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> We’ve also achieved a significant milestone with our active installed base of devices reaching 1.3 billion in January. That’s an increase of 30 percent in jus
by acqq 9y ago
> We’ve also achieved a significant milestone with our active installed base of devices reaching 1.3 billion in January. That’s an increase of 30 percent in just two years, which is a testament to the popularity of our products and the loyalty and satisfaction of our customers.
My personal example of my contribution to the raise of the installed base was: I've used the Christmas sales to buy a new iPhone for me and a new iPhone and new iPad for my parents. I've considered buying cheaper Android devices for the parents, but the ease of use of iOS and the better security compared to Android still won.
But, dear Apple, dear anybody from the company who maybe reads this: please don't let your current management levels dilute the old clear vision, the "ease of use" goal. My parents are especially annoyed, for example, by not being able to permanently disable the additional "Apps" buttons in the Message app that get in the way. Ditto for not being able to have the former "simple mode" of Notes. (And I'm personally annoyed by "a" looking too much as "o" in the Notes). It's hard to keep the focus that Jobs was able to reach, but please understand that that legacy is still something that motivates at least these older users that I know.
And one more detail: the iPhones I've bought are with the earphones jack, still! I'm not sure I will want these without it. Keep that feature somehow or this may be the drop that moves the writer of these words to the actions of the guy from the Samsung's "Growing Up" ad.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoHate how they’ve complicated notes and messages and am not elderly!
- askafriend 9y agoI absolutely love Notes. I switched over from Evernote so compared to Evernote, Notes.app is a godsend.
- perilunar 9y agoNotes is great. But why do they use yellow/orange for a hyperlink colour? I mean, WTF? And why can't I set a default font?
- lowtolerance 9y agoI totally disagree with you on the Notes app. It’s not complicated at all, and it’s much more useful than it was prior to the redesign. I’m still not sold on Messages “apps”, but I do use the “Digital Touch” feature when texting my wife and kids.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoI use it while grocery shopping and such. Now half the time it wants to know if I want to edit a note locally or in iCloud or folders. Never have saved there so total waste of time. Don’t need fonts or brushes or any of that either. Notes MFs!
- cylo 9y agoThe app bar below Messages app also annoyed me, but you can disable it. If you simply single tap on the App icon in Messages app, it will hide the bar from then on.
- djrogers 9y agoHow would adding options to hide important features (iMessage apps) improve ease of use? More settings and hidden features are generally considered contrary to simplistic design...
- acqq 9y agoWhat's "important feature" for you is completely irrelevant for a lot of users that only want to send a text message. Whenever something else than plain text happens in my message is not only unintentional (I didn't even want to press the stupid button) but can incur high costs to me or my correspondents by my or by their phone company (neither all the world has the same contracts nor uses iMessages the way you do). Having a bunch of buttons near the text field of a message to be sent that can be accidentally and easily hit is an UI fail for anybody surely not needing that bunch of buttons. You can show them to those who need them but you should let others protect themselves from them especially in the app that can result in sending SMS or MMS which can be expensive.