I had no idea. What makes that difference? On a quick read M chips don't like OpenGL but I doubt that's it.

I think Minecraft is single-threaded

Cats are the best source of soap in DF :)

I believe the power can be used with Android's Desktop Mode, or even Android's current multitasking capabilities like multi-window and pop-up window.

Theyre wasted on ipads with iPadOS too, maybe even more so than on iOS

The more performant the chips, the more you can downclock them (or the faster they finish their tasks), the less battery they use

It should in theory be good for battery life

Their iGPUs have serious performance, but it doesn’t matter because they insist on stupid proprietary APIs that no real developer bothers to write software for.

Apple will fight it with everything they can. Latest MacOS27 hides linux partitions from the bootpicker so it is blocked in firmware.

You misread. OP mentioned price/performance, and I think you're referring to performance/watt.

It generally is with Apple

I used to sell their gear, and there was always a lot of shitty comparisons and even boasts about things that existed on the competition, but they just didn't advertise it (because they had it so long)

Like the G5 Vector computing. Turns out, instructions like SSE on intel / AMD was basically the same thing. They just didn't brag about it anymore

It didn't take long for more info to come out about the A20, and the suspected compromises that are being made on the iPhone: https://wccftech.com/apple-a20-solder-joint-leak-base-iphone-18-compromises/ . I also used to sell their gear for 3 years

Pretty much every company has been busted cheating on benchmarks, including Nvidia and Intel (its easy to do, just detect the starting frames, or/and the exe). And, I spent all of last week optimising code using benchmarks (and profiling)

On Desktop applications in particular, Apple's biggest failure has always been GPU. Which is why testers often test things like encoding (it has a chip designed to accelerate video encoding), CPU, and rarely games.

Like my M2 Mac Studio looked awesome in benchmarks (Toms hardware did one too). They didn't test games, because if they tested things like Raytracing, they would have discovered the M2 never had raytracing built in (and, computers which cost the same price DID at the time)

My Mac Pro looked awesome on paper too (it even needed FB ECC Dimms to work). The GPU was absolute slop compared to what PC's were shipping, which is why sites only ever seemed to test Apps...

If someone like Steve was testing this, I'd trust it immediately. But the entire premise of the article is around 1 benchmark... And for all we know, they might have been testing against absolute crap products

Saying the first new CPU on a new node is fastest is uninteresting from a technical standpoint, as there isn’t any competition yet, even if it is not inaccurate.

This is where I stand.

Battery life is the only thing I’m interested in. Not only does the 18 perform great, but it gets insane battery too.

I’m not buying it because no SIM card slot, but it does have me interested.

Your only real reason to upgrade if the phone is still perfectly good is that you'll stop getting security updates in 5 months (at least that's how it's been scheduled by Samsung). A shame because any 2022 flagship is bound to still have solid performance for pretty much any use case I could think of (except maybe high-end games? Who runs those on a phone anyway?)

You'd possibly get an extra year or 2 likely next time with an iPhone (historically longest major version support + sometimes abnormally long security update support, the 2015 iPhone 6s still got security updates until May this year), but there's no guarantee and if you prefer Android, Samsung's up to 7 years of promised security updates now for the latest flagships, as is Pixel and if you're on a popular model unlockable phone, you can go way beyond that with custom ROMs. Samsung doesn't allow unlocking all of their phones, but if yours is unlockable, you may yet use it for several more years if you so desire. Phones are pretty damn expensive, even moreso now, custom ROMs are great to further increase device lifespan if you can use them.

My wife has an S22. Literally the only problem is the lack of storage. Losing the memory card slot was a mistake. My S10 is her old one. I stuck a 256GB SD card in it and now it has whatever that plus 128GB is. It’s the second most spacious phone I’ve used after my 512GB iPhone.

I had this issue during the very short time I had AI enabled on my iPhone. Autocorrect went INSANE. It was miserable.

I turned AI features all off and autocorrect went back to being serviceable; I don’t have any issues now other than typing on a screen sucks compared to a physical keyboard.

iOS has been doing that for a few years for me. Word or phrase that seems perfectly fine? Nah. Also the auto fill thing keeps trying to change and to Andrew. No I’m not talking about Andrew 24/7

I have no clue what’s up with auto correct.

Everyone I know with an iPhone has this issue. The iPhone keyboard is known to be one of the worst in the industry.

I don't think it is. The keyboard was awful on every iPhone I've had. I always switched to gboard instead because of it.

Tapping the top to go up was great in Apollo, a Reddit client, but the guy took it a step further, tap again to go right back to where you were. Otherwise agree, it's a good idea but it's not explained (at all) and it can get in the way.

I got you beat though: by default, iPhone has a feature called "shake to undo". It's very sensitive. One of the first things I disabled. I mean you hit a speed bump (as a passenger) and everything you typed is just gone.