Except in the features that actually matter in day-to-day use (like screen quality).
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iPhone X Beats Samsung Galaxy S9 in Benchmarking Tests
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Except in the features that actually matter in day-to-day use (like screen quality).
I would argue that the average consumer doesn’t even know what a benchmark is and would likely not care to even run one to determine the speed of their phone. You have to remember, everybody uses their phones differently for different tasks, the majority likely use the phones for banking apps, social media, gaming applications, etc. iPhones are powerful enough today where they’re not going to notice incremental increases every single year in performance. It also depends how often somebody upgrades even to recognize the potential of the speed increase of the phone they are using. For example, if someone upgradeds from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone X, clearly that will be a dramatic increase.
I’m not following your argument here. If somebody’s phone is getting slow, that can contribute to many different things, The processor may not be the blame at all, it could be the amount of ram the phone has as well and how are they maximizing the phone usage. They’re way too many considerations here to blame a processor for being slow.
The A11 chip is very powerful in the iPhone X. Even the A10X processor in the iPhone 7 is still incredibly powerful. iPhones in general have some of the best processors in the industry and they don’t get bogged down easily.
Yea seriously. The slightly better screen in the S9 makes the iPhone X basically unusable. Samsung deserves a ton of praise for getting this accomplished in only 6 months.
- Rotation bug when going from landscape to portrait.
- Unresponsive UI while using Apple Music.
- Messages bug that crashed my phone.
- Notification UI elements not aligned in the lock screen notifications.
- Random 3D touch vibrations while not using the 3D touch options at all.
Gameplay on iOS vs Android.... the iOS versions of the games have typically been more responsive.
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In case you didn't know, mobile phones are getting quite fast nowdays. The S9, and iPhone X, as well as many others, actually perform equal to better than for example the base 13" 2017 macbook pro (better on the multicore, a bit lower on single core). Also, I am a developer and was developing just fine on my 2008 macbook that was like 100x slower - you don't need a video editing bleeding edge workhorse for that. A phone will handle the task just fine.
You use the phone as touchpad and keyboard, so no real use for a mouse even though it makes it more convenient, ofc. You just need a monitor. Personally I work 50% in two different towns with an overnight apartment. A monitor on each desk (home, local workplace, overnight place and remote workplace) would let me work freely without dragging along a laptop all the time. At least for me, it's a very interesting idea.
Is it typical for Anandtech to publish benchmarks based on unreleased demo units? Or is it just for Apple's competitors?
Notch or infinity display? You pick.
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They weren't when the phone came out... which is kind of the point here.
Notch or infinity display? You pick.
I own lots of Apple stuff and I am a Steve Jobs fan (not this **** show the accountant is running), but the S8 looks incredibly stylish and much better than the crap design on the left.
So it makes sense to you to keep separate monitors/keyboards at multiple locations just so you can plug your phone into them? You don't think that's a waste? I'd rather spend that money and get a first-rate laptop.
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Is it typical for Samsung to provide a half-baked version knowing it's going to be tested (which Anandtech is famous for)?
Anandtech ran these benchmarks at mwc with the demo units there.
They wanted to be the first to review it for page hits.
Nonetheless, they allowed a well-known publication enough time to run a series of tests. They didn't just whip through Geekbench (which only takes a minute). It would have taken them some time to run all the tests they did. Time that was allotted to them by Samsung. When unfinished demo units are on display there's usually restrictions (for example, when people first got to look at HomePod they weren't allowed to try Siri or other functions).
One has to wonder why Samsung would let someone have so much time with a demo unit if they knew it might not perform as well as expected.
And Apple didn't get slower by the day until they were caught to be throttling ? lmao
They shouldn't of posted these results as samsung told anandtech this is on a demo unfinished firmware and has issues.
Apple will always be superior just for the fact that they support their hardware for such a long period of time. That they design better SoCs is just a plus. The days of Samsung and Android being ahead are clearly over. Maybe Samsung will start to rethink their early launch dates and start launching flagships in the fall.
Did Samsung tell Anandtech that they weren't able to publish the results? Or did this come up AFTER it did so poorly in benchmarks?
The whole thing reeks of amateur hour. On the part of Samsung, not Anandtech.
For the vast majority of people it doesn't and hasn't for quite some time.
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This is the one area where I believe Apple is out in front of the competition.
Latest data shows iOS slowly bleeding market share to Android in a lop sided duopoly race though. Consumers don't benefit from a monopoly so they need to fire Tim Cook and hire someone like Elon Musk to bring back innovation and quality.
Latest data shows iOS slowly bleeding market share to Android in a lop sided duopoly race though. Consumers don't benefit from a monopoly so they need to fire Tim Cook and hire someone like Elon Musk to bring back innovation and quality.
Oh look, the meaningless marketshare argument again.
The problem with marketshare is that a billion users with $50 phones don’t help your ecosystem. Developers don’t waste time/money coding for them because they can only run the most basic of Apps and they don’t buy anything anyway. Aftermarket accessory makers don’t create products for junk phones people throw away and replace as soon as something doesn’t work. Independent third party App stores tied to manufacturers or carriers (which a large number of those Android phones represent) don’t benefit Android as a whole because developers don’t typically cross over from one Android ecosystem to another.
Meanwhile the iPhone has an outstanding ecosystem. The average iPhone buyer generates 4X the revenue the average Android user does for Google Play. This is why App quality is superior and developers continue to favor iOS. They go where the money is, not market share.
Marketshare only matters when comparing apples to apples (the iPhone to other flagships like the S8/S9), not apples to oranges ($800 ASP iPhones to $50 Android phones). In that race the iPhone is by far the clear marketshare leader.
Latest data shows iOS slowly bleeding market share to Android in a lop sided duopoly race though. Consumers don't benefit from a monopoly so they need to fire Tim Cook and hire someone like Elon Musk to bring back innovation and quality.
Yeah cause Elon and Tesla are delivering their series 3 on time and to a great finish
Thats why Apple had such a lousy last quarter, due to bleeding market share...Latest data shows iOS slowly bleeding market share to Android in a lop sided duopoly race though. Consumers don't benefit from a monopoly so they need to fire Tim Cook and hire someone like Elon Musk to bring back innovation and quality.
In fairness, it really doesn't matter how fast the hardware is when iOS blocks user input for 1000 ms during/following animations.
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I see it all the time following iOS updates.
Honestly, my 4S on iOS 6 is faster than my iPhone 6 on iOS 10 (let's not even talk about how poor 11 "runs" on it).
It's actually very frustrating to use a phone that doesn't respond to your input half the time (or more), lags out, etc. My iPhone 6 used to be quite good, and now just a few years and one major iOS version later, it runs like garbage. It's a real shame.