>android phones are shipping with 4GB of ram now
What does a phone need 4gb of RAM for? do you really need 4gb of RAM for snapchat and youtube?
iphones only have 2gigs and they run faster.
They need it because poo Java eats a lot of ram
Oneplus three will have 6gb
>>54572045
Java a lots of Java.
And VM.
>>54572045
>do you really need 4gb of RAM for snapchat and youtube?
Is that what you use for your phone for?
>>54572552
top/htop or better just ps.
>>54572123
it also breaks in a year
>>54572582
Are you disabled?
>>54572781
I know you've been itching to try out this whole reaction image thing but make sure your response actually makes sense.
>>54572045
>What does a phone need 4GB of RAM for?
They need 4GB because Android, just like every other software Google has made is bloated shit. On top of that, it's bloated Java shit.
>>54572552
>Used: 2GB
>Top applications in usage don't even add up to 200MB
Sasuga, andoroido.
>>54572552
how is this even possible?
desktop operating systems don't use this much RAM
>What does a computer need 256MB of RAM for? Do you really need that for word processing and DOOM?
>>54572959
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
>>54572954
Whatthefuxk are you talking about ?
Firefox alone uses 7-8 GB of ram on fuxking gif or H Rnigger
>>54572347
VM what? You can't just say "VM" like that. It doesn't mean something unless you use it in a sentence.
>iphones run faster
this meme got debunked awhile ago friendo
>>54573193
VM=VivaManpussy!
In the Apple world they once said that Java is "computer hell".
Once I saw Minecraft on Android I saw what they meant.
I hope you will never have to see so much shit.
Too much RAM can provide heaven if properly used.
>>54573193
android doesnt run natively
it runs through a java virtual machine
>>54573193
>JVM
>>54573413
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>>54573489
Oh.
Do they plan on doing anything about that eventually? That doesn't sound like a viable long term plan.
Because nobody can design a decent fucking task manager, slows down the phone. iPhones are only faster because they kill background processes from third party apps. Background app refresh works by adding the app to the system background refresh method.
Which is why it's faster. Instead of having multiple instances of an app fetching remote data etc. One instance does it to serve multiple apps. Thusly freeing resources.
>>54573684
considering it's
>2016
and they're the only mobile operating system that still does it, probably not
winblows phone, iOS, blackberry, and even palmOS from 2009 ran natively
google is retarded
>>54573831
Well... I mean, if I understand well, they took an open source kernel, removed all the GNU shit for licensing purposes, added a VM, and called that an operating system. Yeah, that's pretty retarded. It must have taken them an afternoon.
>>54572604
So happy people realize the quality issues those phones have. No longer do people jack off to those shitty fucking pieces of shit.
Note to self: DO NOT LISTEN TO /G/
>>54573193
>>54573489
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>>54573684
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>>54573862
I don't any of you know what JVM actually is.
JUST
more application and sd data cached and ready for quick access
ram isn't only useful for active application data
that is, if you load a big file from your sd card, it will stay cached in ram for as long as nothing else needs it, so if you go to read it again, it's already there, so the os doesn't need to fetch it from the sd card again, this isn't unique to smartphones
>>54573896
Still we have eyes and see the results in real life.
>>54573933
nigger, is that an app or an option in the system settings? I have android 6.0 and i never see that screen.
>>54574088
It's touchjizz
>>54572045
This mindset is slowing down technological advancement.
>>54574245
oh, i see.
ty, anon.
>>54573049
Not as bad as chrome, even with only 1 tab open it'll be running 50 separate processes in the task manager list using 1gb each.
>>54574273
The world is still way too fast.
>>54572045
4,6,8gb ram, android still doesn't use ram efficiently like Linux, OSX or even windows. Fuckin hate when an app restarts on me!
You need it because pointless bloat is being included in new applications at an exponential rate.
is there a good app for checking active applications and ram status?
My laptop is only using 1.8 GiB of RAM at the moment with numerous applications open. What are these retarded programmers doing that makes a phone with no multitasking require 4 GiB?
I think Android is like Windows where you don't let the manufacturers limit your choices. Someone has to go bigger.
>>54572889
Android is C++. The apps are sometimes Java. Now they are compiled to native code.
>>54574468
Manufacturers are free to put in all the shit they want. But in case of windows, there are various types of users; some feminazi cunt who browsers /b/ and write novels on notepad and doesn't need more then 4gigs of ram.
Or some guy who works in video editing and needs 16gigs, a titan and an i7.
The point being windows or desktop users have capable hardware according to their needs and the software that runs then can scale up and down, but the 16gig of ram just doesn't sit their, it can be used if you want to.
Were in the case of 4gig ram Android phone, only the developers know wtf is actually going on, most apps use less then 200mb and there's 1gig free generally on 2gig phones, yet you encounter app restarts and shit! Android doesn't know how to use ram nor is 4gigs future proofing where as an i7 with 16gigs is.
>>54573193
>>54573489
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>>54573862
2GB phone here.
>>54572954
Pretty sure most of that is cached apps. It's not really an issue because the memory gets freed up as soon as it's needed.
