I don't know if you have noticed that recently more and more new machines use 18GB of memory.
Yes, you heard that right, 2GB more than 16GB.
This 2GB advantage has been hung up on the computer used by the machine brother code word.
The machine brother can only sigh that the development of mobile phone memory is too fast.
Why is the development of mobile phone memory capacity so rapid?
It is almost doubling every 4 years.
Is this a flicker by mobile phone manufacturers or a persecution by software manufacturers?
Today, the machine brother will tell you about the memory of the mobile phone.
System and ecology
The brother must admit that when talking about mobile phone memory, it will definitely be divided into camps.
The memory problems of the two camps of Android and iOS will quarrel almost every year.
From the fundamental point of view, the system is to ensure that memory is reasonably allocated to the APP.
It's just that some are more restrained, and some are wilder.
Here's a popular analogy.
If the mobile phone memory is a library, the APP occupies memory equivalent to borrowing books, and releasing memory is equivalent to returning books.
Then iOS must be a grumpy administrator.
Borrow books: who let you borrow so much at once! We have few books, these 3 books are enough for you to read, leave some for others.
Book return: You have borrowed these books for a long time, and if you don't read them, you can quickly return them! Leave you a voucher at most, and you can borrow it later.
And the Android system should be a Buddhist administrator.
Borrow books: Boss, you are here ~ how many books do you want to borrow this time? We have a lot of books, just give me the title.
Book: You finished reading this book, I didn't bring it this time, that... Then wait until someone else wants to borrow me and then ask you for it.
In fact, if all apps follow the rules, both strategies are fine.
Apps that are suspended or killed because of insufficient memory can also pop up notifications in time through the system's push service.
However, because everyone understands the reasons, the push service of the Android system cannot be used.
Therefore, social communication apps will find ways to stay in the background.
Of course, in order to occupy your notification bar, now video, information, e-commerce and other APP are in the background to engage in small actions, since the start of hundreds of times are counted less.
On the other hand, due to the opening of the Android system, Google can only manage the APP in its own app market.
As for apps downloaded from other places, it depends on the conscience of the developer.
If you want to describe the current status quo of the Android platform APP ecosystem.
It was quite appropriate for the brother to see such a sentence in Zhihu.
Whenever the limited memory of the mobile phone becomes an endless battlefield for apps, we will hope for larger memory.
But usually only the disillusionment is destroyed.
The evolution of apps
Of course, there are many apps now, and they do need to use a lot of memory, such as many large games.
After the mobile version of League of Legends enters the battlefield, the entire game will account for 1GB of memory.
After the peace elite skydive landing, it is basically an order of magnitude with the former, and the memory occupied is also about 1GB.
But what surprises the machine brother is that these large games do not occupy more memory than some apps.
For example, WeChat, under the blessing of various components and mini programs, the memory occupation is anti-super mobile game.
All kinds of dazzling functions in Taobao and Alipay will occupy a lot of memory.
There are also many heavy apps, including but not limited to e-commerce, community, short video and so on.
Especially many pictures and videos, with information streams or waterfalls infinitely sliding.
The more content the APP loads, the more memory it eats, and the 1GB to 2GB of the APP is already convergent.
But, to be fair, it is also a manifestation of scientific and technological progress.
Communication technology has developed, the network speed has become faster and the traffic has become larger, and it is accustomed to the smoothness of high-definition pictures and unlimited declines.
Let the machine brother return to the 2G network era, manually click on the wap website to turn the page.
Even if you save memory, you will not be able to stand it.
Content forms are evolving, and mobile phone memory, as the basic hardware that carries these contents, must of course keep up with the trend.
This is the general trend of the times, iPhone 13 Pro Max does not also use 6GB of memory.
It's just that compared to the 12GB, 16GB, and 18GB of the Android camp, there are hundreds of millions of points of restraint.
The demand for mobile phones
APP eats a lot of memory, but also resides in the background, then the memory is smaller and can not be used?
Not really, if the capacity gap between the two phones running memory is not particularly large.
There is also no perceptible impact on the fluency of app operation.
After all, even a phone with only 2GB of running memory can run almost all big games and apps.
But it's different in complex multitasking.
Let's take the daily example of Wu Yanzu of this line 6.
Suppose the brother holds an Android machine with 2GB of memory in his hand, happily leaves work, and opens the glory of the king on the way to play twice.
Walk to the subway entrance, cut out the game to open WeChat, handsome show the health code.
Then walk to the gate, skillfully open the Alipay ride code, scan the code into the station in one go.
Then, the glory of the king running in the background is killed by the system.
Is the brother poking at the sore spot of the small memory mobile phone user.
For another example, brushing short videos to see good things, opening the e-commerce APP to search for the same model, and want to go back to compare the details.
As a result, the short video was killed, and the previous video could not be found after the app restarted.
To sum up, the mobile phone is a high-frequency, multi-tasking, fragmented device.
Running out of memory will cause the multitasking experience to plummet, of course, Android devices will be more obvious.
On the contrary, if there is no such multitasking requirement, large memory is somewhat killing chicken knife.
Even the Android smart TV, which costs tens of thousands of yuan, only has 3GB of memory.
Some friends may find it strange that the running memory of my new mobile phone is 2GB larger than that of the old mobile phone, but the fluency improvement perception is obvious.
Because in addition to the improvement of the overall configuration of the mobile phone, the memory itself is also upgrading.
Of course, the performance of LPDDR5 will be better than that of LPDDR4, and the capacity of a single memory chip will be larger.
Even with the same amount of memory, high performance with high specifications will certainly be better.
Hardware manufacturers pile up the configuration, and software manufacturers use them all up.
What is this called? It's called Andy-Bill's Law, and that's how the alliance between Windows and Intel came about.
Just like the evolution of cheetahs and gazelles in running speed, it is a logic of mutual competition and mutual promotion.
If the software fails to squeeze out the performance of the hardware, it will be ridiculed as a waste of performance.
In the end, we complain that the mobile phone running memory has nothing to do with the size of the capacity, and whether the price and experience are equal.
Let the machine brother say that if the development of technology allows us to spend the same amount of money, we can buy a better configuration and experience.
Even if the phone uses 32G of memory, then what is there to complain about?