Do you actually think there's no difference between the iPad Air 2 with 2GB RAM or the iPad Air 1 with 1GB RAM. Apple just put the RAM in for fun, right?
Not going to argue with you. You're just wrong.
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I have a $1000 dollar phone that cant switch apps without reloading & losing my work
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Do you actually think there's no difference between the iPad Air 2 with 2GB RAM or the iPad Air 1 with 1GB RAM. Apple just put the RAM in for fun, right?
Not going to argue with you. You're just wrong.
Only refresh I've seen and has impacted my experience is Safari reloading tabs maybe once or twice so far. I have about 5 tabs open usually.
As long as im on wifi, or LTE it is not that big of a deal just a little annoyance that I have to retap "Request desktop". Other apps that need to refresh usually load quickly enough.
On my Note 3 and Note 4 I had 0 issues of apps refreshing apart from apps that by design won't run in background.
Heck I remember opening youtube videos a day later and being on the same video/time as before.
In any case there's a whole lot of benefits going to iPhone 6 that I am willing to make the trade off.
As others have said some phones excel in some areas, but no phones will excel in everything.
As long as im on wifi, or LTE it is not that big of a deal just a little annoyance that I have to retap "Request desktop". Other apps that need to refresh usually load quickly enough.
On my Note 3 and Note 4 I had 0 issues of apps refreshing apart from apps that by design won't run in background.
Heck I remember opening youtube videos a day later and being on the same video/time as before.
In any case there's a whole lot of benefits going to iPhone 6 that I am willing to make the trade off.
As others have said some phones excel in some areas, but no phones will excel in everything.
What? That's wrong.
I use my iPad Air only on weekends every 2 weeks. For example, i fully charge it and if i don't close all the apps it's running (Youtube, safari, mail, etc) in 2 weeks the battery is dead, without even touching it. If i close all the apps, it will still have 50-60% left.
I also remember just a couple years ago when i3/i5/i7 and quad core CPUs were released it took Apple quite awhile before they started putting them in MacBooks they stuck it out with the dual cores.
I believe it's just cutting corners to save a buck. They could have included more RAM but it was better for them to bank the money one last time to invest it in a future product. Sad fact when we pay top dollar for our devices!
Yet another reason I am not satisfied with Apple since the iPhone 5 but like an idiot I went out and got another iPhone
I was due for a computer upgrade and where as I am not happy I invested in an Aleinware.Planned obsolescence is big in corporate Apple's playbook, no question about that. Otherwise there wouldn't be something newer and nicer around the corner to announce and make billions of dollars in profit on every year.
In all fairness this is true with all corporations -- but it's especially aggravating when you have a company who feigns to care about its customers so much, only to spin them around, reach in and pull up on their undies super hard. Every year. Around September (actually they started early this year with the Macbook)
You wonder why Lenovo, Dell, HP, and Microsoft don't have this problem? Because they don't make golden promises of the perfect product and the ultimate experience --at a premium price. Every September. Apple fans are partly to blame for this. They've been especially subsceptible to Apple's hype machine and pervade this illusion of a premium experience and complain when their expectations aren't met.
BTW - when's the last time you've heard an Apple exec associate their products with "value"? It's never been about value for the Apple customer in the eyes of Apple. But if it isn't, if it's about the premium experience you sure as h*** better deliver.
Constantly reloading Safari tabs does not deliver. This is a valid complaint.
In all fairness this is true with all corporations -- but it's especially aggravating when you have a company who feigns to care about its customers so much, only to spin them around, reach in and pull up on their undies super hard. Every year. Around September (actually they started early this year with the Macbook)
You wonder why Lenovo, Dell, HP, and Microsoft don't have this problem? Because they don't make golden promises of the perfect product and the ultimate experience --at a premium price. Every September. Apple fans are partly to blame for this. They've been especially subsceptible to Apple's hype machine and pervade this illusion of a premium experience and complain when their expectations aren't met.
BTW - when's the last time you've heard an Apple exec associate their products with "value"? It's never been about value for the Apple customer in the eyes of Apple. But if it isn't, if it's about the premium experience you sure as h*** better deliver.
Constantly reloading Safari tabs does not deliver. This is a valid complaint.
Mail gets checked for wether or not the app is open. Pretty much the rest of the apps, with some exception, stop running after a bit of time, even if you don't close them out. So it seems like something else would be in play there if there's a definite difference like that.
