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iPhone 6s Plus Opens Apps Slightly Faster Than iPhone 6 Plus

pushingrobot said:
The apps he demonstrated loaded much faster on the 6S, as expected.

As a web developer, I shake my head whenever I see web pages used for benchmarking device performance; two identical requests could take vastly different amount of times to complete due to a multitude of variables: ISP connection, network congestion, DNS lookups, which servers handle the given request and their instantaneous load, which assets and ads are loaded, etc, etc.

If you want to test the browser, there are real benchmarks that preload everything to the device for consistent results.
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But then the results wouldn't be controversial..... :)
 
tremlock said:
Yes apps open much more quickly. The phone in general seems much faster
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You sure didn't watch the video did you. The 6S Plus DIDN'T open apps MUCH MORE QUICKLY. It was nominal at best and to be honest it was only microseconds ahead of the 6 Plus. The Geek Bench numbers certainly don't match the real world performance, perhaps because some apps need tweaking but Apple's own apps weren't any different than the 3 party developer's apps in speed. Not worth the upgrade unless you want the gimmicks. iPhone 7 will be the killer phone. The "S" models are getting to be service packs with gimmicks.
 
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The opening of any app includes an animation with a hard-coded duration. Regardless of the speed of processor. So visual speed comparisons like this won't be very useful.
 
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The time it takes to load a light stock app with nothing running in the background seems like a pretty uninformative test. That sort of thing might be bound by the flash storage speed more so than the processor speed.
How long would each phone need to load a large PDF, open a Keynote presentation or launch a demanding game? What kind of speed hit do you see with a number of background tasks going on?
 
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Obviously you can't make much of difference opening apps which regularry open in 1-2 second.

When he opened angry birds the real power came out, in today device 4 second difference is huge. The bigger the app the bigger the difference is of course is

One reviewer also said exporting HD video is three times faster with newest model.
 
I completely disagree.. First.. very few people clear their multitasking tray... Secondly.. The phone itself is just lightening fast! at switching between apps and doing things quicker.. not just when you click one button...
 
Duel said:
Obviously you can't make much of difference opening apps which regularry open in 1-2 second.

When he opened angry birds the real power came out, in today device 4 second difference is huge. The bigger the app the bigger the difference is of course is

One reviewer also said exporting HD video is three times faster with newest model.
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Exactly. Loading/opening apps is a silly "benchmark" between these two devices - do anything that actually requires extensive processor cycles, the GPU, etc., and the Geekbench scores will make sense.
 
zorinlynx said:
I was thinking of upgrading from my 6 but this video appears to show it's a very marginal difference and not worth it.
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I think for many 6 owners who read reviews/previews, the 6S was not on the buy list with the smaller battery. Yes yes, I know someone will respond to this saying they knew about the smaller battery and still upgraded, congrats, i'm not saying everyone, but I'm sure the number is more than a small handful.
 
Duel said:
Obviously you can't make much of difference opening apps which regularry open in 1-2 second.

When he opened angry birds the real power came out, in today device 4 second difference is huge. The bigger the app the bigger the difference is of course is

One reviewer also said exporting HD video is three times faster with newest model.
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This was exactly my thoughts. Plus Web Page tests can be so varied due to so many factors.

I would have liked to have seen a progression of Apps launched and leaving them open as you launch the next. This would give a better view of what a faster processor and more memory can do.
 
Duel said:
Obviously you can't make much of difference opening apps which regularry open in 1-2 second.

When he opened angry birds the real power came out, in today device 4 second difference is huge. The bigger the app the bigger the difference is of course is

One reviewer also said exporting HD video is three times faster with newest model.
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Agreed...if you have to come up with another $700 dollars to upgrade from 6/6+ then it doesn't make sense

Besides only geeks like us would upgrade a perfectly working phone every year - based on this only 2-3% upgrade every year.

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People don't upgrade as often as we think
http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...does-the-average-american-replace-his-or.aspx
 
acslater017 said:
Loading stock apps and clearing them out of the app switcher is probably the worst way to show off the speed difference. He should've loaded a game with 3D graphics or several Safari tabs or several apps simultaneously.

Processor-intensive apps, app switching, and multiple webpages will show off the 6s Plus, not loading Weather with nothing else running!
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This.
 
Dummy. Put it in airplane mode and then launch a game. Dah they use the same Internet wifi and game account there's going to be a delay.
 
Popeye206 said:
This was exactly my thoughts. Plus Web Page tests can be so varied due to so many factors.

I would have liked to have seen a progression of Apps launched and leaving them open as you launch the next. This would give a better view of what a faster processor and more memory can do.
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That's not a real world example. People just don't launch a ton of apps at the same time. What for?
 
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