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Oh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.
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That would require keeping a connection open to the mail server 24/7 which is a bad idea.
It's a way better idea than periodic polling, which is the current behaviour when the mail server operator doesn't collaborate directly with Apple to implement their push notifications.
Oh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.
SE is a good form factor. Do customers need to buy a 5S on eBay instead of SE from Apple Store, to get Apple support for a small phone with iOS12?
Can we have a VPN button in Control Center? How about per-app VPNs with Apple Configurator, i.e. no MDM? If Apple wants to support privacy, it should be possible to route one or more apps to a dedicated VPN where their traffic can be restricted and monitored closely.
Doubtful as they'd get on the bad side of a lot of governments doing that. VPNs are something that the upper brass are aware about and will make a fuss about if they're added. It's a high profile security measure.
Those countries may be exploiting an iOS bug, by injecting packets into IKEv2 streams. Observed for more than a year, still present in iOS11. This doesn't happen with OpenVPN, possibly because it's easier to break OpenVPN wire traffic without compromising the phone OS.
The point is: governments can already use VPN traffic as justification for exploiting targeted devices, they don't need any help from Apple. Android has many options for network security, why should Apple be hamstrung by hypothetical governments who will break iOS anyway? Apple customers are paying a premium and still being needlessly exposed on insecure WiFi networks.
Millions of Apple users would benefit (motivating device purchases!) if Apple removed their VPN dark patterns from iOS, e.g. make it easy to enable Always-On VPNs which don't leak unprotected packets.
"Newer" iPhone because your older iPhone will be screwed.
Aren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.
Apple journalists don't and happily chime on about how great it is without understanding the realities.
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It's a way better idea than periodic polling, which is the current behaviour when the mail server operator doesn't collaborate directly with Apple to implement their push notifications.
Way better by what metric? Periodic polling is going to be better for battery than keeping a connection open 24/7.
Idle, open connection won't suck your battery at all, it's just an open socket sitting somewhere in the RAM. The only problem with it is having to send keepalives due to broken NATs being prevalent that can quietly close your connection with you having no chance to know that until you decide to send something through it. Anyway, keepalive pings are way easier to process than a complete poll and will send your processor and baseband back into sleep much quicker. Also, on most networks you can actually keep a connection open for much longer than 15 minutes, and when the network is so horribly broken that you can't, you can always fallback to polling.
Both Android and iOS already employ various techniques for dealing with keepalive timeout calculation because... guess what... that's exactly how their push notification systems are working.
You gain better battery life from rarer pings, less roundtrips and easier to process responses. Periodic polling is absolutely the worst for your battery - isn't it just obvious?
"Newer" iPhone because your older iPhone will be screwed.
Aren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.
I'd say performance is better than iOS11 at this point. There's still a lot of rough edges and I suspect they have a debug build released at this point. I think the final build will be really good.
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Way better by what metric? Periodic polling is going to be better for battery than keeping a connection open 24/7.
Uhmm... how exactly? Idle, open connection won't suck your battery at all , it's just an open socket sitting somewhere in the RAM. The only problem with it is having to send keepalives due to broken NATs being prevalent that can quietly close your connection with you having no chance to know that until you decide to send something through it. Anyway, keepalive pings are way easier to process than a complete poll and…
I’d also guess the OS tries to schedule these fetches to coincide with the radio already being on as they don’t have to be precisely timed.
"Newer" iPhone because your older iPhone will be screwed.
There’s probably a decent number of active iPads that can’t run this iOS version but that’s probably for the better since the older ones would probably be too slow.
Oh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.