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Reserving CPU for itself will make all third party app run slower. And third party apps are a huge selling point (look at Windows Phone), you don't want to be b

by Kesty 11y ago

Reserving CPU for itself will make all third party app run slower. And third party apps are a huge selling point (look at Windows Phone), you don't want to be behind your competition because you want a smoother experience on your stock applications. Also there is feature creep, the longer the system goes on the more feature, security checks, fixed, etc... your basic system does and that will exponentially increase the weigth of your system, requiring you to serve more and more, and making everything else slower.

uptownhr 11y ago
Isn't one of the best experience of buying a new product, phone/laptop/desktop is that it is "fast"? Press the home button, and things appear instantly. Click on a input field, and keyboard appears instantly. Open the app store, it opens instantly. Switch between applications, happens instantly. I would have these function fast over anything else. I can live with the internet being slow and a page taking minutes to load, or an application running a task on the background while I switch around and doing other things and coming back. But when the OS slows down, you are locked in the App itself being slow and not being able to fluidly switch between other apps. As the user of the OS, I wish nothing has precedence over what I want to do. The app should not have control or power over my OS.
- mathgeek 11y ago
  > Isn't one of the best experience of buying a new product, phone/laptop/desktop is that it is "fast"? Yes, it is. That's why when you get a new device, it's important that it appear to be fast. If your old device was slow thanks to all those apps you had that aren't yet on your new device, it makes the new device look even faster. Even if your old device wasn't all that slow, the new device will make it look like it was. Apple is a great example of a company that uses this to its advantage. When iOS "x" released, it was fast. Then, between iOS "x" and iOS "x+1" is when Apple releases all these new apps and updates that require more horsepower. Oh look, your phone isn't as fast as it used to be, but thanks to the new phone that's coming out next month, you can run all those new apps at top speed until we get closer to iOS "x+2" next year.

by Kesty 11y ago

uptownhr 11y ago

Isn't one of the best experience of buying a new product, phone/laptop/desktop is that it is "fast"? Press the home button, and things appear instantly. Click on a input field, and keyboard appears instantly. Open the app store, it opens instantly. Switch between applications, happens instantly. I would have these function fast over anything else. I can live with the internet being slow and a page taking minutes to load, or an application running a task on the background while I switch around and doing other things and coming back. But when the OS slows down, you are locked in the App itself being slow and not being able to fluidly switch between other apps. As the user of the OS, I wish nothing has precedence over what I want to do. The app should not have control or power over my OS.

mathgeek 11y ago
> Isn't one of the best experience of buying a new product, phone/laptop/desktop is that it is "fast"? Yes, it is. That's why when you get a new device, it's important that it appear to be fast. If your old device was slow thanks to all those apps you had that aren't yet on your new device, it makes the new device look even faster. Even if your old device wasn't all that slow, the new device will make it look like it was. Apple is a great example of a company that uses this to its advantage. When iOS "x" released, it was fast. Then, between iOS "x" and iOS "x+1" is when Apple releases all these new apps and updates that require more horsepower. Oh look, your phone isn't as fast as it used to be, but thanks to the new phone that's coming out next month, you can run all those new apps at top speed until we get closer to iOS "x+2" next year.