Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap

Re:Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap by scarface74 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:33AM (#22718140)

I bought my son a MotoG back in 2017. Because I kept reading that it was a good midrange Android phone. It was slow running “native” apps, web performance was even worse.

He was more than happy to “upgrade” to my iPhone 6s (2015) in 2018. Performance was noticeable better. Also, it is still supported by the latest version of iOS.

Of course by then the phone was three years old so I replaced the battery.

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Re:Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap by Justice4Yall on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:17AM (#22718345)

ios 14 won't support 6s most probably and soon your iphone 6s will go to trash.

So your comment is lucky to have some truth for a couple of months while I look at my trashed iphone5 and iphone 6.

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Re:Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap by scarface74 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:30AM (#22718441)

The iPhone 6s would have gotten 5 years of os upgrades. But, just because Apple won’t support a device with latest version of iOS, doesn’t mean that it won’t provide security patches and bug fixes. For instance, Apple released bug fix patches for iOS 9 and iOS 10 supporting phones back to 2011 last year.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/22/apple-issues-ios-...

As far as going into the trash. I had an old iPad 1st generation (2010) that last saw an OS upgrade in 2011. I could still download the “last compatible version” of apps like Netflix, Hulu, Plex and Crackle and they still work. iCloud syncing also works with Apple’s iWork apps and the built in apps (except for Notes).

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Re:Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap by Justice4Yall on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:36AM (#22718474)

basic html support doesn't work on earlier versions of ios safari due to the wrong decision that safari is bundled to ios.

you heard safari is the new internet explorer? that's why it's impractical and unsafe to use earlier versions of ios.

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Re:Mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap by scarface74 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:41AM (#22718506)

I’ve “heard” a lot of things. But, my first generation iPad from 2010 could render any page that I went to. Of course it crashed all of the time because that iPad only had 256Mb of RAM.

As far as being “unsafe”, Apple was publishing patches for iOS 9 and 10 as late as the middle of last year.

But do you really want to compare Apple supporting older hardware to Android?

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