Apple and other companies spend millions of $$$ on research and development of their products. Why the heck would they encourage anyone to "jailbreak" their product ?
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iOS 7.1 Beta 5 Tidbits: Redesigned Shift and Caps Lock, Public Launch Expected Soon
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Apple and other companies spend millions of $$$ on research and development of their products. Why the heck would they encourage anyone to "jailbreak" their product ?
Disclaimer: please don't take my comments personally, I'm only using your post as an example, since it's exactly like hundreds or thousands of others, before it, in the forum here over the last few years.
That said, "why is _______ (fill in the blank, with the source being attacked or discredited) even reported?"
This is a unique phenomenon to this and other Apple centric forums. Attack the Source, the Analyst, the Publication, and on and on. Hit them with a low blow to help continue the spirit of Apple arrogance and superiority.
In other, non Apple forums, rumors originating from various sources are a welcome discussion starter. Rarely do the members get offended, take the rumors personally and go on an attack even if they don't agree with the source.
It's what makes Apple and it's community so abrasive and disputatious.
Perhaps it's a need stemming from insecurity or a need for attention. Or a burning desire to argue or create conflict, just for the sake of it.
It's certainly interesting, that's for sure
Or in case like this it can be more that the source's information about these kinds of things is generally so all over the place that it basically makes that kind of information almost meaningless at best.Disclaimer: please don't take my comments personally, I'm only using your post as an example, since it's exactly like hundreds or thousands of others, before it, in the forum here over the last few years.
That said, "why is _______ (fill in the blank, with the source being attacked or discredited) even reported?"
This is a unique phenomenon to this and other Apple centric forums. Attack the Source, the Analyst, the Publication, and on and on. Hit them with a low blow to help continue the spirit of Apple arrogance and superiority.
In other, non Apple forums, rumors originating from various sources are a welcome discussion starter. Rarely do the members get offended, take the rumors personally and go on an attack even if they don't agree with the source.
It's what makes Apple and it's community so abrasive and disputatious.
Perhaps it's a need stemming from insecurity or a need for attention. Or a burning desire to argue or create conflict, just for the sake of it.
It's certainly interesting, that's for sure
I most certainly do not disagree.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation, but I take all rumors with a grain of salt. I enjoy discussing any and all, but never give them a second thought when it comes to my decision making surrounding upcoming purchases.
No jailbreak, no update.
These features together aren't worth as much as some of my tweaks. For one, the user agent faker is so convenient. No websites harassing me about their app they want me to download, no mobile sites unless I want them.
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Sorry to be that guy, but "exponentially better" doesn't make sense for only 2 data points. Anyway, I know what you mean, and I hope a jailbreak comes out for it soon so I can get those improvements (if they exist).
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Because the first iPhone didn't have the tangled mess known as iOS 7 on it.
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I don't like the iOS 7 theme, but I'd take it without question over the Android themes. Their keyboards give me a headache because they're so ugly. Sadly, iOS 7 is like they took iOS 6 and averaged it with Android, giving iOS some extra weight in that average...
These features together aren't worth as much as some of my tweaks. For one, the user agent faker is so convenient. No websites harassing me about their app they want me to download, no mobile sites unless I want them.
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Sorry to be that guy, but "exponentially better" doesn't make sense for only 2 data points. Anyway, I know what you mean, and I hope a jailbreak comes out for it soon so I can get those improvements (if they exist).
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Because the first iPhone didn't have the tangled mess known as iOS 7 on it.
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I don't like the iOS 7 theme, but I'd take it without question over the Android themes. Their keyboards give me a headache because they're so ugly. Sadly, iOS 7 is like they took iOS 6 and averaged it with Android, giving iOS some extra weight in that average...
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Wow, I never realized how big of a deal this shift/caps lock key thing was for some people until now. I guess I never gave it a second thought cos it worked the way I expected it to work for the most part... The only thing that's not immediately obvious is how to turn the shift key into a caps lock. If Apple can make that more intuitive, everything else would be academic.
One thing is certain. I definitely don't want to see Apple emulate Android's keyboard. The stock Android keyboard is one of worst aspects of Android IMO and why so many keyboard alternatives were born on that platform. Maybe it's because I use my iPhone more, but I definitely type a lot faster on that than my HTC One.
