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iOS 9 to Focus Heavily on Stability and Optimization
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Oh, and please let me turn those gawdawful extra buttons off on the landscape keyboard on the 6 Plus.
I'm still running a 2011 iPad2 and iOS7, and it's slow as heck (at half capacity). Can't imagine being completely crippled by 8. I figure I'd like to get at least 3-4 years per my iPad upgrade cycle.
Apple only hurts themselves and their ecosystem partners by insisting on a short-sighted 16 GB entry level storage for their iDevices. It should've been bumped to 32GB 1 or 2 generations ago.
I will never pay the inflated $100 Apple "tax" for upgraded memory, so have always stuck w/ 16GB on my iPhones and iPads. However, it has greatly reduced my usage of the app store and in-app purchases lately, because the constant storage management issues have grown tiresome. Whose pocketbook is ultimately harmed by this?
I will never pay the inflated $100 Apple "tax" for upgraded memory, so have always stuck w/ 16GB on my iPhones and iPads. However, it has greatly reduced my usage of the app store and in-app purchases lately, because the constant storage management issues have grown tiresome. Whose pocketbook is ultimately harmed by this?
That doesn't really solve anything. If they need to patch Safari, they simply release 8.1.4. Yes it takes more work than downloading a little update from the App Store but it patches and allows for updates just the same.
For updates to the core apps they like being able to release a iOS update as it allows for additional testing through the developers network. Also means they can throw in other fixes at the time.
I waited until 10.6.3 because of major graphical bugs on my Macbook 4,1. It still had some hiccups in other updates but overall pretty stable to daily use.
I don't any piece of software can be perfect on day 1 or even day 365, possibly never. They all had problems. Unfortunately some people on these forums hate on new software and OS but praise the ones before. . . then when do the same thing a year later.
Why should anyone pick between the two extremes you provide?
We want something more balanced: don't compromise quality at the expense of new features.
How ethical.
It means less bugs, faster development, and of course faster apps, etc. This is what happened with a lot of developers who ported their app to Swift.
Because if it really is stability and bug fixes.. People really should upgrade but they won't. Not really a concern, just wondering.
Considering the number of iOS devices Apple sells, paying software developers to trim down the OS must be a lot cheaper than reducing their profits margin on hardware.
Note that I'm not defending Apple still selling 8GB/16GB devices, I think it's ridiculous as well. But in terms of priority, if you have multiple options to fix a problem, you'll choose the cheapest option.
Quick estimate:
Upping the components cost by $5 * 200M devices sold in a year = $1G spending
$1G / $60/h salary = 16,666,666,666.
Over 16 billion man-hour of software development for the same price! Surely trimming iOS 8 down a little took a lot less than that
.Of course the iOS 8 trim doesn't free up as much space as actually having 16/32GB devices instead of 8/16GB, but in terms of rentability (extra space per dollar spent), I'm pretty sure the software improvement is still a much better option.
It should have been done earlier, but it's a good thing they are focusing on that now.
Apple is becoming too big of a company to be good for customers.
Anyone trapped in their ecosystem (especially fanboys) could be made to swallow a big load without complain.
fanatic (aka fan): a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
Apple is becoming too big of a company to be good for customers.
Anyone trapped in their ecosystem (especially fanboys) could be made to swallow a big load without complain.
fanatic (aka fan): a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
Hopefully they will redo the UI enough so that we don't need silly half-measures like 'reachability'...
It's not about insight, it's about budget. No one is that simple minded to assume this late in the iPhone game that there is only a 16gb model.
It's nice to be able to afford a buy the device you can afford. Not everyone wants to fork over an entire paycheck in order to have a few extra gigs. I can live with (and have successfully) working aroumd 16gb. You would rather everything be no less than 128gb.
A thing to keep in mind is that most likely the developers are split into teams that all work on a certain product within the department: Apple Maps, Siri, Springboard, mail, etc. Using the ideology that bugs should be fixed before new features are released wouldn't be cost efficient.
Managing a huge complex codebase like iOS with so many developers is probably pretty hard y'all.
Managing a huge complex codebase like iOS with so many developers is probably pretty hard y'all.
I guess I'm the only one here that is not surprised by this rumor?
To me it's obvious that both iOS 7 and 8 were enormous changes in the UI/foundations that caused a speedbump in stability, and that the next release (iOS 9) would be about solidifying those new foundations.
I think that this was already the plan and I don't think that the recent "public uproar" has a lot to do with it.
To me it's obvious that both iOS 7 and 8 were enormous changes in the UI/foundations that caused a speedbump in stability, and that the next release (iOS 9) would be about solidifying those new foundations.
I think that this was already the plan and I don't think that the recent "public uproar" has a lot to do with it.
Android still isn't what iOS is since the beginning: a coherent operative system....
Maybe it's better than Lion (haven't tried), but not Mountain Lion.
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I'd rather they just keep their code clean as they go.
Thats a point release feature....
Pleasecan 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.
Also want the close all Apps option and as for the grid, I'd be happy if they just allowed the option of icons filling from the bottom up vs the current fill from the top down. Make it easier for us without Freddie Krugger fingers to reach our apps on our new, larger phones.