Yeah, except 7.0.x was the most buggy release I've encountered. It broke playing songs on my car radio, it would randomly restart on my iPhone 5s, and my TouchID would start failing after one day, and it made everything slower to open. That's in addition to the many, many display bugs. Now most of these things have been fixed in 7.1, but that was a very long wait.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: It 'Means More to Us to Get it Right' Than to Be First
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Yeah, except 7.0.x was the most buggy release I've encountered. It broke playing songs on my car radio, it would randomly restart on my iPhone 5s, and my TouchID would start failing after one day, and it made everything slower to open. That's in addition to the many, many display bugs. Now most of these things have been fixed in 7.1, but that was a very long wait.
I think my favorite is Maps. The news reports that people were directed onto an airport taxiway. From that people get Maps sucks. I get Why wasnt there a gate blocking street access to the airport runways?
You make ONE mistake and it apparently haunts you forever. Nevermind that in most cases a policy of taking time to get it right results in amazing products from Apple. Thats all Tim was saying, that thats what they try to do. And in the vast majority of cases, they hit it out of the park.
Because lots of R&D turns out better products?
Number 5 ain't doing too hot.
Apple's not even on the list.
So you would rather they continue to rush to the gate with buggy products? You would rather Tim had defended Forstall's arrogance on the Maps fiasco? So noted.
Not sure what your point was in posting this table, but it tells me that Apple gets an awful lot more for their R&D investment than, say, Microsoft.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the iPhone 5C as a product. It looks and feels great and some prefer its design and feel to that of the 5/5s. It also improved on certain things over the baseline ip5 which apple would have continued to sell alongside the 5s had they not come up with the 5c. 60+% of the iPhone 5C customers are first time iPhone users (Tim Cook @ today's conference calls)..and most if not all of them are coming from android. I see the 5c doing well for apple through 2014 and 2015..Its not supposed to sell as well as the flagship..Its an entry level iphone 5..
This x 1,000. Tim Cook publicly apologized for Maps not being up to Apple standards at release. How often do you see that from Apple's peers?
You do know that it it's virtually impossible to make perfect bug-free software, let alone an operating system, right? There's that whole 'human error' thing involved. Unless it was created by a robot, which was made itself by another robot, then it could be possible.
Sorry to single out your post out of the numerous idiotic ones in this thread so far, but it really is becoming a challenge to read any thread on this site anymore and not have it littered with inane comments from, either the uninformed, fanatical or completely delusional.
Apple has and probably always will release their wares under their own terms and timetables. No amount of bemoaning or bellyaching is going to change that.
That's nice and all, but in the time between Apple product debuts, some of us still have device desires that need scratching
Then scratch them. There is nothing stopping anyone from trying the rush-to-market devices. I know I did for a very long time, and for a while I was a lot poorer for it, both because the devices didn't do what they promised, and the one thing they did a VERY good job of was repeatedly relieving my wallet of cash as I chased the next new thing.
Gradually though, I've come to realize that there's a huge difference in the hollow gratification of having the newest but not the best, and waiting TO get the best and being saved a lot of aggravation and disappointment in between. Good things really do come to those who wait. And despite the "Apple tax," I'm actually a lot better off economically because I haven't sunk my money into nearly as many competing sub-par gadgets.
Granted, this isn't to say I regret having smartphones before the iPhone, or even the many tablet precursors and lightweight portable systems on the market pre-iPad, and which I purchased prior to my finally giving in on that. But I do know better, now, as should probably quite a few other people. Continuing to throw away good money after bad, especially when it's clearere now more than ever that something truly better is on the horizon... well, you'll get exactly what you deserve.
Exactly, iOS 7 rocks. No interest in returning to iOS 6, didn't take long to adapt and move forward.
Apple did "tell" us about the Mac pro last year @ WWDC. They could open up the Apple TV to developers, and showcase its new hardware at WWDC for a fall release. Would give time to developers to write apps for it.
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I bet he also gets tired of getting the same questions every time he gets infront of the media. Apple has always been a secretive company that will NEVER open up its doors for media to look inside on unfinished products. If the media keeps on constantly asking him whats in the pipeline he is going to give them the standard line "we have exciting products that we are very proud of"...Until and unless apple changes its policy (which i personally do not want them to) and becomes less opaque TC or any other high ranking executive wont have many options when confronted with the same questions..
If apple does changes its policy, we'd see " Jobs would have never done this " Littered around on this forum and many apple-centric websites around the www.
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"Apple customers "want great, insanely great," said Cook, and "that’s what we want to deliver."
How old is Tim Cook? Or, is that truly the average age of Apple users these days.
How old is Tim Cook? Or, is that truly the average age of Apple users these days.
Well, you'll never see Samsung apologize for the Gear nor any of the crapware that comes with the S5. From their point of view, they are ready to accept mediocrity and so should you. That's the attitude Cook is talking about.
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I love your desperate spin, best thing about MR. Fact is, he honored the company founder. Nothing else to see here.
Precisely. I love Apple's lineup. There are new apps and services that people need to take advantage of. Nothing wrong with what Apple currently has out.
Please compare
to and refrain comparing to a robot.In fact, iOS 7 had been too much like the damn robot...
You're funny. Products AND services throughout 2014. CarPlay is an apple service and it came out in the first half of 2014. I want apple to show us the goods as much as the next macrumors geek but come on man, he hasn't lied. Not yet. Across 2014 could mean one in June or July and one in October or November.
Exactly! People tend to forget the "services" portion of "products and services". Technically speaking apple has released a New "service" in the first half of 2014. They could very well showcase (or release) new hardware, or a significant refresh of existing hardware (mac book lines, mac mini, apple tv) in addition to other services (Open up apple tv to developers) @ WWDC. They could then release the wearable device around september alongside the iPhone 6 and then just before the year end release the larger iPhablet..
I think that you ought to read this entire document over a few days, and maybe read it a few more times, then see exactly what you make of it, since you appear to refer to TouchID with such dismissive triviality - it is just a tad more complex than a mere "fingerprint scanner", as far as the east is from the west:
http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.pdf
TouchID is many, many layers of embedded hashing and entanglement at the hardware level, deeper than you could possibly even conceive of. It's far from an afterthought gimmick, believe you me - this is brain scrambling technology, only fully understood by the most adept cryptographic experts.
See this transcript of MacBreak Weekly #392, and CMD+F for "tangled" and "enclave" - your mind is about to be blown:
http://twit.tv/content/macbreak-weekly-392-transcript
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So what doesn't work right in iOS 7? Please give specific examples from your own daily use.
Been using iOS since 3. iOS 7 is best to date and gets better with each update. Get an Android and leave.
Yes, because Android is so much better than iOS, and they'll have fewer issues
Not.
Releasing a product for the sake of it is an extremely foolish thing to do. Both from an economical and quality stand-point.
