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Apple Sending Emails Encouraging Customers to Upgrade to iOS 8

Hey Apple, I'd like to thank you for individually monitoring my usage and noting what I have and haven't done with my personal property.

Might I make a suggestion... Improve security and actually give me some privacy. You claim to be very concerned about my privacy, yet you apparently are monitoring each individual phone owner. Love the hypocracy. That's one thing we love about you Apple, your forked tongue and being able to convincingly promise that our privacy is your highest priority.
 
Yeah, can't wait to make my 4S unbearably slow!

All it needs to do is last a few more months so I can replace it with the Galaxy S6
 
timshundo said:
16GB Isn't enough for even the most casual of users anymore. Most of my friends are down to 100's of MB of free space, far from the 5GB required to update.

And iCloud Photo Share Library Storage Cloud Beta Share Backup 5GB Optimized is so convoluted that casual users don't even bother trying to figure out how that crap works and would rather just manually manage their photo libraries every time they get a low disk space error.

I think Apple put this on themselves and they're just gonna have to get used to not being able to brag about the amount of users on their latest OS.
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They could always initiate a free exchange of 16 GB models for 64 GB models preloaded with iOS 8, and then pat themselves on the back for high adoption numbers.
 
mercuryjones said:
I did. Did a full iCloud backup, and then reset the device completely.
Updated the phone afterwards and then all apps and data were then restored.
Or, plug iPhone into computer, click update in iTunes.
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+1

Is it so hard to plug your phone into a laptop/computer for 5 mins and click the update button?
 
really?

pubwvj said:
Apple needs to make it so iOS supports older hardware. They need to offer legacy support. They need to fall back gracefully on features that the hardware can't handle. It's very doable and they have BILLIONS in the bank to support this sort of work. It is environmentally friendly and would bring in hundreds of millions of users from the cold.

Same goes for MacOS X.
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iOS and OS X support much older devices than competing OS's. I have a 4S and a 2007 MBP that support the most recent OS's from apple. Next year that will be an 8 year old laptop running the most current OS, what more do you want?
 
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Apple I love you, but iOS 8 wrecked my iPad 2. Not just made it slower.... it made it unusable. I can absolutely advice my fellow 'older IOS hardware users' not to upgrade.
 
i think they're desperate to give the appearance that fragmentation doesn't happen with iOS, since it's purely an android problem.

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H.Finch said:
Apple I love you, but iOS 8 wrecked my iPad 2. Not just made it slower.... it made it unusable. I can absolutely advice my fellow 'older IOS hardware users' not to upgrade.
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that is why you should always jailbreak, save shsh blobs, and downgrade if you need to.
 
usersince86 said:
iOS 8 may still be buggy, and it may slow down my iPhone 5.

That's all.
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It's definitely still buggy on my 5S. iOS 8.1 needs to be followed by 8.2 pronto!

Very lag ridden unstable Messages happy. I went from a snappy experience with iOS 7 to many times during the day it being completely unresponsive to touch, to waiting significant time to read a message, and to having it completely crash. Horrible experience so far.

I've had other Apple apps freeze up too, even trouble with the phone app which is a big no-no.

Nothing snappy about Safari either.

on top of that, the experience overall after updating versus iOS 7 was very meh. Nothing really compelling here.

I could have waited longer.
 
poiihy said:
iPad 2 is too old for iOS 8 and iOS 8 is very slow on iPad 2.
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Also once you have upgraded to iOS 8 you can't go back. You have to live with that evil cursing for your decision for the rest of your products life ;)

I guess it's Apples strategy to make you buy new phone :D
 
bpeeps said:
What bugs are people experiencing? Honestly wondering because I've upgraded both platforms and I don't have any problems. I experience more problems with app updates than iOS or Mac updates.
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Currently using an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.1: Random SpringBoard crashes, often when launching Camera app. It looks like whole OS is crashing (shows boot screen with Apple logo), but it comes up quicker then an OS reboot so I'm pretty sure it's just SpringBoard crashing. In any case, even though it comes back quickly, it's not quick enough, and I usually miss whatever photo opportunity I was trying to capture. This happens in all kinds of other situations besides camera, though, but those don't usually bother me as much.

FWIW My wife has been having camera crashing lockup issues with her iPhone 5S on iOS 7, and my old 4S Camera app behaved horribly on both iOS 7 and 8. So random SpringBoard crashes may actually be an improvement.

Also, not really a bug, but my wife's iPhone 5S on iOS 7 feels faster than my iPhone 6 on iOS 8. Might be subjective, or it could be that iOS 8 performs terribly on all iPhones. I notice UI stuttering (especially when scrolling long lists), slow transitions, etc. It's not terrible and doesn't impede me in any way, but it is a departure from Apple's previously smooth UI experience that I had gotten used to.

I've told my wife to hold off on updating her iPhone 5S to iOS 7. But maybe trading random SpringBoard crashes for Camera lockups will be an improvement for her. And maybe UI performance won't degrade when there are less pixels to push. But I'm waiting for the next bug fix update just to be safe.
 
I read the title of this post as, "Apple Sending Encouraging Emails to Customers." It was confusing.
 
Ubuntu said:
You only have to read the part of the sentence you omitted in your quote:



The article is explaining how iOS 8 adoption numbers have picked up, due to such features as Apple Pay.
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I think the point there was that the most use from Apple Pay comes from phones that can do NFC like iPhone 6 and 6+ and those phones are by default already on iOS 8 as they don't support any earlier versions. So most who have updated to iOS 8 because of Apple Pay would have been those with iPhone 6 and 6+ and thus would have already been on iOS 8 even before going to 8.1, thus not really changing the adoption numbers by going to 8.1.
 
I was hoping they would offer upgrades at the apple store. They could do it like a kiosk with a dedicated person to man it. This gets people in the store and keeps everyone upgraded. I also think it would show something they can do that other can not do.
 
pubwvj said:
Apple needs to make it so iOS supports older hardware. They need to offer legacy support. They need to fall back gracefully on features that the hardware can't handle. It's very doable and they have BILLIONS in the bank to support this sort of work. It is environmentally friendly and would bring in hundreds of millions of users from the cold.

Same goes for MacOS X.
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The more legacy crap it supports, the worse it gets for devellopers and the worse the OS becomes. Not sure you want that. Windows 7 doesn't support all older hardware from 2002, even vista had scant support for much hardware and it came out 4 years after XP.
 
Hello ....

Please update and bring your 4s and 5 series phone one more step to being sludged up and unusable by whatever little tink we have figured out that no one will detect.

Cheers!

Your friends at apple
 
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