I have a problem with "planned obsolescence" claim about a hardware company every time I see it. Here is why:
Suppose Apple decided to make a model of iPad without "planned obsolescence," how would they go about doing it? Add more RAM which require a larger battery which make the iPad thicker and heavier? Or just forget the current design and make one with replaceable everything including the case? What would a user gain buying such a device? Would it be better for the user instead to buy the normal iPad which is still useable after 5 years, or buy one of these clunkers at twice the thickness and twice the cost and able to add more RAM, replace logic board, screen, case as needed?
I don't get these planned obsolescence claim. Technology evolves pretty fast. Obsolescence is the by product. There is no need for a hardware company to plan it.
Apple has your money so.... jokes on you. Stop buying products you're not happy with.
It's really ironic how a small fraction of what makes a good phone good like RAM can let down a phone so much. Here I am, with my iPod Touch, which I thought is basically an iPhone 5C without the phone, and I'm having problems swiping to unlock
Yes it is.....if someone knows product X has something they don't like yet they still buy it the joke IS on them.....well actually if they buy a product they know they won't be happy with they are the joke
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I thought it was ram, but I'm starting to think safari is just a terrible browser. My plus goes nuts whenever I use safari and Spotify.
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Well, the guy had no problems with his 5, but he does with his 6. I'm sure he assumed that he'd get at least the same performance with the new model. Obviously he's not. Not sure how this is considered "a joke*. The real joke is corporate, ball hugging apologists such as yourself.
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Well, the guy had no problems with his 5, but he does with his 6. I'm sure he assumed that he'd get at least the same performance with the new model. Obviously he's not. Not sure how this is considered "a joke*. The real joke is corporate, ball hugging apologists such as yourself.
Neither applies. I bought it assuming it would work at the high standards I've developed from using other similar Apple products, and in this particular respect, it fell short of that.
I don't understand the problem with discussing those shortcomings, and I think the "love it or leave it" argument is generally the last refuge of blind loyalists.
Again.... never said you can't discuss it. There have always been complaints with 1gig of ram yet people keep buying the iPhone and complaining. You bought the iPhone, and unless you've been in a hole, you know there have been complaints about it's functionality. So you either didn't hear about these complaints or you failed to take heed when hearing these complaints. Why, with all your knowledge of apple products, would you purchase a phone that you knew had 1gig of ram knowing others had complaints related to that very subject.
I guess I went a bit overboard with my particular response to you but the subject certainly isn't a new one and the fact that it has 1gig of ram isn't either. So my response still stands.... IF someone buys a product that they know won't satisfy them then the joke is on them.
People use mobile electronics in different ways, some people only use Facebook and Instagram and those people obviously won't have any problems with RAM. However, I've had this problem for all my iDevices. It was somehow almost good in the iPhone 5 but my iPad Air is horrible when it comes to remembering what I was doing 10 seconds ago.. Just now when I was on the browser, I got a message on Facebook, so I went from Safari (which ha two tabs open) to Facebook messenger and then back to Safari. It reloaded the tab I was in and I had to find my way back to where I was... Never have this problem with my Note 3, you guys can send videos of people having RAM issues with Android phones all you want, but 1GB simply doesn't beat 3GB. Apparently Lollipop has some problems being new and fresh (just like all new versions of iOs had). I think it was ios 8.0.2 or something that bricked many phones...
If this wasn't a problem, people wouldn't complain. 2GB would most likely solve it for quite some time until iOS gets more versatile and demands more. 1GB was alright in 2012, however it's just horrible in 2015.
If this wasn't a problem, people wouldn't complain. 2GB would most likely solve it for quite some time until iOS gets more versatile and demands more. 1GB was alright in 2012, however it's just horrible in 2015.
No worries - I understand these things can get a little heated - especially when things start feeling repetitive for those who have encountered these complaints frequently on forums and the like.
And while your response may still stand, it really still has the same basic answer: I bought the phone on launch day, expecting it to work well. At the time it was not known that it had 1 GB, and as someone who realizes that numbers alone don't tell the whole tale, I would have hoped that through software optimization and design that Apple would still have found solutions to common issues such as the ones I and many others have encountered.
To throw you a bone, I'll cop to the fact that if I were operating with the level of knowledge you assumed and had to make the same decision today, I might still buy it (with lowered expectations) because of all the other ways that it does satisfy my needs. But likely I'd just wait for the 6S at this point.