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42 points skadamat | 5 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. bayindirh ◴[09 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45187217[source]▶
Considering how efficiently they utilize that "low on paper" RAM, I'm not complaining.

All the Apple iDevices I have contains comical amounts of RAM compared to other devices, yet they still can handle tons of tasks despite their age. While I'm pretty picky about RAM in my computers, I can't care less as long as my other iDevices works as advertised.

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2. awestroke ◴[09 Sep 25 19:58 UTC] No.45187901[source]▶
"Efficient" as in "kills apps immediately as soon as they are put in background" so that I constantly lose context in apps when multitasking
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3. bayindirh ◴[09 Sep 25 20:04 UTC] No.45188010[source]▶
Even my "ancient" iPhone X does it so rarely, I don't lose any context. Even if it's happening more frequently than I notice, the apps also restore their contents.

macOS supports context restoration for 7-8 years now at least. iOS has inherited that soon after, so any application "killed", they SHOULD return to the state they exited, given they are implemented correctly.

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4. formerphotoj ◴[09 Sep 25 20:29 UTC] No.45188455[source]▶
Yup, 64GB iPhone 11 Pro still going strong. A wee bit slow however, so...a new 17? Have to upgrade eventually.
5. qn9n ◴[10 Sep 25 15:15 UTC] No.45198998{3}[source]▶
Pretty sure they just use compressed memory and swap for apps that haven't been used in a while, similar to macOS.