Almost feel they should change their whole OS release/tabulating system.
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Apple Reveals More iOS 17 Features Not Available Until Later This Year
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I said three times 'you' in my short sentence so I don't know why you think I made that about myself. And I didn't take anything personal, you are free to make your own choices!
Most of those features were tabled for 'later this year' at WWDC, so Apple didn't overpromised. Journal for example was never intended for a 17.0 release. And it's better if Apple takes the time to develop and test the features rather than rushing it to get to a fictional deadline.
Are these numeric iOS versions fundamentally different? I imagine most of it is tweaking and tuning for multiple cycles so the whole brand new iOS every year is kind of weird for actually being meaningful outside of pairing it to a new phone every year
There’s major ML rewrites across the board for core OS functionality, along with dozens of new features out of the gate.
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Hardcore computing on this one. My best wishes to the team in charge of solve the ultimate technological puzzle of the modern era.
- Audio Focus feature for Apple Fitness+ that prioritizes the volume of either the music or the trainers' voices depending on your preference.
I'm just going to have to engage curmudgeon mode here,
Journal App, don't need.
Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, don't want.
Airdrop via internet, That's just a regular file transfer, don't care.
Three features involving Messages, an app I found so useless I deleted it as soon as it was possible to delete it.
Pause a podcast in Apple News, do't use apple news, so don't care.
Favorite songs playlist in Music app, I use an iPod for music, and it has a favorite songs playlist already.
Better Autofill on for PDFs, almost useful, but important stuff does not happen on my easily stolen iPad.
Fitness+, never use that.
Proximity sign in, Auto log in, I'm always suspicious of that.
Add to that we had the phone I don't need for $730 more than the flip phone that does do everything I need in a phone, and a watch with a battery life insufficient to get through one camping trip that costs $360 more than a Timex and tells time no better.
And they stopped selling biodegradable leather and are selling recycled polyester watchbands instead. And they have adopted Titanium, one of the most environmentally unfriendly non-green materials ever produced.
Talk about a clean miss of anything useful.
Journal App, don't need.
Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, don't want.
Airdrop via internet, That's just a regular file transfer, don't care.
Three features involving Messages, an app I found so useless I deleted it as soon as it was possible to delete it.
Pause a podcast in Apple News, do't use apple news, so don't care.
Favorite songs playlist in Music app, I use an iPod for music, and it has a favorite songs playlist already.
Better Autofill on for PDFs, almost useful, but important stuff does not happen on my easily stolen iPad.
Fitness+, never use that.
Proximity sign in, Auto log in, I'm always suspicious of that.
Add to that we had the phone I don't need for $730 more than the flip phone that does do everything I need in a phone, and a watch with a battery life insufficient to get through one camping trip that costs $360 more than a Timex and tells time no better.
And they stopped selling biodegradable leather and are selling recycled polyester watchbands instead. And they have adopted Titanium, one of the most environmentally unfriendly non-green materials ever produced.
Talk about a clean miss of anything useful.
These past 5 years you notice how an OS is "near" status stable after it will be superseded by the next version. Monterey was full of bugs and was "stable" when Ventura was announced. I mean why the feck are we working on beta versions on finalised machines and basically need to upgrade to a newer OS which is basically a beta itsself etc... The same S is happening with iOS.
I'm sorry to be the one telling you this hard truth, but you are not the only consumer Apple is thinking about when developing new software features.I'm just going to have to engage curmudgeon mode here,
Journal App, don't need.
Collaborative Apple Music Playlists, don't want.
Airdrop via internet, That's just a regular file transfer, don't care.
Three features involving Messages, an app I found so useless I deleted it as soon as it was possible to delete it.
Pause a podcast in Apple News, do't use apple news, so don't care.
Favorite songs playlist in Music app, I use an iPod for music, and it has a favorite songs playlist already.
Better Autofill on for PDFs, almost useful, but important stuff does not happen on my easily stolen iPad.
Fitness+, never use that.
Proximity sign in, Auto log in, I'm always suspicious of that.
Add to that we had the phone I don't need for $730 more than the flip phone that does do everything I need in a phone, and a watch with a battery life insufficient to get through one camping trip that costs $360 more than a Timex and tells time no better.
And they stopped selling biodegradable leather and are selling recycled polyester watchbands instead. And they have adopted Titanium, one of the most environmentally unfriendly non-green materials ever produced.
Talk about a clean miss of anything useful.
Yeah yeah, the best (insert anything Apple here) we have released yet.
I know the coolaid.
The problem is that Apple has to answer to shareholders, and they expect a shiny, new iOS version to be introduced with every iPhone refresh to help drive sales.
lol I’m still waiting for home key sharing from iOS 16 smh apple
Someone gets it.
Thank you!
They could also do a Leopard / Snow Leopard kinda cycle.
1 year features the other fixes and so on.
That’s exactly the point, we have a new release for the sake of it, which, it’s pointless (other than marketing reasons)
Wich begs the question, are we really ok with shareholders driving the company? We know how it went the last time.
I thought this was already a feature? Or is it different for group chats somehow?
yearly updates to the os ensure quick deprecation of older devices. that's its main objective.
It’s not about it not being ready it’s about having new features to trickle out across the year.
Then there is no point in making a “New Version” i mean just do that “Windows 10” was supposed to do, updates / features in cycle every 3 months.
It’s just a lot to hold back. Apple has been getting in the habit of announcing stuff in “beta”, that then never gets released or is released half baked years later.
They didn't reach the EU deadline yet, and you can go sure they will release it very quietly.
Other than taking the company private, I'm not sure there is a solution. With that said, I'm not a fan of the yearly product cycle for hardware and software.
I know, but I was hoping for it to show up in the last few betas.
It would be the last step into going into the fully iPad only life on the personal side.
Working life I still need some Mac only apps 😢.
Not really. Apple holds back like 7-8 features (listed above), meanwhile still ships like 70-80 new features in 17.0. It's clearly better that they hold back a few things that aren't ready without holding back everything else. Stop trying to make a big deal about nothing, enjoy the dozens of new things and have some gratitude. It's all awesome new free stuff – a bunch now, and even more later. Can't believe people find a way to complain about that.