Google| Subject | Re: They may have to settle for an Android phone... |
| From | Sandman |
| Date | 03/18/2014 20:12 (03/18/2014 20:12) |
| Message-ID | <slrnlih6me.61r.mr@irc.sandman.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Nashton |
In article <lg9sk4$15q$1@dont-email.me>, Nashton wrote:
Nashton
This is old news, sms at least to those who are inclined enough to inform themselves concerning the various pros and cons of smartphones.
In spite of all this, the response time of the iPhone screen is much faster than that of even the best Android phones and the GUI is preferred by many.Response time of the iPhone "screen"? Surely you mean the response time of the GUI, which is displayed on the screen. It is faster on iPhone because iOS actually freezes almost everyting else to ensure that the user experience is top notch and is given top priority, at the expense of screen redraw.
It's actually quite similar to how opening a menu in the old MacOS would freeze the entire system (or rather, the GUI process, some things could continue in interrupt space). And that's why traditional MacOS always felt zippier than OSX.
OSX frame buffers as well, so it's even slower than Windows, that doesn't. But that's also why Windows windows sometimes become huge screen erasers when the process is hung and OSX doesn't.
And with today's machines, it's not like OSX is slow or anything :)
Personally, if the iPhone had a better camera and if the screen was a little bigger, close to the Nokia 1020, for example, I would buy it, especially since I could completely bypass Apple iCloud in favor of either Onedrive or Dropbox.
I would, OTOH, make sure that I had an extended warranty on the thing, because from personal experience and from discussing with others, it's the most unreliable phone on the market.Is that why your wife sold her iPhone 4, eh, iPhone 4S, eh iPhone 5?
-- Sandman[.net]
03/14/2014-
