Is 1GB Of RAM Is Disastrous?

[Newtons Apple]

There will be complainers no matter what.

Not enough RAM, battery not big enough, does not smell right, you name it.

Happens everything a new phone is introduced. Guess some are too young to have remembered the iPhone 5 being introduced!

 

[lordofthereef]

I don't agree.
Apps that require a lot of ram and power are usually games, and of course games are optimised for the latest hardware. Of course a game released today sucks on an iphone 4 and 4S but is not just about RAM amount, is the CPU and GPU power missing.
More ram means more apps loaded at the same time without being purged from memory, so faster multitasking and no reloading.

But let's suppose you are right.
What happen if iPhone 6 is released with only 1GB of RAM?
You are happy today, and next year iPhone 6S is out with 2GB of RAM, so your iPhone 6 with only 1GB of ram starts to have problems with apps.

The more ram they put in, the better is for customers. The battery impact is low, so you gain performances at almost no cost.

Not to mention devs can and do have th epower to limit what devices their app runs on.

 

[drew0020]

Disastrous? No, but it would be very bad. My Retina Mini refreshes Safari tabs when I have 2 open on some sites. Other than that I have no problems, but I use Safari often and it is quite annoying.