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Re: iOS 7.1

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And 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...

About 9 out of 10 now... https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7

Apple says 82%, and I figure they are the most accurate: https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/

Re: iOS 7.1

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post #36
post #9

"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.

Yeah, but they didn't fix that problem, they just made a way to override it.

Re: iOS 7.1

#44

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…

"The amount of features and customizable options on Android is insane." That doesn't necessarily mean it's more advanced.

Re: iOS 7.1

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I'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…

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Re: iOS 7.1

#46
I wonder if they fixed the iMessage caching-phone-numbers-after-you-switch-to-Android bug that's been so terrible? Really wish they had a FULL changelog, not just marketing spin.

Re: iOS 7.1

#48

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…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

"Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Re: iOS 7.1

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post #37

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…

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.

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Re: iOS 7.1

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post #38

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…

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 tra…

Users only need that on Android because the OS doesn't manage power consumption of apps adequately.
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