I missed this one last week, so just pretend it’s 17 September. AnandTech’s in-depth review of iOS 8, probably the best one you’ll read online. They conclude:
Despite my concerns, iOS 8 makes me feel excited for the future more than anything else. Apple’s steps to open up more options for customization by developers and users on iOS marks a significant departure from their previous releases. It’s not Android but it isn’t meant to be. It brings new features and capabilities that are implemented in a very Apple-like manner, for better or for worse. I don’t think it’s going to do much to sway Android fans toward iOS, but it gives a lot of reason for current iOS users to stay with Apple. This is especially true for users who can take advantage of continuity. iOS 8 feels like another step in the maturation that began with iOS 7. Most exciting of all is that it’s still only the beginning.
Like I said before: consolidation.
I’ve told my son to lay off the update for a while (he has a 5S running 7) until the battery situation is sorted at least. According to what I have read so far 53% of owners are doing the same
What battery situation?
Are you talking about this replacement program: iPhone 5 devices produced until January 2013 and have a battery problem will be replaced.
If not:
had a battery situation myself (bought summer 2013), where the battery would go from 100% to 20% by itself in 9 hours (no apps running).
On the Apple website I made an appointment at an Apple store for the next day. Also explained my issue. Few minutes later I had a response telling me that they will take care of my phone and, if possible, I should do a backup either over a iTunes or iCloud. So i did.
Went to the Apple store the next day and the assistant ran (right there in front of me) diagnosis software on my phone (through the lightning port) and after a few minutes he told me that the battery is OK. There must be some “stray” software that activates some hardware and needs to be removed.
The only way to “fix” this would be to replace the current OS with a new install. However everything on the phone would be lost. But it would not be a problem as he can see I had done a backup the night before. The only important thing would be to NOT do a full restore (from the backup) as a full restore would also restore the former OS install.
At this point the assistant disappeared to the back (with my phone) and came back a few minutes later with my phone and a new install of iOS.
At home I did a “data and app” restore (not the full restore) and a few minutes later I had my phone back.
Since then the phone is OK again.
Bottom line: not all issues with the battery are “battery” related, but software related…
EDIT: forgot to mention: running iOS8 now and everything is still OK.
Edited 2014-09-23 17:08 UTC
My experience was that after doing a full backup, a restore and install of iOS 8 on my 5s was that all of the Location Services and Background App Updates were back to stock, meaning it was all on. Once I went into the settings and turned mostly all of it off again, the battery situation was not a battery situation at all. Same on my iPad Air. Maybe my experience is unique, but if someone is having problems with the battery, I would check the settings and maybe restart after the install, which makes me feel better and probably not much else
Edited 2014-09-23 18:41 UTC
Apple’s latest device crop represents the best selling mobile devices ever. Their selling for 3x the build price, the highest ever. They sell as many devices as they can make for about 4 months out of the year. Their stores make more money then any other retail store, including Tiffany’s and their ilk.
If Apple is consolidating it’s probably because their hard pressed to make these metrics any better.
Sure, they don’t have anywhere near the bulk of the market, but to do that they would have to sacrifice the profits that have made them the envy of the corporate world.
Well, obviously I can’t speak for myself, and I wouldn’t even consider myself an Android fan at all. In fact, I hate android and most of what it stands for. I ended up getting a Note 3 simply because Jolla doesn’t support the 3G or more frequencies in the USA.
But I hardly see many Android users moving away. Most of them (including myself) at this point have put at least some money into buying Apps, or at least setting up their phone exactly how they like it.
Same goes for people moving from iPhone to Android. I think the boat has mostly sailed.
At least in the ‘olden times’ if you had an Atari ST and you wanted to sell it for a Commodore Amiga, you could at least sell all the software you had with it. Now you can’t exactly sell your gmail account, now can you?
Edited 2014-09-23 14:40 UTC
You can’t “sell” your gmail account because, among other things, you did not pay a single cent for it. Technically you’re “selling” your data to google in exchange for an e-mail service. You could try selling your data to another provider, as that would be a more apt comparison (not that the whole Apple/Atari throwback had any merit with regards to the current realities in this field).
