Thread: Why is the Apple UI so fluid and ours isn't?
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2010-02-26 , 18:30
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
1. Their PowerVR GPU is faster than the one on N900
2. Their screen runs at half N900's resolution
3. Their OS is somewhat optimized for singletasking with plenty of resources spared for UI (with some background-enabled apps)
4. I bet 'make the UI as fluid as possible' is one of Steve Jobs' prime directive to his team. So this has always been optimized and yet optimized more. It's always been like that since v1.0.
I also guess that the graphic stack of the iPhone is much simpler than X11+GTK+Clutter or X11+QT.
This is a true challenge to make a complete desktop Linux graphic stack running smoothly on a device like the N900... As it is not really optimized for.
Many embedded Linux devices simply use a framebuffer rendering stack which is much simpler.
We are clearly paying our Linux desktop app compatibility with lower graphic performance on the N900
 

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