As much as I love my Galaxy Note II (and boy do I love it), I miss day one updates. I miss even knowing IF I'd get an update, and if the answer is yes, then when I'd get that update.
I hate knowing that I own one of the highest end and best selling devices and I literally have zero date or knowledge of whether or not I'm getting 4.2. Even the hacker community hasn't released decent 4.2 roms for me (that support my hardware like s-pen, etc).
My two year on the Nexus S on sprint is coming to an end soon. So you recommend just buying the 4 directly and that will resolve the updating issues (Sprint was always behind the other major carriers due to 4G or something similar. I'd wait 2 - 3 months post major announcement)
I'd argue that Google does updates right as well. Both my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 were updated a few weeks ago within a few days of the update being released.
It's Samsung, HTC, etc. who are doing updates wrong (though carriers may have some part in that).
Edit: I should say Google is getting better with updates. I'm still a bit disappointed with how they handled the Nexus S update to 4.0.
With the one exception of the iPad 1 getting left behind a little early. I guess it couldn't handle the memory requirements. This will force developers to support iOS5 another year, or so. Personally, I'd like to move to the new layout stuff in iOS6.
The iPad 1 was effectively the most memory-constrained device that was supported by iOS 5. It had the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 3GS, but about 5x as many pixels to drive. It really needed to ship with 512MB. Not too surprising that iOS 6 left it behind, but as you note, annoying.
I disagree. They had a bug where push email was broken. They didn't even recognize it for months. That's unacceptable. Push email in corporate is huge, but again they really don't care for their enterprise customers and it shows. This update was very late as well.
It's also much easier to release updates when all devices that run your OS are consistent, or at least largely homogeneous. Android smartphones have so much variety, both in terms of features and technical specifications, that it must be difficult to have updates released so quickly after Google pushes out a new version of the AOSP. AndroidCentral had a good article about this several months ago (link: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-you-ll-never-have-latest-v...)
I know one will argue it's not a viable solution for the 99% of Android phone owners out there, but the modding community for Android is very quick to update most flagship phones on most carriers, and even develops on phones that carriers have stopped pushing updates for. My Galaxy S1 had Ice Cream Sandwich on it when I finally traded up to a Nexus 4. It's not as convenient as Apple releasing the official update and rooting+customrecovery+clockworkmod+customrom is a process complicated enough to bar many people from entry, but for those capable folks, we can get updates almost as quickly as those on the Google flagship phone-of-the-day.
Well this is good news, I've started working on an app and couldn't find any good stats on iOS6 coverage but if it's hit 85+% then that's more than enough to make it a good decision.
The upside of Apple really, really pushing updates out like this is developers can keep iterating with the newest API choices and refine their products, which is good for devs and good for app quality.
I just just submitted an app as well and really didn't have any second thoughts about using APIs only available for iOS6. While a few users may miss out at first, users are upgrading fairly quickly and meanwhile testing and developing is so much easier on my end.
"iOS 6.1.2, was launched on February 19th, 2012" - given it's had more than a year I'm not surprised it's this widespread. (ok really just pointing out the typo for the author)
iOS 5 user here: What is the state of maps in the new release?
[Luddite attitude, but it's the #1 reason for my phone, more than text/mail of any variety.]
Maps are fine, searching still isn't as good as google. However, since google maps is available as a separate app now, that is better than iOS5 maps, there's no reason to not upgrade.
Yeah, maps are seeing constant updates. I recently noticed that the area I live is now in 3D. Also I've noticed directions get fewer and fewer erros, so I'm pretty impressed how much it has improved despite there being no fanfare about it. No reason not to upgrade these days.
It is highly dependent on the location. In Tokyo, Google Maps was much better. In Australia, Apple Maps is better in the cities and worse in country areas. And apparently around California, Apple Maps might be better.
Yeah, Apple really should be more attentive to enterprise needs rather than burdening IT departments with deploying annoying 0-day vulnerability patches. The quick adoption of this patch only highlights how intractable Apple's update process is for enterprise. /s
for myself i upgraded to get out of a battery drain issue (GPS was always on, brightness was not auto-controlled, etc ... all leading to battery drain). i read a lot of similar complaints in forums and i figure this is why people updated.
I think the word "popular" is a bit misleading. I was eager to get the latest update because of the battery issues I've been having since I got iOS 6. It's kind of like saying the java exploit patch was the most popular java patch ever.
That said, wider adoption of the latest iOS does make life a littler easier for developers.
How would they benefit the lowest user? The dumb parent who is rarely on wifi, not even with an 8year old often enough to deal with all the badge numbers on the first home page?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 93.8 ms ] threadI hate knowing that I own one of the highest end and best selling devices and I literally have zero date or knowledge of whether or not I'm getting 4.2. Even the hacker community hasn't released decent 4.2 roms for me (that support my hardware like s-pen, etc).
Apple does updates right.
The N4 is lacking LTE. Maybe not a dealbreaker for some, but it is for me.
I guess I'm paying for the features I wanted with a currency made of "waiting for updates".
It's Samsung, HTC, etc. who are doing updates wrong (though carriers may have some part in that).
Edit: I should say Google is getting better with updates. I'm still a bit disappointed with how they handled the Nexus S update to 4.0.
Whereas with an Android phone, if you want the update, you buy a new phone.
That's not by accident.
6.1.2 was 12.8MB: http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/02/ios612-100...
I know one will argue it's not a viable solution for the 99% of Android phone owners out there, but the modding community for Android is very quick to update most flagship phones on most carriers, and even develops on phones that carriers have stopped pushing updates for. My Galaxy S1 had Ice Cream Sandwich on it when I finally traded up to a Nexus 4. It's not as convenient as Apple releasing the official update and rooting+customrecovery+clockworkmod+customrom is a process complicated enough to bar many people from entry, but for those capable folks, we can get updates almost as quickly as those on the Google flagship phone-of-the-day.
The upside of Apple really, really pushing updates out like this is developers can keep iterating with the newest API choices and refine their products, which is good for devs and good for app quality.
http://chitika.com/ios-version-distribution
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ios-6-now-on-300-mill...
That is a ridiculous number. Caching does not save requests, only bytes.
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I knew it was Drupal before I checked your image.
It's better than the one that was native to iOS 5.
I'd be curious as to the details: How so exactly? (I see friends copying and pasting to google maps from mail/txt app? which leaves me nonplussed.)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416321,00.asp
So long story short it is likely you will have a few map apps on your phone.
That said, wider adoption of the latest iOS does make life a littler easier for developers.
Popular = most prevalent Popular = liked
There are also considerations like the most active users would be on iOS 6.
Also consider iOS 6 is on 300 million+ devices (as of late January 2013).