I don't want fancy slow animations, I want snappy operating system. The op is totally right. It's better to install iOS7 cydia theme on iOS6 who fancy this.
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iOS7 is the slowest operating system I've ever used.
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How are you an iOS developer and you don't know that you can downgrade to iOS 6 using iTunes? There's absolutely no "find a downgrade firmware" involved.
You should assume that everything someone posts is subjective unless they specifically say otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_code
Google FTW
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You people are hopeless. There's a reason why non-developers are not supposed to be using the betas.
And at least as far as animation durations are concerned, could that possibly be by design and not related to debugging, beta, or anything else?
Sure. But I do not agree that the animation durations will be any issue come GM. I think alot of what people are contributing to longer animation durations are really caused by the slight delay in the actual starting of the animations. I predict that once iOS7 is released, it will be just as quick, if not faster, than the current iOS6.
My point is, it's too early to make judgements like this. People that are involved in software development understand the steps that are required. The slowness issues that people complain about are moot points. It is not fully optimized for speed at this point.
Assuming some of that is not by design. Too early to know for sure, as you said, but the possibility of it being by design is there and it's probably more than a minor one.
I love all the cockiness and superiority that users like to display in this forum:
Anonymous 1: If you were a developer you'd know this is a beta, duuuh.
Anonymous 2: I am a developer - ijustdontknowhowtodowngradewhenitsaseasyasdownloadingIOS6ipsw-thenALTrestore...
Anonymous 1: You like Android, so you are a troll, we "developers" and fanboys will bash you to the end
Come on guys. Let's cool it down. Who cares, really? Just from the comments it's obvious that most people here aren't devs either, but who cares?
PS: It's amazing how anonymity gives us all this sense of entitlement and that our opinions or ideas are superior and/or more knowledgeable than others'.
Anonymous 1: If you were a developer you'd know this is a beta, duuuh.
Anonymous 2: I am a developer - ijustdontknowhowtodowngradewhenitsaseasyasdownloadingIOS6ipsw-thenALTrestore...
Anonymous 1: You like Android, so you are a troll, we "developers" and fanboys will bash you to the end
Come on guys. Let's cool it down. Who cares, really? Just from the comments it's obvious that most people here aren't devs either, but who cares?
PS: It's amazing how anonymity gives us all this sense of entitlement and that our opinions or ideas are superior and/or more knowledgeable than others'.
I call bs, there is no operating system slower than windows vista
No, but seriously it's just a beta and save judgement till final release. Plus no one is telling you that you have to use ios 7, like my math teacher once said "the only thing you have to do is die someday". ( He says that whenever someone asks if we have to take notes)
No, but seriously it's just a beta and save judgement till final release. Plus no one is telling you that you have to use ios 7, like my math teacher once said "the only thing you have to do is die someday". ( He says that whenever someone asks if we have to take notes)
You might not have to, but likely as more and more apps become updated to be iOS 7 (and up) compatible you might actually need to depending on the apps you might need/want to use (not counting any other iOS 7 improvements/changes that you might need/want).I call bs, there is no operating system slower than windows vista
No, but seriously it's just a beta and save judgement till final release. Plus no one is telling you that you have to use ios 7, like my math teacher once said "the only thing you have to do is die someday". ( He says that whenever someone asks if we have to take notes)
I see his problem. If he would not have sold his iPhone 5 in March, it would have work. I think he tried installing on his Samsung. What a troll.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16997304/
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16997304/
The animations are what makes it slow. Sure they look nice but after so long they slow you down.
All public betas are compiled with full optimization. This is a general rule in software development. You want to test the code that people will be actually running. Debug code differs from actual shipping code and so affects the software's behavior, as does differences in optimization.
Now you might have some minor monitoring and logging going on in the background, especially if something crashes, but it has no discernable impact on performance. If you want to see something slow, you should try a debug version of Windows. It will bring even the most powerful computer to its knees. Normal optimized betas however won't.
I know internet forums have all types of people and one must accept this or just stop visiting sites such as this. But man, the complaining and whining that goes on here is hard to take some times.
I want a bigger screen!! Apple never innovates anymore!! I hate the icons!!
Gold phone? Apple is doomed!! Plastic phones? Cheap!! Ugly Colors!!
Steve would never let this happen!!
Just WOW.
Personally I've been on iOS 7 since Beta 2 on my daily driver and right now beta 6 is a hair (for those at home that's means SMALL) away from being a GM candidate. ie it's SOLID.
Let the complaining resume................
I want a bigger screen!! Apple never innovates anymore!! I hate the icons!!
Gold phone? Apple is doomed!! Plastic phones? Cheap!! Ugly Colors!!
Steve would never let this happen!!
Just WOW.
Personally I've been on iOS 7 since Beta 2 on my daily driver and right now beta 6 is a hair (for those at home that's means SMALL) away from being a GM candidate. ie it's SOLID.
Let the complaining resume................
Thats more or less it. Hopefully it's more of a beta type of thing and not an actual design decision that will still be there when iOS 7 is final.
I don't mind how long the animations take, I mind that I can't interrupt them. When you unlock the phone, I think the animation where the icons seem to fall onto the screen like raindrops looks nice. But I have to wait until it finishes before I can swipe to the next page. I hope that in the GM I'll be able to interrupt the animation and swipe to the next page as soon as I want to. When I touch the screen, that should take precedence over any animation.
Anything is possible. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I have faith in Apple's designers. I trust they will ensure that it's a smooth, slick OS that's an improvement over the previous iteration. I understand people's concern, but this isn't Apple's first OS. I think they know what they're doing at this point. They are also using the OS and I doubt they would be satisfied with an update that slows everything down. But again, we need to revisit this topic in a few weeks..
I had faith in Apple Designers, until they outsourced it (through their marcomms team) to god knows which creative house!
iOS7 is definitely slow on my iPhone 4S (beta 6), and I dont have any high hopes for the final release as its almost showtime. I might just upgrade to an iPhone 5 (with iOS6) right after iOS7 with 5s is released (5's should definitely be a better bargain then).
The design elements are in many areas incoherent. Yes the multitasking app/control panel/notifications etc were brilliant/long due incorporations but i just dont feel the team had worked together; instead pieces were made separately and stitched together in a rush. Someone re-designed the Phone App (only knowing the preset color code), another person made the Music app and so on. Extremely immature coming from Apple IMHO.
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Not necessarily true. How do you know others aren't experiencing this? Also, it could be due to the data he has on this phone and bugs in the OS that are causing memory leaks, among other things, given his specific phone's configuration and data set.