users complain, but as a developer I often think, god damn, why is there so few RAM in there. And no iOS doesn't do memory managment seamlessy, the res
by zyb09 16y ago
Maybe no users complain, but as a developer I often think, god damn, why is there so few RAM in there. And no iOS doesn't do memory managment seamlessy, the responsiveness comes from developers working hard to constantly cache/unchache everything that might take up a few megs.
- guywithabike 16y agoMy guess is that it's related to supply constraints. They sold 14 million of them last year. That's a lot of chips. Is their RAM special in some way that might make it a supply constraint big enough to warrant limiting the memory in the iPad so much?
- aperiodic 16y agoI doubt supply constraints are an issue. They're the single largest purchaser of flash memory in the world[1]. I imagine manufacturers would be bending over backwards for them, since their orders must all be quite large. [1]:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/21/macbook.future.cnet/ http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/21/macboo...
- silvestrov 16y agoI think they did everything to get the price down to $499 - including removing camera and reducing RAM. I'm guessing they thought that the $499 price point was required to make iPad a hit. $499 is a very symbolic price.