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iOS 14 is available today

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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ghostpepper »

tyrankh wrote: post #41

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: is it just me or has Apple lost its innovative edge? Widgets and app drawer, that's the huge new update? Android has had these for, like, 5+ years. Not that android has had anything super exciting lately, either. Maybe phone OSes have kind o…

I haven't tried iOS 14 yet but historically Apple is almost never the first to release a feature. Their supporters will say that Apple prefers to wait until they can release a more fully baked version. iPhone was not the first smartphone, but it was the "best" (for most people) when it was released, etc.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by logicOnly »

ajconway wrote: post #64
tyrankh wrote: post #41

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: is it just me or has Apple lost its innovative edge? Widgets and app drawer, that's the huge new update? Android has had these for, like, 5+ years. Not that android has had anything super exciting lately, either. Maybe phone OSes have kind o…

Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage, users won't loose semantic search over their photo library, health data, and other similar features. (I particularly like the new option to pre-select the photos that you want an…

This is not factual, this is Apple marketing.

There's no indication Apple is doing anything noteworthy regarding privacy.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by rbritton »

t0mbstone wrote: post #57

I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it! Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!

Last night I did the final iOS 13 update on all of my devices. I no longer trust any iOS or OS X update at launch -- I wait several months.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mixmastamyk »

t0mbstone wrote: post #57

I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it! Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!

A few years ago they broke the lock screen twice and didn't fix it for half a year or so each time. Made the phone excruciating to use as would take a full minute to get in as the lock screen restarted.

Needless to say I don't update until the last minute with most releases any longer.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

threeseed wrote: post #40
applecore wrote: post #10

I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now. I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac. Any idea why it took so long to ship this feature?

Because ever since the first Airpods I was able to jump on any of my devices and change it from Speaker to Airpods and it would instantly switch. I didn't need to unpair or disconnect from one device before it was usable by another like I do with my Sony 1000MX3.

They've had this with Beats for a while as well, definitely since before Airpods, it works really well.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ajconway »

logicOnly wrote: post #72
ajconway wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage, users won't loose semantic search over their photo library, health data, and other similar features. (I particularly like the new option to pre-select the photos that you want an…

This is not factual, this is Apple marketing. There's no indication Apple is doing anything noteworthy regarding privacy.

Apple specifically declares that they do these things on device. If they don't, this is an opportunity for a class action.
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