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Software upgrades get worse for older hardware.
Software upgrades get better with newer hardware.
Seems to be the case with ios & iphone
No wonder, what did you expect?

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Possible...this is just another scam to get people to ditch old hardware a less than 2 years old to keep buying another phone.
Either that or Apple really did increase CPU performance by that much in the last couple years.
Isn't that the case with any hardware/software?
No it isn't, lately newer Intel x86 CPUs are getting only maybe 20-25% faster year over year. So some new OS feature won't kill an older MacBooks performance completely.
 
I am really behind the times, still running Mavericks on laptops and iOS 8.x on mobiles. After reading this thread, I feel as though I have lucked out at least with the mobiles. I've been toying with upgrading the OS on a 2012 MBP for awhile now. Less reluctance than laziness I guess.
 
Bloody hate the damn annoying update notifications. I deleted the update file more than 10 times now and it still automatically downloads the update eating up my storage despite declining it many times. If I want to, I'll do it myself. Someone need to sue Apple over this. Downloading and eating up storage without user's consent.

Now, Applefanboys and AppleShareHolders be like, you're declining it wrong.
More power to you! I wonder what the percentage of apps were broken because of the new OS version.
[doublepost=1452657710][/doublepost]Its one thing to advertise the adoption of the new ios, i wonder what the percentage of apps are no long working and need to get updated.
 
Seriously, what's the point? To laugh at Android? And then?

No.

The point is that a developer sees that and knows that he/she can use iOS 8 API's and the App will be available for 94% of iOS users. And they can call iOS 9 API's and that functionality will be available for 75% of users.

If an Android developer DARES to use Marshmallow API's, the App will only be available to 0.7% of the users, meaning it's not commercially viable.
 
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No wonder, what did you expect?

iPhone-6-processor-performance.png
Either that or Apple really did increase CPU performance by that much in the last couple years.
No it isn't, lately newer Intel x86 CPUs are getting only maybe 20-25% faster year over year. So some new OS feature won't kill an older MacBooks performance completely.
I know right? I mean...with ipad 2..it was lasted for a long time.
 
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Guys, let's take a moment to realize that 75% is 3/4 of a pie. Also, 19%+7%+75% ≠ 100%. I understand the possibility of decimals, but that would still mean that iOS 9 has at least 3/4 of the pie. The mathematician inside of me is slowly dying.
 
More power to you! I wonder what the percentage of apps were broken because of the new OS version.
[doublepost=1452657710][/doublepost]Its one thing to advertise the adoption of the new ios, i wonder what the percentage of apps are no long working and need to get updated.

Answer: A lot.

Basically the Return On Investment (ROI) is going down for iOS development, for all the reasons I've stated above in this thread. If you are lucky, the apps you rely on are at least in a "minimum maintenance support" mode - but this is only because some (not all) developers feel obligated to support what they sold you EVEN THOUGH they're no longer making much, or even any money. My observation is only the small developers that actually wrote the app feel this obligation - it's not to hard to roll and update to fix some bugs working evenings and weekends while earning bread elsewhere 8-6 (yes 10 hours per day is the minimum effort to even keep a SW dev cubicle job), but forget about any new features. If a medium to large-ish company needs to contract out (give me $$) or pull resources from another software dev effort, forget it - they'll remove from sale before they waste the money. Customers (YOU) can piss off - to bad if you're not happy with the $0.99 app you bought 5 years ago, besides, you got what you paid for....

In the past, Apple was spinning new releases with useful features and a high level of quality. Sure, no one expects the pace of innovation to maintain past intensity. But back then it made sense for developers to aggressively update apps to take advantage of new iOS features because everything was on the upside. Now it's obvious (again, see above) Apple is jeopardizing developer ROI due their own selfish priorities, which frankly have not yielded the next big thing. Sorry, the Watch, iPad Pro, and ATV4 are not killers - doing all these products in a short period came at the cost of hurting App developer ROI. Shelving or just delaying one to free resources for iOS release quality would not have hurt Apple, but you can't expect developers, even profitable ones, to take up slack Apple could have shouldered.

