Surge in Apple's iOS 7 Usage Revealed in Web Traffic Stats

[sofila]

I'm really sorry. The forums are not arguing about products and features anymore. No more tips and suggestions. Just talking about date of user registration, which side are you on, my screen looks better than yours, mine is bigger..
I've been a long time lurker, seldom grabbing useful informations from people that I recognise more "introduced" than me. I've always found in any topic some replies that I would have liked to write by myself. So didn't have much to add. But in these last months I find myself scrolling posts and topics "looking" for something inherent the topic itself.
Look at this one. IOS7 contacts on MacRumors -> Samsung Trolls vs. Mac Knights of Pureness.
I feel sorry for the many smart users I've happened to find in these years. It's getting hard to find their valid posts between all the others.

 

[gnasher729]

All that is going to happen is that the ugly stuff that is in iOS 6 will be replaced by boring stuff in iOS 7. That's about the best that can be hoped for.

The job of an operating system isn't to be exciting. It's job is to get out of the way and let me do things without me even noticing the operating system. So yes, boring is indeed the best that we can hope for. Thank heavens for an operating system that doesn't try to be exciting.

When I see Microsoft or Samsung advertisements, I always wonder what kind of people would be attracted by these ads.

 

[buysp]

And after the iOS rundown, Tim Cook will come out and say it was all developed on the brand new Mac Pro were introducing today, wild cheers will roar.

LOL, what's a Mac Pro

 

[iGrip]

Troll alert! One victim so far.

Sticks and stones and all that.

The fact remains that all those multi-touch gestures are totally unintuitive, and need to be memorized after finding them in the owner's manual.

Nobody sitting down at a Mac for the first time will have any idea of how to do any of it. Apple popularized Xerox's idea of an intuitive "Point and click" GUI, but has now lost its way in a morass of "must be memorized" gestures.

 

[lobeyonekenobi]

Sticks and stones and all that.

The fact remains that all those multi-touch gestures are totally unintuitive, and need to be memorized after finding them in the owner's manual.

Nobody sitting down at a Mac for the first time will have any idea of how to do any of it. Apple popularized Xerox's idea of an intuitive "Point and click" GUI, but has now lost its way in a morass of "must be memorized" gestures.

Unless you have a mind of a five year old child with ADHD it's really not that difficult, then again you seem to be one of those people who got picked on cos you were a smartarse and needed attention as you couldn't get it any other way.

 

[iGrip]

Unless you have a mind of a five year old child with ADHD it's really not that difficult,

No more difficult than memorizing what to type when presented with a flashing C:\\ prompt?

C'mon. The point is not how difficult it is to memorize unintuitive commands. The point is that the gestures are unintuitive.

then again you seem to be one of those people who got picked on cos you were a smartarse and needed attention as you couldn't get it any other way.

Bullies often issue personal attacks when they do not like others speaking the truth.


And the truth is that one must consult an owner's manual and memorize this stuff, because there is no way to intuit it. It is opaque, unless one consults some sort of extrinsic source.

 

[fivedots]

C'mon. The point is not how difficult it is to memorize unintuitive commands. The point is that the gestures are unintuitive.

Gestures are fine being unintuitive so long as they are not the sole method of accomplishing something. To me, they are shortcuts for users who are more familiar with as system. Much like hotkeys in most software. 99% of average users don't use them but they are essential for others.

 

[Premium1]

To be honest, many of Samsung's features are working less reliably than maps, yet they aren't such key features that nobody cares and makes a big fuss about it, naturally.

I agree it just puts more pressure on a company when it is a big time app especially one like maps, that you don't want a half baked version out there which was the reason many complained because they were used to using google maps that worked before the update and then apples version was hit or miss it seemed.

 

[Mike MA]

I hope they like what they see so it will be rolled out soon.

 

[iGrip]

Gestures are fine being unintuitive so long as they are not the sole method of accomplishing something. To me, they are shortcuts for users who are more familiar with as system. Much like hotkeys in most software. 99% of average users don't use them but they are essential for others.

That's a good point.

 

[Sedrick]

In several moments Samsung paid trolls will be posting all over this site how this as yet unreleased OS and the new hardware that it will run on aren't innovative any more, or meant for your mother, or not cool...

And in record time, you jump in with the off topic but obligatory fanboy samsung slam. Gratz.

 

[Ristin]

Why does no one on this forum have a friend that works at apple? 40,000 people in the bay area and not one of them has a drinking buddy on here?

I have family working there and he won't tell me anything. When I ask, he just smiles and says "goodness is forthcoming"

 

[lobeyonekenobi]

I agree with your comment about bullies, but that has nothing to do with the way you come across to people on here not that I suspect you care.

It's not like you're the speaker of truth and everyone around you is a liar and don't know what they're talking about, it's the fact you don't offer anything of substance, you speak more rhetoric than you know who???.

You are a shallow person who cannot communicate in real life so you come on forums like this and project your real life insecurities, sad sad person.

 

[Boomchukalaka]

And in record time, you jump in with the off topic but obligatory fanboy samsung slam. Gratz.

Guilty. Just seems that this site has become a haven for Samsung trolls posting on the boards. I admit I did nothing to help the situation.

 

[jigzaw]

alumineeum

 

[thekeyring]

One feature i would like to see: A means to go "back" on the iphone.

Often times you're in an app, and you tap on something, and you're jettisoned over to safari. To get back to the app, you must press the home button, find the app again, tap it, and hope that it's the same as it was when you left off.

I propose a two finger horizontal swipe to go back (or forward) between apps and safari. pretty good right?

Double tap the home button, tap the app you left. Happens to me quite a lot if I accidentally click an ad.

 

[britpoper]

On an iPad you can swipe left and right with four fingers to switch between apps. Something similar is sorely missing on iOS.

iPhone and iPad both use iOS.
The different thing is iPad's iOS version have 4/5 finger gesture to easily switch between opened apps, open the multitask bar or closing the app and come back to home screen, iPhone iOS doesn't have that, naturally due to the smaller screen size compared to iPad. You can get the similar gesture on iPhone using a few tweaks from cydia though (this is the single reason why I jailbreak my iPhone and why I don't feel the need to jailbreak my iPad).

To be honest, many of Samsung's features are working less reliably than maps, yet they aren't such key features that nobody cares and makes a big fuss about it, naturally.

+1
One example : It's so damn hard to get rid the keyboard button when you done typing and want to scroll down on SGT.

 

[fivedots]

iPhone and iPad both use iOS.
The different thing is iPad's iOS version have 4/5 finger gesture to easily switch between opened apps, open the multitask bar or closing the app and come back to home screen, iPhone iOS doesn't have that, naturally due to the smaller screen size compared to iPad. You can get the similar gesture on iPhone using a few tweaks from cydia though (this is the single reason why I jailbreak my iPhone and why I don't feel the need to jailbreak my iPad).

Umm, yes, thanks. I'm aware they both run iOS and that the iPhone has a smaller screen thus making gestures awkward. Not sure what you're getting at.

 

[Otterblue]

There ought to be a macrumors rumors.