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Apple Reveals More iOS 17 Features Not Available Until Later This Year
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That's irrelevant. Adjust OS release schedule based on objective completion timeline rather than iphone release cycle.
Your example just show you don’t get it.
It’s not holding back SMS because MMS is not ready, those are 2 different thing and released in 2 different “main os”.
It would be more like getting MMS wich do not support images and video yet and it will come at a later date.
Then it would basically be SMS wich we already got.
So I would wait to get MMS and get them for what they are and not a half baked version of it.
If i get “announced” a new feature I expect it to be there and working, getting a scaled down version and waiting to be patched is not a sane way of dealing with things.
This is the reason why deadlines are not respected anymore, because people are ok with it.
Take software on the 80 - 90s, you had to do the best to fix stuff Cause once the media is printed, that’s what user got.
Now with internet release, developers just release messes and then fixes them later, this is not acceptable.
While it is great to be able to fix in a second update, it should not be the reason not to meet deadline or to justify half baled features.
I mean would you be happy to have a Mario Jump game released and Mario cannot jump just yet? Hey relax it will be released a fix in the next year to make Mario jump…
Some people would be like hey I can still lurk around the map, would you be willing to give up the lurking in the meantime?
Heck yeah, just release the damn thing when it can jump.
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What are you babbling about? A vast majority of iOS 17 features are ready on day 1. The rollout of other features is a great idea, because it means we get new features all year, instead of all at once and having to wait a year for new ones. It keeps the phone feeling fresh.
Not a single feature is delayed. They have internal rollout schedules and they meet their targets. A delay would be if they announced a date for a feature and they didn’t meet it, and that isn’t what is happening here.
There isn’t a delay.
Here’s the definition of delay:
We announce a date for a feature and we don’t meet the target date.
That isn’t what’s happening here.
Then stay away from Android. Their features are delayed even longer (if you are lucky enough to get their delayed updates)
Never understood this attitude, since there is worse this should be considered ok?
I am not ruling for the less worse one.
Major releases makes even leas sense on Android as they can update core functionalities even without a full OS update, unlike iOS.
Not that difficult with good management that understands software development. But Apple is run by Supply Chain and Marketing gurus now. Software is an afterthought.
I believe I am correct AND you are correct. I agree that OS release schedules should not be yearly. I don't think iPhone release cycle should be yearly. However, what I said is VERY relevant for the people the announcements are for and in the context (WWDC event keynote) in which they are released. If you are not a developer, the announcements are not for YOU, even though you might tangentially enjoy the announcement (and Apple knows that).
Very much so. If you ever saw them live, and enjoyed it, I recommend catching another show. You might be surprised. You might not. Cheers.Wait, Phish is still a thing?
This is such an unhinged comment holy cowI'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.
I bet you’re super fun at parties…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.
the problem is not the holding back. the problem is releasing half baked features and calling it a day
no, i actually said this previously, in the post you quote replied to so… already addressed