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OS X 10.11 Could Feature Control Center, 'Rootless' Security and More, iOS 9 to Support A5-Based Devices

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Is it me or do the iPhone4s's look super tiny in this article? Almost like mini phones! Crazy to think just 2-3 years ago, these were the best things since sliced bread.
 
I don't see the point of music controls in Control Center. Mac keyboards already have buttons for this which is quicker than using a mouse to hover for play/pause and back/next.
 
Does this mean there will be a "Notes" folder in the iCloud Drive folder? I'd like either a menubar app or a Finder notation for sync status. I often didn't know what was done and what was still uploading or the progress of the upload so I went back to Dropbox and OneDrive.
 
applesith said:
I don't see the point of music controls in Control Center. Mac keyboards already have buttons for this which is quicker than using a mouse to hover for play/pause and back/next.
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I'm not on the OSX on iPad pro bandwagon but maybe, what if you have no keyboard?
 
applesith said:
I don't see the point of music controls in Control Center. Mac keyboards already have buttons for this which is quicker than using a mouse to hover for play/pause and back/next.
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Well, we don't know what additional functionality Apple could bring to it. I agree that the keyboard is much faster for volume, music controls, and display brightness settings, but I haven't completely discounted it's usefulness.
 
At this point, I'd be shocked if the A5 continued to get support. Their strains to optimize iOS 8 to run smoother on A5 devices perfectly demonstrates how difficult the task is and with none of their first and second tier iOS devices running it (and with most iPad 2 and iPhone 4s users having sold their devices in favor of newer versions), they don't have much incentive to keep supporting it.
 
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Apple is also reportedly working on a major new kernel-level security system called "Rootless" for OS X and iOS that will help curb malware and protect sensitive data by prohibiting users from accessing certain protected files on Mac and iOS devices. "Rootless" appears to be a permanent feature of iOS, much to the chagrin of the jailbreaking community, but can likely be disabled on OS X.
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This seems, that apple is going to be pushing the sandboxing style of apps even more for OSX. I dont remember when it started exactly but you have to edit things in the security to allow apps to be installed that are outside the mac app store. More and more looking like getting rid of file systems and pushing icloud drive. This looks cool and interesting and terrible at the same time.
 
thekeyring said:
Looking forward to these.

A5 support will keep a lot of people happy. I'm just glad my <2 year old 5C won't get dropped, as some people suggested.
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They kind of have to. The are still selling the A5-based original iPad mini. It doesn't look good if they sell somebody an iPad mini on 15 September that then cannot get the iOS 9 update three days later.
 
Yebubbleman said:
At this point, I'd be shocked if the A5 continued to get support. Their strains to optimize iOS 8 to run smoother on A5 devices perfectly demonstrates how difficult the task is and with none of their first and second tier iOS devices running it (and with most iPad 2 and iPhone 4s users having sold their devices in favor of newer versions), they don't have much incentive to keep supporting it.
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The original iPad mini uses an A5 and they still sell it (and if we discount the TouchID addition to the iPad mini 2, aka iPad mini retina, in the form of the iPad mini 3, there still is a second tier device still using the A5).
 
cmChimera said:
Serious question: Can anyone tell me how control center on a Mac is practical? I'm just trying to figure out why it's necessary with the "Today" and a Menu Bar.
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Personally, I would enjoy the change for two reasons:

  1. My menu bar is a soup of icons, and a few of these—wifi, volume, Airplay, and other utilities—would be nicer off screen in a Control Center.
  2. I switch devices from Mac to iPhone to Mac to iPad to Mac all day…*consistency here would be awesome.
 
