Post by SavageduckPost by Rod SpeedPost by Wade GarrettPost by SavageduckPost by Wade GarrettWell whoopdie-freakin-doo.....iOS 12 is released.
What a bunch of childish nonsense. These guys gotta be kiddin'.
C’mon Tim, is this the best Apple can do? Have y'all totally
given up
on innovation, creativity and real development?
Your iPad or iPhone tells you when you're using it too much?
Whatever happened to self-control and personal
responsibility?
Silly Siri shortucts; stupid cartoon icons; messages? BFD, who
cares.
Etc., etc., etc.
Steve must be rolling over in his grave!
Today I updated an iPhone 6S, an iPhone 6S+, an iPhone 8+, and an iPad
Pro 10.5” to iOS12. So far I have not experienced any of the FUD this
“Apple Jumps the Shark with iOS 12” thread intended to impart.
You misread my OP. No FUD intended.
Unfortunately FUD was the impression that was delivered.
Post by Wade GarrettThe criticism was that this is at best an over-hyped (in the very best
Apple style) minor maintenance release hardly worthy of a new OS version
number. It also bemoaned the lack of significant new actually useful
features.
Over-hyped perhaps. However, the last thing I need is some unwanted, and
over-hyped, bling feature. I prefer to have something truly useful, and subtle.
An example of a feature I find useful is one part of *Do Not Disturb*, the
*Until I Leave This Location* option. This is perfect for appointments
where I find myself in a dentist chair, or similar situations.
Yeah, and even better if it could work out when you
have used it to stop people waking you up. I do forget
to turn it off sometimes in that situation and it wouldn’t
be hard to work out when you have picked up the
phone again after turning do not disturb on.
I don’t actually use it at night, or when I am asleep, or napping.
I don’t either, but I do have it next to me, primarily because
I don’t use any light switches at all anymore. I use the Hue
system and tell it to turn the lights off at night before sleeping,
and get it to tell me the time and temperature when I wake
in the morning and to turn the main room lights on when
I get up.
With napping, I still have it with me, mainly to ask it the
time when I wake and to turn the do not disturb off.
So it would work fine for me if it turned the do not
disturb off when I physically move the phone after
turning the do not disturb on.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod SpeedSure, that wouldn’t be useful in all situations, but
would be very useful when you use it when sleeping.
Post by Wade GarrettActually, about the same criticisms apply to the new over-hyped iPhones too.
I am not thrilled with any of the X-Phones. I can live without FaceID.
I'd like to have it added because then I wouldn’t have to fart
around with Touch ID when doing stuff like bank transactions etc.
I am quite happy with TouchID
I'm not with stuff like banking.
But currently prefer it for ApplePay transactions.
ApplePay is smooth, and simple with TouchID for me.
Yeah, me too, but might well be just as good with face id too.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod SpeedAdmittedly I havent tried using face id for long enough with
those to see if its just as easy to take it out of the pocket move
it past my face to the terminal in one fluid action so that its
just as convenient as Touch ID and much better for banking etc.
I have no experience with FaceID at all.
My only experience with it is with a neighbour's kid who
I used to be the personal banker for, who showed up with
a great wad of cash, got me to buy an iphone X online
with so he could have it for the regular trip to stay with
his relos in Sydney for the school holidays. He obviously
bragged about how lovely it was when he got it. I was
quite surprised at how well face id works in the dark.
Not sure how well it would work for me tho. I havent
bothered to shave for decades now and can get lazy
and end up looking like a wild man before I mow the
face and head right back to a rough stubble, because
that’s much easier than doing anything else with the
haircut. Not sure how well it can handle that.
And I don’t normally buy my iphones from apple,
I normally get them for cash from the cheapest
retailer I can find and so cant just return it if
it doesn’t work out well and it takes months
to go from the freshly mown head to looking
like a wild man anyway.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod Speedand I am comfortable with my iPhone 8+.
Too big for me. I keep my phone in my front jeans or shorts pocket
Cargo pants
I have enough trouble finding shorts that don’t
end up down to my knees now that those are
the current fashion that those arent viable for me.
Post by Savageduckor a vest with a convenient pocket works for me.
Don’t ever wear those. In the coldest weather its
two very heavy fleeces over a sweat top over a T shirt
with only hands pockets in the fleeces. And those
arent deep enough to reliably hold an iphone anyway.
I could obviously sew on a phone pocket but there
isnt much point given that it wouldn’t work in
summer where its always just a T shirt on top.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod Speedand the 6S is already too big to make it easy to take
out of your pocket when driving along and you get an
incoming phone call when you didn’t expect to get one.
My iPhone is paired via BlueTooth to the system in my car.
Not viable for me because I use a neckband bluetooth
headset during the garage/yard sale run so I can do
calls both in the car and out of the car in the garage/yard
sale itself, and when out of the car doing the shopping
run that I always do when the garage/yard sale is over.
Tho I spose I could add a handsfree for the car and
turn it off during the garage/yard sale and after run.
Post by SavageduckSo it is hands free available whether in my pocket,
or attached to the magnetic mount on the dash.
Yeah, might go that route for the non garage/yard sale run.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod SpeedAnd I notice that they still havent fixed the
pain in the arse swipe to answer an incoming
phone call when the phone is easy to pick up
when driving, with iOS 12. Tho admittedly
I havent thought to try telling siri to answer it.
Have just tried that now and siri is too stupid to answer the call.
Post by SavageduckI just push a button on my steering wheel.
My car is too old for that, 12 years now.
Post by SavageduckPost by Rod SpeedPost by Wade GarrettLet's face it, smartphones are a very mature
product that are approaching being a commodity
like milk, gasoline, sugar, socks, t-shirts, or flour.
I mean really, how many bazillion megapixels
does your phone camera really need?
My iPhone is not my primary camera, for me it is
a camera of last resort, and convenience. My photography
is done with far more capable cameras and lenses.
Mine is my only camera and the better it is the better.
The iPhone is a great camera especially if compared
with the point& shoot cameras of the recent past.
It is indeed, I'm amazed at how well it does.
Post by SavageduckThose are a dying breed. Photographically, I just
have other needs, so I spend much more on
cameras and lenses than I do on iPhones.
Yeah, your photos are magnificent.