Re:Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder
by nprz on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:30AM
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I owned an iPhone 4 up until a couple months ago. It worked fine for most of its life but near the last months most apps on it became unusable. Everything just ran so slowly. I remember google maps being particularly bad, the app would run incredibly slow and eventually crash about 30 seconds into using it basically every time I opened it up. You could still use the phone I suppose, but it would require a good amount of patience.
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Re:Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder
by digi_owl on Sunday December 27, 2015 @03:09PM
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Would not surprise me that this happens because the apps expect more RAM to be on hand, and so are not as carefully optimized for low RAM circumstances.
I am seeing something similar over at Android. Where earlier versions of the Play store app worked without a hitch on my aging tablet, now it seems to crash left and right whenever i want to look at longer lists of search results or similar. And this seems to happen when it tries to load the app icons or similarly asynchronously, meaning that i can enter the search, get a list of results, and then see the app stutter and crash as it tries to load the graphics.