In all seriousness - has anyone noticed a lack of performance on their phone recently?
I don't really care about my phone being faster, but I would always take better battery life.
I’ve also noticed that there are emerging AI applications that cannot be run on-device by today’s smartphones. I would very much like an LLM Siri that doesn’t need a network connection.
Even the best 10nm processor can’t physically compete with a 3nm one on efficiency.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the Intel 18A process and who builds chips with them. Intel could also rapidly regain the performance crown if these are good processes too.
Even in terms of OS features, hardly anything that makes me feel like updating to the latest Android version, other than Google finally acknowledging Java isn't going anywhere and started following up on language updates (Android 12 onwards).
Naturally something that OEMs aren't that happy about.
I also bought a 120€ tablet with a Helio G99 CPU and it's so much faster than my old Galaxy Tab S3 and Lenovo Tab4 8 Plus.
To me it feels like we have reached the point where these devices are fast enough like it was when laptops matured, where performance was no longer an issue and upgrades were made when the device no longer worked or Microsoft made it obsolete due to Windows 11 not being allowed to run on it.
It never happens on same web app with 5 year old Samsung...
> Unfortunately the memory limit on iOS Safari is rather low. It’s limited to 384MB on version 15, it’s lower on earlier versions, and it’s probably device specific as well.
> As I said it depends on the device as well but it's always between 200-400MB
Its a decision, not a hardware limitation. Helps keep web bloat in check, but it’s a worse experience for the user. I’m sure Apple’s happy to suggest a native app without such limits tho
But no problem for very old low end android phone or IE11 in 10 year old laptop...
A web app though should be a situation where the memory usage will be roughly equivalent between the two platforms, so that seems reasonable.
If 6GB RAM iPhone runs out of memory, then how can it be better at memory management than Samsung phone with 3GB RAM, which does not run out of memory.
My problem is 16MB (8000*5000px) images in web browser which iPhone cannot handle. Most powerful phone every year, but 16MB is too much.
If you want something more similar I would suggest the standard "Samsung galaxy S23" which has 8Gb compared to the IPhones 6Gb
Their point wasn’t “iPhones have more RAM than comparable Android devices” (as you say, that comparison is entirely unreasonable based on those devices), it was “this is the RAM on the devices where I observed this behaviour”. If the iPhone in question has more RAM than the Android, yet still OOMs where the Android doesn’t, that’s a pretty strong argument that iOS isn’t magically thriftier than Android at managing memory.
2017 phone does NOT run out of memory, but 2023 phone model RUNS out of memory?
Newer phone is worse.