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Users Underwhelmed by iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Survey Suggests

Anthony Sullivan said:
How though? You really haven’t thought this one through.
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Ruing full macOS installation. Invoke tablet mode when no keyboard and mouse attached.

M1 is powerful enough to run macOS and tablet mode at same time.

Never understand why iPad can’t just take secondary display and use external display for full desktop operation. M1 iPad still just mirroring iPad display.
 
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Don’t expect to much and you won’t be disappointed
While iOS 15 has many features most will not be used by most people
Hopefully the iPhone 13 has some great hardware features in it. But once again, Don’t expect too much and you won’t be disappointed
 
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People need to be prepared for more of this. People say the changes are underwhelming and minor tweaks, but all the things people seem to want are also minor tweaks. Maybe they can put out one more “exciting” update by compiling all these tweaks people want, but ultimately we’ve reached a point of stagnation. These OS’s are excellent, usable, and difficult to improve upon. Until new product categories come along to change up how we use our current devices, I predict this lack of excitement is going to become the norm.
 
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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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Well, I mean, a new iOS version can't only be exclusively about the introduction of planned obsolescence, right? :3
 
Hate to say this, but how many iOS refinement releases are we going to have to go through? Sadly iOS looks the same and basically is the same as when we got the iPhone 7 (or whenever we had the last major revision). I know it’s a pandemic year, but Apple has kinda lost the “wow effect” in software feature, everything is now let’s catch up to Android. I dunno, just disappointed by the state or Apple nowadays.
 
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MacRumors said:
Beyond the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates, the survey also investigated triskaidekaphobia, a superstitious fear of the number 13, around the naming of the upcoming iPhone 13. As many as one in five iPhone and iPad users said that they would be actively put off by the "iPhone 13" moniker.

Respondents were also asked how they thought Apple should name its upcoming series of iPhone models. Interestingly, most responses indicated that the devices should not be called the "iPhone 13." 38 percent said that Apple should call its next smartphone series simply "iPhone (2021)," 26 percent thought that the "iPhone 13" was the best name, and only 13 percent said that they would like to see the devices called the "iPhone 12S."
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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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mi7chy said:
That's a bug and not a feature.
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It’s a feature. It’s there so you can have multiple instances of the same app on different home screens. That way if you want your phone to show only one Home Screen specifically curated for work during your work focus, and have a completely different screen for personal time only appear during your personal focus, you can have a specific app like mail or twitter on both home screens if you want that app in both the personal and work categories
 
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Aoligei said:
Ruing full macOS installation. Invoke tablet mode when no keyboard and mouse attached.

M1 is powerful enough to run macOS and tablet mode at same time.

Never understand why iPad can’t just take secondary display and use external display for full desktop operation. M1 iPad still just mirroring iPad display.
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And you never will. But plenty of people do. Including Apple.
 
Officeninja said:
Yes please! If you have the Magic Keyboard there is zero difference between that and a MacBook Pro 13. Either commit to making iPadOS truly Mac-like or just allow MacOS to run on it. It's just silly they are handicapping the iPad Pro line so much
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iPad OS is pathetic; the entire dev team was hard at work this year making widgets moveable on the Home Screen.. seriously terrible.
 
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Aoligei said:
Ruing full macOS installation. Invoke tablet mode when no keyboard and mouse attached.

M1 is powerful enough to run macOS and tablet mode at same time.

Never understand why iPad can’t just take secondary display and use external display for full desktop operation. M1 iPad still just mirroring iPad display.
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This is not related to any chip in the iPad.
It's the form factor of iPad make this impossible.
 
Why does it sound like they only surveyed macrumors users? Well since many here support Apple’s OS being neutered, you can expect much fewer changes going forward.
 
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