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While I will buy a 6 for development purposes, I too was disappointed to find out that RAM is staying at 1GB. It's nearly 2015. More RAM does affect battery li

While I will buy a 6 for development purposes, I too was disappointed to find out that RAM is staying at 1GB. It's nearly 2015. More RAM does affect battery life, but still...they could have struck a balance here with 2GB.

davidiach 12y ago
For what do you need the additional 1GB of RAM on your iPhone?
- pradn 12y ago
  So you can keep more apps in memory without having the OS put them to sleep.
- tedunangst 12y ago
  So Safari stops running out of memory and crashing. (I assume that's at least part of the problem. It's much worse with 64-bit than it was with 32-bit.)
- kalleboo 12y ago
  So I can keep 2 websites in RAM at the same time instead of it reloading when I switch between them. Apple fixing Safari's bad behavior and letting it sleep its state to flash would work too, but 6 iOS versions later it looks like they're incapable of that.
eridius 12y ago
Exactly how much does it affect battery life? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer is "a lot". I'm sure engineers at Apple would love to be able to provide 2GB of RAM (after all, they're using this device too!), but the fact that they're not either means it is cost-prohibitive (unlikely) or has an unacceptable impact on battery.
- downandout 12y ago
  Samsung has managed to do it and still maintains (arguably) reasonable battery life. I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old.
  - eridius 12y ago
    > I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old. Funny, I'd say the same thing about the people who've been repeating the "overpriced/underpowered" trope ever since it stopped being true over a decade ago.
    - downandout 12y ago
      So you're OK with Safari crashing and other issues due to lack of RAM?
      - eridius 12y ago
        I don't know what you're doing, but I can't recall the last time I ever had Safari crash on me on iOS.
      - zephjc 12y ago
        I still have an iPhone 4 and don't have Safari crashing issues.
- eridius 12y ago
  I asked someone I know about this and they confirmed that a RAM upgrade would have a significant effect on battery life. Can't provide any citations of course. They also pointed out that iOS already artificially limits the amount of RAM a single process can use, so adding RAM wouldn't even really do anything besides make it take longer for background apps to be evicted.
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davidiach 12y ago

For what do you need the additional 1GB of RAM on your iPhone?

pradn 12y ago
So you can keep more apps in memory without having the OS put them to sleep.
tedunangst 12y ago
So Safari stops running out of memory and crashing. (I assume that's at least part of the problem. It's much worse with 64-bit than it was with 32-bit.)
kalleboo 12y ago
So I can keep 2 websites in RAM at the same time instead of it reloading when I switch between them. Apple fixing Safari's bad behavior and letting it sleep its state to flash would work too, but 6 iOS versions later it looks like they're incapable of that.

eridius 12y ago

Exactly how much does it affect battery life? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer is "a lot". I'm sure engineers at Apple would love to be able to provide 2GB of RAM (after all, they're using this device too!), but the fact that they're not either means it is cost-prohibitive (unlikely) or has an unacceptable impact on battery.

downandout 12y ago
Samsung has managed to do it and still maintains (arguably) reasonable battery life. I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old.
- eridius 12y ago
  > I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old. Funny, I'd say the same thing about the people who've been repeating the "overpriced/underpowered" trope ever since it stopped being true over a decade ago.
  - downandout 12y ago
    So you're OK with Safari crashing and other issues due to lack of RAM?
    - eridius 12y ago
      I don't know what you're doing, but I can't recall the last time I ever had Safari crash on me on iOS.
    - zephjc 12y ago
      I still have an iPhone 4 and don't have Safari crashing issues.
eridius 12y ago
I asked someone I know about this and they confirmed that a RAM upgrade would have a significant effect on battery life. Can't provide any citations of course. They also pointed out that iOS already artificially limits the amount of RAM a single process can use, so adding RAM wouldn't even really do anything besides make it take longer for background apps to be evicted.

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