It happened in iOS6 too, and I do believe in iOS5 as well. Seriously though, 1GB of RAM is sufficient? I don't think so.
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iPhone 6 might only have 1GB of ram.
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It happened in iOS6 too, and I do believe in iOS5 as well. Seriously though, 1GB of RAM is sufficient? I don't think so.
See above.
But it depends how much ram the OS requires at boot.
My phone does a lot more than an iPhone so there are many custom apps running at boot.
Not bloatware, but phone features. They are all applications that run.
For example, I don't have to swipe anything when people call me. I just raise it to my ear and the phone picks up the call. That's an app.
And many other features. The iPhone out of the box is bare bones.
Having said all that,
I believe Apple will increase the RAM in their iOS devices. Notice how they doubled the RAM in their entry level Macbooks and kept them at the same price.
They've also announced they allowed the resellers to offer discounts on all the Macbooks.
It looks like they're gearing up for something substantial. Let's wait and see.
I believe Apple will increase the RAM in their iOS devices. Notice how they doubled the RAM in their entry level Macbooks and kept them at the same price.
They've also announced they allowed the resellers to offer discounts on all the Macbooks.
It looks like they're gearing up for something substantial. Let's wait and see.
There ya' go putting words in my mouth again. # I'm saying the way I use the iPhone works fine for me.
If the way you use the iPhone doesn't work for YOU, be thankful you have options. I don't know anything about taxing the iPhone or not, I didn't realize you have an insight into exactly what point the software/hardware becomes "taxed".
Let's look at the numbers again. How many iPhone 5, 5s, 5c on iOS 7? 50,000,000?. If it was as bad as all that, apple would go down the tubes. But that hasn't happened. I'll be generous here: 20 of your friends have problems. 20/50000000*100 is what percent of 50M?
So nobody has any problems with iPhones whatsoever apart from me and a few others? Ok. Millions of sales do not equate to zero problems and a 100% user satistaction rate.
I'm not saying that the iPhone is dog poop, merely that it has some issues. You seem to deny that any issues exist, and if they do then they're one-offs experienced by unlucky or overly demanding users.
Every piece of complex computerized systems have issues, even on billion dollar avionics systems. I don't deny there are bugs in iOS, what I question is how many experience "real issues", vs "I don't like the way IOS does this or that".
There will never be zero issues or 100% satisfaction with almost anything "man" created.
But I have not experienced the issues you post about, not on my 5s or 4. Because I have not experienced these issues, doesn't mean they don't exist. It means I use the iPhone in a way such that I don't see them. Maybe millions are like me or maybe not... Or maybe apple designs it's hardware/software for 80/20. And you fall into 20/80.
The tab reloading issue burned me with an iPad Air. I'd have tabs constantly reloading and losing everything I was typing, for work btw so it was literally costing me money (albeit not a lot).
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I don't care how much RAM the iPhone 6 has however I'm not buying it until its throughly tested and I can see it won't hinder my work flow.
I returned the iPad Air. They wanted to trade it out but at the time was during the months pre 7.1 release, so I could load nin.com on any iPad display model they had at the store and it would crash it. So they didn't have an argument and refunded my money. 7.1 fixed the crashing thank god but not the page reloading. The solution was/is to run some crappy 3rd party browser that can't even sync with my other devices like I need it too.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I don't care how much RAM the iPhone 6 has however I'm not buying it until its throughly tested and I can see it won't hinder my work flow.
I returned the iPad Air. They wanted to trade it out but at the time was during the months pre 7.1 release, so I could load nin.com on any iPad display model they had at the store and it would crash it. So they didn't have an argument and refunded my money. 7.1 fixed the crashing thank god but not the page reloading. The solution was/is to run some crappy 3rd party browser that can't even sync with my other devices like I need it too.
I do not have "this" tab reloading issue on my 5s. I played around with other iPhones and could it see this issue appear.
I never used a 5S to tell, just an iPad Air. My 4S will do it but it's almost (again almost) something I'd have to force happen. So that's almost good enough for me.
When I do notice it is generally on this forum. I'll be reading something here then research something in safari. I'll have a few tabs open comparing an iPhone to something else or whatever and when I switch between tabs one will reload. When I notice that I already know tapatalk will refresh. What I'll do is copy what I'm typing, then have to dig back through tapatalk to where I was and paste. Very annoying.
That is on a 4S though which only has 512 mb of RAM. So I'm sure the 5+ are better. But that does goto show you how more RAM will eventually benefit the user experience even if it's not currently (iOS 8 or 9).
I wouldn't even mind to see memory compression like in OSX even at the expense of some speed. With a lot of Macs you can upgrade the amount of RAM very easily and with pretty much all of them you can order how much you want. So I feel in iOS it would be an even bigger benefit between slow NAND and no upgrade option. I'm sure that's a lot easier said then done though.
Not seeing the issue and wanting more memory are different things. I am not in the no more memory camp. More memory only more future proofs these devices. It seems so trivial....that I don't understand the thinking sometimes.
iPhone 3GS-256mb of RAM
iPhone 4-512mb
iPhone 4S-512mb
iPhone 5-1GB
iPhone 5S-1GB
iPhone 6(both sizes)-2GB
iPHone 6S-2GB
iPhone 4-512mb
iPhone 4S-512mb
iPhone 5-1GB
iPhone 5S-1GB
iPhone 6(both sizes)-2GB
iPHone 6S-2GB
It makes more sense to standardise the specs across iOS devices to make it easier to app developers. My guess is that the iPhone and iPad this year will all come with 2gb ram and A8 processor standard. Now that they are all pushing roughly the same resolution, less incidence of hardware fragmentation.
I'd be very disappointed if this ended up being the case. I already feel like the 5s is kind of held back by only having 1gig of RAM. Apps and Safari tabs refreshing is a regular scene on my phone. As Sunking101 said, its only gonna get worse for current devices as time goes on. With future iOS updates and API's for developers to use with there apps, RAM usage is only gonna rise. For example iOS8 is bringing some new API's for background tasks, I'm sure that'll make for some kind of impact on performance for older devices that have lesser amounts of RAM.
Hopefully I don't get blasted for this post. Anytime someone says the iPhone needs more RAM people seem to get upset and argue the iPhone's better ability to manage memory when compared to Android and things like that. Which are irrelevant in my opinion. More RAM is only a benefit.
Hopefully I don't get blasted for this post. Anytime someone says the iPhone needs more RAM people seem to get upset and argue the iPhone's better ability to manage memory when compared to Android and things like that. Which are irrelevant in my opinion. More RAM is only a benefit.
I agree, i don't have any issues with ram on my 5c but If I pay a smartphone $800, it better be high tech, It's been a while since we had a ram upgrade, 2gb of lpddr4 would be awesome, more than that would be freaking wonderful haha
Sure more ram is better; given right balance between battery life and cost(I'll ignore the jr, financial analysts who are making sure apple still makes a profit). However every iPhone generation has seen a ram boost, I don't see any differently here. I'm thinking 2 gig.