Originally Posted by Prof-x:
“And when was the last time you thought the iPhone 5s was grossly underpowered and were left wanting more?
The biggest request from iPhone users is usually more battery life.
They could stick a quad core chip in there which would look awesome on the benchmarks. For any real world high intensity work that android quad core chip would begin to throttle with heat and and suck the battery life.
Apple A8's apparently are able to sustain high power continuously and where the real processing is required relative to the phones apps is in games which is offloaded to a 50% faster GPU sub core.
I wouldn't get hung up on raw clock speed. 1GB of ram might anony some but i think apple always have created a phone with the perfect balance of hardware relative to the current and imminent crop of apps. If they added more components its entirely possible the phone would be heavier, need a slightly bigger battery and would therefore be slightly thicker. It is all a balance.”
That 50% faster GPU also has to move either 40% more pixels (6) or almost 300% more pixels (6+). Benchmarks are likely going to show the 6+ being slower than the 5S under some circumstances.
My old 4S gets hot when its used for anything other than calling for more than a few minutes. Kinda handy in the winter, just play a youtube video and wrap my hands around the phone to get warm. Friends with the 5C/5S have had similar comments about their phones. So on their track record, the 6 will likely be the same.
512meg on the 4S isn't anywhere near enough (apps tend to totally close way too frequently, the majority of crash reports in the OS are related to memory problems), still only being on 1gig for the 6 is a bizarre move. Applications would be able to make good use of that additional memory.