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Originally Posted by Barty
It's inexcusable that the iPhone 6 comes with one gig ram still. It may run iOS 7 fine, and 8, but what about 9 next year ?. I'm sorry but there's only so much optimization you can do. Apple has good engineers but you know what, so does Google. They may be inferior designers but I think they can code. Last year's flagshio android phones already had 2 gig pretty much standard. IOS is more efficient than android, but it's not 2x as efficient.
You know what kills your battery? When you have to keep reloading apps and data from storage or the net. You know what kills your user experience? Waiting for stuff to reload, or when upgrading the os makes your device ever slower. Stop bragging about your CPU. People with a clue know ram is equally if not more important. Having low ram puts tremendous strain on developers too and restricts the kind of apps that can be developed.
This is one reason why I still have an iPad 3. So what if the air is lighter and faster. It's still going to kill off processes when I have multiple things opened.
Apple has always done this -- low ball their specs. They can get away with it thanks to their design and user experience, but eventually it'll catch up with them. Eventually, iOS may be as marginalized as OS X.
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For the most part Apple's consumers don't care about technical specifications and aren't going to compare if the iPhone has 1GB of RAM or 2GB. Those types of comparisons make sense if you're buying Android phones and comparing between hardware vendors, they don't matter if you're buying an iPhone. The amount of RAM matters when you're running multiple applications at once and Apple's made a conscious decision to limit multi-taksing in iOS because if every app wants to run in the background it kills battery life.
Apple's customers care that it's faster then the last iPhone but they don't really care if Android phones are faster, if it does what they want and doesn't frustrate them too much, they're happy. Apple has done a pretty good job of supporting new iOS releases on two previous generation of iPhones so you can get 3 years out of your purchase and still run the latest iOS and most of the apps but you can't run the latest "cool" feature. If you don't want to upgrade iOS and can live with the old apps you can use if for 4 or 5 years. That's all that most Apple customers care about, "if I buy this I can use it for x number of years and get y user experience." It seems that most people are upgrading every 2 years anyway but I'm personally on a 3 year cycle.