It was badly worded but it's pretty obvious that the GP was referring to the well known and documented phenomenon of iOS upgrades causing devices to slow down. You can of course not upgrade, but the real issue is why the OS gets slower over time.
And of course there are the battery issues too. I know three people personally who have had an iPhone with a battery that would last them for a week or more with low usage, but they made the mistake of upgrading the OS. Suddenly they had to recharge their phone multiple times per day.
Battery issues are there at the beginning because the battery usage profile data is wiped, and iOS needs to relearn your usage patterns. After a few charge cycles, it typically goes back to about the same.
But since I have all my data on a real sdcard, nothing of importance was lost. That's an option I didn't have on my Nexus 4, which thankfully failed only partially so I was able to get what little data I hadn't backed up off of the device, and it's an option you don't have on iOS devices.
iTunes backup grabs your data off your phone. If you really want to muck with it, you can get something like iExplorer as well. So, not sure what you mean by "an option you don't have on iOS devices."
Because RAM is not sold that way. You cannot say disks are sold that way so RAM is ask well. It is not. It never was. Because it would be painful to lay silicon out to cut corners and make your controllers not talk on boundaries of 2.
How do you claim Android, Win7/8 and Linux perform this magic to reduce cpu cycles for new features?
Caveat, I've used Linux from 1995, and it goes up, it goes down, but generally the cpu requirement goes up. And the old saying was what Intel giveth, Gates taketh away, so you're wrong on Windows in general. In terms of Win7, it was generally recognized that Vista's cpu requirements were too high, and was only really met by the hardware (Moore's law) that was generally available when Win 7 came out. So you appear to be wrong there too.
That still doesn't answer the question. Not being able to upgrade because you're out of space is different issue from the temporary (bloated) space usage OP claimed would make people buy a new iPhone.
And as someone else pointed out, you can always use iTunes to upgrade.
Help me understand how temporary wasted space (the specific OP claim) that goes away (is not an issue) after the upgrade, is going to make people go buy a new phone again?
Since the flash memory comes in 1K=1024 boundaries, and there's only 1 chip, I don't think Apple would buy a 114GB chip to stick it in the phone. And really, if they went with 1K=1000, you should see *MORE*, not less.
I am now wondering how much is reserved for wear leveling, etc.
You mean like how when Apple purposefully degrades the performance of older iOS devices when a new iOS version is out (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Help me understand what you just wrote?
1) Apple purposefully degrades the performance 2) of older iOS devices 3) when a new iOS version is out 4) (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Are you claiming Apple makes the older iOS that is currently installed on your phone, work slower, when a new version of iOS is released (but not installed on your phone)? If you can prove it, I'm sure the lawyers would love to speak to you.
If you cannot prove it, I'm sure the psychiatrists would love to speak to you.
Is this a serious question?! Apple wants to add wasted space to their iOS distributions in order to take up more space while downloading, use up more space during the upgrade, and once the upgrade is over, return the wasted space to the user (because once you've upgraded, the upgrade file is deleted).
And Apple would do this so that they can reduce the number of people running their latest iOS?
*ARE YOU SHITTING ME?* How the hell is this even an insightful comment?
You realize that KDE uses WebKit now, right? Apple forked KHTML into WebKit, and a few years ago, KDE decided to go with the forked KHTML, aka, WebKit.
Go half an inch bigger, or smaller? Being a bit snarky here, but I thought Android was all about choice? It seems hard to believe that there's only one phone in the iPhone 6 size...
The A5 is a bigger phone so its not really a replacement for the Alpha.
If you want an Alpha sized phone without touchwiz, wait a month or two and see how the CyanogenMod 11 port is going.
In other words, buy a piece of hardware/software combo, and throw away the software, and warranty, and spend a bunch of time and effort screwing with it to try to make it work?
Right. Because he is going to stash it under a mattress in his house, leading him to need a new, large house, for that said mattress, so he bought a large house for it, right?
Are you really that stupid to think that someone with $2.5 billion is not going to invest their money and get better returns than most of us would? Do you really think they will hide the money under the mattress so that it will only earn 0% interest?
Anyone running a network of any significant size should have their own time servers. Anyone running Active Directory should have their own time servers.
So, it *is* reasonable to firewall that off in a network of any significant size.
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You do not understand the crime being committed if you think File Vault and Time Machine will help you.
not if the doctor was the one who gave you the illness.
So what? The fact that they're charging you usurious interest rates makes them criminals.
If they were not charging usurious rates, then you have a point.
It was badly worded but it's pretty obvious that the GP was referring to the well known and documented phenomenon of iOS upgrades causing devices to slow down. You can of course not upgrade, but the real issue is why the OS gets slower over time.
