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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by arexxbifs »

m-schuetz wrote: post #216
mikestorrent wrote: post #178

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Yes, the web was a mistake; as a distributed document reading platform it's a decent first attempt, but as an application platform it is miserable. I'm working on a colleague's vibe-coded app right now and it's just piles and piles of code to do something fairly simple; long builds and hundreds of dependencies... most of which are because HTML is shitty, doesn't have the GUI controls that people need built in, and al…

> Isn't it time to throw the browser away, stop abusing HTML to make applications, and design something fit for purpose? Not going to happen until gui frameworks are as comfortable and easy to set up and use as html. Entry barrier and ergonomics are among the biggest deciding factors of winning technologies.

Visual Basic solved that. The web is in many ways a regression.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by alex_duf »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #8

Somehow, with 12GB of RAM, I can't get my iPhone 17 Pro to keep more than a few safari tabs open without having them refresh when I come back from an app or two, and it makes me want to throw my phone across the train (Where the internet often cuts out!). A lot of software has been squandering the massive hardware gains that have been made. I hope this changes when it becomes a lot harder to throw hardware at the pro…

In fairness, back in 2017 I bought a OnePlus 5T with 12G of RAM.

That's almost a decade ago.

Phones RAM progression has stagnated for a LONG time, during that time I doubt that webpages have become lighter, so yeah I'm not surprised by what you are saying.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by b112 »

kingstnap wrote: post #211
nickjj wrote: post #137

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> The latest phone reviews have been eyebrow raising. It's eyebrow raising for me in other ways. I have a Pixel 9a and it's been quite good with really solid battery life. It's barely 6 months old and I got it new straight from Google. A few days ago I noticed the battery started to drain much faster than usual. I also noticed at the same time Google is pushing the 10a. Nothing changed on my end. I barely use the pho…

Probably just some broken code that got shipped. Battery life, RAM usage, Performance, all suffer immensely from being leaky abstractions instead of creating hard faults.

"Just"?

The entire point of his statement, is that the broken code is on purpose.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by [deleted] »

vessenes wrote: post #55
walterbell wrote: post #43

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Upcoming Apple display mounted to wall or robot arm is rumored to have audio interface and new OS without 3rd-party apps, only "AI". Jony Ive at OpenAI is rumored to have smart speaker, pendant, pen and bone-conducting headset in the launch pipeline. Audio interfaces, no screens, Meta is selling millions of smart glasses, with Apple and others following. If the memory market was not distorted, home AI + agents + open…

I'd love a working bone conduction headset. Also a subvocalization to agent thingy that worked.

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Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by qsera »

dsego wrote: post #220
m-schuetz wrote: post #216

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> Isn't it time to throw the browser away, stop abusing HTML to make applications, and design something fit for purpose? Not going to happen until gui frameworks are as comfortable and easy to set up and use as html. Entry barrier and ergonomics are among the biggest deciding factors of winning technologies.

There are cross platform concerns as well. If the option is to build 3-4 separate apps in different languages and with different UI toolkits to support all the major devices and operating systems, or use the web and be 80% there in terms of basic functionality, and also have better branding, I think the choice is not surprising.

I am not sure, it seems that cross platform Applciations are possible using something like python3/gtk/qt etc.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by b112 »

walterbell wrote: post #196
warkdarrior wrote: post #122

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> Some AI audio pendants are always on. The Apple device is rumored to adapt its interface to the user based on facial recognition. Hmmm, so they traded always-on audio recording for always-on video recording. Not sure this is an improvement.

FaceID (3D) facial recognition would not need video recording.

While true, I think the parent meant more that the camera would be active constantly, instead of a mic.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by mort96 »

tzs wrote: post #187
mort96 wrote: post #86

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YouTube will literally resume back to exactly where I was, then seemingly noticing that I switched back to it, go ahead and close the video I was watching . With all sorts of animations too, it's not just a case of having showed a cached screenshot. YouTube seems to intentionally forget where in a video I was, often after having been paused in the background for only a minute or two. Why??

See if turning off your ad blocker makes a difference. I've noticed that sometimes YouTube has parts of the site the apparently can look to ad blockers like they are part of an ad (maybe intentionally to annoy people with ad blockers?).

I'm talking about the YouTube app.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by b112 »

esperent wrote: post #201
recursive wrote: post #105

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> You can remove 3rd party spyware/bloat in 15 minutes with Shizuka/canto These techniques seem not to be widely known. A kagi search turned up only information about some singer.

Shizuku not shuzuka https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku And canto not canta (search the play store). My apologies, I got both last letters wrong!

Not sure what the point of this all is.

Seems far easier to just use ADB. Especially rather than trusting a codebase you don't know, and an app you don't know.

I also find it better to use ADB, list all apps installed, remove what I personally choose, instead of a list by others.

It's fairly easy:

  adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube    # Youtube

  adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.partnersetup    # Google Partner Setup (Some kind of inter-app sync service)
(I have a list of about 100 apps I do this with, on mainline android phones)

It's the best you'll typically get. It's deactivated, but still in the ROM of course.

Re: Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

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Post by dyauspitr »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #8

Somehow, with 12GB of RAM, I can't get my iPhone 17 Pro to keep more than a few safari tabs open without having them refresh when I come back from an app or two, and it makes me want to throw my phone across the train (Where the internet often cuts out!). A lot of software has been squandering the massive hardware gains that have been made. I hope this changes when it becomes a lot harder to throw hardware at the pro…

I know this article is about RAM but I truly hate how little storage the iPhone ships with their phones. I guess everyone is using iCloud but I refuse to store my personal data on the cloud. I’m constantly down to 2-3 GB on my phone. I have just 128 GB of storage that’s not upgradable. What a shame.
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