Android Will Catch Up To The iPhone This Year In One Crucial Way en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:00:02 -0500 Dave Smith literacyisgood Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:05:13 -0400 Exactly, which is why so much of the mythology surrounding apple is rooted in ignorance and the denial of basic facts. spellingisgood Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:29:08 -0400 any tech development/innovation in this industry is INEVITABLE. It's just a matter of who jumps on it first and fattens their margins to support it. The rest follow as the innovation's production costs are reduced and eventually become a commodity. hammerman Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:53:37 -0400 Not sure why Apple needs 64-bit since it doesn't actually do multitasking. I mean 2gb of ram and quad core set up with the LITTLE-Big processor thing has zero lag and batteries last for 2 days on a single charge. At 2 days charging a phone is no longer an issue SAL-e Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:48:52 -0400 CMO stands for Chief Marketing Officer. Thank you for proving my point. It is all about MARKETING. It is funny how Apple fans (like Jay Yarow and company) keep pushing the narrative that "Specs don't matter" right to the moment Apple marketing started pushing their 64-bit CPU. Now this is the only talking point that matters. literacyisgood Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:45:52 -0400 Correlation is not causation. SAL-e's statements are simply factually correct. IF the cmo was demoted for reasons related to these facts, then he may have made some business decisions that were unwise or unpopular. That doesn't change the facts. literacyisgood Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:43:47 -0400 Haha! And *these* are the people who are writing tech blogs that get page hits! lol. literacyisgood Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:42:21 -0400 The fruit cultists were exhausting in their moronic admiration of apple for bringing forth a 64bit phone. Moving to 64 bits was invevitable. It wasn't some magic innovation. It would have been a routine development, if not for the timing. And even the timing was over-hyped, as fruit phone users are STILL not seeing very much benefit that is specific to having a 64bit architecture. Jay Sandals Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:40:13 -0400 This is the same argument that CMO at Qualcomm gave. Only to be demoted shortly after. iamtellingu Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:21:40 -0400 was going to get the new Shield tablet and the new Acer Chromebook.....but now I will wait for the 64-bits...... Tchikaya Brooks Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:39:54 -0400 i think this was a typo. lol. SAL-e Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:16:08 -0400 "By moving to 64-bit architecture, a device can access more system memory and random access memory (RAM) at once, which makes the computing processes snappier and more responsive for things like multitasking and opening apps." This statement is only partially true in case of current mobile devices and especially iPhone that have only 1GB of RAM. In most real world cases 64-bit programs will run slower then 32-bit version when RAM is less then 4GB. Not to mention that 64-bit programs are bigger then 32-bit versions as result is more likely to ran out of RAM and end up making very expansive operations like swapping. The only reason why iPhone doesn't experience those problems is because iOS still lacks true multitasking support and most apps are still 32-bit. In other words Apple is earning marketing points and Apple users are paying for something they don't really use yet. With new iOS releases the situation will improve, but until Apple puts at least 4GB of RAM on its devices benefits of 64-bit processors are really lost. In comparison premium Android devices already use 2-3GB of RAM. With new 64-bit SoC (like nVidia Denver aka 64-bit Tegra K1) and 4GB of memory Android devices will be able to replace the traditional PC for most of the new users. ps. I'm not saying that PC is dead. PC is going to be with us for very long time, just like Laptops didn't kill the Desktop. Matthewo Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:56:59 -0400 When the reddit user says "cycles", he/she is not referring to bicycles... Smh jtz Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:53:45 -0400 I think nvidia is very innovative and its CEO is one of the few true visionaries left in old silicon valley. having said that, they ALWAYS over promise and under deliver. They need a better PR head and IR policy.