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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

spartanatreyu wrote: post #413
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla had 400 Firefox CVEs found by Mythos; if those were so easy to find, why didn’t humans do it before?

Humans did do it before. ------------------------ It's also worth pointing out that the developers at Mozilla literally decided to make a brand new programming language (Rust) that eliminated an entire categories of bugs and started working on a new browser (Servo) where its components could be switched into firefox. Then Mozilla fired the team working on it. Lesson 1: Better tools and processes eliminate bugs. Lesso…

Good point about the whole new language as a tool for eliminating many thousands(?) as a whole category

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by VCFundedGenYer »

myHNAccount123 wrote: post #282
dgellow wrote: post #11

Reminder to wait a couple of months before upgrading macOS! Every single time issues are found after a new macOS version, give it a little bit of time before jumping right away on your work machine :)

I don't understand this viewpoint. So, the release version is 27.0 build 26A428. That build is static, how can it get more stable than it is right now? Lets say 27.1 comes out in 2 weeks - do you update to 27.0 instead of 27.1? When is it snappy enough?

There have been far more buggy iOS releases than stable ones. A few years in particular were absolute disasters until December or January. It is very sound graybeard advice to wait until the .1 release. Apple has not earned the trust to upgrade on day 1.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

musictubes wrote: post #310
avazhi wrote: post #271

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I'm still on Sequoia and I have zero intention of updating to this AI-saturated slop.

There are over 200 security patches in the newest versions of macOS. AI is helping patch previously unrealized holes.

You have the same long list for Sequoia 15.8, so how is that better? Besides, newer OSes are also more likely to have uniquely knew bugs from both AI slop and in general all the shiny new broken features

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

pvab3 wrote: post #438
musictubes wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are over 200 security patches in the newest versions of macOS. AI is helping patch previously unrealized holes.

i'm sure most of those patches will keep coming to Sequoia over the coming years

They've already come?15.8 has a long list of vulns fixed

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by VCFundedGenYer »

sbinnee wrote: post #361

> available on iPhone Duo, iPhone Air, iPhone 16 models or later, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max Such a high bar for iOS. Unfortunately new Siri is not for me.

That’s not correct. It reaches back to the 12.

They might be referring to the Apple Intelligence features in particular.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by eviks »

astrostl wrote: post #325
dgellow wrote: post #11

Reminder to wait a couple of months before upgrading macOS! Every single time issues are found after a new macOS version, give it a little bit of time before jumping right away on your work machine :)

I have updated macOS and iOS around day one of release since 2008 and have yet to experience meaningful issues, AMA.

There is not much point in asking if you're so imperceptive

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by vachina »

ForceBru wrote: post #84

So, is it better (faster, stronger, etc) than iOS 18? Everyone says iOS 26 was not good at all and iOS 27 is much better, but it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26. A more interesting question is whether it's better than iOS 18? Does anyone have any experience switching from iOS 18 to, say, some beta of iOS 27?

It's "better" if you like eye candy, animations are more drawn out and deliberate. Otherwise they're functionally identical (and has ever been since iPhone X).

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by catoc »

ForceBru wrote: post #84

So, is it better (faster, stronger, etc) than iOS 18? Everyone says iOS 26 was not good at all and iOS 27 is much better, but it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26. A more interesting question is whether it's better than iOS 18? Does anyone have any experience switching from iOS 18 to, say, some beta of iOS 27?

”it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26”

Regression to the mean

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by PlunderBunny »

meindnoch wrote: post #198
rayiner wrote: post #157

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What's hilarious is that typing was nearly perfect on my 3gs (with "iPhone OS 3"--back before it was even "iOS").

That's because it used to be a simple Markov model back then. Today's implementation is using more advanced ML techniques ;)

Sounds like a third-party keyboard opportunity: “Just like the standard Apple keyboard but not ML”.
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