Stats are already outdated. The “rate” of adoption will accelerate. Ios 12.1 with Group FaceTime, imo, will be a big draw for many. Imo, ios 10.3.3 and iOS 11.4.1 are equivalent.
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Weird iOS 12 bug in my ipad... Add the text size shortcut to command centre then swipe the command centre open and change the text size up and down a few times and the ipad slows to a crawl and hangs. Bizarre.
Have our 2 iPad's at home switched over already. Have to say the bump in speed was noticeable on the Air 2 we have. A sweet update there, thanks Apple! Normally always wait till a point release before doing the phones, but am tempted with the stability and benefit of the update.
Exactly. From my anecdotal chats with friends, they were pretty disappointed with how iOS 11.0 ran. Ars Technica's data backs this conclusion up. iOS 11.0 was a bad upgrade for "day to day usage" on most iPhones.
If you went iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11, you were in for a bad time. Notes took 33% longer to open. Safari took 25% longer to open. Mail took 28% longer to open.
Apple has no one but themselves to blame for a below-average iOS 12 uptake. iOS 11 was awarded Apple's "We are proud to stand behind this software" moniker. You--without question--immediately lost a lot of hard-won goodwill, Tim Cook.
It'll take ordinary consumers a significant amount of time to "regain trust", which will happen more by word of mouth than another 'iOS 12 is super fast!" YouTube video.
The way you present these stats is misleading. 25% seems like a big deal, but the actual time is about the same as a blink of an eye. Moreover these stats are for the slowest device that iOS 11 can be installed on.
I doubt anyone notices a half second difference, and even if they do, most people would not consider that to be a “bad time.”
That said, iOS 11 is generally less stable and has more bugs than most earlier releases. But I doubt that is the reason for the slower of iOS 12. I would posit that the issues in iOS 11 would encourage a higher uptake rate of iOS 12, not lower.
No matter what Google does, they'll never match Apple when it comes to this. I don't know why they can't strong-arm OEM's. I mean Microsoft never let OEM's decide when Windows Updates are applied.
On my iPhone X it is like a new phone. I was always frustrated about the speed in which apps and web pages opened, everything is smooth and very fast.
I updated to iOS 12 on my iPhone X within an hour of its release. Suddenly iMessages got sluggish for me this afternoon with a significant lag between touching a letter and its appearance on screen. I restarted and it's back to normal. Otherwise, it's been fine.
iOS 12’s success might take a dent out of sales because you can say it reinvigorated some older models.
Saying this another way, Apple doesn’t engage in “planned obsolescence “ as had been claimed ad-nauseam.
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iOS 12 is exactly what I wanted: Revisions and Refinements. Users Don’t need new features every single year, they want stability and optimization having their device perform efficiently, that’s what Apple usually executes. iOS 11 wasn’t perfect, iOS 12 seems to be rectifying all those issues for the most part.
What others do & adoption rates hardly interest me
(however, agree that GroupFacetime, Screentime, Stupimotions will be the beads and mirrors that help adoption rates and form the keystones in a mass deployment strategy)
Idk about that because Apple got caught with its pants down just last year. Gotta engineer new subtler ways for planned obsolescence. Would be naive to consider if Apple gave that up. Same for any company. Apple isn't the only company to do that. Samsung withheld software updates until their newer Galaxies released in the past.
But to be fair, iOS 12 is a huge step up in terms of reliability. Problem is that we paid with progress that could've happened with iOS 12 that will be pushed back to iOS 13 or later.
Not sure if anyone reported, going through the posts though. Also, not sure if it’s a bug but post update I see the Bluetooth icon missing in the right top next to location services. So, unless you swipe up control centre you wouldn’t know the status of the Bluetooth. If it’s a bug, hopefully this would be taken care in next update
Though new features give choices and makes a device more useful. iOS 11 made my iPad more versatile than it was with iOS 10. Haven't updated my iPad yet, but iOS 12 should be on it soon.
One of my friend installed. Heard see observed improvements in ios12I'm waiting to hear from someone who installed this on an iPhone 5s as IOS 11 was a complete disaster for mine that I'm still aggravated and wish I could go back to IOS 10.
Granted the restart time is quite a bit longer, and launch times did lengthen. But is a fraction of a second really the disaster you’re making it out to be?Exactly. From my anecdotal chats with friends, they were pretty disappointed with how iOS 11.0 ran. Ars Technica's data backs this conclusion up. iOS 11.0 was a bad upgrade for "day to day usage" on most iPhones.
If you went iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11, you were in for a bad time. Notes took 33% longer to open. Safari took 25% longer to open. Mail took 28% longer to open.
Apple has no one but themselves to blame for a below-average iOS 12 uptake. iOS 11 was awarded Apple's "We are proud to stand behind this software" moniker. You--without question--immediately lost a lot of hard-won goodwill, Tim Cook.
It'll take ordinary consumers a significant amount of time to "regain trust", which will happen more by word of mouth than another 'iOS 12 is super fast!" YouTube video.
Well in any case it’s nice that a 5 year old device is still usable, and supported with constant updates.
I upgraded an iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPad Pro on day 1. iOS 12 is working GREAT on all of them. I like that it made my iPad UI much more like my iPhone X and I like the minor tweaks such as the on-screen notification the phone is in Do Not Disturb and the grouping of notifications. I didn't see anything in iOS 12 as a new "must have" feature but it is certainly a very nice refinement. I'm glad I updated.
Features are an attraction point, they can quickly be dissolved if stability for said features are not implemented correctly. That’s what I think iOS 12 really needed to improve the flow iOS 11 initially struggled with.
Longtime Apple user here. I'm definitely holding off from updating iOS for at least a couple of weeks or until the .1 update. And when Mojave gets here, I can assure you that I will hold off for at least 4-6 months since I use MacOS in my professional life.
Sorry Apple, your actions over the last couple of years have burned me and I no longer have the trust in you that I once did.
Sorry Apple, your actions over the last couple of years have burned me and I no longer have the trust in you that I once did.
Dear MR,
"Been stable" huh?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-x-screen-on-ios12-saturated.2138771/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/illegible-text-colors-in-ios-12.2138971/
I would say there are some pretty serious GUI concerns with iOS 12...
"Been stable" huh?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-x-screen-on-ios12-saturated.2138771/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/illegible-text-colors-in-ios-12.2138971/
I would say there are some pretty serious GUI concerns with iOS 12...
Yeah because 6 iphone models versus 400+ Android models kinda makes it understable why only 10% have the most recent version.