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Users Underwhelmed by iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Survey Suggests

Kylo83 said:
Widgets are a waste of time for me; we should have them interactive like instead of opening apps we can do stuff on the widget, what’s the point of just for looking at info
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Skipping a song or looking at your schedule in a calendar are good ones, but Facebook (for example) as a developer wants you in their app for the ads as do the bulk of developers that make money on ad revenue. I don't know if it's an Apple no-no to have interactivity or not. Been an Android thing almost from the beginning...

Apple's only like a decade and some change late to the part with this (and it's kind of nuts that widgets were a "feature" the past 2 years).
 
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Krieg121 said:
Apple's software has been mediocre at best for a few year now, same with HW. Seems the only major innovations coming from Apple is the fact they change the size of their hw and up their prices and people keep buying Apple products. Can't say I blame Apple...they're making money and if it ain't broke, why fix it? IMO, they are opening the door though for a competitor to take market share (we all know it won't be MS, 🤣). If someone comes out with winning combination of software/hardware, apple could see a strong competitor to the iphone/ipad/etc.
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Well I mean it’s only been 10 years, clearly a competitor is just right around the corner right? 🙄
 
I think my disappointment from Apple doesn't come in new features, but them refusing to refine and improve the features they already have. I mean the only thing they added to Apple Music was this lossless/Dolby Atmos thing. That doesn't necessary make the user interface better, when people have been writing in feedback to how to improve the user interface for years. I have a friend is wants to buy an Ipad, but I'm realizing I'm not using my Ipad nearly enough to justify getting a new one. What features could they do to improve the ipad experience, and that's why I was hoping they would turn Apple Books into like a digital library. Instead of paying 9.99 for books you will only read once, how about paying an annual fee for access to all the books for like a 30 day rental or something. That would be innovative and different, and that would probably get people to buy the Ipad, at least people who like to read books.

I guess I'm just bored of IOS. It really hasn't changed in 15 years, and watching the WWDC Keynote has made me decide that's the last keynote I'm probably going to watch because the hype is too overrated. I just want a better user experience. I want Car Play to work as it should. I want to organize Apple Music better. I want the Apple TV App to work, because now it feels a little too bulky and doesn't actually update when you are watching anything. I want to turn off automatic updates on the Apple TV and then have the OS show me a listing of apps that need updates. I want apps to actually focus more on updating on Apple TV because they don't. I think about 90% of that keynote are things I don't need. Now I know other people enjoy it and more power to you, but when this article says people are underwhelmed, I can understand why.
 
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Rogifan said:
And I guarantee you the people they surveyed are general consumers who probably want more superficial stuff that people here would call gimmicks.
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That is 95% of the consumer base though, isn't it?

It was Steve Jobs that told everyone at Apple when he returned they sucked at life because there was no sex in what they were selling to get people turned on. Apple's kind of there again across the board and has been for the last few years.

The next flavor of Android is looking really slick and refined, the OS keeps evolving in ways people see and interact with... aside from turning down the puke fest of dayglo colors and adding decade old widgets and an app drawer (that I really kind of hate in function), IOS is Samey. That's what this survey reflects. And rightfully so. You can't throw out decade old features from your competitor as new two years in a row and think that's going to get people hot and bothered.

At the very least, when they have these down years of interesting features, they could add spit and polish in other ways. Adding more templates, features, stickers, etc. etc. to things like iMesages (what they did add is....not...much...), iMovie, Garage band, pages, etc. "200 new templates across iLife and iWork" would somehow be more exciting than..... widgets. New filters and over lays in the camera app.
 
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Uff that 1% "Shared with you" support must hurt on Apple.. Technically I guess that it was a real challenge and probably they've put a lot of effort there. I see that as a nice concept but very few applications in real life.
 
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I7guy said:
Don't have yelp, so I don't know what you are referring to. Because you probably don't have apple maps or an iphone (I'm guessing), Apple maps now has look-around, which is Apples' version of street view. Very quick to criticize and very slow to accept proof.
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Try viewing business photos, I have attached a screenshot from my iPad Pro (never use it BTW)
 

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Well, as a developer, I’m quite excited about several new features and API updates. There is a lot of good stuff in these releases… and it was a WWDC after all. I’d expect to see several hidden features in the respective operating systems alongside the announcement of new hardware in a few months.
 
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cmaier said:
Things like “ipad widgets on desktop” shouldn’t even count. It was almost like apple purposely didn’t given ipad certain features last year just so they’d have something to provide this year.
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Eh, I'd venture a guess that was less "purposely" and more timing issues. But I can understand the pain. But I'm happy for them to do the occasional cleanup pass - I don't need a bunch of crazy new mostly-working features every year.
 
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Channan said:
On one hand, I want the next iPhone to be called iPhone 13 because of that ridiculous fear of a number. I think it would be hilarious to see people want to upgrade so bad but having to refuse because they’re scared of the iPhone’s name.

One the other hand, I’ve always wanted them to drop the specific names of each iPhone and just start calling it iPhone and specify which model it is by the year it was released. Macs are named and identified this way. I don’t own a MacBook 18S Pro Max. The iPads also changed to this type of naming, and if people’s fear of the number 13 is what gets Apple to do that for the iPhone as well, then I’m all for it.
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Naked apes using hi-tech devices. Hilarious when you think about it.
 
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CarlJ said:
Eh, I'd venture a guess that was less "purposely" and more timing issues. But I can understand the pain. But I'm happy for them to do the occasional cleanup pass - I don't need a bunch of crazy new mostly-working features every year.
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They aren’t shy about announcing features and then implementing them in version .3 or whatever. If it was simply timing they could have done it at any point during the past year.
 
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icanhazapple said:
Let iPadOS with M1 chips run full OS X when docked with an external monitor.
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"let"

like it's just hidden away in the background and they've purposely got the feature turned off.

Let's not figure out how partition management works, how we're magically booting between two OSes, how we're managing data between both, how we're now needing twice as much space for all the apps required for both.

When you get into the logitics of how it'd need to work, it's a terrible terrible idea.
 
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I7guy said:
Don't have yelp, so I don't know what you are referring to. Because you probably don't have apple maps or an iphone (I'm guessing), Apple maps now has look-around, which is Apples' version of street view. Very quick to criticize and very slow to accept proof.
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Apple's look-around is available in a very few select cities. Not sure why you left that part out.
 
Who defined “exciting” as the success metric?
How does this compare with previous releases?

I think I might do a survey to find out how many people from a large cross section find iOS 15 “sexually arousing” and decide that’s how I measure success.
 
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chucker23n1 said:
I think the feedback is fair. Compared to 14, 15 doesn't seem like a big bump.

Introducing those FaceTime features is nice, but the elephant in the room is that they kind of ship in the wrong year. This would be fantastic to have in 2020. And, generally, I find it hard to explain why some of these features are coming now. It feels like replacing iChat AV with FaceTime set Apple back by a decade. If you look at the Phil Schiller demos of iChat AV, such as the one in 2007, you find yourself wondering how they squandered this. iChat AV used to pioneer this; now FaceTime lags behind Zoom and Teams.
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Yup. I told that to my daughter as we watched the replay. 16-18 months late. Should have been ready to go for iOS 13.
 
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urnotl33t said:
Yup. I told that to my daughter as we watched the replay. 16-18 months late. Should have been ready to go for iOS 13.
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That would've been fantastic. Shipping fall 2019, enough to have a few bugfixes in winter, so by the time the pandemic really hits hard in spring 2020, everyone starts using FaceTime.

Missed opportunity.
 
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