Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum

Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by bjustin on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:58PM (#8091692)

The spike for the iPhone 3G suggests that the effect is as much or more in people's heads [1] than due to new software. The 3G had all the same parts that affect how fast a phone works: the CPU, GPU, RAM etc, were all the same models as in the first iPhone. Even if iOS 2 were designed more for the 3G than the original iPhone, it couldn't have required significantly more resources because no more became available!

The spikes for iOS 4 and iOS 7, which are relatively larger than for the other releases, may be justified. iOS 4 brought limited multitasking and more significant OS-level changes than iOS 3, and iOS 7 brought the visual refresh which is more CPU- and GPU-intensive.

[1] Or due to the upgrade process itself, rather than changes in newer OSes, slowing down phones

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Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by eurleif on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:15PM (#8091830)

>Even if iOS 2 were designed more for the 3G than the original iPhone, it couldn't have required significantly more resources because no more became available!

That wouldn't matter if Apple were simply adding code that tested the hardware and manually added slowdowns on the older model. Your observation could be seen as lending credence to the conspiracy theory.

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Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by vitd on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:40PM (#8093559)

Isn't that the problem with conspiracy theories? There is no disconfirming evidence ever. All evidence is either neutral or somehow confirms the conspiracy theory.

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