Michal Ždanský The last few years have been an intense marathon for the development of Apple's operating systems. Year after year, Apple has been chasing a newer version of software with as many new features as possible to wow its users and serve the marketing cogs at the same time. While this pace has been the norm for iOS since its first iteration, OS X joined a few years later, and I've seen a new decimal version of the desktop OS every year. But this pace took its toll, and they weren't exactly insignificant.
[do action=”quote”]Engineers are focusing on bug fixes and stability improvements in iOS 9.[/do]
Errors were accumulating in the system, which there was simply no time to fix, and this year, this problem was finally addressed started talking big. The declining quality of Apple's software was a hot topic earlier this year, with many looking back fondly on the days of OS X Snow Leopard. In this update, Apple did not chase new functions, although it brought some important ones (eg Grand Central Dispatch). Instead, development focused on bug fixes, system stability, and performance. It is not for nothing that OS X 10.6 has become perhaps the most stable system in Mac history.
However, history may be repeating itself. According to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac, which has already proven to be a very reliable source of unofficial information about Apple in the past, the company wants to focus in particular on stability and bug fixes in iOS 9, which are currently blessed with the system:
The sources said that in iOS 9, engineers are focusing heavily on fixing bugs, improving stability and increasing the performance of the new operating system, instead of just adding new features. Apple will also continue to try to keep the size of updates as low as possible, especially for the millions of owners of iOS devices with 16GB of memory.
This initiative could not have come at a better time. In the last two major updates, Apple has managed to bring most of the important features that users have been calling for and with which it has caught up or outright overtaken the competition in some respects. Focusing on stability and bug fixes is thus an ideal move, especially if Apple wants to maintain its now tarnished reputation for solid operating systems. Gurman makes no mention of OS X, which is doing just as well, if not (at least in some ways) worse than iOS. Even the Mac system would benefit from slowing down and updating to the equivalent of Snow Leopard.
It's about time… now we just hope it's true and that Apple fixes its reputation.
Exactly as it is in the article. I hope so. Stability is more important than constantly chasing something.
That would be a very good move from Apple. And if it really came true, I hope that the new OS X would follow in a similar spirit.
In particular, they should address the instability associated with using third-party keyboards for me. Every day I crash several apps that use the keyboard… Be it messages, browser, Facebook, notes… It's just exactly what I expected when they introduced this feature… As they start to let third party mess into the system, the stability is phew... Unfortunately, I don't want to stop using alternative keyboards, which would solve my problems... Swyping is addictive...
It's more about the lack of RAM in iVec
What effect does RAM have on whether there will be a native keyboard or a third-party keyboard? Another keyboard shouldn't burden the phone so much, right?
It's simply that the keyboard doesn't open at all... I click, for example, in the address bar in Safari, the keyboard doesn't open and the app freezes... Similarly with Messages, etc... And this happens several times every day...
This is due to the fact that third-party keyboards have very little operating memory reserved in the system, and since they work with large dictionaries, it happens that their RAM is enough and they simply turn off. Also, like when you do more demanding things on the iPhone and don't use the keyboard, the system turns it off due to RAM memory requirements. This is where Apple's sleuthing and tinkering starts to pay off. I'm not a fan of pointless performance boosts, but it would need at least 2Gb of RAM like the iPad Air2, since it's 2015.
If you don't skimp and save on frames, flashlights and storage space, you will easily be the most valuable company in the world. It is better to say that 512 ram and a 3,5-inch display are the best, and if you change it years later, the teplusek will stand in front of the iOve and in an engaging presentation present 1GB of memory as the greatest thing since the invention of the bicycle and that it is actually a gift full of gift.
100% :-)
That's why I ignore Apple. I understand that Apple thinks that the less RAM they have in the iPhone, the cooler it is, but I don't think so.
Hurrah. I think it is largely also because iOS 9 will support processors from A6 onwards, you know, which Apple designed itself. This is what I expected from the new iOS, but it would also be nice to be able to schedule things myself in the control center, work a little on the video application and the quick time player (the possibility of adding your own subtitles, choosing the quality, fps, etc.), the possibility of choosing a different default player than quick time, the possibility of choosing the default browser, speeding up the app store, which is terribly slow and stupidly freezes things in it
And didn't Apple design the other processors themselves?
Well, the fps is maybe a bit exaggerated, but I would appreciate the subtitles, at least in the video application. If so, at least the option of choosing your own player. And the A6 is the first processor that Apple designed entirely by itself. Apple just tweaked the previous generation.
Subtitles? FPS? This is not an android.
I don't know if you watch movies without subtitles, but I don't :-). However, this can be solved with third-party applications.
Well, Apple didn't really impress me with the updates. Rather, I always waited in which version they would finally add what I consider to be "standard" in the operating system - copy&paste, "multitasking", control center and the like. These things should have been there since the first versions and not released after x years and "wow" everyone with it. For me, the reason to jailbreak has disappeared.
"copy&paste, "multitasking", control center and the like"
iOS has been able to copy and paste since version 3.0, multitasking since version 4.0, and control center since forever. If you also mean switches, then from iOS 7.0. I don't know what surprised you about this "news" ;)
I don't mind right now, I'd expect them in version 1 or 2. Not for a few years.
Well, to a large extent it is the RAM that Apple could really give more and to some extent to the developers. But the fact that I switch from safari or twitter to another application and after switching back the page loads again really annoys me.
