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Yeap, but it's a capitalist world and they are capitalising on it. Wadya gonna do?

Wait till the US defaults on it's debt. And see how the most important capitalist nation crumbles through it's own doing.

I don't call China fully capitalist. If it was then it'd be the most important not the USA.
 
really ??

i'd like to challenge this one, cos i have a few attempts at constant tapping buttons. I would easily argue that is worse then the 3rd gen.

Then again, maybe its just my device .... :rolleyes:
 
And is the main reason I buy apple.

Instant response.

No double clicking, no thinking, 'did I press that'.

Instant.

Having tried various Android devices, the lag is very very noticeable. Infuriatingly so.

I would most definitely agree with that. It doesn't affect some people, but it's always very, very noticeable to me. I had a 2012 N7 and it was awful in that regard.
 
I have a feeling this test will be done in reviews from now on as part of benchmarking. Then, when an Android tablet beats an iPad in this regard, it will be the most important spec.

I like how Apple devices have been the most responsive all along, but Apple doesn't brag about it. They just make the most responsive devices and do any of the technical things to achieve it.
 
"coming in at 75 milliseconds"

Well that should be perceptible to the human eye. :rolleyes:
 
One more reason why Android devices are priced lower than Apple's: cheaper, worse-performing components.
You get what you pay for.

Or, there's one more saying where I come from: "I'm too poor to buy cheap things".
So I prefer to give my cash to Apple: overpriced - maybe - but great feeling and user experience.
 
macrumors has been posting quite a bunch of these defensive articles lately. i frequent a bunch of other tech blogs, and no one else posts as much "hey look, apple or so and so is so much better than you" articles. i get it.. click bait and the editors seem to enjoy seeing flame wars. just wish this site would go back to the days of posting more mac related articles instead. go to droidlife.. they seem to get it.. just post news about what you started the site in the first place for. avoid posting article headlines that just stir up the crowd.
So you want MR to be less unique and more like other tech sites?
Get the f outta here!
 
Both are important. Touch response delay is unnatural for our brain which is used to immediate reaction from a real-world environment. If it's too long - relative to our brain's "processing speed" - it will make the device feel unresponsive, no matter how quickly the app opens afterwards. Brain needs to see immediate reaction to user input - something changing on the display in response to the touch, even though it's maybe a simple UI animation and nothing useful to see, but as long as it's presented immediately, brain's happily fooled.

How long it takes to carry out an action is a different matter, one that the user can appreciate on a much higher level of thought, rather than the subconscious low-level sensory/motorics brain processes.

There's a close loop action-reaction servo system between our senses and our motions - that's how manage to manipulate objects in real world with a level of precision. Add an undue delay into the loop and it becomes much harder to even hold something steady or to scroll to the right part of a page etc. This delay simply isn't just a fraction of the app opening time, there's it's much more significant despite reading in tens of miliseconds. It wouldn't be enjoyable to drive a powerful car if the steering had a 100ms lag to any adjustment you made.

I agree, and I hate lag. My point is that for the N7 the delay is almost unnoticeable and believe me, I am very sensitive to these things. The frustration I show at the pregnant pauses that have appeared when doing stuff on my iPhone 4S since moving to IOS7 is a good example of this! So with the delay almost unnoticeable, these scores have less relevance to the experience to my mind and there is a bigger picture to be seen.

It seems that people forget that we as customers and should be demanding better from the package, as there is always room for improvement on a device. Instead people (if comments on here are anything to go by) are happy to see a benchmark score and celebrate a win, as if coming top on a benchmark somehow makes their device/brand the best. What "the best" is depends on each users needs and wants.
 
Well all I can say is the iPhone 5 is dreadful in responsiveness compared to the iPhone 4 and the 2012 Nexus 7. Because I have owned them all, I noticed the lack of touch response compared to the iPhone 4 the moment I started using it.

The iPads seem to have always been pretty good though.

That's the silliest thing i've ever heard.

Here you go:

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/21/iphone-5-touch-screen-twice-as-fast-as-android-touch-screen/

Return your iPhone 5, ASAP and get one that runs properly.

You might want to also make sure you don't have a screen protector on the phone that could be causing delays in touch sensitivity.
 
It's funny how Samsung didn't copy this important feat instead. No wonder their phones are laggy. Slow response screen paired with natively laggy Android OS. Yuck.

And we have a winner

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This is Macrumors, not 'OtherTechRumors' or 'PraiseTheOppositionRumours'.

