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Benchmark Suggests iPhone 7 Plus Has 3GB RAM
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Says the guy who can't understand the difference between a phishing attack on a cloud platform and an OS vulnerability
What?! These were calculated phishing attempts against specific people – who didn't use Android phones, by the way. And again, iCloud was not compromised.
Unless of course, the people in question using the password "iloveponies64" for every single account they ever had over the last decade is somehow Apple's fault?
I must stress that this gives the impression of reading an "iCloud HAACKED!!11!" headline, and basing the entire argument on that. I do hope I'm wrong.
Yes... I mean, no... um, 42!
Sorry, just joking but I really have no idea what you're trying to say.
All I have to do is read your signature and I should have realized talking to is a waste of my brain cells.. Should have read it first, before commenting on your disillusions..
It's suggested by some questionable benchmark screenshots only I think. Apple doesn't normally publish details of RAM so we'll have to wait until release or some more credible information is leaked.
Those brain cells might make new connections talking to me. Keep the lines open please, potentially you could learn from me, and, potentially I could learn from you.
I am a big iPhone/iOS fan and I pretty much never buy androids, but this sadly is true. Apple's "multitasking" is a joke, it basically just freezes your app in its current state until you return to it, and even then the phone often runs out of ram and has to drop it and completely restart when you get back to it. It's a joke how much it happens on my iPhone 6, I only have to open 2 or 3 other apps before the phone has to completely re-load the app I was first using. Waiting for the day apple will allow me to actually have multiple apps RUNNING in the background, but I fear I'll be waiting for a very long time.
Android might be laggy even with 8gb of ram, but at least it can run multiple apps simultaneously.
It's been many years now and it seems Apple's must-tasking model is generally misunderstood. UI threads are paused, 100%, but apps are not tombstoned completely as they are in Windows Phone (at least the least time I looked at that platform). Apps can register threads of many different types and can perform services in the background in those threads. This is why Spotify for example can keep streaming and playing music in playlists. Why a browser can complete a download. Why all sorts of things can occur when you're not actually looking at an app.
The "iphone can't multitask" thing is simply not true. It just doesn't naively leave all threads running on a power and compute constrained device.
A blanket statement like that kinda hurts your credibility but I'll bite. In what sense is the S7 better than the iphone 7/7+?
I have a feeling that I'm going to get the usual "QUAD HD AMOLED, real multitasking, widgets..." etc. list that gets copied and pasted around this (ostensible) Mac/Apple forum 100 times a day but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
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The answer will be nuanced I think but you can probably look to the 6s/6s+ for answers. The greater number of pixels will hurt the plus in some types of tests.
What Apple allows in iOS to run in the background is very limited to audio, GPS, VOIP, Newstand and accessory apps. If you're someone expecting to use iOS like a computer for SSH, FTPS, VNC, RDP, bittorrent, etc. those apps get suspended in the background then killed after 3 minutes. Not long enough to take a restroom break without it killing all your SSH sessions and potentially getting locked out of production equipment due to vty limits.
Read this article except the background kill time has been reduced from 10 minutes for iOS 6 and older to 3 minutes for iOS 7 and newer.
http://www.speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html
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Seems like Apple really wants to push the Plus Version. More RAM, Dual Camera System, battery life & Display resolution and features within iOS. Only $100 difference seems very unlike Apple.
Good job on linking a near 5 year old article that is now spectacularly wrong. Background Refresh, have you heard of it? Among other things you can register for periodic network updates and do a keep-alive on things lie, oh, SSH sessions. It's clear you don't know what you're talking about and pasting 5 year old articles makes you look silly.
None of the above changes the fact that relying solely on kernel level threading and time-slicing for multitasking on today's mobile devices is naive and poor engineering. One of the more shameful parts of Android, among many.
btw with split screen (not slide over) both apps are truly running all their threads normally too. "Real" multitasking, as you would have it.
Until concrete results are obtained, the 7 should be faster. It has less pixels to render on the screen so it requires less RAM and CPU/GPU than the Plus would.
you could potentially read somewhere that ram uses electricity. so yeah, more unnecessary ram is more waste of electricity.
you learn something new every day huh?
You know what they say, "it's not how big it is. It's how you use it."
My dad always told me: "It's not the size of the gun, but how well you aim it. However, it's easier to hit the target with a shotgun."