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iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: After a longer wait than usual, Apple today finally released the first official numbers for iOS 11. The various figures and estimates released by marketing and research firms are no longer relevant, as we now know for certain that iOS 11 has passed the 50 percent mark in less than two months. In other words, the latest version of the company's mobile operating system is now on one in every two of its mobile devices. iOS 11 was released on September 13, meaning it took less than seven weeks to reach the majority of users that Apple tracks. While this is certainly impressive, keep in mind that iOS 10 took less than a month and iOS 9 took less than a week to hit the same adoption milestone. Sure, the number of iOS devices is growing, but Apple also cuts down the number allowed to get the latest updates.
iPhone users (in the US at least, not sure what's going on elsewhere) are conditioned to upgrade their devices. Even though carrier subsidies are gone, they've been replaced by a series of "lease/loan/trade-up" programs that keep people in contracts with their carriers until the equipment loan is satisfied. That, and iOS users tend to have more disposable income to go upgrade their shiny devices, so even if the cost of the device is hidden they don't really care.
Software-wise, it's the same thing driving the Windows-as-a-Service thing that Microsoft is doing with Windows 10. People are just conditioned to click "Restart Now" and accept whatever update appears because all of the complexity has been hidden away. One thing I can say about Windows 10 is that upgrades are much safer than they were back in the Windows 7 days...but that comes with the drawback of not knowing much about what is in those update packages. Microsoft used to break out exactly what changed in each update but they are increasingly tight-lipped and reverting to Apple-style "makes your PC faster, easier and more enjoyable! (...and fixes these 247 security holes)"
Windows 10 reached a market share of about 25% in over 2 years.
Now this would be the moment when you'd have to ask why.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The highest adoption rate is Marshmallow at 32% and Lollipop (with API 22) at 21%. That's the one big benefit of Apple: you get updates (for at least a handful number of years).
When the manufacturer controls the updates, I'm surprised it's THAT low.
But it hasn't slowed down my gold old 5s.
For now. I hope to get another year out of it before looking for options.
No headphone jack, no upgrade.
I can't update my perfectly working iPad because it is not supported by iOS11.
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If you were 1/1000th the "power user" you claim to be, you'd know you can turn off the update nagging.
As every Apple user knows, you never update to the latest Mac OS or iOS release when it first comes out due to the sometimes insurmountable issues you might face (like lost data). However this one seems to be the worst, the primary issue being the inability for an iPhone or iPad to connect to a large number of wireless networks because Apple has decided what is a 'safe' network and what is not. This was feedbacked during beta testing in the summer and unfortunately the final release still incorporated this unpatched 'feature' where plenty of folks will go to places like a large hotel and can't stay connected to wifi (connect for a second, get an IP, disconnected) even after setting the new settings like 'always join'. This bug still existed after three iOS 11 patches, undetermined if it was fixed in 11.1. Also serious reports of battery draining as well.
I've been an i adopter forever, and I'm not really sure why. I'd say buy and large, Apple gives you very little room and window of opportunity to have older iOS versions + apps stay in a security and maintenence only release. I guarantee that the over half of that '50%' adoption was because of the classically conditioned sub-novice-power-savvy Apple user just auto-forcing updates or accidentally clicking the 'do it next time I'm on wifi at 3am' shit, then being undeniably pissed because all the phony tech reviews about the 'next' iOS on their already old/EOL iPhone/iPad doesn't function that bad with the new OS but it, in fact, does and was never meant to.
Apple can boast this all they want, if it's indeed something to even brag about, but I'd love to see what device(s) we all still get the iOS 11 update push to that shouldn't ever have it installed on and have a successful runtime with it before you see that Apple ID re-activated with an iPhone 8 or X out of frustration.
They can't search for "install iOS 10" to revert... because they can't type "i"
I hope you're not using WiFi...
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Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.
https://discussions.apple.com/...
I almost hit upgrade on my phone, but the I saw the announcement of an input bug.
o_O
Input bug? How the Hell do you miss that in QA?
