iOS 12 released • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

36bydesign wrote: post #4

For iCloud Drive, we should be able to manage which files are saved locally and which aren’t. As is, documents can be manually downloaded but there’s no way to reverse it and have the given documents stored back only in the cloud (freeing up local storage). Then magically a week or more later stuff is uploaded and no longer stored locally. It feels fickle and frustrating.

This is what I'm waiting for to move wholesale from Dropbox to iCloud Drive, some sort of file attribute that can be sent to say "only store in cloud, keep a local stub" or "ensure always locally cached/pinned locally". Would also love to see iCloud be a Time Machine backup target.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by sctb » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

alfredmuffin wrote: post #10

joshstrange wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moderators of this website (dang being one of them) do and the site guidelines are very clear on this point.

who cares

At some level you have a point, but on the level of Hacker News as a discussion forum on the internet with a specific purpose and established conventions, as well as guidelines which document the primary ones, this point doesn't land. So could you please comment civilly and substantively? That's why we're here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by ivraatiems » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade?

Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by adpirz » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

"iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2: It’s actually faster!"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/ios-12-on-the-iphone...

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by sawmurai » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

What about security updates?

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by saagarjha » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

nkkollaw wrote: post #8

I don't know, I've watched the keynote, and it just looked to me like Allison was right in saying that the company without Steve Jobs would go down. Pretty considerably and pretty quickly, too, IMO.

Which keynote are you talking about? I thought the release of iOS 12 at WWDC was relatively well received.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

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Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by artimaeis » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

Security updates and significant speed improvements are sufficient reason to upgrade, I'd think. Siri Shortcuts is also a pretty incredible feature if you're a power-user.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by eridius » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

One of the main focuses of iOS 12 was improving performance across the board, especially for older phones.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by kbos87 » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.”

It isn’t often that you see any company the size of Apple take that strong of a stance. Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down.