Mine is NOT going to be upgraded potentially even after JB, but it's not as bad as people seem to be making it out to be.
This is my analysis from comparing it side by side with my phone on 8.4, using a coworkers 6+.
Granted i looked at the app switcher, never slid up on CC (maybe i'll do that tomorrow to see if its skippy/laggy), but the new app switcher seems kinda cool slightly laggy opening the window for it versus app switcher on 8.4 comparatively buttery smooth but nothing to lose sleep over. and sliding between cards even crammed together is buttery smooth.
launching apps, most launched only a hair behind 8.4, and in some cases, maybe even half or so in my estimations, beat 8.4 by a hair as well. performance isn't that far off from my limited time. its not so much performance is crap, but to call it a snow leopard of performance for iOS world, meh.
had no time to browse safari, but a co worker keeps an INSANE amount of tabs open, and though it had to reload most, i was surprised it held onto a few at all, even for a device with a leap in RAM, and does a good job holding onto the original image of the website even if it auto reloads as soon as you switch to it. i have a feeling 2gb/S cycle will greatly improve this, but maybe not eliminate the issue. bad coding will be the reason it'll still linger. same reason Mavericks safari seemed to do it a few times, and that's laughable on a machine with 8GB and an SSD.
perhaps 9.1 or some sort of calling internally at one infinite loop will resolve this once and for all and return to iOS 6 era.
what might be the deal breaker is stability. with the right combo of stable JB tweaks, and 8.4 on my 6+, i don't know that I've experienced a single respring, something that happened weekly on 8.1.1, a little more on 8.1, and a few times on 8.3 though it may have been a bad mix match of tweaks hard to tell since i didnt have much time to test before leaping to 8.4 ( a week of limited testing, ). i attribute this to stability of OS since my tweak base stays relatively the same between OS upgrades.
but i have an insane amount of tweaks on my 6+ on 8.4, not one restring.
5 minutes with 9.0, on a stock device, crash to apple logo. i don't want to return to dealing with that. 9.0 seems leaps and bounds more mature than the 8.0 cycle in limited testing of the experience, but still. its an x.0 release, crap is going to happen/ be flung and have to be dealt with from the end user.
i preordered 6s plus but if its going to be a respring fest, maybe i should second guess my purchase. i had an upgrade and got 6+ out of contract so it makes sense financially but i won't sell 6+ until 6s+ is jail breakable.
Kinda makes me wonder if i hope JB teams wait for 9.1 to release but if i have 6s plus ill want it asap regardless, and I'm sure teams are wanting to strut their skills before others trump them if they got tricks up their sleeve. though doesn't really matter what i want, things will play out however they will. both in JB and phone/OS regards.
This is my analysis from comparing it side by side with my phone on 8.4, using a coworkers 6+.
Granted i looked at the app switcher, never slid up on CC (maybe i'll do that tomorrow to see if its skippy/laggy), but the new app switcher seems kinda cool slightly laggy opening the window for it versus app switcher on 8.4 comparatively buttery smooth but nothing to lose sleep over. and sliding between cards even crammed together is buttery smooth.
launching apps, most launched only a hair behind 8.4, and in some cases, maybe even half or so in my estimations, beat 8.4 by a hair as well. performance isn't that far off from my limited time. its not so much performance is crap, but to call it a snow leopard of performance for iOS world, meh.
had no time to browse safari, but a co worker keeps an INSANE amount of tabs open, and though it had to reload most, i was surprised it held onto a few at all, even for a device with a leap in RAM, and does a good job holding onto the original image of the website even if it auto reloads as soon as you switch to it. i have a feeling 2gb/S cycle will greatly improve this, but maybe not eliminate the issue. bad coding will be the reason it'll still linger. same reason Mavericks safari seemed to do it a few times, and that's laughable on a machine with 8GB and an SSD.
perhaps 9.1 or some sort of calling internally at one infinite loop will resolve this once and for all and return to iOS 6 era.
what might be the deal breaker is stability. with the right combo of stable JB tweaks, and 8.4 on my 6+, i don't know that I've experienced a single respring, something that happened weekly on 8.1.1, a little more on 8.1, and a few times on 8.3 though it may have been a bad mix match of tweaks hard to tell since i didnt have much time to test before leaping to 8.4 ( a week of limited testing, ). i attribute this to stability of OS since my tweak base stays relatively the same between OS upgrades.
but i have an insane amount of tweaks on my 6+ on 8.4, not one restring.
5 minutes with 9.0, on a stock device, crash to apple logo. i don't want to return to dealing with that. 9.0 seems leaps and bounds more mature than the 8.0 cycle in limited testing of the experience, but still. its an x.0 release, crap is going to happen/ be flung and have to be dealt with from the end user.
i preordered 6s plus but if its going to be a respring fest, maybe i should second guess my purchase. i had an upgrade and got 6+ out of contract so it makes sense financially but i won't sell 6+ until 6s+ is jail breakable.
Kinda makes me wonder if i hope JB teams wait for 9.1 to release but if i have 6s plus ill want it asap regardless, and I'm sure teams are wanting to strut their skills before others trump them if they got tricks up their sleeve. though doesn't really matter what i want, things will play out however they will. both in JB and phone/OS regards.
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