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Apple Announces iOS 9 With Proactive Siri, Maps Transit, iPad Multitasking and More
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Those of you looking for hardware announcements here... no go. This is the WWDC... a software event. Hardware is in the fall.
Honestly, I saw some cool things coming. Good to see Apple work on performance and great to see them make Swift open source.
This all seems to set things up nicely for the Fall hardware push.... then I'll be looking for a new Apple TV!
Honestly, I saw some cool things coming. Good to see Apple work on performance and great to see them make Swift open source.
This all seems to set things up nicely for the Fall hardware push.... then I'll be looking for a new Apple TV!
Stability and optimization were indeed rumored a few months back to be the focus of iOS 9. No doubt they are needed and will be welcome changes.
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/09/ios-9-stability-optimization-focus/
*Yawn*. Still no multiple user accounts for iPad? C'mon. The watch updates are the most exciting part. Yay for letting developers put info on the watch faces. Now let developers make watch faces.
I have been patiently waiting for Apple to include cursor control without leaving my iPhone keyboard, and now they are just teasing me by making it available on iPads only... such cruelty!!
Depending on what they do with that so called bigger 12" iPad Pro I may sell my Air 2 and get the bigger Pro instead. I think the multitasking feature is a big feature tho, especially to people like myself who write documents and use the Internet, or want to watch YouTube while using the Internet.
iBeacons maybe????...... Or through home kit. Apple breezed over that today
And again..... Canada is left out in the cold....
(sorry for the lame pun....)
(sorry for the lame pun....)
I think the translation is done on their server but the phone interprets the translation to determine the action required.
I love how users in this Forum were crying for Apple to focus on performance and stability for iOS 9 and not add any new features and all I see are a bunch of spoiled little brats crying about how the NEW handful of features added in iOS 9 are "going to my trash folder", "should have been added in a .1 release". 
I'm not sure that Newsstand is history.
The News App is nothing more than a news aggregator app that copies about 152 other news aggregators that deliver the same thing.
Like the Siri improvements, finally transit direct on Maps, but iOs still died for me with the release of iOs 7. I just find it clunky to navigate. Two tabs for today view and notifications is cumbersome, things feel out of place, sometimes unnecessary. Losing Forstall hurt iOs big time. Also can you copy one really useful Android feature and put the back arrow on the bottom of the screen? So beneficial with how large phones are these days. That double tap to bring the screen down is a joke and a clumsy waste of time. Apple needs to focus on making ios more efficient to navigate to be world class again. Oh and let me delete the Apple apps that I never use and let me set different notifications sounds and vibrations for 3rd party apps.
Agreed. Most underwhelming keynote I've ever seen Apple put on. Really uninspiring.
I love how users in this Forum were crying for Apple to focus on performance and stability for iOS 9 and not add any new features and all I see are a bunch of spoiled little brats crying about how the NEW handful of features added in iOS 9 are "going to my trash folder", "should have been added in a .1 release".
If that's all you see you aren't looking very hard.
Probably not what room, but knows you're home. When you connect to bluetooth in your car, or start driving, it will know you're in your car. Know when you're at work, or at a business. So, it may not know you're in your living room, but it will know something about you. iBeacons in stores and this sort of tech, may allow retailers someday to offer special offers for products that are in the part of the store you're in. That would be cool (the assumption is it's opt-in).
It could be more subtle than that, I suppose. If you're on your home Wi-Fi, your phone should know you're home. CarPlay is the obvious choice for "in your car reminders"
Just having a feature and doing it well are two entirely different things. For example, those older devices had slower processors and didn't have noise canceling like the 4S making Siri work comparatively poorly on older devices.
I'm mentioning "handful" because there are tons of new features but of course people have to bitch and complain about new features being added on TOP of performance and battery improvements.
Gonna pull an I Told You So here;
I believe a couple weeks ago I posted on these very forums that WWDC was for developers so there wouldn't be any hardware unveiled. That's exactly what we saw. Lots of software, iOS, OS-X, Swift, WatchOS things. A few services like AppleMusic that are essentially software. But no hardware. Hardware announcements have historically been the exception.
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agreed, almost all the features, android is ok for my tablet, i prefer the bare basics of the nexus 7, however, i abhor the bloatware on the samsung iteration of android. I also quite liked the sony experia slates.