One thing is certain. I definitely don't want to see Apple emulate Android's keyboard. The stock Android keyboard is one of worst aspects of Android IMO and why so many keyboard alternatives were born on that platform. Maybe it's because I use my iPhone more, but I definitely type a lot faster on that than my HTC One.
How about allowing me to select a single word or group of words in a text message (or iMessage)
Like an address that I can paste into google maps, or a phone number I can save to a contact, or a date or a name.
It's such a small thing, yet after 7 versions of iOS I still have to copy the entire message.
Like an address that I can paste into google maps, or a phone number I can save to a contact, or a date or a name.
It's such a small thing, yet after 7 versions of iOS I still have to copy the entire message.
This, and also the really unintuitive text selection in iOS. It drives me nuts trying to select text with precision.
Good user experience design based on Android! If blth did the same user experience design there wont be a difference between android and apple. All im saying is that its unique. I believe user experience can improve, but then there is room to improve no matter what.
Can anyone confirm what this means? Does it mean improvements to the existing voice, the ability to choose between two or more voices, or the replacement of the old voice with a new one? I really hope it's not the latter. I am quite fond of the current Australian voice!
When Steve demoed the iPhone back in 2007, the whole point of the onscreen keyboard was that it could CHANGE to suit the task. What happened to wysiwyg? How about showing the font and style while you're at it. Why are they playing with the style of the shift key when the correct solution is so obvious.
I am not British and I have thick Albanian accent. Strange how she understands almost every single word I say!
Couldn't agree more. I do this all the time when searching from the address bar. It's such a pain.
Are apple finally gonna be changing the case on key caps to indicate which you are typing ?
eg you type in lowercase, but the keys appears on the key caps remain uppercase...
I dunno, and may sound like a small/inconsistent "bug", but it would be good to see a change here.
Then again...... those who say this are usually used Android phones before.
FYI. The Shift/Caps key notification didn't really seem bad to me... Tap for shift, Double tab, for Caps...
The change of the icon slightly seems ok, but as for the key to act how it should...? I didn't see a problem with it.
eg you type in lowercase, but the keys appears on the key caps remain uppercase...
I dunno, and may sound like a small/inconsistent "bug", but it would be good to see a change here.
Then again...... those who say this are usually used Android phones before.
FYI. The Shift/Caps key notification didn't really seem bad to me... Tap for shift, Double tab, for Caps...
The change of the icon slightly seems ok, but as for the key to act how it should...? I didn't see a problem with it.
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They are just fixing security holes as they should realistically speaking.
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Same notification should show up in the all section where it could be cleared. If not, try restating the phone to see if that gets it cleared up.there is a bug where i cant remove missed notification, the dismiss button is non existant
I been using iOS 7 since beta one, back on June. I was never aware of this "problem" until i read about it on Macrumors....
1. Every jailbreak indicates a vulnerability that hackers can use to exploit your phone and needs to be fixed.
2. There is so much paranoia going on about the NSA, when it should obvious to everyone that the easiest and cheapest way to hack into lots of iPhones is to go to some people who developed a jailbreak and make them an offer they can't refuse (given the choice between some cash and indefinite jail time without a jailbreak, what would you choose? )
3. Just now on theregister there was an article about a hack recording every single tap on your idevice - only works when jailbroken of course.
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For a few years, all jailbreaks required that you connect your iDevice to a computer, convince it that the computer can be trusted, and then running software on the computer which does exploit things. So yes, security exploits, but none that a hacker can do from a distance, and if you have a passcode, none that a hacker can do without your passcode. So basically, Apple should protect you from taking a gun and shooting yourself in the foot, but they don't.
In the past, there had been one jailbreak that worked by visiting a website, and that is obviously a very dangerous security hole and was fixed very quickly. So figuratively, that would be a stranger shooting you in the foot because you asked them, but that stranger could obviously shoot you if you don't ask to be shot as well.
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I'm typing this on a MacBook, and my keyboard works exactly the same. You say "it should be dynamic". I promise you, if you used this for half an hour with the keyboard characters changing all the time when you are typing uppercase vs. lowercase letters, it would totally get on your nerves. You don't want unimportant things to change all the time and distract you from the real changes.