I haven't tried to sync using iTunes for years. with iTunes match all my songs are synced automatically. Any app purchases in iTunes are pushed to my iphone automagically. what reason is there to ask iTunes to sync?
I'm sorry that this is the first time that you have ever upgraded an operating system. it must be tough wading into an area that is brand new to you. 1) when a new OS comes out, some apps designed for the old OS have problems. This works out over time as most apps are updated. Some old unsupported apps are left in the dust and no longer work under new OS versions. this has been true since DOS. 2) while a new OS is often more efficient than the old OS in many ways, it can also be more resource intensive in some ways. On last gen hardware this can manifest itself as "some stuff got slower". This has been true since DOS.
re iTunes it has allways been a shizzshow. I expect in 2015 Apple will announce that it is discontinuing iTunes in favor of bringing the iOS Music app to mac and win, the way it did the same thing with Photos. Also agreed with Safari on windows, which was always a shizzshow in its own right. There was never a big reason to choose safari over chrome on Win. also apple refused to use windows design schemes, so the app always looked fugly.
I would say the biggest problem affecting the desktop is the total brain drain of people pulled out to work on iOS. It's clear that's where the company sees the growth and that's where it's investing the mind-hours to do it right. People on the desktop software are becoming sentinels and janitors.
There was a cute anecdote in the steve jobs book. Once the iPHone started development, steve would walk the halls and snatch the best developers and move them to the iOS project. Literally, one day the developer was in his cubicle, and the next his entire cubicle was empty but instead of getting laid off they were moved to a different building with different responsibilities.
The future is coming quickly, too. iPhoto is no longer under development, and instead apple is bringing the iOS photos app to the desktop. iTunes is next, or shall I say, it is currently underway, just not announced yet.
The 8.0.1 thing was a disaster, there's nothing you can say. I hope heads rolled. I also agree that we don't need to be making a new OS every 12 months.
I read the whole article (yes, heresy) and the author doesn't even know what an operating system is. He thinks the OS is what made the iPhone and Android take off, even though both those OSes were around for a decade at least.
What is missing from the 'automated home' is a amazing use case.
my brother and his wife just had their first baby, and when it came time for the wife to go back to work they got three dropcams and put them throughout the house - living room, nursery, and a third place I forget. Now they can check in at any time of day to see what the baby is up to and what the nanny is doing. I agree, it's weird. But it gives them peace of mind and the nanny knows about the camera, so the system works for them.
For many people, "Allows me to check on my infant daughter" is an amazing use case. Consider the all-in was $600 for three cameras, plus $20/month for hosting. Connects to the existing wifi system, no wires to run. Monitored through an ipad or iphone app, which they already have. For me it woudl be super creepy, but it works for them and they love it.
So you may not see a business case here, but for many people (perhaps millions) the combination of utiity plus low cost plus easy setup plus easy use will be very compelling, even considering the tradeoffs.
I'm sorry you don't care about energy efficiency and renewable power. I suppose it's easier for you when 80% of your electricity comes from coal and the plants run 24/7. Some of us want to maximize the use of renewables, which requires demand shaping, and reduce the total number of kwh. you know, for kids.
you know, I have to say meh? Apple has sold 800 million ios devices sold worldwide. even if we put an ios controller in every US household, it only increases the ios attack surface by 15%. Also, considering iphones and ipads already have access to emails, passwords, everything else, there wouldn't be a crazy amount of additional value in people's refrigerator use.
So I would say the summary and article are dusted off from 2012. The smart home OS of the future is the mobile OS. Apple has their Homekit systems. I'm sure Google is thinking of something too.
yeah but you can only use one app at a time so what's the problem? I don't even know how much RAM my phone has, or for that matter what is the memory footprint of each app. that's windows XP thinking in a 21st century world.
most apps have all the graphical assets and structure files locally, and just do data calls for data refreshes. Better than in effect downloading an entire app every time you go to a webpage. faster too, because there's no browser overhead.
