computational photography / video and gaming. As these use cases gain more capability, they will use as much RAM and CPU capability that you throw at them.
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iPhone 14 Pro Rumored to Feature 8GB RAM, Matching Galaxy S22
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Blind Apple fans as usual. They are tons of YouTube videos showing how more rams help. Apple apps keep having to reload where Android doesn't because of RAM. Sorry but Apple can't beat physics. How is having less RAM being able to hold more data vs the counterpart? What you are talking about is cpu speed. Ram is used for memory.
Apple still doesn't publish stats... you realize yeux1122 isn't apple... right? That's why this page is called mac RUMORS and not mac facts.... they post stories about rumors.
Definitely needs more RAM, my 12 Pro is very inconsistent with how quickly apps get purged from memory—some apps reset just moving back and forth between two apps, which is incredibly annoying if you're copying text, etc.
When i first got my M1 Ipad 11", things would stay in memory for pretty much forever.
Now it re-loads just switching between safari and PDF readers and other basic apps. I swear even my Air 2 didnt refresh this badly. Havent updated the iOS either so it cant be that.
Maybe M2 ipad pro coming soon !! /s
Agreed, but the way I see it, Apple is giving the RAM because you're going to need it. Their software has been getting very, very sloppy the past few years, and throwing more RAM at inefficient code is easier than cleaning up the code. This is doubly good from Apple's point of view because it will make older phones with less RAM obsolete faster.
That video is incomplete. Doesn't cover more RAM usage for split screen multitasking, background multitasking, DeX, etc. Things iPhone can't do. It'll probably be like the iPad Pro M1 when it launched and the extra RAM won't be utilized until iOS and apps have been updated to take advantage of it.
This would fit the pattern starting with the 7 Plus where the max RAM increases every 2 years.
This is a future proofing thing too. The latest iPhone usually works either okay to really well regardless of the RAM amount on a given iOS version, but the older ones are a different story.
The camera does seem to be one of the biggest RAM users, so it would probably make sense with the rumored 48MP camera. And perhaps future updates will have features that take advantage of it as well.
This is a future proofing thing too. The latest iPhone usually works either okay to really well regardless of the RAM amount on a given iOS version, but the older ones are a different story.
The camera does seem to be one of the biggest RAM users, so it would probably make sense with the rumored 48MP camera. And perhaps future updates will have features that take advantage of it as well.
I wish they'd make smaller iOS devices again and segment the lineup even further towards those that want to pay for and tote around the huge heavy devices for the awesome cameras.
Tech has gotten to the point where we could have small thin phones and still have a great single lens camera on there for those of us who don't need to try to replace a Leica with our phone.
I need "a camera" -- but not something trying to use computational wizardry to give near SLR results (usually of kids drooling on food or pushing a plastic cart around)
Tech has gotten to the point where we could have small thin phones and still have a great single lens camera on there for those of us who don't need to try to replace a Leica with our phone.
I need "a camera" -- but not something trying to use computational wizardry to give near SLR results (usually of kids drooling on food or pushing a plastic cart around)
Pill / dot cut out looks nice and clean to me vs. ugly notch so hopefully we get that. The camera bump never bothered me and didn't expect them to eliminate it but if they do to match S22 then cool.
Smaller bezels would be welcome and more realistically they need to matte finish the sides of the phone.
Smaller bezels would be welcome and more realistically they need to matte finish the sides of the phone.
That was my point. I could have made that clearer.
As an owner of the first iPad Air I guarantee you some of us cared. We really cared when you couldn’t switch between Safari tabs without them reloading.
Still smaller apps that are not in RAM open almost as instantly outside of RAM as from it so it hardly matters much. Only reason is to quickly switch between camera, games and perhaps Facetime calls but those are in PiP mode anyway and I’ve never noticed a performance hit from them.
Yes but it was not full fledged Windows. Its downfall was the software needed to be made specifically for it. Considering all Apple computers will now be running off their own Silicone, theoretically you could have an iPhone running ios, dock it to an HDMI monitor and it transitions into full fledged MacOS. All new software will be made to work with Apple silicone chips for MacOS so there should be no growing pains like there was with previous attempts to do this. I actually think this is Apple’s end goal in the transition away from Intel. Create the app ecosystem over several years using MacOS for Apple silicone, then converge iOS, ipadOS and MacOS into essentially the same software. Phones are so powerful now days, for the majority of people they could easily be the core brain for whatever type of computing you wish to do.
"Matching galaxy s22" is so irrelevant. It's exactly this kind of tabular spec by spec comparison that leads people to buy the wrong thing.
There was a time when clock speed, ram, and milliamp hours were kind of comparable and relevant to real world perf across makers, but it's far from the case anymore. Now manufacturers are pulling all kinds of efficiency tricks to eek the most out of hardware. You'll get better battery life with a lower clock speed and more purpose-built cores, or better multitasking with less ram that is quicker etc etc.
Still interesting that they're adding ram, but a useless point to compare that some other phone.
There was a time when clock speed, ram, and milliamp hours were kind of comparable and relevant to real world perf across makers, but it's far from the case anymore. Now manufacturers are pulling all kinds of efficiency tricks to eek the most out of hardware. You'll get better battery life with a lower clock speed and more purpose-built cores, or better multitasking with less ram that is quicker etc etc.
Still interesting that they're adding ram, but a useless point to compare that some other phone.
These types of headlines are setting members up for heated arguments when it comes to ‘Apple and Samsung has something more over the other….’
The Consumer likely doesn’t care about Ram and probably doesn’t punderstand what it is. It comes down to the choice of the platform of what you want, iOS or android. From my standpoint, they’re both excellent in their own rights, and the hardware is great on both of these phones, you just have to choose what’s right for you.
The Consumer likely doesn’t care about Ram and probably doesn’t punderstand what it is. It comes down to the choice of the platform of what you want, iOS or android. From my standpoint, they’re both excellent in their own rights, and the hardware is great on both of these phones, you just have to choose what’s right for you.
Great, so does that mean it won't do that fake backgrounding crap and reload all my apps? Based on the 16gb iPad Pros still reloading stuff I'd say that would be a solid no. Heck Samsung phones from 10 years ago didn't do this.
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THIS would be a significant upgrade for me, iPhones and iPads will never be good reading devices until then. Would love to ditch my Kindle, but I guess I'm stuck with it for a few more years.
Apple never has and still doesn't publish RAM specs for iPhones and iPads, but there has always been speculation about how much RAM will be in the next iPhone/iPad which isn't confirmed until they are released and someone like iFixit can do a teardown.
To be fair an iPhone 7 still probably blows away the Galaxy S22 in performance
Samsung phones are like those pizzas that have way too many different toppings on them for the sake of it, to the extent that the overall experience is quite unpleasant