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Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro (arstechnica.com)
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Meanwhile my iPhone 12 Mini is doing great with 4 gigs.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the point? Game devs will design games to run on most (or at least > 0.1%) devices so when would this be useful?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Presumably better task switching. If you switch between several applications, fewer of them will be evicted from memory, so they'll come up right away where they were instead of relaunching when you switch back to them.