And of course there are the battery issues too. I know three people personally who have had an iPhone with a battery that would last them for a week or more with low usage, but they made the mistake of upgrading the OS. Suddenly they had to recharge their phone multiple times per day.
Battery issues are there at the beginning because the battery usage profile data is wiped, and iOS needs to relearn your usage patterns. After a few charge cycles, it typically goes back to about the same.
But since I have all my data on a real sdcard, nothing of importance was lost. That's an option I didn't have on my Nexus 4, which thankfully failed only partially so I was able to get what little data I hadn't backed up off of the device, and it's an option you don't have on iOS devices.
iTunes backup grabs your data off your phone. If you really want to muck with it, you can get something like iExplorer as well. So, not sure what you mean by "an option you don't have on iOS devices."
Because RAM is not sold that way. You cannot say disks are sold that way so RAM is ask well. It is not. It never was. Because it would be painful to lay silicon out to cut corners and make your controllers not talk on boundaries of 2.
New features = new code = more cpu cycles.
How do you claim Android, Win7/8 and Linux perform this magic to reduce cpu cycles for new features?
Caveat, I've used Linux from 1995, and it goes up, it goes down, but generally the cpu requirement goes up. And the old saying was what Intel giveth, Gates taketh away, so you're wrong on Windows in general. In terms of Win7, it was generally recognized that Vista's cpu requirements were too high, and was only really met by the hardware (Moore's law) that was generally available when Win 7 came out. So you appear to be wrong there too.
That still doesn't answer the question. Not being able to upgrade because you're out of space is different issue from the temporary (bloated) space usage OP claimed would make people buy a new iPhone.
And as someone else pointed out, you can always use iTunes to upgrade.
Help me understand how temporary wasted space (the specific OP claim) that goes away (is not an issue) after the upgrade, is going to make people go buy a new phone again?
Since the flash memory comes in 1K=1024 boundaries, and there's only 1 chip, I don't think Apple would buy a 114GB chip to stick it in the phone. And really, if they went with 1K=1000, you should see *MORE*, not less.
I am now wondering how much is reserved for wear leveling, etc.
No. You can delete it now, without upgrading. Apple released a utility to do that within a couple of weeks of iOS 8 coming out.
You mean like how when Apple purposefully degrades the performance of older iOS devices when a new iOS version is out (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Help me understand what you just wrote?
1) Apple purposefully degrades the performance
2) of older iOS devices
3) when a new iOS version is out
4) (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Are you claiming Apple makes the older iOS that is currently installed on your phone, work slower, when a new version of iOS is released (but not installed on your phone)? If you can prove it, I'm sure the lawyers would love to speak to you.
If you cannot prove it, I'm sure the psychiatrists would love to speak to you.
How maddening it must be for you that there are so many insane people around the world, right?
And strangely enough, even though Samsung used up to half of the memory on a 16GB Android phone, that's not an issue to these lawyers.
Is this a serious question?! Apple wants to add wasted space to their iOS distributions in order to take up more space while downloading, use up more space during the upgrade, and once the upgrade is over, return the wasted space to the user (because once you've upgraded, the upgrade file is deleted).
And Apple would do this so that they can reduce the number of people running their latest iOS?
*ARE YOU SHITTING ME?* How the hell is this even an insightful comment?
You realize that KDE uses WebKit now, right? Apple forked KHTML into WebKit, and a few years ago, KDE decided to go with the forked KHTML, aka, WebKit.
https://techbase.kde.org/Proje...
https://konqueror.org/features...
WebKit came from KDE.
Go half an inch bigger, or smaller? Being a bit snarky here, but I thought Android was all about choice? It seems hard to believe that there's only one phone in the iPhone 6 size...
The A5 is a bigger phone so its not really a replacement for the Alpha.
If you want an Alpha sized phone without touchwiz, wait a month or two and see how the CyanogenMod 11 port is going.
In other words, buy a piece of hardware/software combo, and throw away the software, and warranty, and spend a bunch of time and effort screwing with it to try to make it work?
Why not just buy a Nexus or another phone?
Uh, Nexus?
The Internet really needs a sarcasm font, or one of those dry dripping irony fonts or something similar.
Exactly. Buy it, pop it on the network, give it a DNS name, and update your GPO or puppet.conf and you're done.
Right. Because he is going to stash it under a mattress in his house, leading him to need a new, large house, for that said mattress, so he bought a large house for it, right?
Are you really that stupid to think that someone with $2.5 billion is not going to invest their money and get better returns than most of us would? Do you really think they will hide the money under the mattress so that it will only earn 0% interest?
Anyone running a network of any significant size should have their own time servers. Anyone running Active Directory should have their own time servers.
So, it *is* reasonable to firewall that off in a network of any significant size.
damn. I wish I hadn't commented so that I can +karma you!! :)