Consider a game like clash of clans. it's a full detailed graphical game, and yet the real time info it exchanges is just a couple KB to denote the coordinates of different pieces. this couldn't be done in a browser.
also, if your national UK rail app sucks, then this could be a response to the original question in the summary, an opportunity to build an app using the UK rail data that is intuitive and helpful.
3) They also grab all your data. Contact lists, location, lists of other apps, call records, etc... Web sites aren't that bad. For this point alone I'd argue website are over 100% better than apps.
what kind of nasty nasty unprotected malware operating system do you use? was it developed in china or russia? on my OS, appls have limited access to some info (contacts, location) which the user can allow or disallow at any time. apps have zero access to what other apps are there, call records, or anything outside their needs. no flashlight apps that track your typing. i suggest you try a modern secure mobile OS, then maybe you'd feel better about apps.
iphones have privacy built in so you can control access to GPS, camera, microphone, contacts, and other things I'm not thinking of. These are fine-grained per-app and you can turn them on/off at will.
dedicated apps are 100% better than websites. they're faster (because all the content is local and they're not running with the overhead of a browser), more secure, and have better graphic design (because they can be purpose built for a specific screen size and aspect ratio). case in point amazon's app.
agreed with PITA, and as a second note, if people are needing to relearn the wheel every time, then it's a recipe for mistakes and security holes. Not calling out the AC, just sayin in general.
srsly? its been all over the internet for some time. a lot of the #gamergate nonsense revolves around doxxing. it's a common 4chan tactic. are you new to the tubes?
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I haven't tried to sync using iTunes for years. with iTunes match all my songs are synced automatically. Any app purchases in iTunes are pushed to my iphone automagically. what reason is there to ask iTunes to sync?
I'm sorry that this is the first time that you have ever upgraded an operating system. it must be tough wading into an area that is brand new to you.
1) when a new OS comes out, some apps designed for the old OS have problems. This works out over time as most apps are updated. Some old unsupported apps are left in the dust and no longer work under new OS versions. this has been true since DOS.
2) while a new OS is often more efficient than the old OS in many ways, it can also be more resource intensive in some ways. On last gen hardware this can manifest itself as "some stuff got slower". This has been true since DOS.
re iTunes it has allways been a shizzshow. I expect in 2015 Apple will announce that it is discontinuing iTunes in favor of bringing the iOS Music app to mac and win, the way it did the same thing with Photos. Also agreed with Safari on windows, which was always a shizzshow in its own right. There was never a big reason to choose safari over chrome on Win. also apple refused to use windows design schemes, so the app always looked fugly.
I would say the biggest problem affecting the desktop is the total brain drain of people pulled out to work on iOS. It's clear that's where the company sees the growth and that's where it's investing the mind-hours to do it right. People on the desktop software are becoming sentinels and janitors.
There was a cute anecdote in the steve jobs book. Once the iPHone started development, steve would walk the halls and snatch the best developers and move them to the iOS project. Literally, one day the developer was in his cubicle, and the next his entire cubicle was empty but instead of getting laid off they were moved to a different building with different responsibilities.
The future is coming quickly, too. iPhoto is no longer under development, and instead apple is bringing the iOS photos app to the desktop. iTunes is next, or shall I say, it is currently underway, just not announced yet.
The 8.0.1 thing was a disaster, there's nothing you can say. I hope heads rolled. I also agree that we don't need to be making a new OS every 12 months.
OMG you're right the iPhone was released eight years ago I am so oooooooooold.
I read the whole article (yes, heresy) and the author doesn't even know what an operating system is. He thinks the OS is what made the iPhone and Android take off, even though both those OSes were around for a decade at least.
lolwut?
NEST had to recall their fire alarms...
