Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
I never said Windows doesn't lag. You are perfectly right that Windows 10 mobile has resume screens (and the animations in WP7/8 also hid lag). However, I've noticed that with all the android phones I've owned (Well over 40.....and majority are flagships), the performance always begins degrade over the time.
If it isn't a user interface from an OEM that is the culprit...it's the fact it is cheap hardware with poor specs. Whereas the same specced Windows Phone runs smoothly.
My Alcatel One touch fierce XL is a slow phone with a snapdragon 210 processor. It runs slowly. But it does so consistently. A similar specced android phone is so sporadic in its performance that something as simple as opening the dialer crashes or hangs or loads.
Things like hitting the multitasking button on Android and then trying to swipe the apps away or even resuming the app is a mess. Not only the lag, but the poor performance. For all the grief Win10mobile gets for its performance, I love how we give Android a pass and then try to blame the OEMs as the sole culprit when in reality is the OEM, the skin, the OS, and the poor specs that all combined together make android phones have a poor reputation.
I remember in the early days of Android (Ironically those of you who try to tell me about android weren't even there from the start to witness its evolution as I was lol) when task killers were the rage. It was considered blasphemy to use or recommend one. Android has come a long way....but I always hear(similar to Windows 10) that each new version is supposed to be better than the last and then in the end its still the same story. Slow, laggy performance.
When I look at reviews of Windows phone 8 devices, rarely ever do I hear anything about slowness. The operating system as a whole is usually consistent in its performance. It was always about apps.
Even with Windows 10 mobile. even WITH its complaints about performance, the majority didn't switch because of the OS itself (or solely because of it), it was always about the apps.
I cant tell you how many customers I had to deal with who brought me their phones and it was just a crap experience. Various androids. I am supposed to tell them they need to get a Nexus device or a Motorola G. For all the choice that Android offers and its fans brag about, why do I need to limit them so they can get an optimal experience. It's one thing to be open and allow freedom of customization but Google should always have some sort of standard as well instead of letting everyone bastardize the OS.
I hate that Microsoft changed the hardware requirements for Windows 10 mobile, but I understand why they did. But they still have control over the OS.
and it is why no matter what OEM you use, you generally can have more or less the same experience across the platform for the most part and you aren't exactly missing out on much unless it is OEM specific stuff.
Android needs high specs because the OS is so unrefined in many ways and 'tweaked' in other ways that no other OS needs. Not because it is more powerful. Simply because in the world of android, unless it is vanilla android, there is really no standard. No quality.
When you have to tell people they need a phone with at least a 2 GB ram and 6xx processor, that's a problem.
A 1 GB ram and Snapdragon 4XX Lumia 640 runs windows 10 admirably....same specced Android phone runs the OS poorly. No matter how much you and others try to deny it, there is a performance issue in the majority (i.e. non-flagship) hardware.
For the record, when it comes to lag...Apple has its own custom GPUs that it shares with no one. Because they have the best GPUs in the market, a dual core (and before it a single core) device with a fine GPU optimised for iOS, the lag is severely reduced when transitioning through apps and navigating the OS. That does not mean that iOS devices are lag free...they encounter stutters in transitions whenever the OS isn't properly optimised.
Android and Windowa on the other hand, use Qualcomm chips and the Andreno GPU as the standard. In Android, there are Exynos and MediaTek as alternatives...those do no exist in Windows. Windows just uses the "resuming" screen as a way to cover the lag during transitions. Android does not have that, so the lag is more visible when it occurs. It does boil down to how well the OEM tunes their version of the skin they use on on top the of current version of Android, and how well MSFT tunes Windows since they control the OS itself.
So that's why I think people are idiots when they get in the Windows doesn't lag as much as Android debate - they don't pay attention to things like these.
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