[pooloo1]

At what point does any user stop to complain about their single threaded performance on their handheld device? Quite literally the two devices are incomparable as Apple is a service with proprietary devices. Their selling point is all _their_ software will run similarly anywhere on any device. Android is free of that cycle, thankfully.

[Dylan16807]

> At what point does any user stop to complain about their single threaded performance on their handheld device?

That's in the world where developers make performance at least their third-highest priority, and a couple hundred MIPS can run the vast majority of apps without regularly lagging. Let me know if you have any ideas to make that world become real.

> Quite literally the two devices are incomparable as Apple is a service with proprietary devices.

They have the same form factor and run largely the same apps. It's crazy to say that iphone and android are incomparable.

[supertrope]

Lots of websites are bloated with megabytes of poorly optimized Javascript such as advertising network tracking and commenting systems. Animated images tend to drink CPU time as well.

iPhones still have significantly faster CPUs, especially single threaded.

The end result is that even though web browsing is typically categorized as a basic computing activity (compared with media production, 3D gaming, or simulations) it actually requires regular CPU upgrades to keep up with more complex/bloated websites. There are obviously other factors like whether or not the system is memory pressured, SSD or not, use of GPU acceleration, and if the Internet connection is adequate.

[gehsty]

I think their selling point is the whole package - iPhone + apps + iCloud (photos mainly) that will be supported in person in store. Though Android is free of such a tightly integrated package of hardware software, services, and supportmaybe not so thankfully....

Worth pointing out you can pretty much replace all the default apps with 3rd party apps, it would definitely be an improvement if you could set them as the default apps though.