half baked and overpriced are subjective. Neither I agree with. But as in all things apple. YMMV.
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iPhone 16 Pro Max Beaten by Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in App Loading Speed Test
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The only thing I would say is: Apple lost their traditional 2 year advantage in multicore today . You can’t predict the future. Apple doesn’t need to have the fastest chip in phones imo. Fast enough and efficient enough for sure. Put the m chips in iPads.
Embarassing is that in such expensive phone Apple uses memory that is half speed of Samsungs as showed up in one test i saw earlier. It is not only aspect influencing the speed of course but not marginal I guess.
It is not good for Apple marketing even most users will not be dealing with speed as phones are very fast. I will return to that in another post yet.
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they didn't start with 100% and iPhone actually drained faster
I've got a 16 Pro Max and a S24+ and for some reason, I can type so much more accurately on the S24+ than the 16 Pro Max. I'm constantly mistyping on my iPhone (or it's autocorrecting what I do type to unrelated words) but not so much on Android.
iPhone even hit 79 % at the end.....
Nobody asks for this, iOS runs smooth, cooler, with smaller batteries and less lag. It is true that was dethroned in this test but the results aren't that impressive, this impacts 0% on daily users and it provides other features at the same time that users cherish other than maximum raw speed.
What a silly comment. I’m not an android users but I’m also not so ignorant to think they don’t hold any market share. As of November 2024, over 3 billion people use android, which is about 70% of the global mobile operating system market. So ya, people use android.
Agreed. Love Apple but its super fan user base is toxic. They hate competition, complain about other companies copying Apple and it’s “never been the same since Steve left”. The culture feels like a bunch of toddlers in my humble opinion.
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A lot of comments on the internet suddenly make sense when you realise that there are a lot of literal children using it. Sometimes I just ask myself “Could I imagine a 12 year old saying this?” And move on.
They started both at 100%, but we don't see the previous tests, they only show this specific test out of many. That implies that the Samsung is draining faster and there is also something iffy about repeating the tests so often and only show this result!
That also shows that Apple isn’t treating the HomePod and the AVP as very important, as you stated, as they stop producing it without an update inside. HomePod is closed, but AVP is able to play third party apps. As an developer I wouldn’t put much effort in it as a product already has been out of production. So how is this product so important to Apple?
iPhone users don’t care, imo. Apple customers en masse aren’t jumping to Samsung because an app is opened faster, imo. Who is it embarrassing to? I don’t think Apple is embarrassed. Shareholders? Maybe one or two? The board? Customers?
Apple marketing doesn’t care about these speed tests. It’s not going to be very many that alter a purchase decision breeding a speed test.
HomePod has an update to its hardware.
AVP purportedly has an update to its hardware. “As a developer” I don’t know what developers will think of the soon to be new AVP. Do you?
Samsung has always told the truth about its benchmarks and never cheated, right?
You have to remember the Galaxy S25 Ultra does have a 16 GB RAM model. That makes a huge difference compared to the 8 GB of RAM the iPhone 16 Pro Max has. I expect both the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max to go to 12 GB of RAM later this year, and given how efficient the iPhone uses RAM, it will likely match the Galaxy S25 Ultra score.
Not multicore, but single core which is very important. Android flagships generally have always had slightly better multicore performance because they usually have 8 cores, compared to the iPhones 6 cores. But now they are about on Par in terms of single core scores. This is actually a good thing, competition is always good for consumers.
I think you haven’t tried the latest Androids. They are butter smooth for a couple of years now. The UI is almost the same. Animations are user adjustable and most people find the animations on iPhone to slow what gives a feeling of sluggishness.
Whaaa? This seems like it is actually the practical use of the device instead of some random processor crunch test.
Back in the PowerBook G4 days when Macs were trouncing PC laptops the Windows guys did the same thing.
They couldn’t win on the CPU side. They couldn’t win on the hardware design. They couldn’t win on a well designed stable OS either.
So they came on Mac forums showing how many apps they could launch at the same time.
They said Photoshop and Office launched faster on Windows than Mac OS X.
They were right. Apps launched faster on Windows. Sometimes they still do today.
But if all you have is fast app launches and everything else is worse, from the processor to system security, then you aren’t winning.
You’re coping.
They couldn’t win on the CPU side. They couldn’t win on the hardware design. They couldn’t win on a well designed stable OS either.
So they came on Mac forums showing how many apps they could launch at the same time.
They said Photoshop and Office launched faster on Windows than Mac OS X.
They were right. Apps launched faster on Windows. Sometimes they still do today.
But if all you have is fast app launches and everything else is worse, from the processor to system security, then you aren’t winning.
You’re coping.
You said to that Apple treated the AVP as a very important product. My response was that if the AVP is a very important product to Apple then why is it already out of production.
That was one part of the entire comment buddy. Funny though thought the same in your comment. Moving on.