This is the first time I've actually passed on updating my iOS on all my devices. I learned my lesson last time. I won't touch iOS 9 until I get my iPhone 6s. I plan to leave all my other devices on 8.4.1until 9.1 comes out or I hear improvements.
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Ok I see that now. Didn't follow at first, sorry.
When you could still buy leaded and unleaded together the only reason you bought unleaded was to not destroy your catalytic converter and O2 sensor and make your car run like crap afterward.
My carbureted racer runs just fine on leaded or unleaded. I routinely use avgas (100LL) in it and my lawnmower/weedwhacker/chainsaw/etc (but in small engines it is not for performance gains, but because of the lack of ethanol). You can buy 100LL at any airport (that has refueling) and many Stihl dealers/quality small engine shops. You can get leaded race gas from numerous places to. You just can't get it at on-road gas stations.
All you need to run a new car off leaded gas is to ditch the O2 sensor based tune (lock it in "open loop" and realign the fueling tables), remove the cat and O2 sensors, and switch to copper plugs if it came with platinum or iridium tipped ones. You won't get the same gas milage without lots of tuning, but it'll run perfectly fine and you'll be able to add a few degrees of timing in there too. It is a very straight forward operation.
So your analogy is a bit shaky though
My money would be on people remembering something bad happened on the 7-8 upgrades so they will adopt a much more cautious approach to 9 than they did to 7 and before. Not anything else.
The fairly stable public betas might, in time, restore a fair amount of confidence in x.0 iOS updates.
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I dunno why people upgrade, new IOS versions just make your phone/tablet slower. I'd never upgrade until there has been a few months of people saying "it's fine" I was bitten by that with the iPhone 5, IOS 7 was so much better on it, 8 just made it more laggy. The same happened with my iPad 2, I wish I kept that on IOS 6.
I think Flipboard is a better app.
I'm in the US and can get U.K. news, coming the the U.K. Heck the U.K. news services seem to better cover news in the U.S. better than the U.S. news feeds.
I was worried Notes wouldn't sync up, meaning until I had El Cap my notes wouldn't sync from my iPhone (running iOS 9). Luckily, when iOS 9 is installed, you have the option to "upgrade notes" and it warns you about lack of compatibility unless you're running the latest version of OS X.
Also, Handoff now works where as, for an unknown reason, it stopped working with my Mac for the past few months.
Which features exactly were you worried about not working when running iOS 9 and Yosemite?
Because it was a complete new design and structure of iOS. It was new flat UI and very different than previous iOS Aqua UI, so of course everyone wanted to try. But it got realized in very few days that it is the dumbest design has ever made in Apple campus. No one likes these new flat, cartoonish and poor solid texture in their iphones. People nowadays just use it because they have to for their installed applications support. I came across many people who badly want that rich Aqua UI in their iphone, including me. I hope Apple listen to this.
Clearly with the release of iOS 8 and 9 Apple doesn't think that's the case, and with the way iPhones sell themselves it doesn't seem like there's much to push them to think otherwise.
I was actually wondering the same thing. Is it counting all the people that aren't on the official release build of iOS 9. I went straight from the beta of iOS 9 to 9.1 as I'm sure many others did too.
You mean all the features and security patches that users of older devices get?
Of course, if you listen to users on one of the first websites that pops up on Google when you search for problems with iOS devices, every single iOS update is the worst piece of software ever. No surprise there.
The truth is in the middle- most iOS updates work well for most people*, and the most vocal people are the ones who have problems.
*with the notable exception of iOS 8.0.1 on the 6 and 6 Plus, which worked for nobody.
Saved passwords are preserved only if you set iTunes to make an encrypted backup. Some items that are stored in the secure enclave on iPhone 6 or later (such as registered fingerprints and Apple Pay data) will never be backed up.
iOS hasn't gotten significantly smaller, but it requires much less free space for updating since Apple has streamlined the process.
Yeah I did on my 5S, no complaints here. Not like the 4S' horrible experience after going to 7.
I don't see an iCloud Drive folder anywhere. I'm on iOS 9 and I have iCloud turned on in the settings app. How do I get the iCloud Drive folder to appear?
isn't that the same with OS releases... older OS's are more secure because issues affected are with the latest ones usually ?
That's my stand on anything and why i always want to see first,, (i broke that rule with iOS8, so oi should wise up better)
Good to know. thanks.
That's my stand on anything and why i always want to see first,, (i broke that rule with iOS8, so oi should wise up better)
Good to know. thanks.
You are right on sales number point mate. No question about it. But why iphone has high number of sales in last few years? Biggest reason I see is they started making bigger screens and two models per year. Before 2-3 years iphone sales were struggling in front of growing market of larger screen phone. iphone 6/6+ came up with larger screen and results are rocket sales. Still iphone is super quality phone among all big players, I am not complaining about it. But most users who uses iphone since early years didn't welcome this flat UI change willingly. Its just feels like, somewhere in race of marketshare iOS does work but it lost its charm!
Have never had an inserted ad take me to the app store. But in browser web pages have had loads of inserted ads through an accidental touch that have taken me to other websites. iOS 9's ad blocking squashes all the inserted ads making a faster (and likely power saving) experience.
I'd be curious what people still jailbreak for. Three things that come to mind would be SwipeSelection on pre-6S iPhones comes to mind, changing default apps, and customizing Control Center. Those things aside, iOS seems to offer most I want out of the box.
I updated to 9 hoping it would fix my wifi issues on 8. Will give it a few more days to see if it has fixed
Where's your source for "struggling" iPhone sales? The 5s, 5, etc. were also the best selling phones on the market when they were new. iPhone sales have never struggled.
