On: Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analyst...

[dfabulich]

JS-heavy sites are night-and-day faster on iOS, thanks primarily to faster CPUs (which is mostly due to better L2/L3 caches). The iPhone X has 8MB of L2 cache; your sub $200 phone likely has no L2 at all. Even high end Android phones have, at most, 1MB of L2 cache. This shows up pretty clearly in Speedometer scores.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks

[PacketPaul → dfabulich]

Can you post a few links of websites that are painfully slow on low end machines? I would like to test with my Son’s $64 Android vs my iPhone X.

[always_good → PacketPaul]

Try browsing the web on your son's phone at all. You'll find that just about every website is slower to begin with.

[pier25 → dfabulich]

You are not wrong, but that's like arguing that a Porsche is the only way to drive.

[valuearb → pier25]

Well, it is.

If you can afford one.

And if you can, can you give me a ride?

[pier25 → valuearb]

I could afford a more expensive car, but I'm very happy with my Honda... and my Android phone.

[_blrj → dfabulich]

As devices get faster, developers use more compute budget, leaving other devices in the dust. Developers write code against high-end devices.

[walterbell → _blrj]

Not if their site needs a large audience, e.g. ecommerce.

[ghettoimp → walterbell]

You would think so. But man, even sites like newegg and amazon would drag terribly on my old phone. And many news sites were sooo painful with all their ads.

[orf → dfabulich]

My semi-budget android phone has 1.5mb of L2 cache.

[olegkikin → dfabulich]

Which websites are you talking about? I'm yet to encounter any important ones that are really slow.