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A thread titled “Cheap Android is enough, you don’t need iPhone-level performance” went up on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (general live-discussion board), and it quickly drew pushback along the lines of “No way, iPhone specs are actually low.” The debate went beyond simple price or processing-speed comparisons, zeroing in on standard Android features the iPhone lacks — split-screen display, scrolling screenshots, and fully automatic call recording. It then spiraled into arguments over the Galaxy-vs-iPhone global market-share race and who really pioneered the foldable phone, turning into a mix of brand loyalty and practical feature debates.
What people said
It's expensive, but that doesn't mean it's high-performance.
but the OS is garbage.
That basically means the performance is low, doesn't it.
It's not overkill, it's underpowered
since it can't even do what Android does as standard.
Nothing is as well-made as macOS though
it's UNIX-based and that level of polish is unmatched elsewhere.
Whether it can do split-screen isn't about performance, that's a feature.
A phone that can't do this or that — you have to call that low performance, no way around it.
Honestly, splitting a screen that small seems like a hassle
I own a Galaxy and split-screen is genuinely useless.
That's just Apple fanboys getting worked up and screeching about it.
In terms of market share, Galaxy and Apple are the top two, and 1st/2nd place swap back and forth a lot
with Xiaomi in 3rd
So 'poor = Android' isn't accurate.
Unfortunately, Samsung and Apple trading the top spot is old news
these days Apple is solely in 1st place.
If I wanted to do that I'd just use a PC from the start.
At minimum you'd want a screen at least as big as a foldable's, right.
It gets a bigger screen when you open it, so obviously there's a point.
iPhone's new model adds split-screen support!
iPhone🤓: “IT'S HEEERE!!! GYAAAA!!!!!!!!! (ecstatic)”
iPhone… lol
Self-deprecating lol
for example, compared to Galaxy — the top-selling brand — iPhone can't take scrolling screenshots, can't do fully automatic call recording, can't use circle-to-search, and more.
Every one of those is a feature only gadget nerds care about lol
You can take scrolling screenshots, and you can search with Visual Intelligence too.
You can take full-page screenshots on iPhone now, can't you.
2chMate 0.8.10.242 dev/samsung/SM-S918N/17/DT/Haiagaru 1.9.3
Please, tell me one good thing about the bug-riddled Galaxy 🤗
They probably think Huawei was first lol
The first one was Royole's FlexPai, I know my stuff.
Carrying two around is just heavy, you know
I wish they'd release another phone like the Rakuten Mini.
I just make calls, use LINE, browse the net, and check 5ch, so I don't need anything that powerful.
Low performance makes browsing a constant source of irritation though.
I use three phones for different purposes
and if you count the SE2 and the 8 that I barely use, that's five.
That's called 'owning phones,' not 'using' them
Looks like you learned something new on NanJ today (nickname for this board).
Background and key points of this discussion
“Performance” on a smartphone technically refers to CPU/GPU processing power, but in this thread it’s being used almost interchangeably with OS-level feature gaps — things like split-screen display, scrolling screenshots, and automatic call recording — so the discussion talks past itself. In reality, Apple’s own chips in the iPhone rank near the top in many general-purpose benchmarks, so the claim that “performance is low” is, strictly speaking, closer to pointing at missing features than at raw processing power. As for global market share, the race for first place between Samsung and Apple flips depending on the quarter and which research firm you ask, so which one is “solely in first” changes over time — the thread’s blanket statements shouldn’t be taken as settled fact. The same goes for who pioneered the foldable phone: multiple manufacturers, including Royole, Huawei, and Samsung, released similar products around the same time, so the definition of “first” varies depending on who you ask.
*This article is composed of excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “You guys: ‘Cheap Android is enough, you don’t need iPhone-level performance’ ← No way, iPhone specs are actually low.”
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