I was specifically speaking of the amount of software that you purchase on the Google Play store, which is tied to your Gmail account.
I never use my Gmail account for email, only for my Android device (I run my own email server, so it’s not like I need anymore email accounts, I can create as many as I want.)
So yes, the reference to being able to sell your software library off with older computers no longer applies in this day and age of ‘digital downloads’.
If there were a way to sell purchased apps on Android/iOS, then the potential for moving platforms would be greater.
I think visitors to this site think Android users pick Android for the same reasons they do. That simply isn’t the case in my opinion.
Android got big amongst the majority of consumers for two reasons:
1) Android phones were initially available on more major carriers than iPhones
2) Consumers wanted bigger screens regardless of ergonomics issues and Apple under-estimated that
Both of these issues are no longer a factor and while its true that many people like characteristics exclusive to Android phones, iPhones are not without their own unique characteristics that are equally if not more compelling.
I predict that we will see a steady, absolute and genuine migration to iOS and iPhones and away from Android going forward.
Edited 2014-09-23 19:08 UTC
And I imagine you don’t live in Europe, where most of us use pre-paid mobiles and live in countries where an iPhone off-contract costs twice of the average salary.
Only at the reach of the society upper classes, as those are the ones able to pay the contracts bound to iPhones.
This demonstrates that a sizable demographic is settling for 2nd best as the iPhone is generally preferred otherwise.
Regardless, the transition has already started. Research firm Kantar Worldpanel released a report finding that Apple has regained share in markets such as Europe, Japan and Australia… all regions where pre-paid mobiles are more common.
http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Apple-regains-momentum-…
Edited 2014-09-23 21:48 UTC
Lots of catching up to do.
Just remember the massive amount of phones that Nokia had out in the world, and within just a few years they pretty much disappeared. The mobile world is pretty fickle, and it’s all (for a lot of people) about the newest shiny thing out there.
This is also why (statistically speaking) women are more likely to buy the iPhone, ’cause it’s all about the shiny.
Nokia phones did not cost twice the income of the average European.
Bullshit. The Netherlands and Germany, for instance, both have like 80%-90% Android, even though virtually everyone in these two countries can easily afford iPhones. The United States, on the other hand, where poverty runs rampant, has 40-50% iPhone. These facts do not fit into your popular-among-Apple-fanatics hypothesis.
There will definitely be an uptic now that the new iPhones have been released – as always – but after one or two quarters, the trend will continue. The iPhone 6/Plus will not change this trend in any significant way.
Even the ‘9 million sold’ number is misleading, since nobody bothered to check how much the overall smartphone market has grown compared to last year in the iPhone 6 launch countries (e.g., if the growth in iPhone first-weekend figures actually is in step with the market, above it, or below it). Until we have those figures, they’re meaningless.
OT: The poverty rate in Germany is slightly higher than in the USA; both are about 15%. Netherlands is significantly less, at 9%.
I’m not sure if that refutes or confirms the point you were trying to make, but your impression of the US is off-kilter.
Are you serious? Are you saying that americans have less purchasing power than germans?
In euro-dreams dreams only…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP~*~…
Though those are averages, doesn’t tell you how it’s distributed among society.
A Digital World Research survey of iPhone 6 buyers states that 27% of Samsung/Android customers are ditching Samsung for the iPhone… This is a worldwide survey.
25% of respondents who planned on buying an iPhone 6/Plus currently own an other (LG, Blackberry, other) phone, while 2% were current Windows Phone owners making the switch to Apple.â€
Additionally the survey states that Apple is also making strong gains among consumers who don’t currently own a phone.
http://digitalworldresearch.com/2014/09/survey-consumers-ditch-sams…
Of course we’ll wait and see however I believe this survey validates my suspicion.
Edited 2014-09-24 04:43 UTC
Great, I’ll go just ask the kids at the shopping mall and post it as a serious survey.
Edited 2014-09-24 07:25 UTC
You gotta be kidding.
250 out of 8+ billion people. Thats so far from being even a remotely acceptable sample size that it’s not even funny. No serious research outfit would ever post something that silly and expect it to be taken seriously.
You’d have to be a pretty big fool to think that survey result has any meaning whatsoever.
