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42 points skadamat | 3 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source
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awestroke ◴[09 Sep 25 18:48 UTC] No.45186752[source]▶
Hilarious how they refuse to list memory (RAM) capacity of their phones. Probably because they are way behind other phones in that regard.

Which is weird, since they focus so much on on-device AI. I guess the very very slightly lower profit margin from including more RAM is incredible unpalatable.

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1. mezeek ◴[09 Sep 25 18:56 UTC] No.45186922[source]▶
Always seemed to me like RAM value is much more irrelevant on phones since every app is sandboxed and uses APIs for background operations.

RAM is also always consuming battery, so there are reasons to minimize it. I wonder what the RAM usage efficiency is between iOS and Android in real-world, installed-app-usage usecases.

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2. cosmic_cheese ◴[09 Sep 25 19:08 UTC] No.45187125[source]▶
It’s also not in their best interest to give third party devs the signal to go hog wild on memory usage. Already a lot of cross platform shovelware eats 2x-3x RAM as much as it needs to, doesn’t respond to memory pressure notifications (apps are supposed to free up nonessential cache, etc when that happens), and push other backgrounded apps out of memory.
3. reilly3000 ◴[09 Sep 25 23:49 UTC] No.45191145[source]▶
It’s important for on device LLMs.