With iOS 8, Apple has taken a bigger leap than we see naked eye. Aesthetically it seems more of the same, an iOS 7 with flourishes but in reality, Apple has completely changed its mentality to make "its iOS operating system", "our iOS operating system." Now each iPhone does not have to be the same, each one can have a keyboard, some widgets, some extensions and this is only the beginning of what is to come. Will Apple regret taking this stance?
Steve Jobs's philosophy was clear: iOS is the user experience taken to the extreme. If adding a measly wallpaper is going to slow down the iPhone, it won't be added until you can actually move it freely. In this aspect, Steve was very radical and luckily, we had the jailbreak to make up for deficiencies of this type since some could be branded as absurd. In short, iOS was pure muscle, a robust system to offer 100% in every moment and give the feeling of immediacy in every action.
Over time, iOS has been evolving like the different iPhone models, increasingly powerful in order to maintain that balance between performance and power that we have had until now.
iOS 8 is here and breaks with all the schemes. The system remains robust and reliable But now, developers can put their hands to offer a series of additions that Apple does not implement as standard. In this way, iOS is becoming more personalized and fattening, but at what price? Is Apple reviewing that its performance guidelines are being met? At the moment it seems that we have short-term problems with this.
Yesterday we saw that the updates of applications compatible with Health were eliminated from the App Store, something that does not influence us much but that draws our attention, more than anything because it has been a last minute measure.
I've been testing iOS 8 since the first beta and I like the system, it's what I've always wanted to see but now that the closure is already open and the first keyboards, widgets and others start to appear, I start to see the problems. For example I am going to talk about Swiftkey, a magnificent keyboard that has brought the lag to my iPhone 5, something that to date did not know. If you want to do the test yourself, open the spotlight with Swiftkey configured and you will see that the time it takes is quite high, nothing bleeding but there is the delay.
Now take it, go back to using the default keyboard of iOS 8 and the fluidity personified will return to the terminal. I do not like this, more than anything because we have just started and problems of this type are already appearing. You will tell me to buy an iPhone 5s or an iPhone 6, of course, but this problem is not the performance of a perfectly capable hardware, it is lack of optimization by a developer who integrates his tool in iOS and does not reach the level that Apple used to us.
If I go back in time, I remember when the notifications arrived. That was a delight, the always dreamed of on iOS and What are the notifications today? A real nightmare. Games that ask you to open them because you haven't played for 24 hours, messages that you have never asked for, etc. You have to deactivate one by one these applications that abuse the possibilities of iOS, all for their benefit but not ours.
Now that iOS 8 is "so open", we will see real gems but also real trash. There will be applications that squeeze our patience to the fullest with absurd extensions, widgets that are worthless and keyboards that are useless, time to time. Apple should pull out the knife in the review process and make sure that what I'm saying never happens.
In short, iOS 8 opens the doors to many new options But since they were not developed by Apple, the famous user experience can be suffered. I also don't know how the iPhone will fare with only 1GB of RAM as we add extensions and widgets to the system. Time will prove me right or wrong and I honestly hope I am 100% wrong in my opinion to prevent the word "lag" from being associated with iOS now as well.
What solution would you put forward? Are you in favor of the purism that existed until iOS 7 or do you prefer the concept of "open" that iOS 8 introduces?
I have stayed true to iOS since 2007, delighted with its purism, performance, and reliability. I hope that this "wide sleeve" with the developers does not turn the Apple OS into a new version of Android, lagued and tormented like so many others. Do you know someone who changes performance for a nice keyboard? In the world of Apple, NO!
100% agree with you Max
Thanks to this less closed system, a notification with this article has just arrived on my Mac, with OS X Yosemite, as soon as I upload it. Thus, every time you publish an article on this website, I will receive a notification informing me so that I can read it instantly. There are no further questions, Your Honor.
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Juan that you already did with Maverick if you wanted (in fact, I have several pages like that).
The battery drains much faster than before.
I thought it was only my iPhone 5 that happened with the Swiftkey keyboard that had lag, and I factory restored it to the iPhone, but it remains the same. At the moment I continue with the base keyboard, although I liked the Swiftkey a lot but I do not change fluidity from something that works quite well such as the base keyboard, for this one. Hopefully they improve that section, because everything else so far 10 points ...
With the location sharing setting, the location showing as "never" or "always" and in a few "when the application opens" on my iPhone 5s, the battery in one night without occupying it went from 96% to 84%: s
I like iOS 8 but for my part I will not download any application, I like a system that works, beauty is added, I do not like what happens with the Swiftkey keyboard in versions prior to 5s ... The step was already taken in the morning ... Faithful iOS will always have to observe what is coming ... The step is daring, but in the end the world is for the daring.
Will we be unable to share on iCloud for a month? I downloaded iOS 8 without knowing about the icloud drive and accepted it. Is there a way to go back to normal iCloud?
