“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.”
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“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.”
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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:
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