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iOS is so stagnant it's not even funny. It's had three major overhauls that did absolutely nothing to it's functionality, roughly the same as Windows had in the
by talldayo 2y ago
iOS is so stagnant it's not even funny. It's had three major overhauls that did absolutely nothing to it's functionality, roughly the same as Windows had in the same amount of time. Expanded functionality concerning USB class compliance, sideloading, on-device programming, VM compatibility, JIT-based recompilers for emulation and web browser diversity all go unaddressed. Things that are decidedly not a problem on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Galaxy Tab users have been playing emulated games and run code locally for years. They don't have to wait for Apple to greenlight the API, Android can be modded and flashed to add whatever functionality it lacks. These up-in-the-air questions that plague Apple platforms aren't even a second thought on most others, because they don't resist common sense to try and create auxiliary markets.
> and what's new in Wayland?
Developers that want to work on it. I can count the number of "new features" in x11 on one hand.
- emchammer 2y agoWindows, not too long before iOS was introduced, came in Fisher-Price green and blue. It did not exactly scream "professional workstation". Apple could spend an entire major version number fixing every bug and security hole in macOS and iOS. It would pay off in the coming years.
- gsibble 2y agoThank you. While I agree with the other poster that most OSes are stagnant, I think iOS is particularly bad.