It seems that perhaps "any rational unaided person on this forum" might not really be what it is being implied to be.
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My iPhone 6s Plus Gone From Buttery-Smooth to Extremely Laggy Around the 11-month Point
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Hey guys, I found someone else who doesn't understand how hardware and software work together!
If you're using the forums as your sample, that would be your problem. The "vast majority" would be everyone else who isn't complaining about nonexistent problems on here.
Wtf is this talk about "planned obsolescence"??
They don't even have to do it intentionally since software naturally matures and eventually will require faster and stronger hardware. Smh.
Want to run an older version of iOS on an older device because it can't handle the latest iOS smoothly but no app developer supports it? Well, too bad for you. The whole point is to UNIFY iOS amongst devices.
You don't want to be like fragmented old android now do you? You got devices running different versions of android left and right and it's just one whole fragmented experience.
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Yes I can. As software ages (advances), more hardware is required. That is 100% factual. Good luck playing Battlefront on a mid 1990s laptop (or even a mid 2000s laptop for that matter).
Interesting that people mentioned Windows. Prior to 7, Windows was well known to slow down existing machines on every major version update. Microsoft was basically relying on moore's law for their OS to perform as intended. The pinnacle was Vista. Although it was actually not a bad OS per se, it's a far jump for most machines running XP (mainly because Microsoft was keeping XP for too long).
Then MS realized it had to do better. Came 7, then 8 (which is faster than 7 despite people hating on it), and 10. Like it or not, give Microsoft credit where it's due.
It also shows that we are not seeing a huge jump in performance every year on intel CPUs.
iOS, on the other hand, is akin to the early days of PCs, where every new SoC delivers a significant performance jump. Plus Apple's obsession with GPU (thus older SoCs with weaker GPUs suffer).
The 6 Plus adds more complexity, considering it is rendering everything in higher resolution AND scaling them back to 1080p, meaning its GPU is doing more work than the 6. Add this to Apple pushing GPU, we can see why the 6 Plus suffers.
I don't believe in planned obsolesce. At the same time, we have to be a smart consumer, especially since we are frequenting forums like this. I take myself as an example. After the iPhone 4, I told myself my next iPhone must have 1GB of RAM, so I skipped the 4S and got the iPhone 5. After that, I told myself my next iPhone must have 2GB of RAM. So I skipped both the 5S and 6, and waited out till the 6S came out.
Buy smart.
Then MS realized it had to do better. Came 7, then 8 (which is faster than 7 despite people hating on it), and 10. Like it or not, give Microsoft credit where it's due.
It also shows that we are not seeing a huge jump in performance every year on intel CPUs.
iOS, on the other hand, is akin to the early days of PCs, where every new SoC delivers a significant performance jump. Plus Apple's obsession with GPU (thus older SoCs with weaker GPUs suffer).
The 6 Plus adds more complexity, considering it is rendering everything in higher resolution AND scaling them back to 1080p, meaning its GPU is doing more work than the 6. Add this to Apple pushing GPU, we can see why the 6 Plus suffers.
I don't believe in planned obsolesce. At the same time, we have to be a smart consumer, especially since we are frequenting forums like this. I take myself as an example. After the iPhone 4, I told myself my next iPhone must have 1GB of RAM, so I skipped the 4S and got the iPhone 5. After that, I told myself my next iPhone must have 2GB of RAM. So I skipped both the 5S and 6, and waited out till the 6S came out.
Buy smart.
Yes I can. As software ages (advances), more hardware is required. That is 100% factual. Good luck playing Battlefront on a mid 1990s laptop (or even a mid 2000s laptop for that matter).
im not talking about that side of it. Im talking in terms of business ethics. You can't say for certainty that in their business meetings or whatever that they haven't talked about whats going on here. Most companies these days are corrupt in some form!
If that was the case, Apple wouldn't give iOS devices a 5 year life span on iOS updates. If they were truly wanting everyone to upgrade, after 2-3 iOS versions they would stop updating the device.
This "fragmented experience" you speak of is only felt by developers who have to worry about which APIs to use for their apps.
As a user of a nexus 4 running kit kat, I'm able to run all the newest apps I want. Try running the newest apps on a iPhone 5 with ios6.
