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Re: iOS 7.1

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Post by gress »

cheald wrote: post #106
gress wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's somewhat disingenuous to say that the OS doesn't manage power consumption adequately; it defers to apps to let them decide what resources they need and when, which permits for a hell of a lot more flexibility than iOS (remember when Pandora wouldn't play music in the background for approximately forever?), at the cost of a misbehaving app chewing up more battery than it should.

It's not disingenuous at all. What you describe is the user managing power consumption rather than the OS.

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Post by swasheck »

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.

babysteps

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Post by Zelphyr »

Is there some trick to getting HDR to actually work? I set it to "On" but the image is no different than when its "Off".

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Post by bananas »

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…

Lepper here. I have a Windows phone (Lumia 820).

I long for an iPhone. Preferably a 5c or above. I don't have the cash and will only buy SIM free phones these days though. I've had piles of Android handsets and a couple of WinPhone handsets. They all sucked.

Whilst iOS isn't all that pretty, it actually works properly. My wife has precisely no problems with her 5c and the times I've used it, to be fair, I'm envious.

I really couldn't care how the word advanced was applied to the marketing.

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Post by melfar »

carterparks wrote: post #43

Just updated. Disappointed that it hasn't fixed my ability to connect to Wi-Fi using an iPhone 4S

Why would a software update fix it? Note that it doesn't have hardware support for the 5 GHz band, much like the iPhone 4.

Re: iOS 7.1

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Post by superuser2 »

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…

You can't make the claim that a greater number of features makes something more advanced.

Especially when many of them are poorly implemented one-offs on one model on one carrier for a few months before support and updates are cut off permanently. (Why the hell should something like screen sharing be a feature of one particular model?!?)

In terms of actually working, the iPhone is lightyears ahead of huge swaths of the Android ecosystem. Maybe not Google Nexus, but then you're locked into the inferior network coverage of AT&T or T-Mobile.

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Post by superuser2 »

nirnira wrote: post #80
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Android offers: 1) Generally much easier rooting/access to bootloader/custom ROM installation than iOS. 2) Install custom keyboards, home launchers, icon sets 3) Change default web browsers, caller, messaging apps to third-party alternatives 4) Full access to filesystem 5) Fully customisable homescreen widgets 6) Full sharing intents system 6) Generally more "computery" interface -…

1) That's not a feature. The carrier's devs are just worse than Apple at securing their products.

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Post by r00fus »

rickyc091 wrote: post #64
masklinn wrote: post #53

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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.

I've had my iPhone5 restart happen during a call in iOS7.0 - the call went along as if nothing had happened.

Was it really a restart or just the UI (springboard) restarting?

Re: iOS 7.1

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Post by gress »

nirnira wrote: post #80
giarc wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Android offers: 1) Generally much easier rooting/access to bootloader/custom ROM installation than iOS. 2) Install custom keyboards, home launchers, icon sets 3) Change default web browsers, caller, messaging apps to third-party alternatives 4) Full access to filesystem 5) Fully customisable homescreen widgets 6) Full sharing intents system 6) Generally more "computery" interface -…

More work for the user to do is a symptom of a less advanced system.
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