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About the specs: I don't think the average iPhone buyer is concerned about them as much as the average HN user. In the end what it counts is user experience, a
by Kurtz79 12y ago
About the specs: I don't think the average iPhone buyer is concerned about them as much as the average HN user.
In the end what it counts is user experience, and if the average user see sharp, quick, responsive UI and fast applications he/she couldn't care less about how much RAM the phone has.
Storage is a different issue, but Apple got away until now offering more storage as a premium, so why change ?
- bane 12y agoI don't really disagree with you, but specs can be an indicator of capability. With modern Android phones hitting 3GB and soon 4GB of RAM, multi-tasking is really nice on that kind of phone. This all sounds like feature talk, but here's my use-case at least: being able to listen to music, get directions in the background and switch between a game, the web, and a book in the foreground without worrying about any of the apps getting killed due to low memory is really empowering and enjoyable. My old phone would kill one or two of those apps outright and it was nothing more than memory getting cleared up. If the rumor is true, 1GB of RAM is really a full phone generation behind. Even weirder, I would have expected Apple to be using their 64bit CPU tech to push the boundaries of memory on phones.
- runeks 12y ago> With modern Android phones hitting 3GB and soon 4GB of RAM, multi-tasking is really nice on that kind of phone. Could it be, given that iPhone 6 apps are native code and Android apps are bytecode, that iPhone 6 apps have less memory overhead than Android apps?