Memory management myths in Apple circles
Nothing gets my hackles up more than people perpetuating memory management myths. Apparently there is a new trend in town thanks to Apple, who are deprecating their garbage collector on OS X in favor of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). News website Cult of Mac say: “ iOS is twice as memory-efficient as Android. Here’s why. .. According to Glyn Williams over on Quora, iOS devices run better than Android devices with twice the RAM because Android apps use Java, and need all the extra RAM to do something called garbage collection.” Another news website, Redmond Pie, say: “That was basically the same question put to Quora, the social website that gives people a way to ask questions and then have them answered by people who are experts in their respective field. The upvoting system adds a spot of authority tracking to the answers that are provided, and we have a clear winner as far as the question around why Android phones have so much more memory than iPhones. Enter Glyn...