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dublinben  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mobile Web Sucks | It's going to get worse before it gets better

    Mobile devices simply don't have the headroom to forgive inefficient code compared to the laptop.

I'd argue that Apple devices simply don't have the necessary RAM to support better browsers. Android devices are starting to come with 3 and 4 GB of memory this year. If you can run a modern desktop browser on worse hardware, then Apple has no excuse.





ecib  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My general take is that Apple doesn't need as much RAM as they are better at memory management both in their code and in their rules and allowances for 3rd party devs. Even beyond the iPhone they have a history of being able to do much more with less.

That being said, I absolutely agree that at this moment in time they're running up against a wall. I think they're going to give a RAM bump either on the 's' iteration later this year of for sure on the 7 next year. I'd just be awfully surprised if that doesn't happen.

tauta_krypta  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's true that Apple generally do better with less RAM, but in the case of web browsing its basically inevitable that you'll use a large amount of RAM, and the more you have, the better the performance.

At any rate, I haven't had any issues with web browsing at all on a Moto X 2014 with 2GB RAM.

aeromill  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On my iPhone 6 with Safari I haven't had any performance issues on the web (or anywhere for that matter) so to me I think it's the mobile web itself that causes the poor experience.