or we could just, you know, write better software. I'm not going to go on a whole rant about the link between software quality and hardware speed, but I will say this:
If we can write an app that does the job for a low power device, we can write the same app for a high power device and not make any compromises. I wonder why we don't do that. As in, why don't we develop software that runs as fast as it can? Some companies do, and it's really nice to see, and especially game developers are notoriously good at this. Yet, if I want a cross platform chat service, I usually have to put up with code running in a JS interpreter, through a JIT compiler, in a sandbox in a sandbox in a browser, burning CPU cycles so hard my laptop thermally throttles.
If we can write an app that does the job for a low power device, we can write the same app for a high power device and not make any compromises. I wonder why we don't do that. As in, why don't we develop software that runs as fast as it can? Some companies do, and it's really nice to see, and especially game developers are notoriously good at this. Yet, if I want a cross platform chat service, I usually have to put up with code running in a JS interpreter, through a JIT compiler, in a sandbox in a sandbox in a browser, burning CPU cycles so hard my laptop thermally throttles.