[JBReefer]

Don’t mobile OS’ prioritize perceived latency above all other resources (besides battery)?

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Considering how often I hit a button more than once because it took so long to do anything about the first one, that seems unlikely.

[lostgame]

I was drinking water when I read this and ended up snorting it out I laughed so hard when I read this. It’s so, so true.

I am a mobile dev and use a plethora of iOS and Android devices all the time, often on many different software versions.

It’s not unique to any platform, and seems to be most often affecting the keyboard input, but occasionally seems to affect the rest of the UI as well.

Software updates will oscillate between breaking and fixing these things on and off between different devices.

I’ve been doing app development since iOS 3 and the first version of the App Store and used an ADP1. There’s no method to the madness I can see. Especially with the keyboard input.

Lord help you if you happen to be using a 4S or 5 or iPad 2/3. I often wait for up to 10-15 seconds for text input to catch up to itself, only to catch up to itself all at once - I can type whole sentences knowing by the time I wait for them to finish it’ll be the same 10-15 seconds to wait as if I’ve typed a single character.

[localhost]

I should have said that I really want a general-purpose OS to prioritize perceived latency. Mobile OS (and gaming consoles) of course are tuned quite differently and in my brain I view them as completely different experiences when I use them. My desktop while significantly more powerful just _feels_ slower because of the latency.

[peatmoss]

That’s a great point, however they also lock down the enduser experience to something diminished from a fully general purpose computer.