Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

iOS 7.1

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 239 posts

Re: iOS 7.1

#81

Post by roc »

smackfu wrote: post #42
gumby wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It sounds like they changed the UX entirely.

Sure, that's not the same as solving the technical problem of "when to stop listening". But it's solving the user problem of "it doesn't know when to stop listening". And it's not some explicit additional button you have to press to override any default behavior. It's implicit in the new method.

Unless the former UX is still around and this is an additional, optional, pattern. But that seems ... not very Apple-like.

Re: iOS 7.1

#82

Post by nosecreek »

Really thankful they added a "new" Month view in the calendar app. The ability to see all the events for a day at a glance was something I was really missing from iOS 6.

Re: iOS 7.1

#83

Post by Ethan_Mick »

sxcurry wrote: post #33
Ethan_Mick wrote: post #20

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…

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

This is the funny thing about iOS 7 - all my bugs have been different from other people. I have an iPhone 5 (and iPad Mini Retina) I've had:

1: Apps don't download from the App Store the first time. I need to try 3 or 4 times.

2: Swiping a notification from the lock screen frequently crashes springboard.

3: In fact, switching apps frequently crashes springboard.

4: Music didn't download from iCloud properly.

My friends have different bugs, as well as my iPad, which is interesting. One friend didn't have his reminders work for a while.

As an aside - Xcode 5.0.2 is extremely buggy too. But we know Apple loves it's devs.

Re: iOS 7.1

#84

Post by codez »

Would an update like this potentially fix iOS' buggy implementation of rendering CSS viewport units??

Re: iOS 7.1

#86

Post by Zelphyr »

sxcurry wrote: post #33
Ethan_Mick wrote: post #20

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…

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

The problems I've experienced, and this is in no way restricted to iOS 7 (goes all the way back to the first iPhone in fact), is that the apps that are the least reliable, most likely to crash or have obvious bugs are those written by Apple themselves. I too am a developer and I love Apple products but wtf?!

Re: iOS 7.1

#87

Post by roc »

wlesieutre wrote: post #74
sxcurry wrote: post #33

Earlier 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

Biggest one that I've seen is apps regularly acting like I lost my internet connection. Hasn't been fixable without killing and relaunching them. I forget exactly which, but I think I've seen it in Apple apps too. Mail maybe?

iTunes Music has been horrible for this. I'll stream some music, then hit pause and walk away for a while.

When I come back and hit play, most times it'll play out the buffer and then decide it has no internet connection, fixable only with a kill-relaunch. And some times it'll reboot the device altogether.

Re: iOS 7.1

#88

Post by Joeri »

acangiano wrote: post #27

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 iphone has all the same settings, things you must configure to get it to work at all, but far fewer preferences, things you can configure to make it work the way you want. In a case where multiple equivalent behaviors are possible, apple will typically think it through and pick just one, the right one (in their opinion). They give you what you need, but not necessarily what you want.

Re: iOS 7.1

#89

Post by Zelphyr »

kbar13 wrote: post #39

Am 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.

Commas aren't round and thus not uniform so they aren't as pretty to the Eyes of Ive.
Post reply on HN