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iPhone 12 Pro Beats Samsung Note 20 Ultra in App Loading Speed Test
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I don't know if the part about iOS complainers was directed at me, as I've never owned an Android phone and only used one for the few minutes it took to figure out I hated the interface.
In any case, though, your poor experience with Android seems to mirror the few times I briefly worked with someone else's (high-end) device, but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with RAM. It might, but it could be that those phones would have stuttered even with an infinite amount of RAM, if the source is something else.
Your comment about the speed (I'm assuming you mean CPU speed) is interesting, because in terms of single-core performance--which is what really matters for a lot of day-to-day phone user tasks--Apple's A-series chips are vastly ahead of anything available on an Android handset (the fastest Android CPU available is significantly slower than a 3-year-old iPhone X or 8). Again, I don' know whether it's lack of CPU grunt that causes Android to be less-than-smooth, but if it were just a matter of raw CPU horsepower iPhones would be expected to be substantially more responsive all else being equal.
Actually for a lot of users it's probably a decent way to represent "friction" in everyday use. The average user of a smartphone isn't pushing the CPU hard in any app, what they're doing is opening and closing light-weight apps constantly all day.
Individually, the difference for any specific app might only be a second, maybe less, but by stacking them up in a benchmark like this you get a sense of how fast it will "feel" to open things, and to a lesser degree how daily use is going to affect that.
They're representative of how many posts you have here, all named after CPU models from old-school Macs. The newer/faster the CPU, the more posts it corresponds to.
The 6502 was the model of the CPU used in the Apple II. I believe the Apple III used a 6502a. The 68040 and other 680x0 numbers are the Motorola 68k CPUs used in various Classic Macs, the 603, 604, 750, etc. are PPC chips used in Power Macs, etc.
Not at all how people use there phones which is why this has always been just a static noise. For those saying a 12GB ram phone should be faster that isn't the point of the 12GB ram. It has that much for all the functions it is capable of doing. You can write on the screen with the S-pen. It has better contactless payment with included MST. It has such a better display. And it can function like a desktop computer when plugged into a monitor. For all that it does the Note 20 ultra needs that 12GB of ram.
Personally I frequently open stale apps on a regular basis when I use my phone and multitasks between RAM heavy apps as well. That 2 or 3 second wait multiplied over many apps over many years mean a lot of time saved and frustrations avoided.
I would think it is more of an indicator of hardware performance capabilities, but not necessarily real world performance. I don't think people are sitting their opening and closing apps in succession. Maybe you all are onto something, but I just don't see it myself. Feels like a d**k measuring contest.
I agreed
Remember, all those iPhone/Android soc are currently rivaling with some of desktop/laptop cpu
We (including Android users) have NASA rocket power in our hands
If I didn't sit traffic commuting to work, I would save an hour a day. The hour a day multiplied over a lifetime of getting to work is a big number. Waiting two seconds for an app to load doesn't seem like a big deal next to an hour a day. YMMV.
Pointless comparison when one is more like a blown up iPod with calling capability while the other is closer to laptop/desktop replacement.
Definitely not towards and certainly not negative just echoing more
They are. In computing, particular for small 100mb -1GB applications a few seconds is major difference.
Comparing 2secs vs 4secs for example is noticeable particular the amount I use my phone.
Closer can mean anything from an inch to a mile. Funny parable about the tortoise and the hare.
Lump this into, "meaningless, but good to know". We're generally fascinated with these sorts of things, but unless specs render something unusable and are poorly priced, then we'll just go with what we like anyways. The Android phones will just say "yes this may be faster, but it's still an iPhone". Likewise, iPhone users look at Android phones saying no thanks since it's Android.
I'm still rocking an iPad Air (1). It's still on ios8 without any hiccups, but going from its 1 GB of RAM to the Ipad Air's 2 GB would've been sweet. IIRC, iOS uses about a few hundred MB of that, so you're effectively quadrupling your available RAM with such an increase!
Everything is relative. My usage is really heavy and mixed apps use is really important for me.
2 seconds * switching into another app 50 times a day * 3 years I keep the phone is 30 hours I can get back. It’s not much when you look at it that way, but it’s worth it for me. More importantly is also a lot less mini-frustrations when I keep more apps in the RAM. When I switched from my old 6s to the xs it felt like a breath of fresh air for months.
Use your fingers...lazy.
No one bothers anymore if a phone dies. iPhones don't exactly have a "reopen" when you shutdown/restart, like they do on Mac.
No one bothers anymore if a phone dies. iPhones don't exactly have a "reopen" when you shutdown/restart, like they do on Mac.
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better things to do with your life, you're literally reading the benchmark results and commenting on a thread about it so really.. get off your high-horse you're just the same as everyone else on the internet