Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Optimization

Ok, yesterday I thought about fully bending phones and I mentioned there one problem - battery.
Today I read about possible thin 5000mAh battery in LeEco Le 2S and... I spoted one interesting thing: Apple products have one gigantic adavtage: optimization.




Honestly I don't like Apple, but I admire two aspects of this brand:
1. Simple design;
2. Optimization.
So in order. First I mentioned design and it will be much simpler and shorter topic.
Design is very subjective matter - you like it or not and in most cases nothing (except time) will change it. I'm quite young still but I'm type of this "young old" - I like simple things with many functions. I like Swiss Army Knives, army cutlery set and trousers with removable legs - all for one reason: they're multifunction but still have simple design.
I'm old-school person and I was taught one of key Murphy's law: If anything can go wrong, it will. So simplest design are most effective - pragmatism.
Now second topic... Optimization. Yes, it's in the post name.
First definition:
"the act of making something as good as possible."
So what means Optimization in  phones and computers? In basic maximum power with minimum energy and resource usage. And I must admit that Apple will be master of this from one simple reason: they are making operating systems and design devices using them. If we're talking about phones we must take into account multiple designers: OS, SoC, processor cores, other components and in final company that put those together to mke a phone, With iPhone it's much simpler because Apple makes iOS, design SoC and with this can optimase both to full potential what is unworkable with Android. Google must optimize OS to work with as many different components as possible what is complete opposition of Apple formula.
So next time when you will chceck scores of iPhone or iPad don't be surprised that with mathematically weaker components they have better resaults then high-end Android models - they are design from base to have maximum efficiency.

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