My standards have always been very high and I have always been very good at attention to detail. So from coming from older versions of phones that did not stutter, I have definitely seen a difference in newer ones with the stuttering. My XR was so bad I assumed something was wrong and replaced it with the XS. Replacing the device was easy because the store agreed there was an issue. The XS had the same issue but worst, probably something to do with OLED screens. As for a bad batch, I don’t understand as there are a lot of people around the world with this problem and I am on my third replacement Xs over a period of 7 months. As for categorising what group I am in, I suppose you can put me in whatever group your opinionated to put me in but I don’t care. Would not lie about the stuttering because what would that gain me. My issue is simply the fact that why should I put up with stuttering UI and scrolling issues in newer devices. I still can’t find any new phones that do not have the issue in store. The scrolling issue is not on any older devices so why the new ones and why should we have to put up with it.
Also, really happy with the results of the new Beta so it appears that the UI can be improved or even fixed and will look forward to the new updates. Very strange that this update has improved the stuttering across our affected phones, but people who say they did not have the issue, have said that they feel the UI has slowed down in recent updates. Yes, slowed down but with less stutters and I would rather this be the case and compromise over battery performance. Would make sense if the frame rates were slowed down to mask the odd jitter here and there but not sure. Of course people with low quality standards and low attention to detail would not be bothered.
These days there are more products getting rushed out too quickly without extensive testing, especially products with OLED, 4K HDR technology, not all these products are perfect with constant software updates to fix issues. Just like when the 4K Apple TV got released without automatic frame rate/ resolution ability resulting in jittery video playback with dropping frame rates. Spent months complaining about that until it was fixed. That’s probably why people are complaining about video playback because there is no ability to choose what frame rate and resolution is being shown and the phone is trying to upscale and is stuck on 60hz.
I pay a lot of money for my gadgets and expect high standards. As I previously mentioned, I will not make this mistake again and wait at least a year to see how the products doing before getting it.