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For those standing right now in the line up to pick this up at the local Apple Retail Store, if you didn't already know, its got 1GB ram. I had hoped at least time it would be 2GB ram, but alas. As the iPhone 4s will struggle running iOS8 in the same manner this model will struggle running future iOS versions maybe iOS 10 or later.

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If the last several iterations of the iPhone have had the same RAM, while being capable of running the newest version of iOS fine, wouldn't that suggest that iOS memory requirements haven't been rising significantly and that something else is responsible for percieved slowdown on upgrade?

    2011 iPhone 4s iOS 5
    2012 iPhone 5  iOS 6
    2013 iPhone 5s iOS 7
    2014 iPhone 6  iOS 8

which suggests that it'll be iOS 11 that the iPhone 6 starts struggling with. That said, I expect you'll have more trouble with the 6 Plus because it's trying to push more pixels around with the same hardware.

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