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Google has hired key chip designer Manu Gulati from Apple to work on future Pixel models. Manu Gulati has been working at Apple since 2009 helping develop the custom CPUs used in iPads and iPhones and has now moved on to Google as lead chip architect. Pixel and Pixel XL have so far relied on Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm which lag considerably behind Apple's SOCs. Googles appears to be reconsidering this strategy in an effort to better integrate it's software and hardware improving performance and battery life. Android makers have long foregone the lead to Apple in mobile performance but this may signal a turning point in this strategy.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @07:05AM (1 child)
Almost from the very beginning, the main difference between the iPhone and Android has been how the software on the iPhone is perfectly in tune with the hardware as opposed to Android where the makers of the software (Google) often have no idea what it'll end up running on. This has been Android's achilles heel the entire time. It's about time. This issue has hurt Android battery life, performance, it hurts developers as they don't always know the capabilities of the hardware their apps run on and ignorant users complain and leave low reviews when their phone doesn't run the app right.
I personally use an iPhone 6 Plus and a Galaxy S5 as my primary phones and while I like the flexibility of Android, the performance and elegance of the iPhone just blows it away and these two devices are flagships that were released within a few months of each other. The contrast is very stark. The Galaxy lags in opening apps, apps when the do open run slower, etc. This despite having ostensibly superior hardware (2GB of RAM vs 1 in the iPhone). And this doesn't even begin to get on the shit show that are Android tablets. I had both an original Galaxy Tab and the much maligned Motorola Xoom. After years of waiting for apps to get better and Google to take tablets seriously, I finally relented and got an iPad Mini 2. Oh my God. The iPad is so far beyond what Android has to offer it's pointless to even try to have a conversation about it. This horse has been beaten to death but if anyone thinks Android tablets are remotely comparable to an iPad, pass what you are smoking.
The primary difference in these two ecosystems and what consumers often hip on to is how smoothly and trouble free the devices work. iPad's work perfectly and a lot of that can be chalked up to the SOC. Android just isn't as good. It's not really even close. And a lot of that is the SOC. Everything that is anything on a smartphone/tablet rests on the quality of the hardware. Hopefully Google is now realizing this and in a couple of years I can take another look.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @02:42PM
I predicted it would turn out this way from the start because Android is the PC model and iPhone is the Mac model.
For a phone, I prefer the Mac model where I have a pretty good guarantee the damn thing will just work. I don't want the uncoordinated 20 cooks in the kitchen frigging mess that is the PC model for my phone.
Plus I am a programmer and I knew that it was Java on a phone would always provide a crappier user experience as compared to a natively compiled language like Objective C.