My point was that your experience is normal, but that sunking101's experience appears to be abnormal. I can't speak for him, though.
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What if only the 6S plus gets the 2GB Ram and 12MP camera?
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My point was that your experience is normal, but that sunking101's experience appears to be abnormal. I can't speak for him, though.
I see lol.
I must admit it's the first time I've seen somebody claim the iPhone 6 is a worse phone than its predecessor. I can't see how it would be possible, hence why the likes of you and me don't notice it.
Better in what way exactly? Sure it's incrementally better in certain respects but glaringly worse in others. The latter trumps the incremental stuff.
I see lol.
I must admit it's the first time I've seen somebody claim the iPhone 6 is a worse phone than its predecessor. I can't see how it would be possible, hence why the likes of you and me don't notice it.
Plenty or reasons. 64Bit v 32Bit and larger, higher resolution displays with the same amount of RAM equals serious performance hits across the board.
Also, forget the new software features for a moment and accept that iOS8 performs worse than iOS6 and even iOS7. An iPhone 5 running iOS6 runs rings around an iPhone 6 and especially a 6+. Super smooth, no stuttering, no freezing, no delays, no scrolling issues, no website reloading issues, no app reloading issues. Just a plain superior device.
Funnily enough, it seems that I was wrong to expect better performance from a two generations newer model. Not only is the performance not better, it's markedly worse and apparently my experience isn't the norm.
Then I'll be fine with that. This next iPhone is going to be a 3 year device for me. I'm even getting AppleCare this time. I'm going with the 128GB model. There's no need to upgrade every year any more, but I'm hoping the 6S+ fixes long standing issues I've had with my 6 Plus.
Glaringly worse in what ways? I don't think many people see anything that's all that worse with the 6 (compared to the 5), let alone glaringly.
To answer the original question:
- Some people will be disappointed.
- Many people won't care.
- Apple will sell tens of millions of phones and make a ton of money.
- Life will go on.
This answer can generally be applied to every "What if Apple...?" question.
- Some people will be disappointed.
- Many people won't care.
- Apple will sell tens of millions of phones and make a ton of money.
- Life will go on.
This answer can generally be applied to every "What if Apple...?" question.
Reloading. That's a glaring fault and the one thing that has utterly ruined my time with the 6+.
On top of that Safari is a strange mess when it comes to data-heavy sites. It's slow to render them, yes slower than the i5, and scrolling is often a stuttery mess. Throw in random screen freezes and unresponsive touchscreen BS too...
Well, I can certainly believe that some people have issues of that type, in particular with the 6+, but I can also say that I personally (and from what I've seen in various forums and threads, many other people) haven't really dealt with a lot of those issues with an iPhone 6, or at least no more than on an iPhone 5. Now if you compare that to using iOS 6, pretty much no matter what the phone, that's a whole different story, with quite a bit of it being rooted in iOS itself and not the phone itself.
You forgot to mention all the disappointed people will be on macrumors starting or ending every phrase with FAIL and promising to "NEVAR BUY APPEL AGAINZ!!"
ugh. utter FUD
Do you still have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6? Because I used to and yes it's fast but it doesnt 'run rings' around iPhone 6. the iPhone 6 is still very very fast.
Yes it's fast but also doesn't support a lot of features. Its browsers are behind on modern browser standards and most apps have stopped supporting iOS 6 from even running.
It's like saying the playstation 4 is crappier than my gameboy because my gameboy boots up in 2 seconds and my ps4 boots up in 30....
I wasn't talking about boot times. It's pretty poor when an iPhone from two generations ago is faster, slicker, smoother, less buggy and has more available RAM than the latest iPhone. What's 'FUD' about that?
Tell me what the iPhone 6 does that the iPhone 5 doesn't? Anything so important that the core experience has to suffer? Would you seriously swap speed, smoothness and keeping apps/tabs in memory for Apple Pay and some of the new iOS add-ons? I most certainly wouldn't.
Your recollections of the 5 are somewhat distorted. I'm still using a 5 everyday and it's in no way faster or smoother than a 6 or 6+.
The 5 with iOS 6 was much faster and smoother than my 6+ on 8. The amount of lag 6+ gets on super content heavy sites is scandalous given its price and status of flagship device.
iPhone 6 with iOS 8 vs iPhone 5 with iOS 6... a lot of these have become 'core'. Try using an iPhone 5 with iOS 6 for a month. You'll see that you'll quickly miss a lot of these features.
1. Motion tracking/health
2. TouchID and Apple pay
3. Improved messages (location and voice sharing)
4. Improved emails
5. Better multitasking
6. Continuity
7. More advanced UI animations
8. Support for iCloud and Music
9. Improved video (slow mo) and pictures
10. Improved APIs and CPU to allow for bigger apps.... This is a big one. You think that current apps are built using the same APIs as from 2012?? Some apps have stopped supporting the A6... Not by planned obsolescence, but because they've gotten more and more complex.
11. control centre - BIG...
12. improved spotlight search
13. Improved Siri
14. Improved keyboard
15. Improved location services (frequent locations)
I could go on..and I didn't even research... so I may be missing stuff there.
iOS and iPhone have progressed since 2012.
Better multitasking???? That's the most major flaw with the 6 Series phones.
Apart from point 5 which doesn't exist, I sincerely wouldn't miss any of the others and I most certainly wouldn't trade them for multitasking, smoothness and speed.
But that's expected no?
Windows XP runs better on my 2400 AMD Athlon XP machine....compared to windows 7...
you need the latest and greatest to run the latest and greatest.
I know this topic's been beaten like a dead horse, but I honestly don't think multitasking is an issue on my iphone 6.
Except what's being said here is that the latest and the greatest doesn't run the latest and the greatest as well as some previous version ran what was the latest and greatest at the time.
People loved apple because of how fast and snappy iOS was, so not having 2gb ram on the next iPhones will be a huge disappointment, androids out there with 3gb ram and apple still using 1gb? Cmon its just not acceptable imo...