Apple is (perhaps?) the only smartphone maker that doesn’t advertise RAM capacity or CPU clock frequency — measures that didn’t really mean much in the PC era (

Apple is (perhaps?) the only smartphone maker that doesn’t advertise RAM capacity or CPU clock frequency — measures that didn’t really mean much in the PC era (except to confuse and confound consumers) and didn’t matter in the smartphone era. If your hardware and software are integrated well and optimized, you don’t need a lot of RAM (as seen in real world responsiveness and performance of Apple devices with half or one third the RAM that some Android devices have). Taking a wild guess, at the current rate of change, it will be two years before many new Android phones have 16GB RAM, and at least four years before the new flagship iPhones have that much. Heck, even most laptops sold today are not yet at “16GB is the base RAM” level and start at 4GB (or worse).