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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
I have app 500 of such - and Kiwix Wikipedia needs app 36 GB!
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If the structure of Wikipedia tells me anything, that 36GB is just the storage requirement consisting a lot of small .pdf files.
Any .pdf over a couple dozen MB was either a lot of individual books linked together in one file or books with a lot of really high definition pictures in them. None of these are optimal choices for a b&w 8" device.
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Originally Posted by downeaster59
Do I need 4 GB of RAM now for any app? No, not now. However, I have a couple of apps that may benefit from the extra RAM. Secondly, extra RAM is one way to future-proof a device. Thirdly. if there is any reason why the Note should have 4 GB of RAM, the same reasoning would apply to the Nova!
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1.: I'm actually interested about those apps, may I ask you to share them?
2.: Future proofing is never certain. Better UX (user experience with a horrible acronym) makes not just the future certainly better but the present too. Of course, finding and hiring good UX engineers and developers is much harder and more expensive than to pick the next SoC from the manufacturer's catalog and wire a little extra RAM into the board and hope that'll help. Let's even forget about the internal connects which most of the time bottleneck the entire system (between SoC<-->RAM, RAM<-->storage). Or the touch sensor which can run in a higher frame rate than the actual panel to increase touch sensitivity and precision. All of these are important of course but most of the time it's easier to headline the increased RAM.
3.: Easy product segmentation for cheap. Mystery solved.