iOS 7.1 Adoption at 6% 24 Hours After Release

[brianvictor7]

People are eager to see if it fixed the very buggy earlier version. I wonder how bad the first version of iOS 8 will be. Upgrading with Apple is very risky these days. But it has no effect on sales since the strength of the brand no longer is linked to true quality. Apples brilliant marketing creates the illusion of perfection, which is good enough to sell their product. Quite the accomplishment.

I do agree that the "just works" mystique played no small role in getting me hooked on Apple. Objectively speaking, Apple products have their share of bugs, though I tend to be forgiving of them because I know from experience how hard it can be to get everything just right. They do alright by me because they get around to fixing the bugs in a handful of months. For example, since the iOS 7 fix I haven't had my iPhone mysterious reboot itself for no obvious reason.

 

[sixrom]

I do agree that the "just works" mystique played no small role in getting me hooked on Apple. Objectively speaking, Apple products have their share of bugs, though I tend to be forgiving of them because I know from experience how hard it can be to get everything just right. They do alright by me because they get around to fixing the bugs in a handful of months. For example, since the iOS 7 fix I haven't had my iPhone mysterious reboot itself for no obvious reason.

I'm not so eager to overlook their issues. Apple is a highly skilled company I've done business with for twenty years. I know what they're capable of. Lately they're so eager to collect our money they rush products out to market with a very small effort at debugging them. This results in a poor customer experience, contrary to what they brag about. They've been very quick to rest on the laurels of past work.

 

[AppleScruff1]

No crashes since update, but the page reloading hasn't improved at all. I don't think Apple is going to do anything about this. The next iPad will probably have 2GB of RAM and the page reloading will history.

 

[SusanK]

Make no mistake, iOS 7 is FORCED on consumers.

No one was forced to use Windows ME and Vista.

I strongly agree. Apple's petty refusal to make 6.1.6 available to any device still running iOS 6 makes me feel Apple is showing me the door. I am acquainting myself with the options. Unfortunate really.There was a time I looked forward to updates. Now I am looking for alternatives. My faith in Apple is almost gone.

----------

I'm not so eager to overlook their issues. Apple is a highly skilled company I've done business with for twenty years. I know what they're capable of. Lately they're so eager to collect our money they rush products out to market with a very small effort at debugging them. This results in a poor customer experience, contrary to what they brag about. They've been very quick to rest on the laurels of past work.

Absolutely.

 

[mwearl]

Not seeing many battery draining reports here

Have read about battery draining issues with iOS 7.1, but I've updated my products and haven't seen any issues regarding battery life. In fact, I felt like the battery life was a little better when running certain apps that use a frequently use location service.

Is this just media drama or are others experiencing issues? My theory is that maybe users are running apps that need to be updated, but who knows.

So far I've seen improvement in:

Visual appearance ->bolder keyboard, selections are easier to see.
Better performance even on iPhone 5 (original) especially on voice mail.
DHCP to PCs when using hotspot seems to connect quicker - no more ipconfig /renew due to timeout​

My only glitch is also in voice mail. Have seen some visual glitches a few times and have had to close app and reopen.

 

[C DM]

Then the numbers are still wrong, either way, with this not being the number for how many people have upgraded. Simple as that. Good way to get clicks I guess.

Why are the numbers wrong then? It shows how many people with a particular version of OS are hitting a particular set of ad servers--it's an estimate based on a large sample, so, yes it won't really be truly exact as every iOS device can't really be accounted for, but it's a large enough sample to have a good idea, making the numbers fairly useful.

 

[zenobialewis87]

I had a crash during a facetime audio call yesterday.

Facetime audio call? I mean did you face it during an audio call or a video call?

 

[deluxeshredder]

The next iPad will probably have 2GB of RAM

... so one day, "the new iOS" will need it for decent perfomance and current iPad Air users will rush to replace their otherwise-fine devices.

iOS 7 is still very prone to memory leaks and often needs more RAM than Android 4.*, yet all modern Android flagships come with 2+ GB of RAM.

 

[AppleScruff1]

... so one day, "the new iOS" will need it for decent perfomance and current iPad Air users will rush to replace their otherwise-fine devices.

iOS 7 is still very prone to memory leaks and often needs more RAM than Android 4.*, yet all modern Android flagships come with 2+ GB of RAM.

I think it needs 2GB now. IMO, Apple has been one level of RAM low on the iPad since the beginning. The original iPad had 256MB of RAM and was slow as molasses; it needed 512MB, again, IMO. For obvious reasons Apple uses the minimum.

 

[C DM]

Facetime audio call? I mean did you face it during an audio call or a video call?

It means using FaceTime Auido to make a (VoIP type of) call.

 

[Wicked1]

I did it last night on all my devices!

One iPhone 5s, two iPhone 5, and Four iPad (One air, two third, One 2), iPad 2 has noticiable improvement on speed and iPhone 5s fingerprint perform better. Other changes seems pretty trivial.

I feel like my iP5 is snappier opening apps and general use after doing the OTA 7.1 upgrade, so far it is ok, even like the new calendar view, but not much else has changed for me

 

[zenobialewis87]

... so one day, "the new iOS" will need it for decent perfomance and current iPad Air users will rush to replace their otherwise-fine devices.

iOS 7 is still very prone to memory leaks and often needs more RAM than Android 4.*, yet all modern Android flagships come with 2+ GB of RAM.

I completely agree with this as I have practically had the experience of a sluggish iOS 7.