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Re: iOS 7.1
#12I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
I imagine CarPlay.
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#13I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
Probably the latest marketshare numbers.
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#14I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
iOS was a big release with a lot of fundamental changes. Naturally everyone is curious about Apple reaction and choices to change/improve/fix first.
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#15I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
When they've discussed Android in the past year or so, Apple execs like Cook and Schiller seem to have focused on two areas where they feel iOS has an advantage over Android:
- Android lacks many decent tablet applications; most of them are blown-up phone versions.
- The Android ecosystem is fragmented. Very few devices (proportionally) are running the latest release, and it can take years for new features to be widespread enough that developers can rely on them and users can benefit from them.
The technological (OTA "delta" updates) and marketing push around major and minor releases appear designed to reinforce the second point.
I'm not endorsing either of these claims, since I don't use Android devices enough to know.
Re: iOS 7.1
#16I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
Well, it's just the .1 version, but it has been six months since iOS 7 was released. So it may be the only iOS 7 update.
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#17HELP, I just got infected by clicking in the top article of HN, the one named 2048, when I clicked it automatically downloaded a file with extension .patch, when I try to delete the file, the OSX says "finder wants to make changes". what should I do?
Re: iOS 7.1
#18"Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the Home button while you speak and releasing it when you're done." Does anyone think this is a downgrade? Is it optional?
You can press the home button until the phone plays the siri tone, and then talk, and wait for siri to detect end of speech. Or, you can press and hold until you hear the tone, and continue to hold as you speak. When you release the home button, end of speech will be triggered. Instead of having to wait. This can be useful in places with ambient noise that prevent the end of speech event from happening automatically. Previously this was remedied by tapping the microphone icon on screen to signify end of speech.
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Re: iOS 7.1
#20I've been running the latest beta for a while, and I'm updating my devices now. Here's my beef:
This came too late. For months now - ever since iOS 7 came out, I've had to tell people "iOS 7 is great, but buggy. Don't worry, Apple will release 7.1 soon that will fix a lot of these issues." Time, and time again, I said that. With each beta it became more and more obvious that Apple wasn't releasing a quick fix for the myriad of issues that plagued users.
I think Apple did this wrong. 7.1 contains new features and updated UI elements. Fuck that. I wanted the hundreds of bugs that were impacting users to be fixed back in October. I expected the new iPads to be running 7.1. I think Apple should have focused solely on fixing the bugs present for 7.1, and then released 7.2 that had these features. But since September 18th, (173 days ago!) I've been dealing with a buggy OS and been apologizing for it [0].
To me, that is unacceptable.
[0] I'm a big Apple fan, and develop iOS apps, and a lot of people in my circle come to me with their Apple questions.