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Apple Already Preparing to Seed Carrier Partners With iOS 8.0.1

gotluck said:
so you'd rather have no tweaks at all than just remove the offending tweak? fair enough, but I don't chop my head off when I get a cold. :)
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I just feel like it's too much of a hassle to manage a jailbroken phone, and Apple has already added most of the feature I used to use anyway. To each their own though.
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
If the spike were two people then what would all the little bumps on the left be? 1/10th of a person? The most important factor for this graph is relative increase in usage over time. Absolute numbers don't matter, because 8.0.1 is almost certainly running on under 0.5% of devices.... In fact 0.05% is probably more realistic. We are talking carriers only. No devs have this.
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I was joking. Kind of. I'm a research scientist, absolute numbers always matter, damnit! Percentage would make sense, but do us all the favor of putting a % and a number or two on the y-axis for gods sake!

I wonder if this will be fixes to bugs they already know they have or to add a cool feature? Only time will tell.
 
dannyyankou said:
I just feel like it's too much of a hassle to manage a jailbroken phone, and Apple has already added most of the feature I used to use anyway. To each their own though.
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After spending a couple months jailbroken, I have found the following tweaks that I liked:
  • Speeding up animations slightly
  • Changing the carrier logo
  • Removing airplane mode from the control center when locked
  • ...hiding Stocks app...and Twitter, et al. from the share menu

Yeah, anything else I found beneficial will be in iOS 8. I have found there is just a general lack of development in cydia, even if I can find what I'm looking for between all the themes :rolleyes:. Not really what I had hoped jailbreaking would be like.

Still more useful than a jailbroken ATV. :D
 
jkichline said:
iOS 7.0 was actually quite a big change under the hood from a developer stand point. There's a TON of new features and changes to APIs in there and stuff like support for 64-bit. Most of that hasn't changed in iOS 8 but new APIs were added but the core OS is not as drastic from iOS 7. So on the surface if seems like more, but they did a lot of work under the hood in iOS 7.
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Thank you, I was not aware of that.
 
seb101 said:
Not true. The scale of the graph could be logarithmic or exponential, there is nothing to suggest that this is even a linear graph.

It is truly meaningless without at least a unit on the y-axis, and it's very poor journalism.

I suspect the numbers are actually very low, which is why the scale was omitted, it makes a better 'story' if people speculate. To me it looks like the smallest change is approximately one tenth of the major unit marker. So I interpret this to be about 20 'somethings' at it's peak.

Of course it doesn't even say that it is unique visits, so it could be one device visiting 20 pages. In fact, this could all be from one iPhone.


or.....

Oh my god, there are a million iPhones running iOS8 out there!
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Sure, it could be anything, but when or why would a graph for these kinds of numbers of users/visits use a logarithmic or exponential scale? Context plays enough of a role to conclude what is likely and not.
 
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iHack13 said:
I Hope the Update adds some more RAM to my iPad Air.

I was told Apple is well known for this magic stuff.
Don't like black magic though. That is when Tabs or Apps disappear and need to reload .
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I had three Safari crashes on my Air last night. I wish they would have fixed the problem in iOS 7, but I guess they can't since 1GB of RAM doesn't appear to be sufficient regardless of what the defenders say.
 
DoubleU said:
The graph is just a visual reiteration of the statement

"MacRumors has seen a significant increase in iOS 8.0.1 web log activity coming from Apple's networks over the past couple of weeks, although the first signs of the version appeared as long ago as mid-July"

and without the y-axis it provides no significant information above and beyond that, so it's just visual padding.
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So the issue is that there was an expectation that the graph wold provide extra/additional information. When reality is that the graph was just a visual representation of what was said in the article, which makes sense. So it's more of an "issue" between reality and expectation of what that graph was there for vs. the graph being useless/meaningless.
 
Parasprite said:
I think it would be strange if Apple were to intentionally advertise a keynote implying "Sorry guys, we couldn't think of anything good...maybe next year...?"
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Agreed. So that has got be me excited for this keynote. I read this as another double down on their goods. "Our stuff is awesome and it will blow your mind, but we can't talk about it yet." This ontop of the "best in 25 year" comment has me thinking there is something more than iPhone 6 coming.

If this keynote is just iPhone 6 and no particular reason for the giant covering of the building, I will be quite disappointed. Though I think the iPhone 6 will be a great phone. I will probably replace my 5 with it.
 
iHack13 said:
I Hope the Update adds some more RAM to my iPad Air.

I was told Apple is well known for this magic stuff.
Don't like black magic though. That is when Tabs or Apps disappear and need to reload .
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Haha
 
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