Sources within Apple are particularly enthusiastic about a new security system called Rootless, which is being described internally as a “huge,” kernel-level feature for both OS X and iOS. To prevent malware, increase the safety of extensions, and preserve the security of sensitive data, Rootless will prevent even administrative-level users from being able to access certain protected files on Apple devices. Sources say that Rootless will be a heavy blow to the jailbreak community on iOS, though it can supposedly be disabled on OS X. Even with this Rootless feature coming to OS X, sources say that the standard Finder-based file system is not going away this year.
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Based on people already being used to not having a file system on their iDevices, and mac store apps being sandboxed, the move makes sense from that prespective. Will be interesting to see how users react to this in regards to OSX.
 
I like that Control Center.

The newest iCloud sync tech seems very solid--no surprice, since Apple is dogfooding it. PLEASE move Notes over to it! My Notes breed like rabbits.

It will be awesome if devices as old as the iPhone 4 can get iOS 9 and have (some of) its benefits. I'll believe it when I see it.

Is that does happen, it's a 4-year old phone getting not just some patch, but the latest OS. Compare to Android where your YEAR-old phone has probably seen the last OS version it ever will, even though you have another year of payments left on it.

Most delightful of all will be if my iPhone 6+ could hold over 750 apps without crashing, the way my years-old iPhone could...
 
AppleFan91 said:
All I want is an iCloud Drive app that functions like Dropbox. It's an iOS app and OS X app that lets me just drag and drop. Also, bump iCloud storage from 5 GB to 25GB. Kthxbye
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Where to would you drag stuff in an iOS app?
 
DavidBlack said:
I can't wait!
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Me too... some ideas I would like to see happen in iOS9..

1)5GB free iCloud storage bumped to 15 GB or more ! It's 2015 FFS !!

2)Personal assistant (Siri) I wake up every day at 6:30am, it would be nice if Siri had the weather and my schedule ready once I hit snooze!!! Without me looking for it... if I have to travel somewhere in the next day or so maybe Siri could remind me that it might rain and that I should pack an umbrella... etc.

3)Multi-screen apps on my iPad Air 2 is a MUST !
 
Generationally there was an unusually large performance jump between the A4 and A5, with doubling the CPU core count and introducing the Cortex A9 architecture, doubling the memory bandwidth, doubling the RAM capacity, and Apple claiming a 9x increase in GPU performance in the iPad implementation, 7x in the iPhone implementation. Subsequent SoC generations tended to increase performance 2x or less, meaning the A5 was equivalent to a 2 generation improvement, so the A5 sticking around an extra year kind of makes sense.
 
gotluck said:
looks like alot of good stuff

wish they would allow disabling 'rootless' on iOS too
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+1
The ability to jailbreak is all that's keeping me on iOS. If they finally figure out a way to make iOS unjailbreakable, which is what the article seems to suggest, I'm out.
 
Does anyone else agree that for iOS 10, it should become iOSX? Also, I honestly think OS X should become OS XI because 10.11 really doesn't sound right...
 
If this pans out to be true, i'm sure some users here will feel vindicated! And good for them, because their arguments made sense to me



If the 4S gets supported that would be awesome, but even better would be if it gets a nice shot in speed compared to ios8 and maybe even ios7 (though ios 7 ran fast for the most part, it did at times have laggy/slow animations akin to the 5 on ios 8.3)
 
nagromme said:
The newest iCloud sync tech seems very solid--no surprice, since Apple is dogfooding it. PLEASE move Notes over to it! My Notes breed like rabbits.
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Dogfooding is one aspect, the other is encryption. Standard email and thus IMAP doesn't have any encryption except for the login data (password). If Apple wanted to do something good would be add transparent encryption to their email service. Right now, iMessage is much more secure than email.

The problem is naturally always how to deal with emails to non-Apple-email-service users. In order for them to be able to read the email, an unencrypted message has to be send to Apple's servers (they could still encrypt it on the way to Apple's server but that would mean that Apple then has to have the decryption key). Thus, the only solution is only encrypt when all recipients use Apple's mail service (which far fewer of Apple's customers do than those using iMessage, as everybody who is using standard text messages is automatically using iMessage).
 
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