Apple will be crippling any A12 gains by giving the iPhone the least amount of system RAM of all rival flagship Android smartphones. iPhone 3GB to many other smartphones sporting 6GB to 8GB of RAM. That's totally messed up on Apple's part. Almost no one will see the A12's edge over Qualcomm and Samsung processors in everyday use. Nowadays, social apps are being valued much higher than any hardware Apple can ever hope to offer. Qualcomm will never give in to Apple in terms of processor power, so it will be a very costly war costing Apple huge amounts of money for marginal gains.
IMO Android have sort of dug their own grace as an OS with this. RAM is one of the most cheapest components and Android really isn’t optimised. Yes you rightly say there’s little real world difference between an Android device on 6GB RAM and an iOS device on 3GB RAM, but that’s part of the problem.
Android OEMs largely play to tech specs, so chucking in more RAM is an easy and cheap way to one-up the competition. However as more Android manufacturers do that, it becomes the norm and whilst the latest version of Android would sail on those specs, it would vastly struggle on a device with half the RAM. The need for memory optimisation is less because the OEMs just aren’t shipping low memory devices.
Throwing more cores and more RAM into a device to improve performance is a fundamentally flawed technique. If you don’t address the way an OS manages resources, you’ve lost the long game. Furthermore, consumers will learn to expect it and even if the OS is substantially improved, they’ll think “oh, only 8 cores? Only 6GB RAM? That’s what the last phone had. It can’t be quicker.”
Yes, as much as a lot of Android users love to boast about specs and Apple users being sheep, a vast number genuinely think that more cores = better performance and more RAM = better phone. That’s just not true. The arrogant users have a passing knowledge of technology which boils down to more is better. OS optimisation with a standardised list of hardware is so incredibly important for performance and frequently understated.
Apple will be crippling any A12 gains by giving the iPhone the least amount of system RAM of all rival flagship Android smartphones. iPhone 3GB to many other smartphones sporting 6GB to 8GB of RAM. That's totally messed up on Apple's part. Almost no one will see the A12's edge over Qualcomm and Samsung processors in everyday use. Nowadays, social apps are being valued much higher than any hardware Apple can ever hope to offer. Qualcomm will never give in to Apple in terms of processor power, so it will be a very costly war costing Apple huge amounts of money for marginal gains.
By the way, I ****ing love DS9 and I ****ing love your username so I’m sorry to so vehemently disagree with you on this point.
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