Having recently switched from an iPhone to an Android smartphone, I really question the "most advanced mobile OS" claim. Apple phones are more polished, more logically organized, easier to use, more intuitive... fair enough. But more advanced? Not by a long shot. The amount of features and customizable options on Android is insane. You can argue that this is not necessarily a good thing for the average user, but you…
iOS 7.1
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Re: iOS 7.1
#32And the biggest feature of 7.1 is that within a few weeks 4 out of 5 iOS users will be running 7.1. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/01/apple-80-percent-of-act...
Not upgrading until there's a working jailbreak.
Re: iOS 7.1
#33I'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…
This is interesting - I've been using iOS7 since the day it came out and don't think I've seen a serious bug yet, certainly not hundreds of them. I really am curious - is it the hardware (iPhone 5s here) or different usage patterns? I'm a developer too, and just haven't had this experience. Please let me know a couple of the specific bugs you've seen, as I'd like to try and recreate them before upgrading to 7.1
Re: iOS 7.1
#34Having recently switched from an iPhone to an Android smartphone, I really question the "most advanced mobile OS" claim. Apple phones are more polished, more logically organized, easier to use, more intuitive... fair enough. But more advanced? Not by a long shot. The amount of features and customizable options on Android is insane. You can argue that this is not necessarily a good thing for the average user, but you…
Advancements can be made in many different ways. If it's an advancement in polish, organization, and easy of use it looks like you'd agree it's the most advanced.
It's probably not an advancement in customizability.
Re: iOS 7.1
#35I'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…
I do wonder what happened with this release. Beta 1 came out ages ago on November 18th. My guess is that CarPlay got added to the iOS 7.1 content, and then that had delays, and then had to be properly announced at a big motor show.
Re: iOS 7.1
#36"Now Siri knows when to stop listening." I find this to be some really interesting marketing spin for "Siri doesn't always know when to stop listening, so now you can tell it". IE Now your car knows when to slow down Manually control the speed of your car by pressing the brake pedal
Funny, I read it the opposite way: as a wry and pithy way to say "FINALLY goddamned Siri doesn't just hang around and try to parse noise, which has been annoying all of us at Apple as well for ages."
Not that one or the other of us is "right" it's just funny that a short sentence can be read many different ways.
Re: iOS 7.1
#37Having recently switched from an iPhone to an Android smartphone, I really question the "most advanced mobile OS" claim. Apple phones are more polished, more logically organized, easier to use, more intuitive... fair enough. But more advanced? Not by a long shot. The amount of features and customizable options on Android is insane. You can argue that this is not necessarily a good thing for the average user, but you…
Customization is not advancement.
In many ways, iOS is clearly more advanced, for example security, energy consumption, 64-bit.
You can debate the merits of these things, but Apple has a sound basis for their claim.
Re: iOS 7.1
#38Having recently switched from an iPhone to an Android smartphone, I really question the "most advanced mobile OS" claim. Apple phones are more polished, more logically organized, easier to use, more intuitive... fair enough. But more advanced? Not by a long shot. The amount of features and customizable options on Android is insane. You can argue that this is not necessarily a good thing for the average user, but you…
I have never owned an Android device however recently had some exposure when a colleague asked about battery life. I went through her settings etc to see what was enabled/not enabled and found a battery graph. It gave a breakdown of how much power each app was using and a graph of the battery charge over time.
I was quite impressed. There is no native iPhone equivalent and I find most 3rd party apps that claim to track data/battery are not 100% accurate.
Re: iOS 7.1
#39Am I the only one who is anal about the excessive use of periods in these marketing pages?
> Getting the update is easy. Go to Settings. Select General. And tap Software Update.
cmon, commas were created for a reason.
Re: iOS 7.1
#40I've never seen this much marketing for a minor iOS update. I wonder what prompted the change.
It's in their best interest that every user updates to the latest version, so sugar-coating the update makes sense. Personally the feature I'm looking forward to is the improved performance on the older devices.
My iPhone 5 feels noticeably snappier with the update. Hard to tell how much of that is simply sped up animations, but I'm happy. Interested to see how it goes on my old 4.