Following iOS 11/11.1 install, 3 years old iPhones have camera and GPS problems (iPhone 6/6+) ; not saying Apple intentionally crippled a 3 yo perfectly working hardware to force users to upgrade, but that's quite suspicious...
I don't believe it's anything malicious. I believe that Apple software quality is rapidly approaching 0.
Why I always buy a phone that can have its bootloader unlocked and is supported with a chip that won't be obsolete later down the road. Doing a bit of research alleviates the issue. Nice thing with Apple is you don't need to research the vendor. I just can't stand using iOS anymore since the cat started winning more than the mouse in terms of doing custom software to make the system less annoying.
Oh yeah, Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, forgot this one!
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The removal of 32-bit support is what has stopped me from upgrading my iPad. I have a number of games on there that will never get a 64-bit version since the studios that ported them are long gone. I paid good money for those games.
I guess that there might come a time when some application I really want is only available for iOS 11 and outweighs my desire to retain access to my 32-bit library, but until then I'm sticking with 10.
On one hand, updating my iPhone 6 to iOS11 added a feature I've been wanting for a LONG time. IMAP IDLE support! Happy to have that at last.
On the other hand, now the phone is slow and unresponsive. Feels like an Android.
Everything was a lot slower on my 6, yes. (I had to get a 7 over the weekend because my 6 was stolen.)
However, since I'm usually running the public beta, I made a complaint about the keyboard speed and got an email about it today, with the claim that they've made a fix that MIGHT help. So performance is something they're actively working on, it sounds like.
(I greatly suspect, like the weird issue with the 'I' key, that this was because of the 'machine learning' stuff they're trying to run in the background. The iPhone 6 simply doesn't have the horsepower for it.)
Here's the thing with Apple: I think they test everything as best as they can...but not in the real world.
The keyboard problems on their Pro laptops? That sounds like a lot of testing was done in Jony Ive's clean workroom. Same with the weird design problems with the AppleTV remote. Same with the TouchBar. All these things work great if you're not bringing something to a cafe and trying to get work done there, or sitting on a real couch with dogs and kids and trying to use the AppleTV remote in the dark while holding a drink.
Same with problems with the older phones. Nobody dogfoods this stuff. No employees (or not enough employees) are walking around with an iPhone 6 in their pockets trying to get on with their lives; the iPhone 6 is probably being tested in a lab with few apps installed and lots of empty space on the disk.
I love my Apple stuff, but sometimes it really feels like nobody tried to use it out in the street before shipping it.
I love my Apple stuff, but sometimes it really feels like nobody tried to use it out in the street before shipping it.
Sometimes? Just about every single issue in the past few years could have easily been spotted by any QA or dev who just used their own tool. Even the calculator issue in iOS 11 shows that no one at Apple has bothered to use the calculator on their phone in the year or so that Apple has been working on the release.
wishes I could go back to iOS 10
I really like the new behavior, it's much better for travel where you just want it to not connect to something you had connected to before for the day, then when you get home it will still be on WiFi.
Now I would agree it's a bit confusion, but I think they just need to clarify that's what it is doing rather than change what it does... after all you can still turn it off in Settings.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The oldest phone to get iOS 11 is the 5S which means your phone is older than 4 years. There aren't that many Android phones that still get updates 4 years after release.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
There are some things they do and test really well! And on iOS they have the advantage of a lot of beta users. I really like my iPhone 7, for instance, and I'm surprised at how much of an upgrade it was from my 6.
But yeah, I think there's a real issue with real world testing, and it's going to come back and haunt Apple. (If it isn't doing so already; the replacement costs for those keyboards are enormous, and for the time being, all of them are being done under warranty. There's also losing the mantle of selling the most reliable products, which is one of the biggest reasons I buy Apple stuff.)
whichever way you look at it.
No, but my "ooh shiny shiny" also has a VPN so that I can poke at (a limited number of) internal hosts to trouble shoot stuff from home.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.
https://discussions.apple.com/...
They DID address it.
The toggle in Control Panel is a Disconnect; but peer-peer services such as AirDrop still work. This AVOIDS confusion on the part of users.
All one has to do to actually turn WiFi OFF, is to toggle it OFF in the Settings App.