@sun@olmitch I don't think Android ever caught up to iOS for audio latency (for realtime audio apps) and I don't think Android's Project Butter ever made the rendering as smooth as iOS's either.
They tried, but the stacks they chose were just garbage piled on garbage.
@feld@olmitch It absolutely has not, I have watched tech talks from Google IO about it. Basically Android has to support a ton of hardware including shitty ones and they can't just make it 100% configurable by hardware vendors.
@sun@olmitch@feld not just that, but whatever test suite they use is complete dogshit. I have a phone that can't really use vulkan for games (or do much gaming at all) because it has dogshit gpu drivers. PPSSPP now blacklists vulkan for this phone because it's unusable, Dolphin I've heard also crashes with vulkan on this phone, and games have graphical glitches when running on vulkan OR opengl. This shit is awful.
@feld@olmitch@sun There's still UI lags here and there even on phones with strong socs and gpus. I had a phone with an snapdragon 860, which was flagship tier, and it'd stutter when scrolling down on twitter or the google page when you swipe to the left, seemingly tied to loading images or whatever the fuck. Not to mention that the youtube app would also get rather laggy if I played any video that wasn't 480p
Maybe stop with the ignorant commentary and take a moment to learn. You cannot do professional audio apps on Android without getting the latency down to ~10ms. The latest tech blog I can find on it from Google says they only got it down to 35ms at the top end
@feld@olmitch I have a musician friend and he has done, on an iPad, complete MIDI control and multi-channel professional live audio capture using professional audio equipment and an ipad-specific multichannel mixing board.
Yet free from the cold hand of apple on your shoulder breathing heavily in your ear. I will take my Hyundai grade phone and avoid the rest stop in the San Francisco of cellular world
To be fair most people don't see it as a "loan" the companies just say this phone is only $35 finance charge a month + plan and you get a "free" phone every 2 years which you paid for lmao.
@VIPPER@Hoss@olmitch@sun I've resorted to just forwarding YouTube links to my private telegram bot which will download it for me and notify me when I can watch it
@sapphire@feld@DrBtc@Hoss@olmitch@sun If I offered you a loan with no interest I'd be a sucker if I wasn't benefitting from it somehow. They make a bit of profit on overvaluing phones and getting mass purchase discounts, but the real money is getting you to pay for the monthly service. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but money is more valuable right now than it is in the future, so 0% loan is not the bad part of buying a phone from a carrier