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iOS 9 to Focus Heavily on Stability and Optimization
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Touch ID working flawlessly here. And I mean flawlessly.
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Bloated? Are you speaking about Android, right ?
That sounds very promising. This will probably be the last release my iPhone 5 will experience, so it would be great if it would be a little more refined than the clusterfck that iOS 8 was. I feel that the pressure to "innovate" is just too high in the software department. They push out new features that hardly mature, and now I have all these icons on my home screen that I just barely ever touch. I know Apple is an extremely wealthy company and is therefore bound to invest, but I don't have the feeling that all these power is used very coherently at the moment. Less, but better would be nice.
thats got nothing to do with the fact that 16GB is not a lot today and as i pointed out your "fine" argument could just as well be applied to much smaller capacity devices.
it seems quite logical (especially considering how popular iphone is as a camera) that as the camera improves and each picture takes more space that the storage space increases as well.
as far as making educated decisions and using your free will. sure however apple decided to handle ios updates differently without much announcements and it wasnt until you noticed the ota download had taken up most of your space that you figured something out. educated decisions rely on a proper flow of information.
I have never run out of storage space on my phone and take quite a lot of photos. Amazing what Photostream can do for you.
I had 4 Gb of free space on my 16 Gb iPhone 5S, and I'm not a casual user.
All this whining about the 16 Gb model is exaggerated...
Took the words right out of my mind. There's a reason so many people still hang on Snow Leopard, it had good stability, a good mature feature set, and had some great backwards compatibility still (Rosetta). If we can have OS's both on iOS Devices and on Macs, we will all be in for a real treat. I know it's harder for the marketing department to sell under the hood stability, and such, but I really think a Tic-Tock type release schedule would be good.
1) - Release new features, new GUI, etc...
2) - Focus on refinement of the OS, Stability, compatibility, efficiency, performance, with a few new features.
3) go back to step 1
This is what I thought we were going to be doing once we had OS names making it feel that way.
1) Leopard
2) Snow Leopard
1) Lion
2) Mountain Lion
I still hope this is the type of development cycle we head towards.
I also keep hoping we can move to a release where only language files for the appropriate language(s) used on devices would be installed.
This. I'm doing just fine with my 240 Gb MBP....
Just because I'm not collecting garbage on my iDevice, that doesn't mean I'm an uneducated user.
i have a few times but that dosent factor into my opinion. i used an 8 gig original for 7 years and ran out of space and on my 16 gig 5s the ota download takes a few gig.
my opinion is that its beneath apple to be using these used car salesmens tricks.
music, pictures and videos dont have to take up much less space on an iphone than a computer, office documents certainly do not and cleaning up cache from applications is considerably easier on a computer. and of course on computers you dont have to deal with os updates being downloaded and taking up a few gig.
that of course dosent stop you from judging that people that dont use devices just like you must be collected garbage.
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For 2015, iOS 9 is going to include a collection of under-the-hood improvements. Sources tell us that iOS 9 engineers are putting a "huge" focus on fixing bugs, maintaining stability, and boosting performance for the new operating system, rather than solely focusing on delivering major new feature additions.
If only they took this approach for OSX. Hey, I can dream right?
If only they took this approach for OSX. Hey, I can dream right?
Having gone from 10.6 directly to 10.9 last year, I can tell you Mavericks is no Snow Leopard. Disk access in particular is much worse; it takes far longer to boot up to a usable state.
--Eric
I cannot relate to any of the issues that the latest iPhones and iPads everybody claims to have. I agree, new versions of iOS may run like crap on older devices. When I updated my 4S and my 3rd generation iPad to iOS 7, the performance dramatically dropped, but I was planning to upgrade anyway. The 5S I bought afterwards ran iOS 7 like a champ from day one - never had any issues with the OS. Every once in a while, there was a random app that crashed for no reason, but I never experienced any kind of reboots or overall slugishness. The same goes for the iPad Air that I got on launch day - it's still running the latest version of iOS without any problem. It was a solid performer from the beginning.
I have an iPhone 6 since October and I don't recall having a single bug. It works perfectly. I use it heavily for almost everything, got a ton of apps installed that I use on a regular basis. And yes, I know that by the time iOS 10 comes out it may be a dysfunctional piece of crap, just like my old Apple devices turned into after two major OS updates, but for now, everything works as it should.
I never actually felt like the latest iOS releases were buggy. They felt just as solid as iOS 5 and 6 did at the time. It's been almost two years and I still have major concerns regarding several elements of the new UI, but when it comes to performance, my iPhone and my iPad feel incredibly powerful. I'm just reading all these comments talking about the awful performance of everyone's latest and greatest devices and I'm like : "What are these guys talking about?" Or maybe I got lucky.
I have an iPhone 6 since October and I don't recall having a single bug. It works perfectly. I use it heavily for almost everything, got a ton of apps installed that I use on a regular basis. And yes, I know that by the time iOS 10 comes out it may be a dysfunctional piece of crap, just like my old Apple devices turned into after two major OS updates, but for now, everything works as it should.
I never actually felt like the latest iOS releases were buggy. They felt just as solid as iOS 5 and 6 did at the time. It's been almost two years and I still have major concerns regarding several elements of the new UI, but when it comes to performance, my iPhone and my iPad feel incredibly powerful. I'm just reading all these comments talking about the awful performance of everyone's latest and greatest devices and I'm like : "What are these guys talking about?" Or maybe I got lucky.
My iPhone 6 Plus disagrees with you. I get 12-15 hours of usage on average.
Alternatively, just drop the 16 model and make the $299 64 gb iPhone the new base model.
That wasn't from the 80's or written in assembly then
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I do not mean to force an ultimatum. Obviously both is best. But if I had to choose, I'd prioritise quality.