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I think it's actually easier on macOS because you can just swap everything if necessary. For some reason I don't understand, iOS does not employ swap, so while it can kill background apps, it can't kill foreground app.


That is true. I'm not sure why iOS doesn't do that while macOS does. Maybe mobile storage isn't performant enough? At least when iOS was originally developed.


This is such an Apple brainwash, like how many apps in background you think has everyone else, my linuxbox has almost none, the rest is just non-linux from third party, unless you only install apps from Apple and like having a subpar experience, everything you install is just from third party on which they have no control on. And killing apps doesn't mean anything for AI, it doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, doesn't run anything useful on 8GB, no matter if you kill all the processes. I wish I could just have a conversation where people doesn't cyborgically repeats Apple's marketing bullshit and turn on the human brain


I'm not sure how comparing a mobile OS like iOS to a linux box is useful. iOS can kill background apps from memory outside the app developers control.


Because other OSes don't kill OOM apps? Or any app they want? It is only Apple and only possible on mobile? The only thing that apple has, is the inability to have background apps, so that if you want to use third party sync services, like syncthing, you can't and have to stick to apple products, the rest is just like anyone else


iOS isn’t killing OOM apps. It’s killing inactive apps. It’s something that wouldn’t fly on a desktop or server OS under general use, but works reasonably well in the mobile space.




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