iPhone 5 iOS 6 vs iOS 7 GM smoothness

[marvz]

With Apple, you're truly screwed if they decide to stop supporting your phone. You can't do anything at that point. They also purposefully slow down your device with every new iOS release, and for no reason whatsoever.

With Android, you can just run a simple exe or a market app that roots your phone and gives you custom recovery, then you go nuts with any ROM you want. Pretty sure even a 5 year old Android phone can, through a custom ROM, smoothly run 4.3 just fine.

And don't say warranty blah blah; by the time they stop supporting your phone, your warranty is already done.

Apple purposefully makes iOS run slower on older devices by not bothering to optimize it whatsoever. Google always optimizes Android the best they can and, as a result, a Nexus One from many years back with a single core Snapdragon can and does run 4.3 beautifully.


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What are you talking about? No one is forcing you to do an update. It's your choice.
On Android there is no choice.. (and custom ROM..the majority of users don't know what this is!)

 

[SA Spyder]

What are you talking about? No one is forcing you to do an update. It's your choice.
On Android there is no choice.. (and custom ROM..the majority of users don't know what this is!)

Uh yea, App Store apps very quickly start requiring newest iOS.

And the majority of vehicle owners don't know how to change the oil. So what?

And how is there no choice on Android? Have you ignored literally everything I wrote? There's a world of choice over at XDA. It's hilariously rich coming from an iPhone owner though lol.

Plugging your ears and screaming sometimes doesn't make you right. XDA gives you lifetime support and practically unlimited choice. And that's something you could only achieve with Android.

They had an iPhone section a while back but dropped it because the only type of threads and posts was: soooo, which of the 10 available Cydia apps did you download? Ha.

 

[Mrg02d]

There's no exaggeration, it's stating facts.

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[TommyA6]

Haha please tell me more about how the phone I physically have here isn't running 4.3 smoothly and once you can't, tell me how it's actually a fake Nexus One shell on top of a quad core super phone. Better yet, try going to XDA and blurting out that horribly ignorant armchair Android expert assessment and see what they think.


stand back everyone this expert wields YouTube experience.


iOS 7 runs slower than iOS 6 on my iPhone 5. It's still acceptable, but not anywhere close to iOS 6 snappiness. And that horrible design choice is where I'd install a mod to speed up the dumb animations but oh aw I can't.


No it doesn't. My GF's 4S got even more demolished by iOS 7's terrible "optimization" than my 5 did. Everything takes longer to do, and loading times are worse. But if you're going to base speeds by animation smoothness, then go ahead lol.


The animations aren't "slightly" longer, they're 3x longer. You can't swipe for literally a second and a half after unlocking the phone, whereas with iOS 6 it was pretty much instant. If you like the attention whorish animations, sure that's your taste but its a design choice with which Apple frankly ruined whatever speed iOS once had.

They do slow down devices on purpose. But I guess everyone here has forgiven them for how terribly iOS 4 ran on the 3G despite adding nothing but folders. Or how the 3GS lagged with iOS 6. Or how the 4 lags on iOS 7. Despite the fact that iOS is a simple OS with not a whole lot to do, they somehow figured out a way to make it slow as hell on what's still considered a modern device.

Oh sorry, I didn't know Nexus one was released in 2008 , except it was not.
I see nothing wrong with basing my opinion on YouTube videos.
As for the speed "issue", you're exaggerating, but I could care less for your "made up" bad experience.

Would you mind posting a video of your nexus running 4.3 perfectly, please, I'd like to see it?

 

[Northgrove]

I'm usually kind of picky when it comes to these things, and when playing FPS games prefer 70 fps on low resolution rather than 30 fps, but I can't say I've noticed a difference on my iPhone 5S when I installed iOS 7. The animations are different, perhaps more slowly paced, but perfectly smooth from what I can tell.

 

[sk1wbw]

With Apple, you're truly screwed if they decide to stop supporting your phone. You can't do anything at that point. They also purposefully slow down your device with every new iOS release, and for no reason whatsoever.

With Android, you can just run a simple exe or a market app that roots your phone and gives you custom recovery, then you go nuts with any ROM you want. Pretty sure even a 5 year old Android phone can, through a custom ROM, smoothly run 4.3 just fine.

And don't say warranty blah blah; by the time they stop supporting your phone, your warranty is already done.

Apple purposefully makes iOS run slower on older devices by not bothering to optimize it whatsoever. Google always optimizes Android the best they can and, as a result, a Nexus One from many years back with a single core Snapdragon can and does run 4.3 beautifully.

You kind of made a bad move trying to say anything along the lines of "with Android you're screwed." It's quite the opposite if you ever visited a nice little site called XDA where you get practically lifetime support for your device by running a simple program. Whereas with iPhone it's either: a) Apple releases new iOS, runs slower on your one year old device or b) Apple decides to stop support for no reason whatsoever (iPod touch for example), go buy a new device.

I'd say that, thanks to the excellent community that works for everyone at XDA, Android users have it far better off. Not only do we get lifetime support for our devices there, but we also never have to put up with the manufacturer forcing us to use a horrible looking theme that we can't change with horrible long animations that kill workflow (lol iOS 7). On the contrary, we just flash a new ROM in seconds and have a totally different phone in our hands. Choice is what matters, and at least we have it.

Dude, let me take a hit off your crack pipe.

 

[SA Spyder]

Dude, let me take a hit off your crack pipe.

Great argument, 10/10, you literally won the internet.

 

[kolax]

I completely agree with SA Spyder. I lived through iOS 4 on the 3G.

 

[z2daj]

While Android may in fact offer users the ability to download custom ROMs to add functionality to their older devices, I do think the claim that iOS 7 is intentionally made "slow" to force upgrades is false.

I have iOS 7 installed on my iPhone 5, it works beautifully and is faster than iOS 6 in several aspects, such as cold boots, apps launching to a usable state, and switching between apps. Is the new 5S supposed to "wow" me with new hardware? Of course. But the performance increases due to new hardware is to be expected. It's unrealistic to expect software releases to work uniformily across several different hardware lines.

XDA is great. However, it seems to be a lot of work to keep older hardware "updated" when you know that the newer iPhone models will be supported for the next couple of years as far as software is concerned.

 

[C DM]

Last I checked the thread and its title had nothing to do with Android...how about we keep all that irrelevant and pointless discussion out of it?