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True but it is very difficult for app developers to make apps for such wide range of devices. With iphone you can just test on the oldest supported device and y
by pdyc 2y ago
True but it is very difficult for app developers to make apps for such wide range of devices. With iphone you can just test on the oldest supported device and you are good with android there is so much variation that you can't be sure even if you are targeting latest version.
What is worse is that apple has handicapped safari from taking full advantage of its HW and does not allows other browser-makers to do it either this results in inferior experience for ios owners using webapps and web app developers are forced to release their apps on iphone.
- scarface_74 2y agoThe article states that browsing on the top of the line Android phones are about the speed of a four year old phone. If other browser makers can’t make a performant browser on Android, what makes you think either Google or Firefox is going to make a faster one for IOS? The article states that the inferior experience is on Android. If anything you need to make an app for Android because of how bad browsers perform even on top end phones
- youngtaff 2y agoIt’s the hardware that’s the issue not the browser… so apps are slower on Android too Chrome on iOS will be faster than Chrome on Android for this reason
- scarface_74 2y agoHow does that help in this situation? The issue isn’t iOS performance
- youngtaff 2y ago> If other browser makers can’t make a performant browser on Android, what makes you think either Google or Firefox is going to make a faster one for IOS? I interpreted this as you saying that Chrome wouldn’t be faster on iOS whereas I’m pretty sure it will
- scarface_74 2y agoChrome is less performant and battery efficient on Macs than Safari. Google isn’t going to go out of their way to be more efficient on iOS. And why aren’t Google’s own phones the fastest Android phones?
- youngtaff 2y agoApple produces way better SoCs whereas Google is using Qualcomm or some other crap Apple's SoCs have huge processor caches which makes quite a big difference Here's the processor cache sizes for the A16 L1 cache 320 KB per P-core (192 KB instruction + 128 KB data) 224 KB per E-core (128 KB instruction + 96 KB data) L2 cache 16 MB (performance cores) 4 MB (efficient cores) Last level cache 24 MB The L1 / L2 / L3 cache sizes in the Pixel 9 CPU don't appear to be documented but based on previous CPUs I'd bet they aren't going to be very large Are you seriously saying that you think Chrome on iOS is going to be slower than Chrome on Android?
- fidotron 2y agoiOS Safari is very very fast. What it is not is implementing every Google “standard” and when things break it can be a PITA to debug.