I haven't been able to find a single forum/thread for the Apple announcements today (anywhere) that wasn't completely filled with either:
1) NSA flaming
2) 'lol no 5 inch / 1080p screen' style comments.
3) filled with disappointment that the iphone isnt a whole world more than what has been leaked.
How useful it would be to find a forum where actual on-topic discussion was visible and it was the crap that got filtered out, instead of the other way around.
Isn't it fair to be disappointed? They dropped the visual upgrade and introduced dozens of new bugs, forcing developers to put in some serious hours. And the result is what?
The best feature released is downloading new content in the background. That's wonderful, but not enough. iOS background processes are still crippled, so I can only have an open socket in the background if it's part of a VoIP app. And for some reason the VoIP flag also signals that I want the app to run on startup?
I don't see why we should care about iPhones or iOS anymore. The latest upgrade is a fingerprint scanner and it's faster. Ok. The operating system finally drops the idiotic skeuomorphism and lets people share photos with Apple's version of NFC. Includes a 2D game engine. Great. Oh beacons? Wonderful, now we can opt-in to targeted localized advertisements.
I'm more interested in getting a device that doesn't force its requirements inbetween me and my workflow. That means widgets, sideloading, intents, and applications that can edit the same files. Removing the animations or reducing their duration (jailbreak an iPhone, install the Accelerate package, and tell me that isn't a much better experience).
On iOS you still can't even delete their default apps if you don't want them. I thought Apple was supposed to be about style? My old iPod Touch still has a folder full of apps I don't want. And an empty Newsstand.
Apple is for children and the computer illiterate. The only benefit of iOS over Android is that you don't need to be totally vigilant over what you install. But the cost is living in a walled garden under the watchful eye of your nanny. I'm disappointed in iOS and the iPhone. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're going to find that the preferred style changes over time, whereas Android is going to have a technical fan base for quite a while even after the "massive screens" fad dies down.
1) NSA flaming
2) 'lol no 5 inch / 1080p screen' style comments.
3) filled with disappointment that the iphone isnt a whole world more than what has been leaked.
How useful it would be to find a forum where actual on-topic discussion was visible and it was the crap that got filtered out, instead of the other way around.