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Re: iOS 12 released

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post #20

“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.

It is a really interesting marketing move (and don't delude yourself, this is a marketing move). To market a feature that Google can't possibly compete with.

Don't delude yourself that you're the only one to see that this is a marketing move. They're differentiating themselves from the rest, and clearly signaling to customers--what else would they possibly do?

Re: iOS 12 released

#144
Still satisfied with iOS 10. The only thing that interests me in the updates anymore is the security and the tables in Notes (iOS 10 doesn't have that).

Re: iOS 12 released

#146
post #20

“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.

The fact that each device has an IDFA that any app can share with literally anyone in the world, without the need to tell you, because IDFA is a quasi-persistent identifier I suppose doesn't matter.

Re: iOS 12 released

#147
post #58

This the most stable iOS beta I've ever used. It's exciting to see Apple focus on quality, even if the marketing page doesn't end up as flashy.

Been running iOS betas on my primary device since around iOS 8 or 9, and never really experienced any super annoying bugs until the 11 beta, which made me question if I really wanted to run betas on my phone ever again. But, my impatience gave out and I upgraded to the 12 beta, and it was like I had a new phone.

Updated to the GM a couple days ago and my 6S is running as good as the day I got it. Super happy with iOS 12 currently.

Re: iOS 12 released

#148

Damn! There comes the bullying of upgrading. :( I am sure they want the best for us when they shove it down our throat.

“Shoving it down your throat” would mean that you had no choice but to install it. You do have a choice. Just ignore the red dot. It’s not that hard.

Although why you’d want to is beyond me. We’ve been saying this here since iOS was a thing. People didn’t want to go from 6 to 7, or 7 to 8, and now 11 to 12. And yet, here we all are.

Re: iOS 12 released

#149
post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has the 6S's internal hardware, not the 6's. So it's way more powerful than the 6, let alone the 5S.

There are actually two phones called iphone se. It was updated from iphone6 hardware to iphone6s hardware partway through it’s life cycle withou a change to the name. The updated SE is also availible in rose gold while the original was not.

That is not true at all. There’s only ever been one SE and it was always based on the 6S hardware. The closest thing to a refresh was a mid-cycle bump to the base storage.

Re: iOS 12 released

#150
post #96

Does anyone know if and what concrete changes have been made to Core NFC, beyond the speculation beforehand [1]? I understand there has been a beta of iOS 12 for a while now. The documentation still shows information for iOS 11 [2] [1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/25/apple-will-reportedly-open-up... [2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc

The WWDC app has a new short video called “What’s new in Core NFC” which mentiones the new features in the Iphones such as reading NFC in the background.
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