> Not sure why anyone prefers to choose locked in options

Convenience. And OPEX vs CAPEX something something.

what's a "synthetic benchmark", claude came up with those numbers by looking at the code?

They are benchmarks on real hardware, and I tried to provide enough details so that anyone can reproduce them (but some of the benchmarks are on servers I have that you can't order on public cloud -- these ones are clearly marked). "Synthetic" means that the data is synthetic, not an actual production workload. For instance, some of the benchmarks use files filled with random bytes.

Do non-randomly ordered bytes produce different results??

Syq has compression turned on by default. Also, if you are updating a file that already exists on the other end, syq will only send blocks of the file that changed.

So real benchmarks with synthetic data.

And trucking. But jobs.

A manufacturer.

Maybe you need a new phone. Or a faster internet connection?

No I need better phone app developers. The fastest phone has the same issues. New phones are just as sluggish. And, it's a phone, there's not going to be fast networks everywhere, and a whole generation of poor developers was raised to believe that the network was always present and always fast.

And on the iOS side, Tahoe inserts all sorts of overdone, ridiculous animations that slow down phone interaction, but delaying presentation of

We are up to the iphone 18 now. The iphone is said to be about 50% of Apple's revenue since 2012. Regardless of app developer quality, it is quite literally Apple's now-well-honed job to ensure that enough people want to buy next year's model, by various types of forced obsolescence. Indirectly, this means that the durably snappy and non-sluggish experience you're forever wanting can never actually happen. 'Forever wanting it' is an essential part of the business design here!

In this system. Of 'smartphones', where a small handful of corporate masters - who also happen to (now!) be a big share of the world's largest and most profitable corporations - now own over half of the computing world that we love, following their whirlwind 20-year takeover of it.

"No I need better phone app developers." - Hmmm. Commiserations. The trend of developer quality (and/or it's inverse - e.g. system complexity and overheads) has been fairly constant since the term 'developer' became mainstream parlance, and you won't need me to point out what effect AI coding agents have had upon the doorway-to-entry.

Indeed, on modern laptops and phones every UI interaction should be instant (check out BeOS in 1995 for comparison). For background stuff, add some progress indicator.

Can't believe the crap OSes and frameworks add these days in terms of performance cost (and sadly, Apple doesn't exactly shine in that regard)

Not that you aren't correct, but Tahoe is a MacOS release, not iOS. I assume you mean iOS 18 (the version before iOS 26)?

iOS and macOS don’t “correspond” in any way, shape, or form. Completely different releases. Their release windows tend to be close (by design) but there ‘s no “correspondence” here.

Yeah, they do: go and fucking educate yourself. You're one google search from the result: https://support.apple.com/en-us/123075. Fuck...

They both by design follow the same numbering scheme. By design. It's like you missed the whole point of Liquid Glass.

I agree that the releases to correspond, but the way you’ve said this is probably making someone’s day worse

Agreed. I've had a lot of this kind of attitude lately on this community. Might dip.

The bigger question is what are these apps doing that they aren't doing 10 years ago that they now need all this extra compute for to serve the same basic functionality? It always amazes me how stuff like instagram just tanks my battery life. It is instagram its basically wgetting image urls same as its always done but it is taking over system resources for reasons...

Because the app tracks every movement, every scroll and tap, how long you look at things, and reports back with data on all of your activity.

You'd think this would only amount to what a couple dozen lines of text log per session showing the clicks and look times on different frames.

Nah. Software took 15-20 seconds when we were back on spinning discs.

Now that we have solid state supercomputers in our pockets, even the most simple app should launch in milliseconds

You better don't look into how banks make money on your savings.

You better don't look into how banks created your savings by creating loans that were used to invest into companies and thus pay salaries.

I looked. I know. It's not me who is surprised.

And? People buy what they want to buy. Apple builds what people want to buy. Been like this forever.

And? Why do you even the comment on a social critisism comment? Just ignore it, feel happy when you buy yourself the next stupid thing while you feel offended seeing your fellow citicen.

Why does it even trigger you then?

It doesn't trigger me, I'm trying to understand why it triggers the other guy. Now, pass the baton.

Glancing at Richard Mille watches and thinking... $800, peanuts.

If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike

How can you possibly make that comparison

Maybe she's on a wheelchair. One is a watch and another one is a watch. Both show time. How could I not.

Good news, everyone. Soon you won't be able to switch it off.

I suspect this will just lead to people pulling the ABS fuse and losing ABS and ESC along with AEB.

I suspect people will just get on with it. They're defeating us by atrophy. Slowly, one by one.