“An iPhone 6 with 1GB of RAM runs much faster than a similarly specced Android smartphone with 2GB of RAM,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac. “And it all has to do with the fundamental difference in the way iOS and Android handle apps.”
“More RAM negatively affects battery life too, which is part of why Android phones need to have larger batteries to attain the same battery life as an iPhone 6 too,” Brownlee reports. “As for iOS? …It only needs the memory it’s using.”
Read more in the full article here.
“Android apps using Java, recycle released memory using garbage collection,” Glyn Williams explains via Quora. “Garbage collectors are really awesomely fast if you have a relative memory footprint of 4 or 8.”
“In other words, you need four or eight times more memory, than you are actually using to be super efficient. But when the memory becomes constrained, that performance goes way down,” Williams explains. “So 1GB for iOS results in more performance than 3GB for Android.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Android” is a rushed, half-assed iOS knockoff that wasn’t initially designed to be a touchscreen computing device.
Those who settle for knockoffs deserve their fate:
• Inferior performance
• Inferior battery life
• Rampant, debilitating fragmentation
• Insecurity that will only get worse (both on their devices and in their minds)
• Second-rate and worse apps, a smaller app library
• Developers second-thought effort or no effort at all
• An increasingly expensive (royalties for patent infringement, (RAM costs) platform which makes device assemblers cut even more corners and/or focus on alternatives
• Envy of iOS devices and their vibrant, thriving ecosystem
• Shoddy plastic devices from unfocused companies that manufacture everything from refrigerators to backhoes
• The conscious or subconscious knowledge of using a knockoff of an Apple device
• A markedly weaker choice of accessories
• Poor, inconsistent or non-existent vehicle integration
• Etc.Your ignorance and/or self-defeating hatred of Apple results only in hurting yourselves, Fragmandroid sufferers.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Related articles:
Before iPhone, Google’s plan was a Java button phone, Android docs reveal – April 14, 2014
Prior to Steve Jobs unveiling of Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android didn’t support touchscreen input – April 14, 2014
How Google reacted when Steve Jobs revealed the revolutionary iPhone – December 19, 2013
Speed and responsiveness: Apple’s iOS performs nearly two times better than Android – October 9, 2013
The unsung, intrinsic Apple advantage over Android – November 20, 2012
Apple to ITC: Android started at Apple while Andy Rubin worked for us – September 2, 2011
More stuff Fandroid go reeling in denial over. Can Android possibly BE any less attractive as a platform with all of its issues and inefficiencies?
Let’s hear a bit of it then, from Apple. I said it on another page. The latest android adverts “and you” are brilliant. They may android look modern, exciting and dynamic. The current adverts for the iPhone “it’s huge… it’s huge… huge…” are frankly an embarrassment.
Come on Apple, make a noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmgMe2STL0 (android and you)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uAoeQBpcQ (lame apple huge”
The issue is strategic. I believe Apple is able to sell every unit they manufacture right now, so what is the point of advertising? There is no reason to fuel additional demand when a company can barely keep up with current supply requirements. It probably also makes good business sense to sell the desired quantities over several quarters, and even years, instead of all at once. Think about.
The topic of this MacDailyNews post is “Apples IOS is twice as memory efficient as Android” and you post a stupid whine about Apples ad and call the ridiculous android ad as Brilliant. You have also posted the same trolled whine on the “has google given up on smartphones” page again you have nothing relevant to say on the topic.
Seb if you want to suck Googles cock then go post on a Android forum.
OT Some of my work colleagues who have android are always complaining about how slow it is and are constantly rebooting their phones to try and recover some performance. Its been that way for as long as android has been around why are people surprised android is known as lagdroid after all. Google has copied the look and feel of IOS and Windows phone (with android L) but not its efficiency but why should they, after all Google is in the data mining business its customers are the advertisers not its users as long as they get your data.
With the exception of talking about their mobile processors, Apple rarely speaks of the exact specifications of the iPhone and iPad. They don’t need to. The performance of their products speaks for itself.
Yawn. What tired complacency. That is a reason for ads that suck donkey balls? Huge!
Howie – that was not aimed at you.
You’re an idiot. Samsung’s ads are the ones that suck donkey balls. They don’t talk about what their devices an do. They just show people acting stupid.
Well, my comment was not aimed at you but this one is.
I never said that Samsung made great ads. I said that the Android ad “and you” was brilliant. And it is.
Idiot.
Huge!
Another gross over simplification of the differences between native code, bytecode and garbage collection.
Particularly as iOS also uses garbage collection.
Re-read the article. It doesn’t say that iOS doesn’t use garbage collection. What it said is this: “iOS does not use this style of garbage collection and does not slow down in constrained memory environments.”
It acknowledges that Apple uses garbage collection, only that it uses it in a different way, so memory doesn’t take a hit.
Apple advertising has been really spotty since Steve Jobs left. I like the “your verse” iPad ads, but the iPhone advertising is a boring dick bragging joke that does not fit the tone or tenor of the Apple brand.
Google was able to reasonably copy many of the exterior features of iOS and its overall “look & feel” and functionality, but it sounds like that is as far as Google got with Android — which is enough to fool many customers who don’t know better. But it does not like their is much “under the hood” where it really counts.
Reminds me of those classic car kits that let people put an expensive-looking sports car exterior on, say, a VW beetle chassis: might look the same, but it is definitely not the same as owning the classic car being copied.
And they Android fools never learn! The new Moto Droid ad where the guy is falling off the building? How inane can they get? Moto doesn’t even have enough respect for potential customers to make a realistic commercial……
Android is a crappy counterfeit of iOS.
Great article for memory efficiently in android . I like it…