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iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates Just Two and a Half Weeks After Launch
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Sorry but I don't think the slow wifi and the poor battery life on an iPhone 5s is related to the storage capacity. Why would They keep the 16GB one if they know it is gonna become laggy after a software update?
My father and my sister cannot upgrade because they simply dont have enough space. They need to delete music and photos from the device and thats too much for them to do to update to ios 8. They are average users so I suspect that is the reason why its stuck at 50% ish. I upgraded and my ipad upgraded. Out of 4 devices in my household 2 upgraded and 2 didnt. There is your 50%ish ios8 stat.
Exactly, I don't know what I was thinking in upgrading so quick, I mean there are some things I like such as messaging has some nice feature to speak text in audio and send within the text or that it speaks your texts words in real time instead of waiting to see the errors. But really there is nothing of supreme importance and surely not worth all the hassles in upgrading to iOS 8.
Since I'm stuck now with iOS8, I decided to do a complete restore as new phone the other day, brand new fresh start, again this took forever with over 5000 songs in itunes and then having to re-sign into every single app I originally had so after all this time spent, I'm hoping it gets better. I can still see some lag in the music app when scrolling but I think overall a fresh restore as new might have helped some. I've noticed that since restoring as new that all my songs have loaded on my iPhone 5 and I have synched it again today twice and both times it has stayed the same, keeping all my songs and artwork, so it appears for the time being a set up as new phone might have helped with my synching issues.
This was my long version, but yeah your right the short version is iOS8 doesn't really offer much over iOS7.
Allowing third party extensions, widgets, and keyboards are all part of one of the biggest changes in iOS history. Throw in continuation, handoff, and all those items, and it's that much more of a change. iOS 8 overall changes more in iOS than many other versions, even if it looks pretty much the same as iOS 7.
I'm confused, if lack of free space is the main cause of slower iOS 8 adoption (compared to iOS 7), why would this be a new thing compared to last year? The space requirement for iOS 8 isn't that much more than iOS 7 was (4.5GB vs. 3.3GB), at least not drastic enough to cause such a large decrease in adoption rate.
Honest question, I feel like I'm missing something!
Bad move, dude. If you won't be her personal Apple Genius, some other guy will be happy to fill in for you.
lol yeah except she'd have to buy a plane ticket to find one since there are Zero apple stores here.
iOS 7 also provides the user to delete the auto downloaded OS installer package. iOS 6 and below did not.
So, if a user plugged in their device with WiFi on, the OS installer package would auto download and hold several GB hostage, without any means for the user to recover it, unless the user installed the new updated OS. On a 16GB iDevice on iOS 5/6, the OS installer would take over ~4GB - unseen and undeletable by the user. That could have prompted many who didn't want the new OS, to upgrade.
With iOS 7, I have been able to keep iOS 8 out of my hardware without much hassle.
So, if a user plugged in their device with WiFi on, the OS installer package would auto download and hold several GB hostage, without any means for the user to recover it, unless the user installed the new updated OS. On a 16GB iDevice on iOS 5/6, the OS installer would take over ~4GB - unseen and undeletable by the user. That could have prompted many who didn't want the new OS, to upgrade.
With iOS 7, I have been able to keep iOS 8 out of my hardware without much hassle.
1.2 GB difference in required space is a fairly hefty difference, and for different people with different carriers and phone models I believe the space requirements were different even, for some it was somewhat more than that, while for others somewhat less (and if for more and more it was on the larger side, that could very well be a important enough factor in all of this).
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There's that too. Might not be a big contributing factor behind it all, but still a factor nonetheless.
Dropping the Apple because of IOS 8
Planned obsolescence is one thing, but deliberately degrading an expensive electronics item is quite another in my book. Then, add in blocking someone from fixing the problem goes beyond the pale. Apple's IOS 8 has turned my iPad into an expensive, slow, glitchy, unresponsive brick and I'm definitely not happy about it!
Then to learn Apple will not allow RAM upgrades to the Mac Mini just ices the cake for me. This is NOT the way to treat customers. What in hell are they thinking?
I have been a loyal Apple user for fifteen years through thick and thin, but this does it for me. My new tablet and next computer will now be "anything but Apple" - and I will deal with the 'learning curve'!
Class Action lawsuit anyone?
