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by mezeek 276 days ago
Always seemed to me like RAM value is much more irrelevant on phones since every app is sandboxed and uses APIs for background operations.

RAM is also always consuming battery, so there are reasons to minimize it. I wonder what the RAM usage efficiency is between iOS and Android in real-world, installed-app-usage usecases.
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cosmic_cheese 276 days ago
It’s also not in their best interest to give third party devs the signal to go hog wild on memory usage. Already a lot of cross platform shovelware eats 2x-3x RAM as much as it needs to, doesn’t respond to memory pressure notifications (apps are supposed to free up nonessential cache, etc when that happens), and push other backgrounded apps out of memory.
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reilly3000 276 days ago
It’s important for on device LLMs.
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