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iOS 8 for a daily driver?

Had all sorts of crashes from ota, reinstalled from iTunes and made a world of difference. No problem as a daily driver except some apps will need updating.
 
Papajuice said:
Had all sorts of crashes from ota, reinstalled from iTunes and made a world of difference. No problem as a daily driver except some apps will need updating.
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Same here, DFU'd with a nice clean install and it has been running like a champ. I also have 40+ gigs of pictures and movies on the cloud and it is working perfectly. B2 has been a great daily driver for me and probably a lot of others. You mostly hear from the ones in this thread that are having bad luck:)
 
Yosemite is far more stable and usable. While I had to downgrade to iOS7.1 almost immediately after trying out iOS8, the glitches, the bugs, the instabilities, the restarts, were too much for me to handle... and I used to run DPs on all of my previous iPhones, but now I just am not tough enough to put it on my 5S
 
charlituna said:
I wouldn't. The betas are betas and things will go wrong. And if something goes wrong enough that your phone is bricked in some way you are SOL on service. This is something every developer agrees to when they sign up and download the software. Apple even advises them not to use main devices because of this. So if something borks up your software to the point that your phone goes recovery and can't restore and Apple can tell cause of some logo change or such that it's iOS 8 you won't are cut off from service. You might get lucky and happen upon a store that will ignore it but you can't guarantee that and you have zero grounds to try to bully them into it since developers wgreed to this and if you aren't a developer you don't have permission to have the software so it's an 'unauthorized modification'
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We really need to kill this scare tactic. There is nothing a DFU restore won't fix. Period. Go ahead and try iOS 8 without worrying that you'll break/bork/brick your phone.

As for me, I've tried both betas and have reverted to 7 both times with the quicker of the two being from beta 2. In previous years I was able to deal with the little things that came with beta software but they're far more numerous this year. App incompatibility is the biggest issue for me.

Like I said, give it a go. Everybody's experience seems to be a little different.
 
Personally I wouldn't. I value stability over features. If you want to sacrifice the stability for extra features then install it.
 
What's a daily driver?

If you mean you drive a lot, I'd say no, because Siri crashes a lot for me.
 
Stuke00 said:
I figure that is why you are using iOS and not Android :) That is my reason lol
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What does Android have to do with anything? When I used Android, I would only install stable builds of Cyanogenmod. Android has nothing to do with this topic.
 
Stuke00 said:
I figure that is why you are using iOS and not Android :) That is my reason lol
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When was the last time you've actually used Android? Latest builds of Androids are far from being unstable. Perhaps you are mistaken, thinking of their security issues not stability.
 
Truthfulie said:
When was the last time you've actually used Android? Latest builds of Androids are far from being unstable. Perhaps you are mistaken, thinking of their security issues not stability.
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Oh I was just being a smartass. My kid has a tablet with Android 4.2 on it and it freezes up constantly when I am trying to install apps for her. Pretty laggy experience.
 
Stuke00 said:
Oh I was just being a smartass. My kid has a tablet with Android 4.2 on it and it freezes up constantly when I am trying to install apps for her. Pretty laggy experience.
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Yeah I don't know what hardware(and which re-skinned version of Android) you are on, but stock Android aren't that bad. Also 4.4 makes things much more stable not to mention smoother.
 
I am using it on my daily driver iPhone 5, and Beta 2 is still buggy, but it's not unusable. I think I have managed 10 or so bug reports, and that's ok, it's still early in the beta cycle.

Yes it frustrates me when it crashes, but at the moment the phone is 90% usable! and that's enough for me at the moment
 
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