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Whatever your personal thoughts are on iOS and Apple, you can't deny that it's amazing how fast Apple can push through new updates which is a good thing for bot

by ayrx 12y ago

Whatever your personal thoughts are on iOS and Apple, you can't deny that it's amazing how fast Apple can push through new updates which is a good thing for both developers who can rely on a larger userbase for new APIs and security.

danso 12y ago
Even more amazing to me is the high rate of adoption given how massive the download (~4GB) was. I had to clean up apps from my 64GB ipad to make room (though with 64GB, I tend to carelessly collect apps, and Amazon Instant video will just download tens of GB if I'm not careful). Anecdotally, I can think of a couple friends this past month in which, on a normal day, had to stop taking pictures/selfies because their phone HD was too full...It's easy enough to delete GB of movies, but photos? It doesn't help that deleting media/apps just from the phone is a pain in the ass, and syncing with iTunes is arcane even to a longtime iOS/Apple user as myself. So I have to imagine this 46% are the folks who happen to have well-maintained disk space...but 4GB won't be trivial for people with 16GB phones that have collected music/photos/video for a couple years now.
- daigoba66 12y ago
  I installed iTunes over the weekend (I don't own a Mac) just to perform the update. It was fairly quick and painless, and saved me from needing to delete a ton of stuff from my 16GB iPhone, which I foolishly did for the iOS 7 update. I uninstalled iTunes as soon as it was complete.
- ayrx 12y ago
  Is it really that difficult to use iTunes? There are some tricky things to take note related to overriding data if you are not already using iTunes to sync stuff but it's amazingly seamless once you get that in place. The software is crap on Windows (because of the whole compat layer) but it works pretty well on OS X IMO.
- r00fus 12y ago
  You can just use iTunes to do the OS upgrade, and bypass the subsequent sync process. It will save you having to free up much space on our iPhone - IIRC, it takes only 1.5GB free space.

by ayrx 12y ago

danso 12y ago

Even more amazing to me is the high rate of adoption given how massive the download (~4GB) was. I had to clean up apps from my 64GB ipad to make room (though with 64GB, I tend to carelessly collect apps, and Amazon Instant video will just download tens of GB if I'm not careful). Anecdotally, I can think of a couple friends this past month in which, on a normal day, had to stop taking pictures/selfies because their phone HD was too full...It's easy enough to delete GB of movies, but photos? It doesn't help that deleting media/apps just from the phone is a pain in the ass, and syncing with iTunes is arcane even to a longtime iOS/Apple user as myself. So I have to imagine this 46% are the folks who happen to have well-maintained disk space...but 4GB won't be trivial for people with 16GB phones that have collected music/photos/video for a couple years now.

daigoba66 12y ago
I installed iTunes over the weekend (I don't own a Mac) just to perform the update. It was fairly quick and painless, and saved me from needing to delete a ton of stuff from my 16GB iPhone, which I foolishly did for the iOS 7 update. I uninstalled iTunes as soon as it was complete.
ayrx 12y ago
Is it really that difficult to use iTunes? There are some tricky things to take note related to overriding data if you are not already using iTunes to sync stuff but it's amazingly seamless once you get that in place. The software is crap on Windows (because of the whole compat layer) but it works pretty well on OS X IMO.
r00fus 12y ago
You can just use iTunes to do the OS upgrade, and bypass the subsequent sync process. It will save you having to free up much space on our iPhone - IIRC, it takes only 1.5GB free space.