Planned obsolescence is one thing, but deliberately degrading an expensive electronics item is quite another in my book. Then, add in blocking someone from fixing the problem goes beyond the pale. Apple's IOS 8 has turned my iPad into an expensive, slow, glitchy, unresponsive brick and I'm definitely not happy about it!
Then to learn Apple will not allow RAM upgrades to the Mac Mini just ices the cake for me. This is NOT the way to treat customers. What in hell are they thinking?
I have been a loyal Apple user for fifteen years through thick and thin, but this does it for me. My new tablet and next computer will now be "anything but Apple" - and I will deal with the 'learning curve'!
Class Action lawsuit anyone?
I just want to add another voice to the other loyal Apple fans who aren't happy with iPhone 4s treatment. And for me, loyal means basing my career on Apple when doing so was very unpopular. I've been an advocate for 30 years. I installed iOS 8 on my iPhone 4s. That was almost immediately regretted. Then I thought ok, I know Apple will release a quick patch for some of the egregious problems (like my battery life dropping 20% and my copy/paste not working and my performance dropping noticeably) so I waited. And when iOS 8.0.1 came out and none of these issues went away, I tried to downgrade and because I waited for 8.0.1, I was screwed. Apple instructed iTunes to give me the middle finger by disabling the ability for me to downgrade just a few days before 8.0.1.
So yeah, I'm pissed. They basically turned a fully functional iPhone without a scratch into a useless device that I want to toss into a wall most days. If there was a class-action lawsuit that didn't result in me getting a fancy clicker pen while attorneys got new Jaguars, I'd join it.
So yeah, I'm pissed. They basically turned a fully functional iPhone without a scratch into a useless device that I want to toss into a wall most days. If there was a class-action lawsuit that didn't result in me getting a fancy clicker pen while attorneys got new Jaguars, I'd join it.
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This is happening more and more for ios
Yosemite on the other hand raised expectations and has worked flawlessly for me - thus far!
One more thing...
Juli,
Your article is very good and accurate, however, it does conceal some facts that I think are crucial to the readers understanding of the slow adoption rate of iOS 8. Apple has released major iOS upgrades in the past for the last 7 years. Each one came with its own set of unique bugs, but this is no stranger to the world of software development. Having been an iPhone user and lover of Apple products since day 1, I am very much in sync with the developments of the company and its processes. iOS 8 in particular faces one unique challenge that previous operating systems have not had. The trend of moving towards larger storage devices is here to stay. Consumers have two options when wanting to upgrade from an older operating system, such as iOS 6 or iOS 7, to a new OS, iOS 8. There is a tethered upgrade in which the customer plugs in to the computer, and there is an over-the-air upgrade in which no computer is involved. iOS 8 required nearly 6GB of free storage space on the device when doing an over-the-air upgrade. Most people are using a device with 8GB,16GB, or 32GB and do not have 6GB of free storage space. iOS 7 required only 2GB, which made it much easier for people to delete some Apps in order to make space for the upgrade and then re-download the Apps after the upgrade was complete. Juli, I think that in future articles regarding iOS upgrades, it may be worth mentioning that people have been delaying the process due to a lack of available storage on the devices. Thank you for the in-depth analysis and update on iOS 8s developments.
Juli,
Your article is very good and accurate, however, it does conceal some facts that I think are crucial to the readers understanding of the slow adoption rate of iOS 8. Apple has released major iOS upgrades in the past for the last 7 years. Each one came with its own set of unique bugs, but this is no stranger to the world of software development. Having been an iPhone user and lover of Apple products since day 1, I am very much in sync with the developments of the company and its processes. iOS 8 in particular faces one unique challenge that previous operating systems have not had. The trend of moving towards larger storage devices is here to stay. Consumers have two options when wanting to upgrade from an older operating system, such as iOS 6 or iOS 7, to a new OS, iOS 8. There is a tethered upgrade in which the customer plugs in to the computer, and there is an over-the-air upgrade in which no computer is involved. iOS 8 required nearly 6GB of free storage space on the device when doing an over-the-air upgrade. Most people are using a device with 8GB,16GB, or 32GB and do not have 6GB of free storage space. iOS 7 required only 2GB, which made it much easier for people to delete some Apps in order to make space for the upgrade and then re-download the Apps after the upgrade was complete. Juli, I think that in future articles regarding iOS upgrades, it may be worth mentioning that people have been delaying the process due to a lack of available storage on the devices. Thank you for the in-depth analysis and update on iOS 8s developments.