Edited 2014-09-24 07:57 UTC
This is really reaching (even for you) to try to find controversy in Apple-related news. The 9 million sold number was simply a number… it wasn’t stated as market share increase, sales increase or made in any way relative to another number. It’s simply a large number… a number that reportedly would have been significantly greater had they been able to keep up with demand.
Your response is very “hamlet”
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
I’m genuinely curious, Thom. For how many years have you actually lived in the USA?
I’ve lived here all my life, about 20 years in Mississippi (among the poorest states) and about 30 years in Texas, with about a year in Virginia in the middle.
I’ve worked directly with those in poverty while helping to launch our local homeless shelter, and working the front lines for over a decade (and supporting those who do all my life, as did my dad), and I regularly teach and volunteer in Title I schools (those would be public schools that receive federal funding because their districts have less money than average).
If “poverty runs rampant” in the USA, then I’m the Queen of England.
I suspect you get your “poverty runs rampant” misconception from the innumerable politically-driven articles that try to project that image to justify perpetual expansion of the massive welfare bureaucracy and federal control over the population. For example, a wave of “healthcare crisis” articles hit in 1992, which led to the failed HillaryCare initiative; again in 2003, which led to the massive $400 billion Medicare expansion under George W Bush to help 40 million seniors afford prescriptions (you do the math…); and another in 2008, which led to ObamaCare. Each of these initiatives included more and often duplicate federal bureaucracy to oversee tens of thousands of new regulations.
What we never see, of course, is a refactoring (to use the software term) of the federal code to simply, focus, and more efficiently address the business of government.
The truth is that a large majority of those “living in poverty” in the USA have government-provided housing, food, cell phones, transportation, and other necessities. Most people I know favor a solid but temporary safety net (the “free phone” program actually originated under Ronald Reagan, hardly a left-wing radical), but condemn the duplication, waste and fraud that occurs despite some really great and caring front-line workers. (MSNBC and CNN focus on those who have trouble getting help, while Fox focuses on waste and those who commit fraud – yes, it’s hard to get an accurate picture from the regular media!)
Those who struggle but are not getting help generally fall into 3 categories in my experience – they are recently unemployed (the feds take a remarkably long time to process welfare applications, in contrast to the large church / charity network that responds almost instantly); they actively reject assistance (many of these suffer mental illness, but the courts have consistently ruled that they have a right to reject help except when public safety is involved); or they have been convicted of welfare fraud and declared ineligible until the bureaucracy churns or forgets.
Remember that in the USA, a majority will likely pity Europe for your failing, almost unusable socialized health care system, with 10 year waits to see an under-educated doc and people dying in the streets waiting for heart surgery. I’m exaggerating of course, but that’s a fairly common opinion. I have British and French friends who say otherwise, but who am I gonna believe – the media or people who actually live there?
Ahem.
Your presence on this website is greatly appreciated sir!
That’s like saying anyone who doesn’t drive a Ferrari, Koenigsegg or Rolls settled for the second best.
iPhone still doesn’t do multi-window view, even on it’s big screen. I also find it funny, that while taller than my Note 3, the 6+ has a slightly smaller screen size (5.5″ vs 5.7″). It is a tiny bit less wide, but sure does stick out of your pocket more.
I jokingly told a co-worker that now all he needs is to attach some game pad/buttons to it, and he could use it instead of his PSP.
s/Europe/Anywhere that isn’t the USA/g
(double)
Edited 2014-09-24 07:30 UTC
1) wasn’t really true among most carriers outside the US
There are a lot of people that were only on Android for the screen size and not cause they like Android better (mostly non tech people)
Now that the iPhone is larger they are swarming back.
There was still a line at my Apple Store in Virginia USA today.
Still don’t understand why people want phones so damned big. Does no one use pockets anymore? How the hell do they carry these things, since even being in a pocket can bend them?
Almost everyone I know with a note ether has an otter box with a hip clip or a purse. LOL.
Great, so they look like those idiots that used to carry Blackberries out in the open? I suppose these are the same idiots that think their iPhones are boomboxes in public. Hope they don’t expect pity if it gets ripped right off their hip.