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How likely is it that you would recommend iOS 8.x to a friend or colleague?
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I always recommend someone to update, but a lot of people I know have old devices like iPad 2's iPhone 4S's etc. Also, I don't know a single person who updates with iTunes, so that could just be asking for trouble. They also are completely oblivious to the fact that things could horribly go wrong, and restoring the phone would need to happen. Oh, and when things do go wrong, they are helpless and say "dis update suckkzzz, why you make me update?!" Then they go switch to an android phone over something they could have fixed. Ugh.
I don't even remember, but since you brought it up I change my recommendation to 1/10 for others and 1/10 for quality and stability, since it fails to maintain basic performance standards and introduces stability bugs. Features come second to stability for me, hence 7.1.2 winning in that department for all devices I've tried on it like iPad 4, mini 2 and 3, iPhone 5.
If any person or group wishes to privately compare the results of this poll with the results of similar polls elsewhere: a comparison may be welcomed.
I do have thoughts on results to date, and on comparisons, but I don't plan to share my personal thoughts here. A sub-forum that's not product-specific might be ideal.
Wherever a person has posted her or his pre-vote rationale, I hope that subsequent voters have not been swayed by such posts. I suspect that not too much swaying has occurred.
Results here may reflect the biases that are inherent to an Apple-focused web site. I have no problem with those biases I should not attempt to change them.
To each person who refrains from using this topic to discuss the results: big thanks for your self-restraint.
That's certainly quite a bit for what seems like a non-answer. But perhaps that is an answer in itself.
Background and further discussion
True. If you like, take just one bit of that quite a bit:
True. If you like, take just one bit of that quite a bit:
a sub-forum that's not product-specific might be ideal.
Encouraging simple voting here (contentious discussion elsewhere)
Gentlemen, please:
Apple Sending Emails Encouraging Customers to Upgrade to iOS 8
three pages of comments there. I encourage general discussion of pros and cons under that article.
I make that plea for just one reason: I'd like votes in this type of poll to be not swayed by discussion.
Big thanks
Gentlemen, please:
Apple Sending Emails Encouraging Customers to Upgrade to iOS 8
three pages of comments there. I encourage general discussion of pros and cons under that article.
I make that plea for just one reason: I'd like votes in this type of poll to be not swayed by discussion.
Big thanks
All the bugs and how it slows down older devices. Only if I hate them would I recommend it
Sorry, but have to disagree with your list of devices that run fine, my iPad 4 locks up on regular daily basis, two ipad 2s are barely usable, even my iPhone 6 stutters from time to time. So ios 8 will be a 1st rate mobile operating system, as soon as apple release a device that works flawlessly on it.
Attention please to the opening post
I do not discourage strength of opinion.
The poll is very specific: How likely is it that you would recommend iOS 8.x to a friend or colleague?
There are myriad other topics where the strength of one person's opinion may successfully alter the opinion of another person. It's probably not appropriate to do so here without knowing whether a reader has voted.
I7guy, you have not yet voted if you follow first step one then step two (as guided in the opening post), I hope that you will begin to understand why I make these pleas.
I do not discourage strength of opinion.
The poll is very specific: How likely is it that you would recommend iOS 8.x to a friend or colleague?
There are myriad other topics where the strength of one person's opinion may successfully alter the opinion of another person. It's probably not appropriate to do so here without knowing whether a reader has voted.
I7guy, you have not yet voted if you follow first step one then step two (as guided in the opening post), I hope that you will begin to understand why I make these pleas.
I just did yesterday. I have told people before but this is the most recent one. The guy who sits in front of me in math class has a 5s and I seen him texting. There was no microphone thing on the right so after class I made sure to tell him to update to ios 8.
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What? No. Nobody here has strong views. Watch im just going to hope over to the political fourm and ask the people over there. I'm sure southern dad will be the first to say he as no strong views whatsoever
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What? No. Nobody here has strong views. Watch im just going to hope over to the political fourm and ask the people over there. I'm sure southern dad will be the first to say he as no strong views whatsoever
Suppose it depends if you have other iOS / OS X devices, if you just had a 4s though I wouldn't advise it. Performance drop so far is pretty big
Definitely not recommended until Safari or whatever the hell is screwing up Safari is fixed. I'm surprised this page didn't reload while typing this.
6+. I have to (following IT rules) use Safari's private mode for email and I can't have more than 2 tabs open before reloading begins. Every page reload triggers another login request. Ugh.
Who is that person? Are they a user on iOS 7? or iOS 6? Or not on iOS at all? Are you recommending they move from Android and that iOS 8.1 is a good time to switch?
The problem with the poll is it's too vague. I voted '0' because I read it that I have no intention of recommending a system update. If I was speaking to an Android user on the fence, then my answer would be completely different. Probably right near the 10.
You may be trying to avoid bias, but the result still won't make any sense without understanding how each person read the question.