Because they're not into "specs". There are Android smartphones with double that amount of RAM, yet don't run as smoothly. If they announced the RAM at keynotes people would make immediate comparisons when all that matters is how they device performs in the hand, not on a Keynote slide.
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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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Because they're not into "specs". There are Android smartphones with double that amount of RAM, yet don't run as smoothly. If they announced the RAM at keynotes people would make immediate comparisons when all that matters is how they device performs in the hand, not on a Keynote slide.
Not really the thread for this, but the only differences spec-wise are the smaller battery, dpi, and lack of optical image speculation. Performance will be better given there are fewer pixels to push.
Next 2 years - more probably 5-7 since they are still supporting A5 devices -your purchase is safe
Agreed...I bet the Pro will smoke the Surface and most laptops running running now - I am dying to see the geekbench scores for this monster.
And then in two years you'll have a reincarnation of this problem, but with a crowd demanding 4GB for the iPhone 7S as our newly established lineup standard of 2GB just isn't enough and should've been upgraded a long time ago.
I'm not saying it's happening now. Or next year. Or even the year after. But eventually it will, whether you or anyone else likes it or not. Fact is, ARM has been leapfrogging the development of the CPUs in terms of power consumption and performance while Intel and X86 has been purposely delaying their CPUs and giving us upgrades that most users won't even notice because Intel is a monopoly and can do what it wants.
And for 90% of people using a computer right now, an iPad Pro will satisfy their needs, and in some regards, even improve their experience. This number is only going to increase, and eventually that number is going to get so small that it will be negligible.
Two years? I'll bet we'll see "Safari tabs still reloading in iPhone 6s/6s Plus" posts within a month or two.
I think we've gone thru this already - IOS is more memory efficient than Android
Here is an xcode demonstration -mind you this on an Ipad 1 (256 RAM) - point still stands
2GB on the phone its going to be epic and future proof you for many years - unlikely you will keep the phone for 4-5 years - but you could if you want to.
If Apple was concerned about consumers first they wouldn't have shipped the 6 and 6+ with a buggy OS, cheap metal, 1GB of RAM and only 16gb of storage.
Anandtech says it's got 2GB. I'm getting one as well and would be disappointed with lesser RAM
Because the experience is what matters not specs. The average American has no idea what a gig or RAM even means; we are the minority, the tech savvy. As prior iPhones showed well, a dual core processor and 1GB RAM out benchmarked quad/six/eight core 2-3-4GB RAM Android devices. Specs only mean so much.
Future proof? Nope. RAM will probably need another bump by iPhone 7+.
iOS gets bigger, the apps get bigger, the hardware gets more potent and demanding.
You don't think all those new gestures, menus, shortcuts and touch pressure recognition don't take up more space?
Just look at the increases in power each ARM processor receives per year, then look at how incredibly little Intel's new processors have increased since the introduction of Sandy Bridge in 2011.
File explorers for locally-held files are going to be a thing of the past. Cloud is the future. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not next year. But within the next decade.
Are you serious? Because then every android lover will line up the two boxes next to each other and say SEE androids are better!
It's this perspective that allowed Apple to keep the devices at 1GB this long in the first place. Turning valid concerns about performance issues down into "whining" only justifies the greed from large corporations, instead of applying any actual pressure for change from consumers.
I'm still mad my 6+ glitches and stutters, can't handle transparency (doesn't stutter if you shut it off). I would have waited for the 7.
And the reason they don't give us the specs for the RAM is simple, they don't update it often enough. Every event they like to advertise a new chip, or something being twice as fast as before.
What would happen if they announced 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB in 6 consecutive conferences? Nothing positive...
What would happen if they announced 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB, 1GB in 6 consecutive conferences? Nothing positive...
They are trying to avoid the spec wars that PC have been in for a decade. That's my guess anyway.