It's been reported that the top grossing ATV4 games are only making ~100/day. That results in near zero or less ROI for porting a game to the platform. The future of TV (or any other platform i.e. watch) is not apps if no one can make money on them.

The only apps you'll see in the future will be supported by some other revenue source like selling shoes or something (see: GILT). Even the successful paid apps will not last very much longer (see: Rovio Angry Birds, et al:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...unces-layoffs-as-profits-continue-to-fall.htm
).

Pure apps are over.
 
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Think twice.
Once you update, there is no going back.

Thought about it. Still updating and pretty quickly. Why on earth would I want to go back?

They should have an additional pie chart showing how many of that 75% of iOS 9 users would rather be on a previous iOS version and are being prevented from downgrading by Apple.

It just doesn't get old, does it?
 
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Thought about it. Still updating and pretty quickly. Why on earth would I want to go back?



It just doesn't get old, does it?
I thought about it too, probably for about half the time it took you to come up with your s(n)arky reply.
Maybe somebody has an App they rely on that is buggy or inoperative on a later release. Maybe a device that doesn’t perform as well either.
That so hard to get into your head?

What does get old mate I tell ya, is your fanboy replies.
 
I thought about it too, probably for about half the time it took you to come up with your s(n)arky reply.
Maybe somebody has an App they rely on that is buggy or inoperative on a later release. Maybe a device that doesn’t perform as well either.
That so hard to get into your head?

What does get old mate I tell ya, is your fanboy replies.

I bet these people you are talking about (you know, the ones with old devices like iPhone 4 or 4s or iPad 1 who update the iOS and expect the granny to fly on the latest hoverboard) are minority. You have to be absolute daft to update the oldest device around to the latest iOS and expect it to run just as smooth as the latest device. In a real life I have never met anyone who said "wish I could revert back to the previous iOS" These people are typically found in places like this forum.
 
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"As iOS 9 adoption grows, the number of people using iOS 8 and earlier operating systems has declined."

Oh really.
 
People on older iOS probably can't update because of outdated hardware. There is no reason to stay on 7 when 9 is the better beefier OS
 
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Guys, let's take a moment to realize that 75% is 3/4 of a pie. Also, 19%+7%+75% ≠ 100%. I understand the possibility of decimals, but that would still mean that iOS 9 has at least 3/4 of the pie. The mathematician inside of me is slowly dying.
You have it correct, because they are not using decimals they just rounded them up.
I did notice that the 75% is not covering 3/4 of the pie chart. (not at the 9pm position)
 
Currently I am still using iOS 8 and want to continue with it for a little time more. I am happy with its performance and do not want to upgrade without any reason.
 
I hate when people say ios is geting better, thats rubbish. Apple's quality of software is getting worse in every update. Even on iphone 6s when you tilt phone to landscape, 3d touch is laggy as hell, and in some areas fps drops a lot. Each update does fix 0 bugs that i have reported like 1 annoying bug is in notification center no notification text is in weird places.
 
Overall I am pretty happy with iOS 9. I stayed out of iOS 8 more or less. I upgraded all devices to the latest releases. Works quite well. So well that I am not sure I will move to the next revisions...
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Or Apple could just publish security updates for the older phones...since you know, I am pretty sure Apple knows that the full blown update will cripple the older iPhones.

I am running iOS 9 on my iPhone 5 and my wife is running iOS 9 on her iPhone4S. Overall it works quite well. So from my personal experience I cannot say the updated "crippled" the old phone.

Having said that - for me personally it would be better if I could stay on one OS and just receive security updates and thats it. I have very little need for the new functions.
 
Guys, let's take a moment to realize that 75% is 3/4 of a pie. Also, 19%+7%+75% ≠ 100%. I understand the possibility of decimals, but that would still mean that iOS 9 has at least 3/4 of the pie. The mathematician inside of me is slowly dying.

Just accumulated rounding errors. The pie seems entirely plausible (at least for those of us without dying mathematicians inside).

Let's say 19 is 18.5 rounded up, and 75 is 74.5 rounded up. That would lead to 18.5+7+74.5=100, leaving the largest slice of pie just shy of three quarters.
 
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