What is missing from the 'automated home' is a amazing use case.
my brother and his wife just had their first baby, and when it came time for the wife to go back to work they got three dropcams and put them throughout the house - living room, nursery, and a third place I forget. Now they can check in at any time of day to see what the baby is up to and what the nanny is doing. I agree, it's weird. But it gives them peace of mind and the nanny knows about the camera, so the system works for them.
For many people, "Allows me to check on my infant daughter" is an amazing use case. Consider the all-in was $600 for three cameras, plus $20/month for hosting. Connects to the existing wifi system, no wires to run. Monitored through an ipad or iphone app, which they already have. For me it woudl be super creepy, but it works for them and they love it.
So you may not see a business case here, but for many people (perhaps millions) the combination of utiity plus low cost plus easy setup plus easy use will be very compelling, even considering the tradeoffs.
idiots have been pitching alternating current for years now. I'm looking at you Edison.
Makes me think of "smart meters".
I'm sorry you don't care about energy efficiency and renewable power. I suppose it's easier for you when 80% of your electricity comes from coal and the plants run 24/7. Some of us want to maximize the use of renewables, which requires demand shaping, and reduce the total number of kwh. you know, for kids.
you know, I have to say meh? Apple has sold 800 million ios devices sold worldwide. even if we put an ios controller in every US household, it only increases the ios attack surface by 15%. Also, considering iphones and ipads already have access to emails, passwords, everything else, there wouldn't be a crazy amount of additional value in people's refrigerator use.
So I would say the summary and article are dusted off from 2012. The smart home OS of the future is the mobile OS. Apple has their Homekit systems. I'm sure Google is thinking of something too.
yeah but you can only use one app at a time so what's the problem? I don't even know how much RAM my phone has, or for that matter what is the memory footprint of each app. that's windows XP thinking in a 21st century world.
most apps have all the graphical assets and structure files locally, and just do data calls for data refreshes. Better than in effect downloading an entire app every time you go to a webpage. faster too, because there's no browser overhead.
Consider a game like clash of clans. it's a full detailed graphical game, and yet the real time info it exchanges is just a couple KB to denote the coordinates of different pieces. this couldn't be done in a browser.
also, if your national UK rail app sucks, then this could be a response to the original question in the summary, an opportunity to build an app using the UK rail data that is intuitive and helpful.
3) They also grab all your data. Contact lists, location, lists of other apps, call records, etc... Web sites aren't that bad. For this point alone I'd argue website are over 100% better than apps.
what kind of nasty nasty unprotected malware operating system do you use? was it developed in china or russia? on my OS, appls have limited access to some info (contacts, location) which the user can allow or disallow at any time. apps have zero access to what other apps are there, call records, or anything outside their needs. no flashlight apps that track your typing. i suggest you try a modern secure mobile OS, then maybe you'd feel better about apps.
shill for whom? using amazon via app rather than web? why would somebody shill for that?
iphones have privacy built in so you can control access to GPS, camera, microphone, contacts, and other things I'm not thinking of. These are fine-grained per-app and you can turn them on/off at will.
when you're in russia and you don't speak the language, then a "decent" real-time translator is more than satisfactory!
many of the fitness trackers track sleep as well. Jawbone Up does this, including how much sleep per day and time of day. Fitbit does it as well.
dedicated apps are 100% better than websites. they're faster (because all the content is local and they're not running with the overhead of a browser), more secure, and have better graphic design (because they can be purpose built for a specific screen size and aspect ratio). case in point amazon's app.
agreed with PITA, and as a second note, if people are needing to relearn the wheel every time, then it's a recipe for mistakes and security holes. Not calling out the AC, just sayin in general.
srsly? its been all over the internet for some time. a lot of the #gamergate nonsense revolves around doxxing. it's a common 4chan tactic. are you new to the tubes?
I prefer doxxing. doxing looks like DOH-xing
Why did you sign a contract with a studio if you don't like the terms?
Umm, go to a library? Buy a book?
you could make a full backup of your device on iTunes, then restore to that full backup. this should push it to an older OS.
+1 this would make the best gravestone ever.