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iOS 12 is all about making your iPhone work better
- some_account 8y agoThis reads like an apple press release, with no critical thought whatsoever.
- nojvek 8y agoWell a lot of journalism recently is like that. Newspaper subscriptions are a dying breed. Online news makes money from ads. To sell more ads, you have to sell more views or get sponsored content (native advertising) It is in the interest of news companies to tell us things that we want to hear, or what a large group will want to hear.
- ianthiel 8y agoUnfortunately I’m finding this to be the case with much of TC’s content. A shame because there used to be genuinely interesting commentary all over the sure not long ago.
- getsugablitz2 8y agoWell I'd hope it wouldn't make it work worse.
- arrty88 8y agoiOS 11 is still better than Android
- seba_dos1 8y agoAs a Maemo user that recently got both Android and iOS devices for software porting and testing: hardly. When it comes to reliability, glitches, etc. they're pretty comparable, with Android being slightly better. However, I have only seen Replicant, AOSP and LineageOS. What you get packaged by your hardware vendor might be worse.
- noddingham 8y agoYou must mean better in that Apple is still locking you out of hardware you own (e.g. NFC).
- walterbell 8y agoCan we have a VPN button in Control Center? How about per-app VPNs with Apple Configurator, i.e. no MDM? If Apple wants to support privacy, it should be possible to route one or more apps to a dedicated VPN where their traffic can be restricted and monitored closely.
- tinus_hn 8y agoWho knows? Try asking Apple directly.
- jjcm 8y agoDoubtful as they'd get on the bad side of a lot of governments doing that. VPNs are something that the upper brass are aware about and will make a fuss about if they're added. It's a high profile security measure.
- walterbell 8y agoIn some countries, enabling an IKEv2 VPN on iOS will cause any app (including Apple Mail, Safari or even Settings) to crash the first time it uses the active VPN. Those countries may be exploiting an iOS bug, by injecting packets into IKEv2 streams. Observed for more than a year, still present in iOS11. This doesn't happen with OpenVPN, possibly because it's easier to break OpenVPN wire traffic without compromising the phone OS. The point is: governments can already use VPN traffic as justification for exploiting targeted devices, they don't need any help from Apple. Android has many options for network security, why should Apple be hamstrung by hypothetical governments who will break iOS anyway? Apple customers are paying a premium and still being needlessly exposed on insecure WiFi networks. Millions of Apple users would benefit (motivating device purchases!) if Apple removed their VPN dark patterns from iOS, e.g. make it easy to enable Always-On VPNs which don't leak unprotected packets.
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- tmikaeld 8y agoHave they added IMAP Idle support yet? Not having imap mail push on iOS is annoying to say the least.
- rablo 8y agoThat would require keeping a connection open to the mail server 24/7 which is a bad idea.
- orf 8y agoWhy a constant one? Why not on WiFi only? Push notifications also require a constant connection as well, I think?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoPush notifications are more efficient, as iOS manages the persistent connection to receive push notifications versus your application long polling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901686 (HN thread where Rob @ FastMail dives in depth why push notifications are superior to IMAP IDLE) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17262511/how-do-ios-push-notifications-work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17262511/how-do-ios-push... (How do iOS Push Notifications work?)
- seba_dos1 8y agoIt's a way better idea than periodic polling, which is the current behaviour when the mail server operator doesn't collaborate directly with Apple to implement their push notifications.
- eridius 8y agoWay better by what metric? Periodic polling is going to be better for battery than keeping a connection open 24/7.
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- thewileyone 8y ago"Newer" iPhone because your older iPhone will be screwed.
- lowtolerance 8y agoAren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.
- whywhywhywhy 8y agoHave you tried to use one of these old devices they claim to support? Apple journalists don't and happily chime on about how great it is without understanding the realities.
- joezydeco 8y agoI'm running 12Beta2 on my 5S. I'd say performance is better than iOS11 at this point. There's still a lot of rough edges and I suspect they have a debug build released at this point. I think the final build will be really good.
- skinnymuch 8y agoFor phones specifically, only a small portion of people are using iPhones older than 5 years. So basically the vast majority of active iPhones are supported by iOS 12. There’s probably a decent number of active iPads that can’t run this iOS version but that’s probably for the better since the older ones would probably be too slow.
- aphextron 8y agoOh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.
- vondur 8y agoThis is a beta release, so I'd expect some bugs at this point.
- walterbell 8y agoiPhone SE has so many bugs with iOS11, compared to iOS10, I was hoping this would be fixed in iOS12. SE is a good form factor. Do customers need to buy a 5S on eBay instead of SE from Apple Store, to get Apple support for a small phone with iOS12?
- skinnymuch 8y agoI thought Apple was still committed to the SE series. Just not updating it as often as the main line.