iPhone 6 with 1 gig of ram, that's disappointing.

hello apple and hello my friends.

i Had iphone 5 with 1 gb ram, i have ipad mini with 1 gb ram, and everytime when i use safari with more than 3 tabs - my iphone or ipad reload pages!

so... I hoped that in iphone 6 apple will add more ram to use safari with 3-4 tabs.. . And yesterday i bought iphone 6 plus and...... Again 1gb of ram... Again page reloads, again no multitasking in safari without page reload..

I Pay over than 1000$ FOr iphone and i get same ram as my iphone 5 !!! I have same problems with safari!! It's terrible .

why samsung puts 3-4 gigs of ram, and apple just 1gig? Because of soft and hardware optimization?? No!!! Because they make money on us! After one year they will make iphone 6s with REVOLUTION 2 gb of ram and REVOLUTIONARY SAFARI MULTITASKING.


and now question to apple.

my iphone 6 plus reloads safari pages, how can u fix my iphone?

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 12:05 AM

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Jan 29, 2015 8:54 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973

I read the article well I think. And more likely understood what it's about.

1. As I wrote before - it was only one article I found where the real reason (not emotions) of smaller RAM compare to Android was described.

2. But the problem with short life cycle of Apple (and not only) products is actual too. I gave an examples about iPad 1 and iPhone 4s. And it was exactly small RAM issue.

What is unclear?

Jan 29, 2015 5:29 PM in response to O1eg

What do you mean "short life cycle"? I am still using my iPad 1 and my iPhone 4 (not 4s, mind you, but iPhone 4). Both do everything they were sold to me to do. They continue to perform at the same level they did when I purchased them. So, again, not sure what you mean by short life cycle?


And, BTW, in the world of technology, assume the turnover for "new and better that cannot be retrofitted into older hardware" to be about a year. Just because the new and better can't be retrofitted, doesn't mean that the older hardware is a problem. If you are one of those people who just have to have the most cutting edge version of things, then expect to replace just about every electronic you have every 1 - 2 years.


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Jan 29, 2015 11:04 PM in response to gail from maine

With iPad 1 it's simple. I used it a lot for navigation with Tomtom and iGo. Last version of maps I can use is 2 years old. The real problem is not a speed, but RAM. Apps crash because of low RAM. I can survive lower speed of new app versions, but I can hardly resolve small RAM. It's just not enough. And now even with Safari or any other browser I faced low RAM issue. Accept Opera. But Opera is other story.

As for 4S it's a bit different. Few businesses apps I used require more RAM. Again, speed is still OK.

So I see low RAM issue is a bottleneck for Apple phones and tablet products life cycle. And I don't see no any reason accept boost of sales not to add extra RAM.

Now I have iPhone 6 with at least 1GB missed RAM. Next year iPhone 6S will be released with 2Gb RAM on board I suspect. So I think life cycle of iPhone 6 at this perspective could be even shorter then 3 years. But from another hand - who knows.

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