“While many new Android flagships sport hardware specifications that appear competitive with recent iPhones, top rated iPhone games remain conspicuously missing from Google Play, a problem that Apple’s new Metal API and 64-bit Application Processors threaten to only make worse going forward, despite Android’s lead in unit shipments overall,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “”
“Many new higher end Android phones sport faster clocked chips, much more RAM and at least twice the number of processor cores as Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but still can’t match Apple in CPU performance,” Dilger writes. “And because Apple’s latest A8 Application Processor is only about 20 percent faster in CPU benchmarks than the company’s initial 64-bit A7 from last year, even iPhone 5s remains competitive with this year’s most expensive Android phones.”
“In GPU performance, the gap is even larger. Android phones that cost just as much as Apple’s new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus deliver real world gaming performance that is simply disappointing,” Dilger writes. “The combination of hardware fragmentation, poor optimization of hardware by Google’s Android software, and a general skew towards cheaper devices at much lower Average Selling Prices results in a market for Android games that focuses on basic, simple titles.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t settle for less than the best. With Apple’s all new, 64-bit smartphones, the gorgeous 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the stunning 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, there’s never been a better time to stop settling for chintzy imitations and make the move to the real thing.
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Was it ever seriously otherwise…?
Android trolls tout numerical specs and proclaim that their system is better. They like to flaunt numbers and put the iPhone down. Mega Pixels, MHz, MB, Resolution…
And then you take and put the two devices side by side and the stories change.
The iPhone better utilizes RAM, CPU, Pixels, in all categories with the best software in the world. The iPhone is the Joe Montana of Smartphones, with all the finest and fine tuning that no one else can match.
The rest are bubbling brutes who can’t do anything without throwing all their poo against the wall and watching what sticks.
finest should be finesse
Finest would be ok too…. b/c the iPhone is the Finest piece of hardware out there today.
Yeah but I was comparing to Joe Montana. His fame is from “finesse.” He was the thinking QB, and that’s what Apple does. Not only beauty and fuction, but careful intricate thought.
bubbling should be babbling?
Yeah, if it sounds wrong, it probably is. 🙂
MDN – Where the hell is your update for iOS8? My daughters Fairy Sparkles game has been updated twice since iOS8s release. What gives. As much as you dish out about the incompetency of some of Apples mistakes, how about looking in the mirror and either fire yourself or fix your program. Also the amount of times I get “Shockwave Flash has crashed” on the browser is embarrassing. Get your house in order.
Uh, HUH?! What does “Shockwave Flash has crashed” have to do with ANY iOS device? Nothing-at-all! What are you talking about??? Get your posts in order.
Derek, “Shockwave Flash has crashed” was stated as a separate issue. There are two issues:
1. MDN stated that they had submitted an update to their app over 2 weeks ago. Still nothing …
2. The “Shockwave Flash has crashed” is specifically related to the Mac OS.
My posts are fine, just read more carefully and I will try to be a bit more clear.
Bottom line is that I support MDN and enjoy the community, the experience is simply horrible when my app crashes or while on my Mac I constantly have my browser lock up.
I can entirely agree, focusing on MDN’s app.
BTW: I did read carefully. You did post exactly the same thing twice. What you wrote was cuckoo. Spamming it over and over isn’t a good thing.
Right now, both Intel and Qualcomm are blasting TV and Internet streaming with ads emphasizing gaming on their INFERIOR mobile CPUs for Android devices. Play play play. Look at me the blue collar play play playing. Right.
I can only laugh at their desperation. 😆
*looks up from his gaming PC*
…Since when does it actually matter which phone runs Angry Birds at a higher framerate?
Also, Android can run RetroArch right out of the box. Play literally thousands of games from dozens of different platforms.
iPhones have to be jailbroken at first.
Just sayin’.
Higher framerate Angry Birds: Totally agree. But it’s a 2D game. 3D is where the warz are. I’m sorry I don’t keep up with games much, so I’ll stop there.
Now I know you are kidding. No one looks up from their gaming PC except to see if the pizza rolls are done.
So, question for the Troll.
Mentions his Gaming PC, touts his fragmendroid above all.
On an APPLE based website… Jealous much?
Yep. Totally jealous of your 720p iPhone 6 and your 1080p iPhone 6+, and your computers that probably can’t even handle a basic 4 monitor Eyefinity configuration.
Have fun back in the year 2013. Or whatever year you think it is. I’m assuming 2013, since that’s the year that devices with specs like yours were actually still impressive.
Well , we all know that game only run well for the first 15 mins on any high end android device , after played game for a while the android device will be slow down to a crawl ~
Apple has to release a new AppleTV that runs games and apps, they’re standing in front of an open goal with the ball at their feet.
When you design the hardware and software systems, you enjoy a huge advantage if you have the imagination to put it to good use. Apple has all of this in spades. The others resort to specsmanship to dupe the unsuspecting, who defend their poor decision of buying the lesser product.
I haven’t had the time for the more immersive iOS games, but I think it’s clear that lack of effective controls and not GPU grunt that is the issue.
Find a way to replicate the d-pad and joystick in a touchscreen native way and iOS gaming will really take off.