It's an on screen bench mark how many extra pixels does the 6+ have over the 6 and 5S? Pointless to even compare everyone wanted a super nice screen and yet they still bitch.
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Disappointed By The Performance
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It's an on screen bench mark how many extra pixels does the 6+ have over the 6 and 5S? Pointless to even compare everyone wanted a super nice screen and yet they still bitch.
The A8 chip wasn't ready. Apple didn't mention how much faster it was over A7, but instead went all the way back to the original iPhone and said it was 50x faster than the original iPhone. Makes me think they were hiding the lack of performance over A7.
Hiding? The metric they emphasized was 50% less power consumption. They obviously had a different goal in mind than just raw computing power. They could have gone to four cores or bumped up the clock speeds for much bigger performance gains, but they chose to focus on the power consumption instead.
Apple seems like they've extended their two-year alternation on the hardware to the OS and SoC as well. This now resembles how Intel does its "tick tock" alternation between a die shrink to reduce power consumption during one product cycle, and then a microarchitecture revision the next. The A7 was the fundamental move to 64-bit with a radical revision to the chip architecture. The A8 is the die shrink, with performance improvements more contingent on the process and performance/watt efficiencies. But, from what I've read, a 50% power reduction would require other tweaks as well, so it's more than just the change from 28nm to 20nm process.
The external shell and basic board design are revised every two years. In between, you get your spec bump, but the manufacturing process carries over.
With iOS, you had the major UI revision with iOS 7, while iOS 8 has far more extensive developer-focused changes with much less drastic changes to the user-focused elements. More user-centered changes would seem likelier for iOS 9, because of iOS 8's under-the-hood focus.
What app is giving you performance issues?
Oh. That's right. It's a benchmark...
I'd just return the phone and buy something else that benchmarks more to your liking since that's obviously all that matters.
Of course, you won't, but that's what someone genuinely concerned would do. Guess you're not ;-).
Konvictz, you're looking for things to complain. You complain about ram, you complain about cpu, its obvious you can't enjoy what you have.
You have 3 options.
1. Buy an Android\Windows phone. In real world performance they may lag behind the iPhone.........but hey, at least you can have bragging rights on specs.
2. Sell your'e phone and wait until iPhone 10 comes out.
3. Enjoy what amazing technology you have today.......and stop crying about things you wish you have, because unless you're Steve Jobs, you're not going to change the world.
Actually, windows phone is a good example of lower spec hardware performing exceptionally well in real world. Android is the opposite scale.
The S releases have traditionally always hit the sweet spot and addressed the performance issues of non-S releases. It began from the 3GS, continued with the 4S, 5S, and it looks like it will continue this trend with the 6S next year too.
Buying a non-S release iPhone is basically being the guinea pig 1st generation adopter. Look at the iPad, the iPad 2 was SO MUCH better and long lived. It looks like the iPad Air 2 might address the issues of the Air.
It seems to be a clear trend in iOS devices. 1st runs of a particular design give you the new design wow factor, 2nd runs gives you the performance factor.
iPad 3 also had the lowest lifespan of any Apple product ever existed, so it makes me wonder if iPad 4 was out just because iPad 3 couldn't preform as well as Apple thought it would.