That's exactly it. I tried again yesterday. On Skype, I'm also "absent" on Android. It's a fact that I haven't opened the app in a week. So apparently Skype is doing it there. Viber I'm still online. Whenever anyone sends me anything, I get it. So does Hangout. I sent a message from iPhone to Android and even though the Hangout was not consumed for 4 days, it arrived normally. Back on the iPhone if I jumped out of the app then no. Meanwhile, both Skype and Hangout have "Update background data" checked in their settings. Viber doesn't have it checked because it doesn't show up in the list. But I have it set directly in the app. Say what you want, but it's a harness and I don't imagine a communication device like that. I can't use Apple only things like iMessage and FaceTime when I only connect to it on iThings, which not many people here have. But I admit that those work great.
Oh, and the frame. It also works on the iPhone 6, which has 1GB. But even on the iPhone 4S, which had "only" 512MB, 200-300MB was free. That must be enough. I used all these things normally on my Vodafone Smart II phone. It was free, had 256MB RAM and Android 2.3.3. Everything from the above was running in the background. I really don't know. They really think that these things are done to save battery because in general the battery life of iPhones, with the exception of the iP 6 Plus model, is below average. If I used my Note 3 like my sister iP 6, it would last me 3-4 days. She doesn't even eat 2. But she is very happy. Before that, she also charged the 4S twice a day.
Jaryn, multitasking in the iOS 8 version "works" in such a way that when you jump out of Viber with the home button, you are offline within a few minutes and no one will touch you. I have to text my girlfriend first so she can start Viber. Likewise when you measure the distance during sports and want to read your email. The application logs out and stops measuring. The saddest part is that Apple calls this nonsense "a smart way to save power". Rather than putting a normal battery in my phone, I'd rather charge it twice a day and invent non-functional nonsense to get around it.
So allow data or all applications to run in the background. That's how it works for me. Of course the Dana application must support it. In this case, contact the author :-)
So I don't know, when running with any application (I have 3), the distance never stops counting when I switch to the desktop or to another application. You just have to enable it in the settings :)
And what apps do you use?
Most often RunKeeper, I have also tried Running (Nike+) and Runtastic.
My battery lasts all day. Yesterday I unplugged my phone at 6am and by 10pm it was at 23%
Isn't it because you have some old devices that have to close previous applications due to lack of RAM? What mobile phone do you have?
I need to be able to set Skype so that it doesn't log out, and then it's really free and doesn't turn off even when I go somewhere else.
I have no experience with Viber, so I don't know if it has to be set up there as well.
Otherwise, I agree with Jaryn, everything you write about iOS has been around for a long time ;-).
Now Note 3. I had a 4S 16Gb. Syslive, or whatever the app was called, was consuming 300mb of free ram. Gmail works normally in the background. That Viber is not even worth a pig. I googled, set up, all in vain. segra has an iP 6 and has the same problem. It's probably Viber's fault. I liked the barre the most. Even Apple doesn't care that if you have a 1400, 1500 or 6 mAh battery like the iP 1800, it just can't last. I've never drained a Note 3 in one day. And I did what I wanted with it. It has 3200 mAh. iP6 plus has 2900. That's normal. But I still have a data block in my head for a 24-liter fan. Not that I shouldn't. Today I will sell it to you in installments without an increase, but the Note 3 cost me 3 at the Mall 12200 weeks ago. But I understand that if someone has a Mac, they don't buy Android. That's bullshit. But it's similar nonsense to buy iAnything without a Mac and then connect it to Widli. Or like me to Ubuntu. But to each his own.
I agree, I also have a block for a mobile phone for 24 ;-). Ever since I bought my most expensive phone (at the time for a little over 13), I've been careful. That mobile phone was the worst thing I ever bought. All the others under 10 were pretty cool, or at least they weren't that expensive :-D.
the same for Viber as Jendo, it works without problems, maybe just check in Settings in the list of installed applications that "notification" is enabled (or something like that) otherwise it won't ring. Some apps have presets there. I have it working between various iOS versions up to iOS8 and iPhones 4G to 5S and iPads 1G and 2G with iOS8.
In addition to Viber, I also have an iPad 1G iOS5 and I don't have the slightest problem with Viber, just turn on Wi-Fi and it "rings" without problems and is not active in the background. Skype yes, when it's in the background it rings, otherwise no.
Nothing like that happens to me.
I'm curious because the App store is not the least reliable and slowest application on the iPad 2 Air :-).
In the last few years, I see how a dog has 4 legs, a giraffe has a long neck, and Apple can't make a system. Vola once knew it, today the rainbow wheel is something that everyone knows in Leopard, we wondered how it would happen once in a while. If Apple makes another idiotic system again, I won't be surprised, just like that aziraffe still has that long neck. how many years are we away from the point when it doesn't matter if I have osx or win? IOS or Android?
Well I think iOS 9 won't be until late 2015/early 2016 so quite late :-(
Yes, no "This initiative couldn't have come at a better time". This is incredibly late.
"This initiative could not have come at a better time"
This is the fatness of you apple lovers. Couldn't it have come at a better time? Damn it, she could. Those bugs should have been fixed before release. Not a year later in a new version. But if you write that it is the ideal time, then I understand why it is the way it is.