My loss? How? I use the Ad Block Browsers - a completely separate browser and costs me nothing. Why would I pay for an add-on which still uses Safari which is slower?
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My loss? How? I use the Ad Block Browsers - a completely separate browser and costs me nothing. Why would I pay for an add-on which still uses Safari which is slower?
I used nothing as I was not using my phone as often for web browsing. Then I chose Adblock browser as its completely free - unlike the others.
Why would Safari be slower? Aren't all browsers in iOS basically use the same engine that Safari uses but don't have the same access to a faster JavaScript engine that Safari has?
Safar is not slower after you put content blocker in it. Loading the verge now only 2 secs compared to 6-8 secs before using content blocker.
This.
I can't see a reason to keep more than 3-4 tabs opened simultaneously on a phone....
My iPhone 6 can definitely keep 3-4 tabs open without refreshing, as I demonstrated several times with videos....
Mine too....
And are you judging a power user by the number of tabs opened ?
Interesting...
Apple doesn't advertise the RAM increase because doing so would be admitting that "we ****ed over you iPhone 6 and 6 Plus suckers".
The iPhone was long in need of extra RAM. Anyone with more than 4-5 tabs open on a 1 Gb model has experienced the refreshing and it's incredibly frustrating. It's why I waited to see how much RAM the 6 had then deliberately held off. The 6S looks like a very solid phone but given its price and the fact my 5S "works" I'll wait until it's at least readily available to upgrade, if not wait for the 7.
Pretty soon we should all have phones that do way more than most of us want or need in a smartphone, just give it a couple more years. This is a problem for Apple. How much longer can they keep inventing gimmicks like "Live Photos" to push us their wares?
In technology you never get a worse deal by waiting. Everything always gets better and/or cheaper.
The iPhone was long in need of extra RAM. Anyone with more than 4-5 tabs open on a 1 Gb model has experienced the refreshing and it's incredibly frustrating. It's why I waited to see how much RAM the 6 had then deliberately held off. The 6S looks like a very solid phone but given its price and the fact my 5S "works" I'll wait until it's at least readily available to upgrade, if not wait for the 7.
Pretty soon we should all have phones that do way more than most of us want or need in a smartphone, just give it a couple more years. This is a problem for Apple. How much longer can they keep inventing gimmicks like "Live Photos" to push us their wares?
In technology you never get a worse deal by waiting. Everything always gets better and/or cheaper.
Went from a 6 Plus to a 6s Plus. The difference is like night and day. Huge usability improvement that should have happened long ago.
Everyone want more ram. That's different from defining an issue 1 Gb on iPhone 6 or iPad Air, that I'm using daily.
If you open a game even with 2 Gb it will reloads tabs.
I'm posting this on my 1 Gb iPad Air with three tabs opened.
I'm sick about these discussions...
The haters claim iDevices with 1 Gb of ram are almost unusable. That's plain false.
Me too.
On a smartphone 3 tabs are more than enough even for my job.
If I need more, I use a proper notebook....
At least they are trying to give us something instead of just slapping new hardware technology into our faces and expecting us to swoon (I am thinking of certain other manufacterers...). The problem is, singularity is pretty close, chips get faster in an increasing pace (just take a look at Apple's own performance charts, the rate is pretty much exponential), so I'm guessing in just 1-2 years CPU speed, memory, etc. won't matter to anyone anymore. So at this point, we are hopefully to see some REAL hardware revolution (battery, charging technology, etc.). But ultimately, smartphones will be like clothes today. You don't really get a new one because it's better than your current one, but only because your old one is worn or you are bored of it.
I have 3 widgets on my iPhone.
Do you think 64 bits has only to do with memory indexing?
Ever heard about Armv8 ?
Why do some people STILL resist the increase of RAM? The benefits are so incredibly clear that I fail to see why some people rather have 1GB RAM than 2GB RAM. What has RAM ever done do them? Maybe RAM kidnapped their family memebers? Genocide? Who knows?
I know one with iphone 6 can keep 3-4 tabs. But isnt it nicer to have 3-4 open tabs, go play music, play some games, browsing reddit with rhombus app, go to tapatalk to check this forum, replying whatsapp, imessage, and then go back to safari to read the articles you opened earlier it's all still intact and not reloading. People who said 1gb is enough never use the 6s in daily life.
They could've put in an A8 again too but instead they put in the arguably best phone chip on the market, the A9. Apple is such a generous company. (See how silly that logic is?). Also, doubling the RAM of the totally functional and highly rated iPhone 6 is significant, yet people still have something to whine about
Who is "resisting" the increase? There's a weird thing here with strawman arguments. You have people saying "Ah HA! More RAM *does* help when you said it wouldn't!" when of course no one said that, they just said their experience was fine with 1 GB.
Feels like an iOS 9 thing (i.e. software). I've also noticed this once or twice on my 6 since upgrading from iOS 8.4 1. Hopefully iOS 9.1 takes care of it.
The standard wireless charger is slow, but the fast wireless charging pad can charge the Note 5 within 1 hour.
And the point is that you don't have to deal with wires, which is just pure luxury, not a necessity. The same can be true for other features we buy smartphones for.
Apart from the wire going to the "wireless" charger you mean, which is the same as a cable to plug in.
The only place id ever like wireless charging is in a car and it would need to be totally hidden in the central tray so I could throw my phone into it anywhere and have it charge, we're even a long way away from that - at the minute its a pathetic poor implementation.
Exactly - why is this and other threads full of idiotic sarcastic comments saying "but I thought 1gb of ram was enough?!" when its exactly what you said, people just said their experience was fine. AS was mine, I don't mind having 2gb at all...i'm not sure if it'll affect my day to day usage but i'm not going to say "I wish they didn't do it" as i'm sure no one is, just that we weren't seeing incredible dire performance with 1gb as some are claiming.
Apple has to be the only brand that giving you less has some (a lot of) users cheering them for that. "Why would we want more? I prefer them to have more profits, I don't want more capability" they say. Brilliant loyalty building exercise.
I don't get it with my understanding is Unix... If my iPhone 4S has 32 GB of storage and 512MB of ram and I open 10 tabs wouldn't all the pages be in ram or in vm?
I can remembering opening every app on my OS X 10.2 desktop with 1gb of ram and the computer wouldn't crash, just slow down.
Why not have an option to turn on the dynamic page manager on limited ram devices or enable safari caching on disk? Seems like a no brainer.
I can remembering opening every app on my OS X 10.2 desktop with 1gb of ram and the computer wouldn't crash, just slow down.
Why not have an option to turn on the dynamic page manager on limited ram devices or enable safari caching on disk? Seems like a no brainer.
Precisely, along with other reasons...i'm sure. A company this successful makes moves very methodically for reasons unbeknownst to the average "joe". Most people have knee jerk reactions and expect Apple to just do it (whatever that may be at the time), and sometimes those reactions are warranted, although Apple will do what Apple will do... for Apple's best interests only.
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