iOS 8 Review

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @05:05AM from the fewer-syllables,-much-more-divisible-by-two dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple is releasing iOS 8 today, and Ars Technica has posted one of their huge, thorough reviews of the updated operating system. They have this to say about the UI: "iOS 8 tries to fit a whole lot more stuff onto a single screen than iOS 7 did. The operating system was clearly developed in anticipation of iPhones with larger screens." The biggest new feature is Extensions: "Older versions of iOS limited what third-party applications could do to communicate with external services and other third-party applications. ... Extensions remove some (but not all) of those barriers." The biggest examples of extensions are custom keyboards, a feature iOS users have been requesting for years. Downsides to iOS 8 include increased storage and processing requirements, which are bad news for older iPhones, and a host of new bugs associated with the new features.

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Re:Nerd fight by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-17 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

No, New Here quit posting some time ago (sadly).
Re:Be careful upgrading iCloud Drive by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-17 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny

You could lose everything in your iCloud backups:
4chan and reddit will keep a copy for you.
Re:Be careful upgrading iCloud Drive by binarylarry · 2014-09-17 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah I upgraded my iPhone and ALL of my pictures were replaced with U2 promo shots.

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Re:Not answered in review by BancBoy · 2014-09-17 10:33 · Score: 3, Funny

C) If you are loosing application on a iDevice, then you must be pretty dim.
Mr. Pot, there's a Mr. Kettle on line three for you.

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