will iOS 7 final edition perform good as iOS 6.1.3 on iPhone 4? Still its beta though. people, please answer what do you think? will we able to set panorama lock screen wallpaper on iPhone 4? [/B]
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iPhone Will iOS 7 final perform good as iOS 6.1.3 on iPhone 4?
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no, and i hope not.
by still optimizing software for the iPhone 4, they are holding back their development of the OS.
by still optimizing software for the iPhone 4, they are holding back their development of the OS.
No, apple is a company that wants money, to get money people must upgrade phones, if the phone performs good and smooth the person won't want to update, if it starts lagging and slowing down it lets the person know its time to upgrade to a newer device, that's how any company that wants money works.
Are you suggesting that there are companies out there that don't want money?...
Non profit organization
Not true. Many, if not most, non-profit organizations do want money. They just don't keep it for themselves as gain.
Don't necessarily agree. Obsolescence is an unfortunate side-effect of technological advancment. Honestly, if my phone isn't completely obsolete in 4/5 years, then Apple is doing something horribly wrong.
That is such an unfair statement when the competition doesn't even provide software updates for phones more than 6 months old. (Yes Samsung, I'm talking about you...how many of your older phones run the latest Android?) At least Apple goes as far back as 4 years on their models.
I kinda agree with this but kinda not, look at the galaxy s2 it's over 2 years now and just go the jellybean update last month, the nexus line also gets updates for around 2 years. I think there is no point to update any phone after 2 years because most people upgrade their phones. Also android requires alot faster hardware to run it smoothly, so that's why phones usually get left out from updates.
Who knows.
I suspect iOS 7.0 may not perform as well as it should but by iOS 7.1 it'll be better.
At the moment we're on Beta 2 so the code is far from optimised.
They are a company AND they want money? what is the world coming to?
With Apple at least you know you get at least 3 years of updates (3 OSs) for your device, other manufacturers you are lucky if you get 1
Beta 1 was unusable for me on my i4 (iPhone3,1) but Beta 2 is stable and performs well enough that I find it usable.
Is it as smooth as iOS 6? Not by any stretch.
Is it smoother than Beta 1? By a much bigger margin than the difference between B2 and iOS 6.
That being said, on my iPad 2 (iPad2,2) - save for some actual bugs - it's exactly as smooth as iOS 6.
As a freshly baptised Android convert (bought my i4 on eBay shortly after the i5 was released), I know first hand what the other posters are talking about - they're hardly exaggerating (though it varies by manufacturer just how many months behind the latest version they are).
I also know that other manufacturers will sometimes push out a version the hardware can't handle, or hold back a version because they perceive the hardware can't handle it (when in fact it's just poorly optimised code, as evidenced by kernel tweaks via custom ROMs).
I have no doubt in my mind that iOS 7 Final will perform as smoothly on all supported devices as previous versions. If the original set of features (like Parallax, which doesn't appear to work on i4 or iPad 2 at the time of writing) they intended to support end up lagging the phone due to aged hardware, they will simply disable them (as they should).
One truth that people who condemn iOS7's performance seems to have forgotten; Beta is beta.
Apple appears to be a company that uses Beta periods to test their software and collect diagnostics reports (you do have those turned on, right?) rather than as a marketing tool.
This is hardly a bad thing
Is it as smooth as iOS 6? Not by any stretch.
Is it smoother than Beta 1? By a much bigger margin than the difference between B2 and iOS 6.
That being said, on my iPad 2 (iPad2,2) - save for some actual bugs - it's exactly as smooth as iOS 6.
As a freshly baptised Android convert (bought my i4 on eBay shortly after the i5 was released), I know first hand what the other posters are talking about - they're hardly exaggerating (though it varies by manufacturer just how many months behind the latest version they are).
I also know that other manufacturers will sometimes push out a version the hardware can't handle, or hold back a version because they perceive the hardware can't handle it (when in fact it's just poorly optimised code, as evidenced by kernel tweaks via custom ROMs).
I have no doubt in my mind that iOS 7 Final will perform as smoothly on all supported devices as previous versions. If the original set of features (like Parallax, which doesn't appear to work on i4 or iPad 2 at the time of writing) they intended to support end up lagging the phone due to aged hardware, they will simply disable them (as they should).
One truth that people who condemn iOS7's performance seems to have forgotten; Beta is beta.
Apple appears to be a company that uses Beta periods to test their software and collect diagnostics reports (you do have those turned on, right?
) rather than as a marketing tool.This is hardly a bad thing
It will obviously run as smoothly as possible however if your asking if it will include features previously omitted from the iPhone 4 then no it won't have them. This is more than likely the last iOS upgrade the iPhone 4 will have though. So you are not far away from needing to upgrade if you want future features and iOS's.
Yeah, usually if a feature is excluded from a particular phone model, it's because the phones processing power can't handle the task they created. As they make iOS more advanced, it requires more advanced hardware, and that comes with upgraded phone models. The iOS technology just develops at a faster pace than the hardware, so you're stuck with a phone that can't do what its successor can. It's not entirely a money making thing.