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iOS 9.1 Web Activity Tapers Off After Surfacing in July
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If we think Apple doesn't love rumors we are kidding ourselves. This article doesn't reveal anything other than enough info to spin up the rumor mill. Good marketing really!
People already do that. That's why MR limits the discussion to devices on Apple IP addresses. They could be doing that too just to F with MR, but less likely.I should have added a "sarcasm" tag to my post.I'm a software developer as well and I know this.
They thrive on hype/rumors, we do most of their marketing for them.... After all, what else is their culture of secrecy for? Obviously not to keep from being copied, look at Samsung.
Do you really think Apple would have a problem capturing the functionality/accuracy of the Cintiq at much lower price point with their buying power and engineering? Granted they wouldn't include a bunch of dedicated buttons like the Cintiq but they'd open that type of drawing device up to a much larger crowd. I would see it as a huge selling point for hobbyists and pro's alike. I could see architects, designers, illustrators and animators using such a device in conjunction with their iMac or Macbook Pro. With all the work they are doing on force touch etc, I really don't think it would be too much of a stretch.
Out of curiosity, what is the big secret that is given away by visiting a website with a device running iOS 9.1?
If that kind of thing is a secret to you, then I will tell you the huge headline-making life-changing secret that will make you go "What?? I can't believe it!!" right now:
Here it is:
Wait for it:
You're in for the big shocker now:
In 2016, Apple will release iOS 10.
Unbelievable that this huge secret leaked out even after Tim Cook promised to double down on secrecy. Half the people here will say that someone at Apple will get fired over this, while the other half will state that Apple leaked this information on purpose to get more publicity. Tomorrow's headline all over the tech news will be "Surprise! iOS 10 confirmed for 2016 release!"
I could now tell you everything I know about when iOS 11 will be released, but that kind of secret would make people's heads explode.
They should only have events when they are releasing something novel, not just spec bumps or slight form factor changes.
"look everyone, we got ride of the oversized bezel on the sides.. we need an event to show off our innovation!"
I would rather they just lump events together and keep things interesting. I am funding there events now boring and never live up to hype.
"look everyone, we got ride of the oversized bezel on the sides.. we need an event to show off our innovation!"
I would rather they just lump events together and keep things interesting. I am funding there events now boring and never live up to hype.
What if I'd change my user agent string to indicate I'm running iOS 10?
Or, a time traveler from the future using iOS 15.4.1 on their iPhone 9S Plus 512GB.
Nobody is forcing you to watch these events, and despite what many people here think, the pre-event hype is not made by Apple.
Apple has always done product release events whether they had something "novel" to present or not. Between 2002 and 2007, Apple had hardly anything to present other than new iPod models (ok, they made the switch from PowerPC to Intel, but that was not the most popular release event). Still, they had events several times a year. I think even the most "boring" events since 2007 were still more exciting than, say, WWDC 2004 or Macworld 2004.
Due to the lack of numbers on the y axis, I'm assuming that the spike is a number in the millions and the lull after is somewhere in the tens of thousands.
iOS is OS X optimized for touchscreen
(Yeah, I know, you want to run your Mac apps on it. But really, it's not a good idea.)
A friend lent me a thinkpad yoga to play with for a week and I wound up then going out and buying a Surface Pro 3. Since then I've been using it more then my iPad and rMBP (though I still use the rMBP for light on-location video work). If Air Parrot had support for virtual desktops on windows, and iMessage existed, I probably wouldn't use the iPad at all.
My primary machine is still my nMP, and I dislike Windows. I find 10 better then 8.x, and I like how it auto switches between tablet and laptop mode when the keyboard is removed or folded behind but I feel more efficient in OSX, and prefer the *nix environment as opposed to using mobaxterm (though that does make life a lot better on windows).
Apple needs something like this. Integrate the iOS simulator into the OS to run tablet apps, and allow you to run OSX apps side by side would be really nice.
I can't be alone on this. A friend whose always been a crazy "fan boy" about Apple is the one with the Lenovo (it was sent to him for free as a demo unit) and finds he uses it more often then his rMBP as well.
Imo forget the watch, Apple needs a "Surface" like device.
I don't think they care and they are throwing the fans, websites, and geeks little bread crumbs of what's to come. Most folks that don't visit this site could care less.
If you look at how they're designing software, hardware, SDKs, and so on, everything points to Apple planning to do a major convergence at some point between iOS/OS X/AppleWatch/AppleTV and more. Not iOS apps running on OS X but universal apps like what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10.
The way El Cap adds support for Split View, the UI design matching up between OS X and iOS, and so on, it feels like Apple may just move to a single SDK for AppleWatch, AppleTV, iOS and OS X sometime in the next 5 years.
The problem with Apple is that they're too small to do everything right and all at the same time. They don't have the engineering resources that Google and Microsoft have. Note to others: money alone isn't the problem, it's the engineering and the way Apple is structured, Jobs set them up as a collection of isolated startup-ish departments with no collaboration between them. That's why they're having so much problems with Maps, iCloud and not so much with Siri and other areas where they're improving faster. It's also why iOS and OS X often have to pull resources between each other and so on.
Done and dusted. Moving onto iOS 10.
So how do they dictate what is being worked on in each version? For example, what would 9.1 be working on if not bug fixes from 9.0?
He already explained it, it depends on the efforts/manpower required to finish the code. If something is going to take 6 months to finish and your deadline to submit it is 3 months, that project will be assigned to some releases in 6 months, as in 9.2 or 9.3 milestone
It's different for each company but it is generally like this: Usually the managers and each departments would have weekly or whenever meetings to determine what can make the deadline and what's holding them back. It is also dependent on what feedback/bug reports they're getting from the beta project.
An example: if there is a small UI rendering issue that doesn't seem like a big deal and would require more efforts or they don't have enough manpower to meet the 9.0 deadline, they'd assign to 9.0+ milestone as in either 9.1 or 9.2.
Apple will intentionally ship a major update with known issues and bugs, that's just the nature of software development that have deadlines, which in Apple's case is less than 12 months as they need to ship it every year.
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According to several interviews with Cook and others, there isn't going to be a convergence. That's why they made fun of Microsoft not having a plan or knowing what they want to do. I think the keynote introducing Yosemite touched on this as well. Apple realizes that you use certain tools to get the job done.
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I'm confused. How do you guys know the size of the devices visiting?
And wasn't there an iPad that was announced in February or something? Think it was the 3rd?
And wasn't there an iPad that was announced in February or something? Think it was the 3rd?