It certainly was! My heavens, I was so naive, I had no idea what a huge transition it was. It took a long time to get X really ramped up. Those were the days, my friend.....
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iOS 7 Beta 6 Arriving Next Week as Final Seed Before Golden Master?
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It certainly was! My heavens, I was so naive, I had no idea what a huge transition it was. It took a long time to get X really ramped up. Those were the days, my friend.....
Have her try Siri. It works for that too with iOS 6. No special commands needed.
They've had so little time to make iOS7 I hope they don't release and treat it to minor updates. It needs to be worked on flat out and possibly even made into a 7.5 before iOS8 is released. I don't think we really need yearly iOS updates all that much given it's such a short amount of time, but we need the teams releasing new features (obviously not marquee features) and bug fixes flat out until this is a stable as iOS6 is.
They want you to buy your kid their own iPad.
You're thinking like a customer.
....start thinking like an owner.
i love this time of the year, when most companies are getting ready to release their awesome phones and other products, it's really great.
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I understand and respect your opinion fully, but at the same time what you don't understand is no one can pick up something new and just use it. Everything takes some sort of learning curve, Apple expects by now that most of its iOS users know the OS enough to pilot it without fail. If its that serious to you(not to sound cliche lol) just switch. I'm not being a jerk or anything, just a suggestion. No one is forcing you to use iOS 7, as someone who used iOS since the beginning iOS 7 is extremely more functional than iOS 6, I have a serious problem with not being to control basic settings from anywhere in the OS, control center fixed that. When I'm on the go, I don't have time to update my apps, auto download updates in the background can now do that. Once again I respect and understand what your trying to convey, but, to say that iOS 6 is more intuitive than iOS 7 isn't fair. Out of curiousity have you tried all the betas from 1 to 5?
I understand and respect your opinion fully, but at the same time what you don't understand is no one can pick up something new and just use it. Everything takes some sort of learning curve, Apple expects by now that most of its iOS users know the OS enough to pilot it without fail. If its that serious to you(not to sound cliche lol) just switch. I'm not being a jerk or anything, just a suggestion. No one is forcing you to use iOS 7, as someone who used iOS since the beginning iOS 7 is extremely more functional than iOS 6, I have a serious problem with not being to control basic settings from anywhere in the OS, control center fixed that. When I'm on the go, I don't have time to update my apps, auto download updates in the background can now do that. Once again I respect and understand what your trying to convey, but, to say that iOS 6 is more intuitive than iOS 7 isn't fair. Out of curiousity have you tried all the betas from 1 to 5?
i thought there were 5 BETAs...guess i was wrong. well it's a good thing they have set the public release for 10th sep, it's not that far away, i can wait
On my Touch, beta 3 thru 5 have been fine... though reboot of 5 two days ago took a VERY long time after a crash (15 minutes)
My iPad on beta 3 could never find the OTA update for 5 (Went away for two weeks when the updates went live, and I think that may have messed it up.
I wanted to try it, because I've had several programs crash on the iPad. I suspect available memory issues, but haven't been able to verify.
That turned in to a marathon last night. Download the build. Try to restore from iTunes... 3000 error time after time. Page to review error had nothing compelling to tell me. Off to Google.
Ended up downloading XCode 5 beta 5, which then allowed me to restore thru iTunes... except, it hung up on the sync. Nearly no app sync (except for one darkened in a hung state that I could not delete), no music sync... background changed, and default programs were moved in to my folder structure, but that was it.
Ended up after a few hours of attempted syncs and reboot, that the iPad eventually hung on the Apple logo, like it had with the Touch, and remained that way for several minutes. (Too exhausted, I went to bed...)
Next morning, different story. Restored. Synced. Works.
May be a one off, but confidence in stability is a bit low right now. Certainly some polishing required, and devs to likely optimize apps over the coming months.
My iPad on beta 3 could never find the OTA update for 5 (Went away for two weeks when the updates went live, and I think that may have messed it up.
I wanted to try it, because I've had several programs crash on the iPad. I suspect available memory issues, but haven't been able to verify.
That turned in to a marathon last night. Download the build. Try to restore from iTunes... 3000 error time after time. Page to review error had nothing compelling to tell me. Off to Google.
Ended up downloading XCode 5 beta 5, which then allowed me to restore thru iTunes... except, it hung up on the sync. Nearly no app sync (except for one darkened in a hung state that I could not delete), no music sync... background changed, and default programs were moved in to my folder structure, but that was it.
Ended up after a few hours of attempted syncs and reboot, that the iPad eventually hung on the Apple logo, like it had with the Touch, and remained that way for several minutes. (Too exhausted, I went to bed...)
Next morning, different story. Restored. Synced. Works.
May be a one off, but confidence in stability is a bit low right now. Certainly some polishing required, and devs to likely optimize apps over the coming months.
As an iPad 3 user, Apple is hopefully working overtime on iOS 7 to ensure its stability across all devices. I have high hopes that Beta 6 will have taken care a lot of existing issues. On Beta 5 iPad 3, it's still very unstable.
To me, iOS 7 looks dated. But I guess everything old is new again, huh?
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LOL, no worries, I didn't get you wrong, I can tell exactly where your heart it is with iOS7 .
All my friends are switching from android phones to the iPhone. I want to use my phone with one hand so the four-inch iPhone is perfect. And yes I have used both android and iPhone and I just prefer the iPhone.
Agreed. I've seen the same trend. Those that got sucked in at the store when buying their phones and went Android, are ALL going to the iPhone now that their contracts are up. Realizing that all those "things" that the Android does better than iPhone don't really make it a better phone when it doesn't work efficiently all the time.
I do wish I could share things easier though. I do miss that from my Android phone.
I suspect like most the gm build will be annoying as any ui tweaks are. Just moving spotlight is going to **** up more people that its worth and I don't see apple actually replacing what was there with anything new which is worrying.
Honestly believe most will like it but I know a lot of android guys will still laugh at its lack of live tiles widgets and stuff that is sorely missing. Things like the clock telling the right time etc are just basics from my view point at this stage in the mobile ui evolution.
Honestly believe most will like it but I know a lot of android guys will still laugh at its lack of live tiles widgets and stuff that is sorely missing. Things like the clock telling the right time etc are just basics from my view point at this stage in the mobile ui evolution.
My take is that the public will not see everything that was shown in the developer betas. Also, expect less than minimalist artwork going out. Hell, I'd love to see a skins API on this version. Perhaps iOS 7.1
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Agreed. I've seen the same trend. Those that got sucked in at the store when buying their phones and went Android, are ALL going to the iPhone now that their contracts are up. Realizing that all those "things" that the Android does better than iPhone don't really make it a better phone when it doesn't work efficiently all the time.
I do wish I could share things easier though. I do miss that from my Android phone.
Nor will I miss the bundled adware apps nor the need for a security / virus scanner. You get what you pay for!
