Comments on: Why does the iPad only have 256 MB of RAM? http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/hardware/why-does-the-ipad-only-have-256-mb-of-ram Tips and Tricks for iPhone, iPod, iPad and iOS Developers Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ed http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/hardware/why-does-the-ipad-only-have-256-mb-of-ram/comment-page-1#comment-5938 Ed Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:46:26 +0000 http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/?p=461#comment-5938 You forgot about profit being one of the factors. You forgot about profit being one of the factors.

]]> By: Akia http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/hardware/why-does-the-ipad-only-have-256-mb-of-ram/comment-page-1#comment-3531 Akia Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:22 +0000 http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/?p=461#comment-3531 I'm a software developer myself and I can tell you that you *can* live within those limits quite well. The problem is that most developers are not very experienced and don't really care about memory constraints - that results in so many apps feeling sluggish and they start to die after running a while. On the other hand, Apple is doing a great job of providing documentation and tools to optimize apps. With just a few hours of optimizing I could reduce CPU consumption of my app by about 70% and memory usage by about 50%. Most of the optimizations was trivial. I’m a software developer myself and I can tell you that you *can* live within those limits quite well. The problem is that most developers are not very experienced and don’t really care about memory constraints – that results in so many apps feeling sluggish and they start to die after running a while.

On the other hand, Apple is doing a great job of providing documentation and tools to optimize apps. With just a few hours of optimizing I could reduce CPU consumption of my app by about 70% and memory usage by about 50%. Most of the optimizations was trivial.

]]> By: Khantozvari http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/hardware/why-does-the-ipad-only-have-256-mb-of-ram/comment-page-1#comment-2841 Khantozvari Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:16:23 +0000 http://iPhoneIncubator.com/blog/?p=461#comment-2841 Hi, While it just makes sense about what you have said (reasoning), I personally could live with little less battery life and little more RAM. I can't imagine how the multitasking will work. Is it possible that the system can allow to use some of its flash memory as a real RAM (I don't mean paging or similar approach) Hi,

While it just makes sense about what you have said (reasoning), I personally could live with little less battery life and little more RAM. I can’t imagine how the multitasking will work. Is it possible that the system can allow to use some of its flash memory as a real RAM (I don’t mean paging or similar approach)

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