These kind of articles are very interesting to read given Apple never advertises or mentions these tiny details, and cognitively, most users never even think about or notice these tiny benefits or market-leading features, yet we all somehow love Apple and their products because 'they just work'.

This is one of the most adult and sensible posts i've seen on this site in a while.
 
yea i get it. it's just the way the articles are written, just sounds defensive. look at the recent headline of "Samsung Fails to Win Presidential Veto..." i love certain apple products as much as you do, but i find these a bit immature and obviously to stir up some readers. i guess i just miss the old macrumors where it focused a lot on just apple products without having to constantly defend them or talk down other products just to make a point.

care to elaborate what you're confused about? i mean.. just go look.. those guys talk about just android products and i rarely.. if i even see one.. article talking down apple to make a point in their articles. android has a lot of features better than iOS, and yet i haven't seen them write these comparison articles to make that point or write click bait anti-apple article headlines.

Benchmark comparisons are not defensive. Nor do they talk down non-Apple vendors. They are simple statements of fact; typically objective, unless the benchmark is chosen in a biased fashion. But that seems not to be the case here.
 
Perhaps it is because Samsung adds the most bloat ware to their devices.

I have used my friends' s3 and s4 and I definitely felt like they were laggy. It felt wrong and somewhat cheap. Did not appeal to me.

My fiancee just got the S4 a month or so ago against my recommendation (I recommended the moto x) and now she is kicking herself! She hates it and wants to go back to her iPhone 4! Lag is her number 1 complaint and I would have to agree.
 
Wait till the US defaults on it's debt. And see how the most important capitalist nation crumbles through it's own doing.

I don't call China fully capitalist. If it was then it'd be the most important not the USA.

Yeah right like that'll ever happen :rolleyes:

That's the silliest thing i've ever heard.

Here you go:

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/21/iphone-5-touch-screen-twice-as-fast-as-android-touch-screen/

Return your iPhone 5, ASAP and get one that runs properly.

You might want to also make sure you don't have a screen protector on the phone that could be causing delays in touch sensitivity.

Eh? Why have you linked to the article I posted my comments as a response to? Did you think I failed to read the article or something?
And I take my own experiences and those of mutual people over some article of a Apple fan site! FYI Apple totally changed the touchscreen tech from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5 hence why it's poorer in response, it doesn't recognise touches as well as the iPhone 4 tech did.

As for returning my iPhone 5, well I would have done for the cheap power button it has if it wasn't out of warranty, so my next phone won't be an i device, plus I hate iOS7.
 
doesn't matter

The average reflex is 215 milliseconds, so anything under that is indistinguishable.
 
Can anyone with say a ipad mini and galaxy tab 3 really tell a difference?

There's a very noticeable difference betwen 75ms and 168ms. Maybe not if you're simply pointing and clicking, but if you're scrolling, sliding, making gestures or playing games, the nearly 100ms (1/10 of a whole second, mind you) difference will make interaction feel like slogging through molasses.

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The average reflex is 215 milliseconds, so anything under that is indistinguishable.

"Reflexes" are measured by the time that lapses between your brain to registering and figuring out what has happened and that action being executed. You can certainly notice things happening faster than 215ms (otherwise we would only be able to perceive 5 frames a second), but being able to do anything about it my or may not be within your realm of ability.

... So if you have average reflexes at 215 ms, which is better and less irritating:
  1. Something that happens after 300 ms (215 + 75) or
  2. Something that happens after 383 ms, which is almost 2/5th of a whole second later than you wanted

Plus, it's not all about fast reflexes. Pulling back slingshots in Angry Birds, for example, feels more real and connected with quicker touch displays. When it slows down it feels like molasses.
 
Maybe it's just me, but I literally cannot notice the difference in screen sensitivity/responsiveness. I suppose if I'm really, really looking then maybe I can find a near-imperceptible slowdown on one device over the other, but it impacts nothing in general usage. None of my devices are even on this list.

It's just you.

edit: Sorry, that's unnecessarily harsh. Rather, I do find that there are people who notice and people who don't. It seems to be an all-or-nothing kind of thing. Either you don't notice it and can't begin to understand why people discuss such things, or it's the only thing you notice until you put the device down and subsequently hope that you never have to interact with the device again.

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Well all I can say is the iPhone 5 is dreadful in responsiveness compared to the iPhone 4 and the 2012 Nexus 7. Because I have owned them all, I noticed the lack of touch response compared to the iPhone 4 the moment I started using it.

