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Dolby said:
@AfricanTech

Here's another video with a newer Huawei (2020) vs iPhone (2021).

Again - based on everything I've heard about the A series chip, I expected more. This Huawei should compete with an A14 - and here it's smashing the iPhone which is years ahead of anything ? And I remind you I care about the end result.

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I do understand how you feel but you do recognise that it's your expectation that's been dashed - yours, not anyone else.

You've received plenty of acknowledgement of that but yet you insist that everyone else should feel as disappointed as you feel, and when they're not, you go all passive/aggressive.
 
Dolby said:
It all comes to down to expecting more and expecting a (much) larger gap between the two .

And although I can look past some issues, some drive me up the wall (which are bad developers)
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Fair enough.

Dolby said:
Another question I'd love to have is the same 'test' with the iPhone XS.

Judging by the performance jumps from A12 > A13 > A14 > A15 - it should be quite something to see .
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Come on fella. That's like comparing and wondering why Excel opens slower on a 4.2GHz i7/Windows 11 combo than it did on Pentium 100/Windows 95 set up.
 
Dolby said:
I maybe had higher expectations that you ?
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Absolutely - I had no expectations about speed since my previous phone was fast enough and that wasn't why I upgraded

Dolby said:
What did you before your current phone?
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2nd hand iPhone X, prior to that, iPhone 7 and prior to that, Sony Z3C - the shift to the iPhone was a combination of curiosity about iOS and frustration with Android at the time since the Z3C was my second Android in a row that crapped out on me just after 2 years. In the meantime, my 'support calls' from wife and daughter had dropped remarkably after I'd shifted them over to iPhone (a couple of years before me). Once I'd shifted, the Apple ecosystem started growing around me as my other devices died/became outdated (Roku --> ATV, Android Tablet* ----> iPad, Watch, Bluetooth headphones --->Airpods, MacBook). Now it's reached the point where the ecosystem works so well that I'd find it very difficult to switch back eg Airpods switch seamlessly between Macbook, ipad, iphone, ATV and watch - for example, listening to music on macbook, phone rings, answer the call, sound routes to Airpods from macbook to iphone without me having to do anything. I find that so enormously convenient that it's hard to put into words.

* another Acer Android Tablet device that crapped out on me after the warranty had expired - ugh, still feel cross when I remember that little green android robot with the red x through it - that Acer wasn't cheap either

Dolby said:
Another iPhone ?
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Yes, see above.
 
Dolby said:
It all comes to down to expecting more and expecting a (much) larger gap between the two .

And although I can look past some issues, some drive me up the wall (which are bad developers)


Another question I'd love to have is the same 'test' with the iPhone XS.

Judging by the performance jumps from A12 > A13 > A14 > A15 - it should be quite something to see .
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Again with your "should be"

The faster these things get, the less performance gain you will see in the real world.

A 10 percent gain on a baseline of 100 is 10 - 100--->90; a 10 percent gain on a new baseline of 50 is 5 ----> 45 so in real terms you gain less as time progresses.

To be clear, in the first round you gained a benefit of 10 with the first improvement and a gain of only 5 with the second improvement. Eventually, you reach a point where everything is so fast that your gains become theoretical.

Smartphones reached that point a number of years ago.
 
@Dolby , btw, you didn't answer my question about whether the Alexa app functions on the Huawei Android phone were usable at the point that they appeared or only after the last item also appeared.
 
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Why do you think that Apples always claim to be years ahead of everything ?
And you don't feel the quotes below make one think there is a bigger upgrade than there is?

Like I say, I expected more .

iPhone 14 Pro's powerful A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition
Apple is so far ahead of the competition in the mobile SoC space that they can continue with iterative updates for years. In fact, even their older phones such as the iPhone XS is still a very smooth experience. The XS was released all the back in 2018, with the A12 Bionic SoC
Although iPhone 14 Pro is just a little faster compared to the iPhone 13 Pro, if you’re coming from an iPhone older than that – or an Android phone – you’ll surely see a big upgrade.

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AfricanTech said:
@Dolby , btw, you didn't answer my question about whether the Alexa app functions on the Huawei Android phone were usable at the point that they appeared or only after the last item also appeared.
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I'll look later
 
Dolby said:
Why do you think that Apples always claim to be years ahead of everything ?
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Marketing claims? ePeen? Don't all companies do this?

Dolby said:
And you don't feel the quotes below make one think there is a bigger upgrade than there is?

Like I say, I expected more .

iPhone 14 Pro's powerful A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition
Apple is so far ahead of the competition in the mobile SoC space that they can continue with iterative updates for years. In fact, even their older phones such as the iPhone XS is still a very smooth experience. The XS was released all the back in 2018, with the A12 Bionic SoC
Although iPhone 14 Pro is just a little faster compared to the iPhone 13 Pro, if you’re coming from an iPhone older than that – or an Android phone – you’ll surely see a big upgrade.

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Like I said, that isn't why I went from Android to Apple, nor why I upgraded any of my existing iPhones. It really hasn't been a motivation for me.

You seem to have a very hard time understanding that it's not important to me at all. It's the same with cars - I don't care if my car is a 1.2l turbo or a 1.6l turbo - simply not important 'cos performance is not a key criterion for me in a car - modern cars are fast enough irrespective of engine size and I genuinely don't care if my car can do 0-100 in 12s while the oke at the traffic light is in a car that do it in 10s.
 
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Spizz said:
I don't. I'm not sure what anyone would expect other than nice phone with great features that combine to work well.
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I think you're one of a kind with a very different thinking ;)
 
That's good on you guys!

When I see the below it generally makes me feel that the iPhone 14 Pro's A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition

iPhone 14 Pro's powerful A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition
 
Dolby said:
Do you - or don't you - understand that people will expect more from an iPhone reading the articles & headlines ?
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For those for whom such things are important, yes.

For those for whom such things are not, no.

Like I said before, I can honestly not recall an article or headline in which phone performance specs jumped out at me.
 
Dolby said:
I think you're one of a kind with a very different thinking ;)
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You're clearly not digesting what I'm typing to you over the last few posts. I even mentioned I used to be like you and care about specs and always chasing the latest greatest fastest Android., But moving to Apple you don't actually need to think about things like that any more. It is irrelevant. You know you are getting a device that does things quickly and properly.

It seems like you still want the swing back aerials and X-pack that you got with your Android. But dude, you really don't need them any more.
 
Dolby said:
That's good on you guys!

When I see the below it generally makes me feel that the iPhone 14 Pro's A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition

iPhone 14 Pro's powerful A16 Bionic chip destroys Android competition
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Who's to say it doesn't? There are plenty of websites who do the tests, why don't you go and check out the results where they test the components and not the phone it is housed in.
 
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