I think it was to be expected that these new features were not optimized from day one, although it would be ideal, I for my part was and am happy with the purism of iOS so I doubt exploiting the new keyboards and extensions just that they are very good
I'm #iFans but I don't know if it's okay that things don't work 100% because of a keyboard. I have a 5s but I have not yet updated it to iOS 8, because really in its first updates we see little problems. But I continue to support Apple because I know this is not a problem for them.
We definitely know very well the concept of what it meant to have an Apple product until the release of iOS 8. I think the same as the author and I think that without Steve Jobs much of what Apple meant was lost
IN THAT I GIVE YOU THE REASON IT SEEMS THAT WITHOUT STEVE JOBS APPLE IS LOSING A LITTLE 0 WE ARE NOT GOING TO SAY MUCH BECAUSE SAMSUNG WOULD LIKE TO WORK AS AN IPHONE THAT DOES NOT HANG YOU COMKO HAPPENS WITH ALL THOSE WHO ARE NOT FROM APPLE SO THAT IS ALWAYS LIKE THAT ABSURD APPLE ADVERTISEMENTS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BECOME LIKE APPLE
What's the use of having 2 gigabytes of ram memory or more if they crash later on?
I put it last night on my ipad 2 (I leave it to drag without fluency etc ...) and I had to go back quickly before Apple stopped signing 7.1.2 for now I am staying here this new version, and I prefer it on my iphone 5 stay here since I think it is the same or similar, someone has put it on iphone 5 is it worth it, the battery lasts, it is more fluid etcc ..?
iOS 8 is heavier than iOS 7, a system that has already tested the capacity of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Compared to the previous operating system, the loss of performance and speed is notable, with apps that take twice as long to open and multitasking slower. You can check the results in the Ars Technica test.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/a-slide-into-obsolescence-ios-8-on-the-ipad-2/
I also had my nose hit with the keyboard precisely the same as you say, if I liked the iPhone it was because of its fluidity and because of how fine it was to everything, with this new ios that I see it as more loaded, not heavier I am not completely convinced and there are four silly changes that I honestly don't even need. I will have to use it because I have no other choice, but I preferred the apple policy in a closed plan to the side and that the thing works perfectly.
Another thing that does not seem good to me is, for example, the icloud photo library that clearly puts in the message (BETA) since when apple opens services for the user being beta? It was not preferred when it was jobs despite the closure. I have also noticed that lag in my iphone that luckily I will sell shortly because I will catch the 6 but it is true that the system is very heavy.
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Have you noticed that when you update an application it is no longer as before that it became darker and started to load or my ios 8 was installed wrong?
I will appreciate if you help me with this question that I have
What I keep missing is being able to deactivate the location from the control center and that when you say NO to receive notifications it is really NO and not having to go to deactivate them in configuration….
Luckily for my SwiftKey I'm going great !!!
And as for the question in the article…. It is a great topic of debate! I certainly stay reliably before frills
Hello. I have a question. How are the photos you have on your device now distinguished from those that are streaming?
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I am also faithful to a closed iOS. I have a 5s and when I update it to iOS 8 I see that the truth is that I do not need most of the new options that come.
Can you advise me how to go back to iOS 7? With a 5s it worked like a charm.
Later if I see that they make more progress in iOS 8 I will have time to update.
When on any screen you tap down to open the search on the iphone, the screen you were on is dimmed, it is horribly pixelated XD Can anyone test if the same thing happens? It happens to me on an Iphone 5.
I think that I could no longer be tested, I could go back last night I was still signing apple on iOS 7.1.2 testing does not cost anything
I mean someone who has IOS8 installed try.
Max, kindly and with all due respect I hope you are wrong. The ball is in the court of Apple, that department of quality control in applications I do not see vicious or exaggerated that they are hermetic, it should be like that. iOS continues to be a positive user experience taken to extremes. I trust the Apple team to keep doing things well done, of course they don't have to be perfect but they do have to be useful and perform well. My experience so far with iOS 8 has been good, I think we should be a little more reasonable and understand that it is the official version in stage 8.0.0. We'll see what happens in the course of the march.
Sorry I direct my comment to Nacho writer of the article. And Max very much agrees with your comment, nobody in our Apple world changes aesthetics for performance.
Now at least you have the ability to customize your terminal, which you could hardly do before (you've seen an iPhone, you've seen them all). At least now it is the user who chooses. Nobody forces you to install a widget, but at least you can do it if you want to. Same with keyboards.
HELLO, I have installed iOS 8 on my iPad 2 and it has generated battery savings but also slowness in the operation of the apps. In the case of the iPhone 5, the battery performance also lasted me, but with iCloud activated, a lot of internet data is consumed. In general and so far that I have explored this new operating system I have liked it.
Hello, I had all my process installed in Dropbox and now the documents are not visible, how do I go back to IOS7?