The iPads seem to have always been pretty good though.

Really?

When I got my iPhone 5, the first thing I did after loading my iCloud backup was swipe to spotlight (iOS 6) and I was amazed to see NO LAG whatsoever in pulling up the keyboard. Prior to the 5, this was the only iOS interaction that consistently exhibited sub-par performance, but the 5 nailed it.

If your iPhone 5 had/has response latency, I highly advise bringing it in for a replacement. That definitely should not be the case.
 
It's just you.

edit: Sorry, that's unnecessarily harsh. Rather, I do find that there are people who notice and people who don't. It seems to be an all-or-nothing kind of thing. Either you don't notice it and can't begin to understand why people discuss such things, or it's the only thing you notice until you put the device down and subsequently hope that you never have to interact with the device again.


Mildly better attempt at discussion. I sit here with a 5S, an N4, a Transformer TF300T, and my girlfriends iPad (4th gen). Swiping across screens, opening and closing apps, I suppose I do notice an very slight difference. But is this minimal gain not negated by window speeds and transitionary animatiogain I guess you're right about this one.
 
Ever read a book about 1929?

Another crash like that could happen.

Sorry don't really know American history, but would you really want that? The rich usually end up richer from a crisis.

Really?

When I got my iPhone 5, the first thing I did after loading my iCloud backup was swipe to spotlight (iOS 6) and I was amazed to see NO LAG whatsoever in pulling up the keyboard. Prior to the 5, this was the only iOS interaction that consistently exhibited sub-par performance, but the 5 nailed it.

If your iPhone 5 had/has response latency, I highly advise bringing it in for a replacement. That definitely should not be the case.

Yeah but it's out of warranty now. Only has 12 months. Like I said the power button only works on one side anyway and if I could i would change it due to that anyway.
 
is this before or after ios 7?
because i swear iOS 7 has gimped my ipad 4...

Try turning off all the UI fluff... parallax, etc. It will speed it up a bit.

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Heh, I think the fundamental way a device works and responds to input is a HUGE part of the overall package, and means more than a lot of other capabilities on top of it.

I don't care how many CPU cores or GPUs a desktop computer has if the mouse has a dust bunny jammed in the emitter...

absolutely! And when we look at touch response, even half-second makes a big difference.
 
Yeah right like that'll ever happen :rolleyes:



Eh? Why have you linked to the article I posted my comments as a response to? Did you think I failed to read the article or something?
And I take my own experiences and those of mutual people over some article of a Apple fan site! FYI Apple totally changed the touchscreen tech from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5 hence why it's poorer in response, it doesn't recognise touches as well as the iPhone 4 tech did.

As for returning my iPhone 5, well I would have done for the cheap power button it has if it wasn't out of warranty, so my next phone won't be an i device, plus I hate iOS7.


Ha! If you actually read the article, you'd see that the link shows touch response for iPhones and not Tablets. Why is that relevant? Because you stated that your 4 is more responsive then the 5, hence the article showing you that is not the case.

Two different articles, son. Pay attention.
 
Mildly better attempt at discussion. I sit here with a 5S, an N4, a Transformer TF300T, and my girlfriends iPad (4th gen). Swiping across screens, opening and closing apps, I suppose I do notice an very slight difference. But is this minimal gain not negated by window speeds and transitionary animatiogain I guess you're right about this one.

Hehe :eek:

I've got to say, some of the transitions/animations are definitely a step backwards despite how visually pleasing they may (or may not) be. I'm with you there... like when I unlock my phone and have to wait for the bottom row to fall into place before selecting an app or swiping to another screen... that's probably my biggest gripe with iOS 7.

That being said, transitions are momentary while interaction latency is persistent. I'd say it's the single most important characteristic regarding usage and interaction performance of a touch device.

I imagine I might be biased because I do notice this latency while others do not, and so this might not be such a critical measure of performance, but I don't think so: people who don't directly notice this latency will probably still indirectly observe related faults/aggravation that indirectly cause frustration or dissatisfaction.
 
Try turning off all the UI fluff... parallax, etc. It will speed it up a bit.
hmmm but the UI fluff was as advertised! it should be fine with it all on...

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The average reflex is 215 milliseconds, so anything under that is indistinguishable.

nope because your eyes can see faster than 215ms
and when youre writing, for example, your eyes can see that the ink significantly trails behind your hand.
 
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