Does iOS have WebGL yet? (I feel like I should make one of those Yes/No answer websites on this topic.)
iOS 7.1
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Re: iOS 7.1
#62Does iOS have WebGL yet? (I feel like I should make one of those Yes/No answer websites on this topic.)
Does iOS have WebGL? Yes. Does Safari have WebGL? No.
It's available in the iAd platform but manually disabled elsewhere - you can enable it on jailbroken devices though. Infuriating. Also infuriating is Apple's lack of support for WebRTC. I've learned not to expect much from them in terms of mobile web any more.
Re: iOS 7.1
#63Does iOS have WebGL yet? (I feel like I should make one of those Yes/No answer websites on this topic.)
Does the iPhone have audible notifications of missed calls yet, which phones had in the '90s?
How can they be so stupid: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
Re: iOS 7.1
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I've seen two annoying bugs so far: * the music player corrupts itself and starts skipping all songs, may or may not be fixed by rebooting the device. May require resynchronising all the music (remove/readd everything) * it regularly decides to stop opening sync sessions with iTunes and has to be rebooted Apart from that it's been pretty smooth sailing. Oh yeah, and every single update re-enables bluetooth, that's an…
The only bug I've seen is that the device would restart itself on occasion. There was a critical bug right when iOS7 came out where if you tapped define in mail or notes, it would completely freeze the app. Seems to be fixed now.
Then again, I wouldn't say I'm a heavy user. I mainly use it to check on my mail, read some news, etc.
Re: iOS 7.1
#65I 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.
Just to be clear, this is when one of your contacts who formerly had an iPhone but switched (to an android in your case), it still tries to send via iMessage and silently fails? Yeah, that one sucks, I sent a message to my brother in law congratulating him on his engagement and he never got it. I found out awhile later he'd changed away from iPhone :-/ Annoying. And then trying to change my phone to actually send him SMS instead ... I'm still not sure it's working right.
Re: iOS 7.1
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
An iPhone app is capable of sitting in the background tracking your location with battery draining GPS, too.
Re: iOS 7.1
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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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> I'm sorry, security?
- iOS's track record on vulnerabilities in comparison to Android.
- Apple's track record of virtually no malware appearing in the App Store.
- How hard it's been for the community to devise a series of exploits to jailbreak iOS with each new release.
- iOS's nice privacy controls that are lacking on Android (App Ops is not official, convenient, or even present in the latest Android releases. And sure there's third party things, but those are 3rd party, and half of them are from China). Privacy controls in Android counter Google's bottom line.
- iOS's app permissions model in comparison to the awful current capabilities and culture around broad app permissions in Android (although Google is reacting to this well with improvements in the pipeline). For an awakening view of this, watch what information of yours the Facebook app can get ahold of in Android as opposed to on iOS.
Re: iOS 7.1
#68Anyone know if this includes the minimal-ui meta tag for Safari? Can't see any mention of it in the changelist
It does, and the tag works as per the beta.
Re: iOS 7.1
#69Having 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 is the only mobile OS that has multipath TCP built-in AFAIK. They introduced that only half-year after MPTCP got standardized. I think that's a valid feature for being "advanced".
And yes you can enable that by installing custom kernel modules. But I think hacking is out of scope here.
Re: iOS 7.1
#70The most annoying bug of iOS 7 was crashing of Safari. For iPad Air it happened for me all the time, every day 3-10 crashes during regular usage. Using other browser did not help - the problem was deeper, all browsers shared this issue. My biggest hope for 7.1 was this bug being fixed. But no, Safari still fails. How to reproduce: 1. Go to someone's mobile.twitter.com account, like https://mobile.twitter.com/newsycom…
I have an iPad Mini 2nd gen...and Safari has never crashed on me and I use it all the time. Maybe that bug is hard to hit.