you just did the thing i was describing in my original post 🤦♂️ 😂
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iOS 17 Coming Later This Year: Here's What to Expect
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you just did the thing i was describing in my original post 🤦♂️ 😂
You've never submitted an app to the App Store it seems.
App Store has a 24 hour turn around time. I know this since I've submitted many apps to the app store in recent times.
If it weren’t for the 95% un-educated users that blindly browse social media and just click on anything that comes their way…
I wonder if / hope WWDC and other apple events this year will be live and in person again or is apple staying with pre-recorded announcements?
This is why I love EU, brings more freedom to consumers.
Missing the /s at the end of your sentence
I think iphones should be named by the year, as in iphone 2023 instead of 15, and probably iOS versions too.
Respectfully, you must be VERY unobservant. Fortunately, developers aren't, but Apple are ignoring their bug reports (and even Apple themselves recently acknowledged that they were doing badly there, which at least was something).
Cry me a river.
Why do you feel entitled to control what other people do on their devices? Apple allowing third party app stores and side-loading doesn't impact you one bit if you just stick with the Apple App Store.
It's not about the 1% ruining it. It's about not allowing giant corporations to become gatekeepers who censor and use their gatekeeper status to block competition (or worse). The EU has the good sense to recognize that allowing one corporation to have complete control over a platform that over a billion people depend upon is a bad idea on so many levels.
If certain apps leave, then don't use them if you're so intensely opposed to getting an app from anyone other than Apple. I've been getting apps from sources other than Apple for going on 40 years now and I've never had a problem with malware or scams or anything else.
I’m thinking they may change the naming scheme from iPhone 20 onwards (or else there’ll be an iPhone XXX in 15 years
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This isn’t a problem on Android, so unless iOS users are massively more gullible, I wouldn’t expect it to be an issue.
Maybe more importantly, apps on iOS are sandboxed in a way that should prevent any serious misbehavior. It’s fully in Apple’s power to make this safe, similar to how web apps are largely safe in a browser.
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With Apple focusing on the launch of its AR headset this year, expect the most stable release of macOS and iOS in a decade. Gurman will prove to be right. Apple likely won't have enough manpower to make substantial changes or add radically new features.
Fan render; not an actual product shot.
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Hopefully. There’s the fundamental issue that the careers of software engineers and their managers in companies like Apple are “impact”-driven. Those who implement new features with high visibility and/or wow factor are those who get promoted and get more raises. Those who spend much time fixing regular bugs don’t. The incentives are not aligned to result in higher-quality software, in particular once the first roughly-adequate version of a feature has been shipped.
It would be even nicer to get no new features at all and have all the bugs fixed.
Unless the app is strategically inconvenient for Apple or they have some other political reason to block it. If they decide to do that you have absolutely no recourse, and they’ve done it many many times just that we know of.
Just fixing bugs is boring. Too much bug fixing leads to more bugs.
I’ve whole heartedly agreed with your other posts but have to disagree slightly here. It is actually a problem on Android, every day there’s a new article about a banking trojan or other nastiness on Android.
I think you’re right about the sandboxing but I’m afraid that’s also why in the end it won’t be much benefit to users. Apple can still block things at the OS level that they don’t want, like prohibiting LAN scanning apps from seeing MAC addresses even though LAN scanning is its own permission. Or emulators, or all the other things we want that Apple won’t allow.
I think the key distinction is sideloading vs jailbreaking. It’s entirely likely that Apple will still require signatures for apps even in third party app stores. We still won’t get more access to the OS to do things that Apple doesn’t allow.
I’m afraid sideloading is just going to further the fiefdom of app stores that have sprung up the last decade. Imagine if you want Outlook on your iPhone now you have to install the Microsoft Store.
You’re right that it’s in Apple’s power but not in Apple’s interest, and we see how they’ve handled things like that (RCS, iMessage on Android, etc.)
Is this iPhoneOS 17 or iPadOS 17? They should really just call them both iOS so we don't get these confusing headlines.
Just let me put apps wherever I want without having to fill up the screen. I change stuff around but muscle memory is a pain when something is somewhere else.
I wonder what devices will be able to run 17? I only just got my iPhone 13 and ipad 9 in this last year. 2022.
I finally thought of something I'd like in iOS 17: the elimination of the app library. Also, I'd like to be able to turn off quick notes completely.
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