Oh yeah!!!! 1GB is enough and works well with the 5s/6, but 2GB is awesome 
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Xcode Confirms 2GB of RAM in iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, 4GB of RAM in iPad Pro
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i don't really think them not mentioning RAM is an issue. There are dozens of reviews available before new iPhones hit the shelves.That's a good point, but again consumers can understand "the brain is smarter than any others on the market" and "holy crapnuggets
I'm not saying your points aren't valid, but Apple does a TON of work internally deciding what to focus on, and RAM is just not compelling to normal consumers and for whatever reason it seems to confuse them.
...you actually type with a lisp?
Hold up now. Using more than one app on a smartphone? What is this madness?! Dare I ask what's next? Two apps at the same time?
Apple doesn't list RAM because they don't want to get locked into a meaningless spec war with Android. Android uses JAVA, which because of its memory management, requires roughly 1.5 to 2 times more RAM. That means a 1 GB iPhone is roughly as good as a 1.5 to 2GB Android phone, and 2 GB is roughly equivalent to a 3 to 4 GB Android phone. That's too hard to explain, so they just don't mention it.
Edit: Also, it's just confusing for 80% of the population, who probably could not tell the difference between RAM and storage memory.
the "ram uses battery life" argument isn't something i really agree with, based off of personal research on the internet people generally agree that ram is the least power-hungry element of the phone.. so increasing 1gb to 2gb or 2gb to 3gb won't make a noticeable difference.
as for the "any captured data on actual memory use", i have been looking at the amount of memory used since the iphone 4 using jailbroken cydia apps.. it's no secret that as the years progress ios uses more and more ram (due to higher resolution displays,more advanced apps etc) and whilst 2gb will be fine for this year, do you really think in 3-4 years it'll still be as smooth as it is this year? i don't. but for those who upgrade every year, 2gb will be great. Unlike last year's model, 2gb is enough for this year
LOL You do know the goal posts will move again, right? There will just be complaining that they don't have 4GiB RAM now.
I think the reviews are definitely what Apple wants. To them its about how the product functions, they'll tout the engineering when they need to, but at the end of the day it really is ALL about the user experience.
I hope you didn't think I was getting confrontational with you, I like these technical minded back and forth discussions here.
Ok so with iOS 8/9 I now have nearly all the apps I use running in the background for constant location services updates. With iOS 9 running on my iPhone 6 Plus, I noticed that there is a lot of lag time. I thought that this might just be the Beta's but even the GM is slow when switching apps. I look forward to the extra 1GB from the 6s I have pre-ordered!
Yes and no.
Safari's just a PITA with 1GB of RAM. Also app switching.
Optimization or not, iPhones needed this much earlier.
You can only optimize so much and since RAM is pretty cheap and the profit margin of iPhones staggering they have taken too long.
Now that that's fixed we can concentrate on another, possibly even more hurtful under-specced aspect of iPhone, base storage capacity.
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That isn't how multitasking works on iOS. It just means all your apps have to be reloaded from memory every time you open them rather than effectively "unpaused" by the OS. In the long term, clearing out the app switcher does next to nothing to benefit either performance or battery life.
And that's why it's called the app switcher.
So 2gb of ram for the next 4 cycles of iPhones. Lol
Because they don't want to get into a 'spec war' with Android phones, regardless of the user experience and optimisation once the 'average' consumer starts comparing phones on paper they're only going to see numbers and presume more RAM = better.
Hence why the only statistical comparisons Apple makes with new hardware is generally against older Apple products and generally it's the performance of the A-chips CPU & GPU performance - something that can't be directly compared to any other phone brand on paper.
Anything else is a broad 'best smartphone on the market' type claim which isn't objectively quantifiable.
2011: 32gb of storage isn't enough, we need 64gb!
2014: 64gb of storage isn't enough, we need 128gb!
2015: 128gb of storage isn't enough, we need 256gb!
OS X and iOS both use the same filesystem, HFS+ , the only difference being that iOS uses the case sensitive version while OS X doesn't.
I wouldn't mind them both switching to ZFS, BTRFS or some newer version of HFS with built-in integrity checking, though.
Actually, it seems more people on this forum (presumably 6 & 6+ owners not planning to upgrade) are asserting that the RAM increase is pointless, and that 1 GB is plenty for everyone..!
Apple can't win!!
2 GB of ram will make such a big impact. Anybody with an iPad Air 2 knows this.
It's too technical for the tech-illiterate masses.
"WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RAM AND MEMORY?"
My guess is they've been waiting for LPDDR4 to hit the price point and density they've been designing around for the last few years. Apple is VERY picky when it comes to component purchasing, and I don't blame them, they are responsible for more NAND purchasing than any other device maker on the planet. It's one thing if your component is just going to ship in a few million units, to have it be in THE product of the company...well you don't just throw anything in there because "its pretty cheap".
But yes, I was having major issues on my iPad mini on iOS 8, not so much on my 5s (but it'd be nice for my music to remember where it was as I listen to lectures I have to import and don't always remember to check "remember position").
They don't focus on specs. They focus on results. They didn't tell you that the iPad Air 2 has three cores, they don't tell you at how many GHz the iPad Pro runs, and they won't tell you how much RAM the newest iPhone has. They tell you how much faster they are than previous models, which is what's actually relevant.
It's almost as though people use their devices more and more and, consequently, have higher needs.