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iOS 9 to Focus Heavily on Stability and Optimization

levitynyc said:
Here's a better idea. Instead of having programmers spending countless hours trimming the OS down 25%, do the common sense thing and make the lowest end unit come with 32, then 64, then 128.

I can't believe a 8/16 GB iPhones are still sold.
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People buy them or are forced to spend more to upgrade, just what Apple wants.
 
anthony11 said:
It works on my six, but is no faster than typing a PIN. I guess it's supposed to be more secure or something, because nobody's ever seen the TV shows / movies where someone's finger / eye is removed to use for biometric access.
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It's a good thing that only happens in TV shows and movies.
 
anshuvorty said:
In all honesty, they still might. If as this rumors predicts and iOS 9 is mainly focused on stability and optimization improvements, then iOS 9 could be the Windows 7 on the iOS platform. What I mean by this is that the like in the Windows platform, the hardware requirements for Windows 7 was lower than that of Vista; we might see the same thing happen here if this rumor is true, so iOS9 may well support the 4S.
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Oh believe me, I hope. But at this point I feel like Apple is trying to get people with a 4S to upgrade at this point, and making iOS 9 for A5 devices is just an expense that they don't need.

Hopefully I'm wrong! :D
 
This should be done with every version. Instead of rushing and trying to pack a million and one features in it. I mean they opened the OS somewhat and has been a disaster in terms of bugs. I think with IOS9 they will fix this since they laid the foundation for much of the OS in IOS 8
 
Eric5h5 said:
No, there have been many posts from many people with various issues with 10.9. I thus conclude that you haven't been reading the forums here (or, in fact, anywhere) with any attention. Nobody ever claimed that Mavericks was a "Snow Leopard"; it wasn't marketed as such and nobody got that impression from it. But there are countless calls for Apple to do another Snow Leopard-type upgrade, which wouldn't be happening if 10.9 already did that.

--Eric
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Super, more assumptions. You can see on my profile that I frequent these forums almost every day. Calm down with the conclusions.

Yes it was. The entire WWDC demo showed countless performance boosting and power saving tweaks. There was no social media integration fodder like in Lion. Mavericks was inteneded directly as a refinement in the way OSX work, in reliability and speed.

There are indeed countless calls from these forums for another prophetic Snow Leopard release, mostly shouted about through those wearing some pretty thick nostalgia goggles.

Again, Snow Leopard had 8 revisions, it was not a finished product for a long time. That's more than 2 years (it's heyday) when it had bugs and kinks like everything else. Perhaps less than the rushed Leopard preceding it, and the sloppy Lion succeeding it. Being wedged in between two of the least solid releases of OSX it is easy to remember Snow Leopard as flawless.
 
Oz. said:
it's full of ***** whiners in here, get a life people











PS. iOS 8.1.3 works great on my 5S
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iOS 8.1.3 worked great on my iPhone 5 until yesterday. Now it works great on my iPhone 6

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elvislives said:
Thats a point release feature....



Please :apple: can we have a customisable home screen with live tiles?



the grid icon setup is getting a tad boring now.



And how about a close all Apps option.... doing this swipe one at a time sucks.
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I've never understood why people want a UI it be entertaining. All I want a UI to do is make it easy to launch Apps.
 
numlock said:
why does there suddenly need to be such a steep step? the first iphones and ipads didnt have 2, 8 and 16 or 4, 8, 32.

people will get the bigger version because its a) something they need and b) its more value for you money. trying to handicap the entry model is a lowball move
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We are saying the same thing.

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Rogifan said:
Considering Apple's profit last quarter was the largest in the history of public corporations I don't think making a profit is something they have to worry about. They can afford to make most of their software free so certainly they could afford to up storage at the low end.
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But they make profits because of what I just said haha.
 
I'm looking forward for an IOS 9 stability and optimization release.
I hope for OS X they focus also on bugs AND on service (icloud, photos,...) updates.

I would love if they also gave more depth to their standard apps on OS X.
Give numbers & pages more 'pro' functionality!
 
Awesome

I love this. It's great, because my first apple laptop had snow leopard. That OS was rock solid. Looking forward to another highly optimized release. I'm so excited. :cool::apple:
 
MacRumors seemed to have lopped off the end of the story title:

iOS 9 to Focus Heavily on Stability and Optimization while still ignoring the Music app.

There, that is fixed.
 
I still have 7.1.2 on my iPad Mini Retina. I already deleted about a half a dozen "Apps" that require me to do an upgrade to 8.X!

I may upgrade to 9.X depending how it affects the A7 with 1GB RAM.

I learn that the priority for me is to keep the speed of my mobile device close to when it was new.

Not sacrificing that for nothing that will slow it down to make it obsolete.
 
Michael Goff said:
Would you be willing to pay the support costs associated with supporting iOS 6 today?
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Would it be more than a new iPad every two years because the hardware is "obsolete"?

And what support? I can install Windows XP, a 14 year old OS, on my computer TODAY.Why can't I do the same with a 2 year old OS?
 
chuckd83 said:
Would it be more than a new iPad every two years because the hardware is "obsolete"?

And what support? I can install Windows XP, a 14 year old OS, on my computer TODAY.Why can't I do the same with a 2 year old OS?
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Because the mobile OS is made differently than the desktop OS. Also, you have to buy an iPad every two years? My spare iPad (2) came out almost four years ago and gets updated.
 
HarryWild said:
I still have 7.1.2 on my iPad Mini Retina. I already deleted about a half a dozen "Apps" that require me to do an upgrade to 8.X!

I may upgrade to 9.X depending how it affects the A7 with 1GB RAM.

I learn that the priority for me is to keep the speed of my mobile device close to when it was new.

Not sacrificing that for nothing that will slow it down to make it obsolete.
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I hope you know that iOS 8.1.x runs beautifully on the Retina Mini.
 
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