In reality, even a four-year-old iPhone 6 being throttled by Apple's performance management shouldn't be nearly as slow as Samsung depicts in the ad. And if it is, then there are likely underlying issues.
I'm surprised that a spokesperson from MacRumors has expressed such bias; usually, MacRumors stays impartial. I completely disagree with this opinion — the iPhone 6 has a design flaw that I will describe below, that the competing Samsung S5 did not have.
I had my battery replaced in my iPhone 6 a few months ago, and it's still very slow in precisely the unexaggerated way that the Samsung ad depicts. The cause? Not enough RAM (only 1GB???) operating a modern operating system. I have a 64GB iPhone 6 with 19GB of free space, so there's really no reason other than RAM for the slowness of my phone.
Samsung S5 has
2GB RAM [
early 2014]
iPhone 6 has
1GB RAM [late 2014]
Samsung S6 has
3GB RAM [
early 2015]
iPhone 6S has
2GB RAM [late 2015]
Samsung S7 has
4GB RAM [
early 2016]
iPhone 7 has
2GB RAM [late 2016]
Samsung S8 has
4GB RAM [
early 2017]
iPhone 8 has
2GB RAM [late 2017]
iPhone X has
3GB RAM [late 2017]
Please take note! The current iPhone 8 of late 2017 has *the same* amount of RAM as the Samsung S5 from early 2014. No wonder Samsung phones are faster.
Samsung phones have always been prepared for future operating systems, thus avoiding slowdowns since at least 2014. Apple's phones have consistently been released
after Samsung, and are consistently under-specced in terms of RAM. Apple is being cheap, probably under the false guise of "more RAM uses more battery".
tl;dr: Samsung's ad showcases a very-real problem with Apple's slow phones that Samsung phones don't have in comparison.
I love iPhone, but Apple really needs to lift their game for a company that neglects their macOS to obsess about iOS. If Apple's upcoming 2018 iPhones this year still have 2GB of RAM, well, I guess I'll wait another year before I upgrade.
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That is not accurate. It is as bad as Samsung portrays. The wife used my old 6+ for a week while we waited for parts for her battery repair for her 6s to come in (I messed up the tape that came in the kit). She commented how slow that phone was. Almost to the point that she said she did nothing other than phone calls and texts. That throttling is BS and really, really bad.
I pull out the old Galaxy S5 from time to time as it's the spare phone now. It's slow but nowhere near as bad as the iPhone. Need to get it to Apple for a $29 battery and sell it.
Thank you for also being unbiased and pointing this out. The Samsung S5 has double the RAM compared to the iPhone 6 (1GB versus 2GB), so it's not surprising that your spare phone is still faster than your old iPhone 6. I got my battery replaced, but unfortunately, the speed increase was marginal and temporary, so don't get your hopes up too much!
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