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iOS 8 Now Installed on Over Half of Active iOS Devices
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It's easier to convince people to spring for another $100 if (a) you only get 16 GB for the base price and (b) the step up is 48 GB extra (and not just 16 or 32 GB). I don't know how large the percentage of people is that do so, but it is really profitable percentage.
Additionally, they also save some money by only having to pay for 16 GB (those savings are much less than the $100 gained when people upgrade, maybe $5-10, but then probably more people get the base model then upgrade).
iOS 8.2 will probably be released when the Apple Watch goes on sale. That will probably take care of 5/5S upgrade to handle Apple Pay.
Great - now half have this POS iOS version!
My families devices are crippling slow ( ipad airs - 5s's and 6 pluses)
And Safari is as fast it makes feel I am back in the dialup days.
Touch response is freezing and you have to wait for it to do some unknown processes before it is able to address user input again.
what a pathetic upgrade Apple - shoddy job - now fix it, because I paid good money for usable devices!!!!!!
My families devices are crippling slow ( ipad airs - 5s's and 6 pluses)
And Safari is as fast it makes feel I am back in the dialup days.
Touch response is freezing and you have to wait for it to do some unknown processes before it is able to address user input again.
what a pathetic upgrade Apple - shoddy job - now fix it, because I paid good money for usable devices!!!!!!
No, he really isn't. Apple has completely changed. The transition is almost complete. And they are smart as hell, as it seems like it's paying off to completely abandon long-time users and go for the mass market with disposable items.
But hey, I concede this is a matter of perspective.
If you enjoy Apple, then more power to you.
It's just that I need more than an appliance, and Apple has exited out of the market. I now have to hunt older hardware down, because neither their new hardware nor their new software let me do what I want, like it used to.
And there is still nothing in the competing market that is comparable. I have to have magsafe, their multitouch implementation, their multiple desktop setup, the uber-easy access to components for upgrades/repairs.
So, hackingtosh + Android it is. Yosemite and iOS are a full-on, HELL NO for me.
iOS 8 will never be installed on my iPad 2. So paranoid about it, I make sure my cellular is off and airplane is on when I do an overnight charge, just so Apple doesn't automatically download it using WiFi.
You mean from the company that shipped the original Mac without a command line, to one with the Terminal application?
Too bad it is somewhat glitchy and has stuttering worse than iOS7... Mini 2 is staying on 7.1.2 for now. iPad 4 already upgraded to 8.1 and it's not too bad, actually. Neither is the iPhone 5, I just wonder why the Mini 2 performs worse eve the Apple store Mini 3 display models were super fluid and without stuttering.
I will be recommending you for the Congressional Medal of Honor for your heroic deeds.
The Health app has never worked for me. I have three apps connected and the app claims not to have any data. While it would be great to have this function, it's definitely not a deal breaker.
Loving the 6 Plus!
Loving the 6 Plus!
inb4 "planned obsolesce doesn't exist". It does and older devices slowing down just proves that.
*waits for fanboys crying that I'm making false statements and that Apple doesn't participate in planned obsolesce.*
*gets popcorn*
This is so true!
As long as I've been on MR, I don't think I've ever experienced over 1% of the problems that have been laid out here over the years. I have a lot of Apple products, I update every year with iPhones & iPads, kids & wife included. I get a new MacBook Pro every 3-4 years and so on.
Don't think for one second I'm saying Apple is problem free, I have had my issues! But they were resolved quickly with Genius Bar or Replacement. Their customer service alone is second to none.
Please show me one computer product, phone product, tablet product, software and complete echo-system etc. that has the quality, and the flat out bitchen design, with the customer support that comes with Apple!
I would be interested!
All the problems Apple supposedly has, year after year, you would think people that are effected time after time would go elsewhere. I can't figure out why Apple is still in business with all the catastrophic failures, or the Apple doom.
Some will say that we are just Apple Fanboys etc. Well Apple sure sells a lot of products that make us Fanboys happy, and to non Fanboys ,or else they wouldn't be here complaining. I guess it begs the question, who are the idiots?
Or maybe we just have a lot of closet Fanboys on here.
It existed for awhile now because they never bother to fix the freaking bug.
I report them all and they still haven't got through it.
Another example, iOS 7 textview is broken with auto scroll on return since first beta, and reported by tons of developers. They never try to fix it until iOS 8. W T F?
I guess I'm just lucky. My iPad 3 works great with 8.1 (and so does my iPad Air 2), All my phones 5, 5S, and 6 all work beautifully with 8.1 (5 and 5S used for international travel, thanks t-mobile), and even my early 2011 MacBook Pro loves 10.10 and has no graphics problem. I must be living a charmed life.
Yeah... I don't want iOS 8 because it pretty much does nothing for my iPhone 5. I am the 43%!
I wonder if 8 brought over anyone who had stayed on 6. I think if you had already gone 7, it would have been a case of just carrying on downhill, but if I had managed to stay on iOS 6, I might still be on the platform!