Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing'

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:58PM from the bug-not-a-feature dept.

Mark Wilson writes: One of the key features of iOS 9 — and one of the reasons 16GB iPhones were not killed — is app slicing. This innocuous-sounding feature reduces the amount of space apps take up on iPhones and iPads... or at least it does when it is working. At the moment Apple has a problem with iCloud which is preventing app slicing from working correctly. The feature works by only downloading the components of an app that are needed to perform specific tasks on a particular device, but at the moment regular, universal apps are delivered by default.

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It's delayed, not dead by dugancent · 2015-09-24 14:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

Nothing has been killed. Enough with the hyperbole.

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1. Re:It's delayed, not dead by khchung · 2015-09-24 15:02 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Nothing has been killed. Enough with the hyperbole.
  I guess you would have noticed by now. After a new iPhone release in Sept every year, there would be a slew of these hyperbole troll pieces in the media to try to lure more readers by riding the iPhone bandwagon, and /. is no different.
  And we have been lured in just as expected.
  
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