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Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig?
kyjellyfish writes I've been using iOS 8 for several days and aside from a few gimmicks and add-ons that attempt to achieve parity with Android, my experience has been overwhelmingly unsatisfactory. My chief complaint is that the vast majority of my apps are slow to boot and noticeably sluggish in operation. I want to point out that all of these apps have been "upgraded" specifically for iOS 8 compatibility. Previous operating system upgrades have been relatively seamless, so I'm asking whether other slashdotters have experienced this degraded performance.
I've been running iOS8 since pre-beta on multiple devices, including phones and iPads. I've had no problem, nothing at all like you describe.
If you're so inclined, I'd try a fresh install and see if that makes things run better. You can always restore from backup later.
I assume there was nothing strange about your iOS7 install, like being jailbroken, right?
Not picking a side. But it's kinda funny when you think about it:
* With an Apple device, you get regular updates to iOS, but your phone will continually become slower (planned obsolescence)
* With an Android device, the manufacturer outright abandons updating the phone the moment their next handset is on sale. (Samsung seems to be the worst about this, but, even Google has done it to stock Nexus phones.)
Pick your poison. Slow, or quick. ....then get ready for your next pill.
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* With an Apple device, you get regular updates to iOS, but your phone will continually become slower (planned obsolescence)
I don't think that "planned obsolescence" means what you think it does.
What you have with iOS on older devices is the race between Moore's Law and "Feature Creep". That is not "Planned". It just is.
It would only be "Planned Obsolescence" if the user was forced to install an iOS Upgrade. But they aren't; so it isn't.
So, it is not a matter of "picking your poison". Apple attempts to offer its OS Upgrades as far back as they can, even if some of the oldest devices may, in some cases, and then, only for some users, suffer a bit.
That is why the prudent iOS User with hardware > 1 Generation "back", waits a few days/weeks to see if they should Upgrade. After all, all it takes to not Upgrade, is to, well, not Upgrade. You iOS Device will continue to work exactly as always.
When will supposedly tech-savvy Slashdotters actually get that? Seems like "Willful Ignorance" to me...
You think there is something funny about this?
At least he has the cajones to admit his mistakes, with his username, COWARD.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
Umm, no. Nexus devices are supported for 18 months as they specifically say
You're trying to argue but I think you just proved his point. Considering that most phones in the USA are
still sold with a 24 month contract, having only 18 months worth of support is a complete joke. 48 months
should be the bare minimum but even then it's hard to argue against the fact that both sides are doing their
own version of "planned obsolescence". Some of this will happen naturally as newer systems are faster
but it's annoying when you are forced to upgrade just to maintain status quo. I had an older android
phone and eventually had to upgrade because many of the apps stopped supporting my phone.
Only you are, if you ever need to wipe your phone and reinstall then you are only able to install the latest version of iOS, unless you've previously jailbroken and cached the previous versions - which isn't officially supported by apple.
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The Fandroid talk starts in his first sentence:
You could of course say the same thing about every Android device evah while pointing at the very first iPhone, save the screen size of the Galaxy.
Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your heads. Just try buying what you want, that does what you want, without pretending that your personal product preferences came carved on tables sent down by God.
Nope. My Galaxy Nexus, purchased new from the Google Play store in November 2012, was no longer supported in October 2013 with 4.3. That's less than a year, and the reason I no longer use an Android product.
The World is Yours.
So you bought an old phone that was current at the time of purchasing.
It seem he bought a current phone at the the time of purchasing. Because... that's what was currently available.
The warranty starts from the date of purchase, not the date the design was handed over to manufacturing.
If Google supports a phone for 18 months, then they have to support it for 18 months from the date it was last officially on sale.
You must have serious amounts of spare if you think it's an acceptable solution to go looking around an online community for solutions like this. I don't have the time nor inclination to do this with every device in my household. Maybe once because it's interesting, but that's pushing it. It's a phone or table device FFS, I just want it to work and spend my time more usefully.
Furthermore, if the device was current at the time it was bought, it's irrelevant how long it was since the original release date. It's reasonable to expect a useful support period. What the grandparent post described is totally unacceptable.